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 surrounded the court of the old stone house. In 1887 she died, and was interred in the ancient cemetery, near a tomb bearing the name of "Joseph Collot." A few weeks later, the younger woman disappeared, and was never again seen.

There was enough difference in the ages of these two women to be mother and daughter; for the older at the time of her death must have been not far from eighty, and the younger perhaps about sixty. In appearance they were not unlike; except that the eyes of the younger woman were horribly dissimilar, one being blue and the other black. And it was of her that the townspeople asked M. de Corbière such questions as "Is not this, indeed, the daughter of the famous doctor?" "Has not she the eyes of Satiani?"