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acted a conspicuous part and always forure Nor was

the Doctor happier in his selection, when he told the old, ever new

and curious story of the waning of a woe, new

channels, only to return to its legitimate source after days of fierce

unrest It was one of the many little hu career as a physician The story did not

seem especially to impress Edna She had one of her own to tell, of a

woue and never

came back They were lost amid the Baratarian Islands, and no one ever

heard of them or found trace of them from that day to this It was a

pure invention She said that Madame Antoine had related it to her

That, also, was an invention Perhaps it was a drea word seemed real to those who listened They could feel

the hot breath of the Southern night; they could hear the long sweep of

the pirogue through the glisteningstartled fro the reeds in the salt-water pools;

they could see the faces of the lovers, pale, close together, rapt in

oblivious forgetfulness, drifting into the unknown