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But she arrived alone, and
behind her the stages of the route were marked with graves! Madame
des Odonais reached Loreto, where we were a few days back. From this
Peruvian village she descended the Amazon, as we are doing at this
moment, and at length she rejoined her husband after a separation of
nineteen years."
"Poor lady!" said Minha.
"Above all, poor mother!" answered Yaquita.
At this moment Araujo, the pilot, came aft and said:
"Joam Garral, we are off the Ronde Island. We are passing the
frontier!"
"The frontier!" replied Joam.
And rising, he went to the side of the jangada, and looked long and
earnestly at the Ronde Island, with the waves breaking up against it.
Then his hand sought his forehead, as if to rid himself of some
remembrance.
"The frontier!" murmured he, bowing his head by an involuntary
movement.
But an instant after his head was raised, and his expression was that
of a man resolved to do his duty to the last.

CHAPTER XII
FRAGOSO AT WORK
"BRAZA" (burning embers) is a word found in the Spanish language as
far back as the twelfth century.


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