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marry us, and then you will belong to me for ever and for ever.'

"'Tomorrow,' she repeated. 'I will be ready.'

"We stayed out in the moonlight, sitting by the doorway under the jasmine vine until midnight, lovers for the first time. Then I got up and told her she must sleep.

"'We must start very early in the morning,' I said. 'It is a long ride.'

"I went to bed and heard her moving about the house until at last I fell asleep, happier than I had ever been or ever shall be in my life.

"In the morning when I got up there was no sign of Chulita, no one at all in the house but the little brown dog, asleep on the rug with a faded jasmine flower under her paw.

"Failing to find Chulita anywhere, I went to the office and spent the day half-heartedly working, puzzled and unhappy. Why had she failed me? Had anything happened to her? Had perhaps that Mexican returned? Again the eery thought crossed the edges of my mind, sending faint cold through all my veins—the thought of the strange impossible legend which one finds in every nation and told in every tongue, the legend of the loup-garou, the werewolf; that ridiculous tale believed by the Indians of a being under a curseand doomed to be human by day, or by night, and a dog or wolf for the other twelve hours.

"I looked down at the little dog I had rescued that day at Cuernavaca, the day of the same evening that Chulita had appeared in my house. The dog's deep brown eyes were fixed upon me with a look of sadness and utter devotion and its

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