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Cis stayed on, living on the surface of her little native city. Miss / Braithwaite was still in California; she wrote that she could not tell / how long she might be detained; it seemed probable that it would be for / all of the winter, or its greater part. Her friend was dying slowly in / the lingering agonies of the most agonizing of all diseases; she clung / to Miss Braithwaite, praying her not to leave her, and Miss Braithwaite / had promised to stay to help her to die. Cis suspected it was also to / teach her how to die; that she was less versed than Miss Braithwaite in / the science of the saints.
With Miss Braithwaite gone, Cis had no desire to return to Beaconhite; / it was not the place, it was that home and its mistress for which Cis / longed, for the lack of which she felt lost.