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Fearfully calm was her tone as she slowly pushed in the earth There was no hollow echo, such as ofttimes rends the heart of theearth Gradually she filled the opening even with the surface, then carefully scattered the re sod

"I will not raise a mound, for they would tear him up, should they knohere I have laid hi a quantity of brown, shriveled leaves, and also as rass as she could draw fro the fresh earth

"Think you, Señora, they will find him here?"

"No, no, Señorita! none will know that we have buried hier?"

For a rave: "But a few more hours, and I shall sleep here by your side; farewell till then"

She turned away, and silently they retraced their steps to the town, reaching without inquiry or molestation their own home