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their residence in the hills.
ub+er was born to them, named
Can't. De L'Enclos died the
,,rrrg year When Cerisse was
s.IgHteen she was married to Har-
" ,r.Soo,,rt whom she had met while
.l,i+ IN Calcutta. He was a per-
~. follow, of good family and my
.,orgh+ her only child was max
'~' .o5 match. The resemblance
these four women-my Aunt
and her daughter Narcisse,
,.o,1 know as Mrs. Harold Har-
and nv mother and her daugh-
r.risqe Wayne, my sister, was ap-
49, They all had the same color
The same features almost to the
.so, NJ an inch, and the same re-
.I.b,v exquisite coloring. Yet
-,ra that not until to-day has Mrs.
>,.,orrt known that Cerisse Wayne
= che were full-bloOded cousins, as
Inn, Marie brought her daughter up
Irrorance of the relatives in Africa.
.,t varie's idea in this was to pro-
-. NV mother from my fathers
,t5 az he had forbidden mother to
81 10 Of our aunt, and indeed we
-,a 81 Young when Aunt Marie de-
.,.ts9 that we soon forgot her. Moth
..,d Aunt Marie never had any COM
-,7foation after Anut Marie left for
,Ha Nv mother died when l was
,s,rt nine. and Cerisse not quite eight
4,rg old, Cerisse had always been
s.aars favorite and after my mothers
l,-b home would have been unbear-
1a to me except for Tyoga. We had
r,ar,ant tutors in the house, and later
A,7er sent Benoni and me to Europe
study. I took a doctors degree In
gsIeIberg at a remarkably early age,
hanks to the previous instruction
had received from my father, who was
Intentionally brilliant man. BenOnt
studied with me, for while father had
a5ordinated Tyoga and her child, my
-uher had dealt fairly with them in
be matter of wealth.
. y was at Heidelburg when Aunt
Marie came to visit me. 1t was the
y
hr4e years after Cerisse, a madcap
d Id Of seventeen, had been sent home
Disgrace from a French convent
liter 4 Irritation with Hackleye, who
+ 2I followed her to Africa and mar
led her there.
Aunt Marie had gone to Africa in
@lrch of her sister. With her daugh-
GC my aunt felt she could safely seek
It her twin sister after the lapse Of
Il. these years. She was grief-strick-
En- over the news of her sisters death,
ind unwittingly let fall before my
athar that in the Tiougaley region
we're some extremely valuable diamond
-sds, the secret Of whose location had
been made known to her husband, Capt.
Dc LEnClOs, by an Arabian servitor
the touch Of years, and she had made
Joint reason for her African journey
an attempt to locate and work these
12eS. Father, his avarice all stirred
again, stTOve to force her to tell him
where they were. Aunt Marie knew
aM Of old and refused. Learning I
vas at Heidelberg, she proceeded there,
Ind stopped with Benoni and me for
over year, giving me the only happi-
ness had known since my mothers
asa(A. She spoke freely to me Of my
!olng cousin Narcisse HarCOurt in In
la asked me to befriend her if ever
@e needed it, and showed me her min
4,aTe so like that of my sister Ce-
'&Se that l could but gasp.
went home that summer and left
aunt Marie in Paris planning to re-
urn to India in the early fall. Later
~@ news came that she had persisted
j. 4 horrible COnflagration at a charity
.a1aar This was a severe blow to me,
WI mad loved my aunt, and my heart
went out to my unknown cousin.
lerisse had the heart of a fiend.
11cAieye had taught her that she was
~s most beautiful human existent. A
'"'N OF hers was to fancy herself the
incarnation of Venus herself. Ce-
sSe did not take kindly to the news Of
's' equally exquisite cousin across
s@S' especially since her children, Of
,"oo by now she had two, were, with
j" oue respect to their father, whom
"sE resembled, not particularly come
70 10 satisfy herself Cerisse made n
Wing trip to India in disguise, and
~eEe began the tragic end.
rather at this time became cogniz-
al that | knew how to reach the
'0usaley mines. Aunt Marie had be-
ought me with her farewell breath 10
Yep this Intelligence from him. I kept
d! Ialth with her. And as a penalty
u mat faith my father subjected me
me most cruel tortures that forty
7.1S might have devised. He began
Tie castle and ended with them in
,e Jungle. And when I was nearly
-a1 from pain and distortion, he real
ga that I was dying and the secret
IL" me- Then he put forth all his I'M
".@E and exceptional surgical skill,
AZ dragged me back to 1ife-but such
-'-s-such living death-for no be-
5 50 deformed and tainted out of hu-
~. shape as 1 ever before walked the
osHsSe went to India. She saw
-.v.Sse and hated her on sight. Mar
sS' mad a child, too, by then, ana
- one baby was as lovely as Cerisse's
~ mad been plain. What is more
.-SSe became violently infatuated
80. 49, Harcourt, Narcisse's husband. She
~IS herself known to him one day
-9 walked beneath the trees in the