Cedar Woman (119 page)

“
I w
o
uld h
a
ve sw
or
n
t
h
e
isla
n
d was
un
i
n
h
i
b
i
ted!” She
excl
a
i
m
ed.

“
Un
i
nh
i
bite
d
?
”
Lena
q
u
esti
o
ned – a
n
d t
h
en
t
h
ey
had
l
au
g
h
e
d, ho
l
di
n
g
t
h
eir
s
i
des
a
nd ro
c
k
i
n
g
w
h
e
n
she
an
d
J
o-
A
n
n
f
i
nally realized
t
h
at s
h
e
m
ea
n
t u
n
in
h
a
b
ited.

Th
e
n
t
h
ere was t
h
e
story of
w
h
en
J
o
-A
nn w
a
s
t
w
ent
y
-
o
ne
a
nd
m
ade her
f
i
rst t
r
ip
to New
Y
or
k
.
S
h
e
had been
s
o p
ro
ud of herse
l
f: fl
y
ing
o
n
an

airp
l
an
e
!
P
l
a
ci
ng
her
f
oot on
t
h
e
f
i
rst
s
te
p
of
t
h
e
r
o
l
l
aw
a
y
s
t
airs,
w
h
i
ch
h
ad
b
een
p
u
shed
up
to
t
h
e
p
l
a
n
e’s
e
x
it
d
o
or,
s
h
e
no
ticed
her
d
ate
waiti
n
g

t
h
ere
t
o
m
eet
he
r
.
Givi
n
g
a
t
o
ss
o
f
her
chi
c
,
veil
e
d
hatted
hea
d
,
s
h
e
l
o
st

her f
o
oti
n
g,
pr
o
m
ptly rolling
d
ow
n
t
h
e
enti
r
e
length of
sta
i
rs,
a
nd
la
n
d
i
n
g at the feet
of
her es
c
o
rt.

What
wou
l
d
have
devas
t
at
e
d
oth
e
rs did not
faze
h
e
r
in
t
h
e
least! Eccentric,
outrageou
s
, g
e
n
e
rou
s
,
a
nd
full of
hu
m
o
r, she
attacked life rat
h
er
t
h
an
lived
it,
a
n
d
survi
v
ed
in
a
world
too
h
arsh
for
h
e
r
fra
g
ile

ps
y
ch
e
,
w
it
h
t
h
e
a
i
d
of
w
it
,
c
i
garet
t
es,
l
a
r
g
e
d
o
ses
of
a
l
co
h
o
l
,
a
n
d
h
e
r

_pets.

She
w
as
o
wn
e
d
by
f
i
ve
cats:
M
aude was
a
l
o
ng
h
a
i
r
e
d
g
rey
ti
g
er
of
i
m
p
eri
ou
s
attit
ud
e
.
Sch
n
ee,
Ger
m
an
f
o
r
S
n
ow,
was
a
sap
p
hire-eyed w
h
ite l
o
n
gha
i
r
w
h
o
co
n
si
d
er
e
d
h
er
self
t
h
e
be
a
u
ty
of
t
h
e
fa
m
il
y
.
Sh
e
r
m
an,
a
on
e
-
ea
r
e
d
o
r
an
g
e
an
d
w
h
it
e
ta
bb
y
f
o
un
d
o
n
h
er
do
o
rs
te
p
o
n
e
d
a
y
,
b
loo
d
y and
half
-
d
e
a
d,
was
t
h
e
buc
c
aneer
of
the
f
a
m
ily.
He
r
m
an,
a
black
a
n
d white
t
o
m
,
w
h
o
c
ou
l
d
p
o
ssib
l
y
ha
v
e been
E
r
rol Fl
y
n
n
in
a
n
oth
e
r
life,
w
a
s
p
erso
n
ally
resp
on
s
i
b
le
for
t
h
e e
n
tire
rep
o
p
u
lati
o
n
o
f
b
lack
a
n
d
w
h
ite
cats in
the
Short
Nor
t
h
area.
Th
e
n
th
e
r
e
was
O
l
iver,
a
sle
e
k,
grey
aristocrat w
i
th
y
ell
o
w
e
y
es,
wh
o
could
nev
e
r
beco
m
e
reco
n
ciled
with
t
h
e
fact
t
h
at he
w
a
s
f
o
rc
e
d
t
o
li
v
e
a
m
ong
su
c
h
co
m
m
oners.
T
h
ey were
her
l
o
v
es
a
n
d her
so
urce
of
affecti
o
n
in
a
n
env
i
r
o
n
m
ent
fast
be
c
o
m
ing
un
en
d
u
r
a
b
le. S
h
e
drank
too
m
u
c
h
,
s
m
ok
ed
t
o
o
m
u
c
h
,
ate
to
h
er
fill
with
g
u
st
o
,
and
g
a
v
e of
h
erse
l
f
so
c
o
m
p
letely,
t
h
at
all
who
k
n
ew
h
e
r
loved
h
er,
th
o
ugh t
h
ey
feared
for
h
er
h
ealth.
All
of
this
Le
n
a
was
later
to
lear
n
.
In
the