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 ers came soughing up from below, and one woman said: "And then after all that, she had the audacity to apply for a divorce."

"Well, I guess there's not much choice between them," said the other; "he is the most conceited man I ever talked to, and besides, did you ever see anything like the way she does her hair?"

Softly the little Menehunes crept away. They did not even look at each other.

As they crept around toward their cleft, they found that two young girls had come and were standing upon the very brink of the wondrous, rainbow-tinted gorge, and they, too, were talking. One of the Menehunes drew his brother by the hand.

"No," said the other, "we have heard enough."

"Too much," his brother said, "but these are young and sweet. Let us go near and hear something to undo the evil we have heard."

And so they drew quite near—and saw, far down below, the tin stream of white curling about black boulders and among banana trees,