these days you'll find her. Make no doubt of that."

"If we don't, she'll surely find us, anyway," said Jan. "She said
she would!"

"Indeed and she will," said the old woman. "Even the Germans
couldn't stop her; so what matter is it, if you both have to look
a bit first? It will only make it the better when you find each
other again."

When the potatoes were done, the little old woman raked them out
of the ashes with a stick, broke them open, sprinkled a bit of
salt on them from the wonderful basket, and then handed one to
each of the children, wrapped in a plantain leaf, so they should
not burn their fingers. A piece of the eel was served to them in
the same way, and Granny beamed with satisfaction as she watched
her famished guests.

"Aren't you going to eat, too?" asked Marie with her mouth full.

"Bless you, yes," said Granny. "Every chance I get. You just
watch me!" She made a great show of taking a piece of the eel as
she spoke, but if any one had been watching carefully, they would
have her slyly put it back again into the pan, and the children
never knew that they ate her share and their own, too.

When they had eaten every scrap of the eel, and Fidel had
finished the bones, the little old woman rose briskly from the
bank, washed her pan in the river, packed it in her basket again,
and led the way up the path to the highway once more. Although