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A last surprise awaited me. Bethulah now lived all alone in Yarchi's pine cottage, which the years had left untouched.
Whether accident or purpose settled her there I do not know, but my heart was overcharged with mingled emotion as I went up the garden the next day to pay her a farewell visit. The poppies flaunted riotously amid the neglected maize, but the cottage itself seemed tidy.