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Chapter 66

           TheroadtobetakenbyLouise,shouldhavebeenthesameasthat,bywhichshehadherselfcome.Butnoladywasuponit.

           TheCreolemusthavechangedhermind,andstayedbythejacaléwas,perhaps,atthatverymomentperformingthemétierIsidorahadsofondlytracedoutforherself?

           Thebeliefthatshewasabouttobringshameuponthewomanwhohadbroughtruinuponher,wasthethoughtthatnowconsoledher.

           ThequestionsputbyPoindexter,andhiscompanions,sufficientlydisclosedthesituation.StillclearerwasitmadebythefinalinterrogationsofCalhoun;and,afterherinterrogatorshadpassedaway,sheremainedbythesideofthethickethalfindoubtwhethertorideontotheLeona,orgobackandbethespectatorofascene,that,byherowncontrivance,couldscarcefailtobeexciting.

           Sheisupontheedgeofthechapparal,justinsidetheshadowofthetimber.Sheisastridehergreysteed,thatstandswithspreadnostrilanddilatedeye,gazingafterthecavalladathathaslatepartedfromthespotasinglehorsemanintherearoftherest.Herhorsemightwonderwhyheisbeingthusriddenabout;butheisusedtosuddenchangesinthewillofhiscapriciousrider.

           Sheislookinginthesamedirectiontowardsthealhuehueté;whosedarksummittowersabovethebluffsoftheAlamo.

           Sheseesthesearchersdescend;and,afterthem,themanwhohassominutelyquestionedher.Ashisheadsinksbelowtheleveloftheplain,shefanciesherselfaloneuponit.

           Inthisfancysheismistaken.

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