to roof it over with the sticks and branches they had gathered, bind-ing these to the thick leafy boughs, lacing those together lengthwise and crosswise, then coming down to the space between the two great trunks that stood close to one another, leaving a narrow door between them, and making a small window on the right and a small window on the left!...

And she saw her parents con-templating this standing-crouching shape of rock and stone and branches and sticks and trees, and it pleased her to enter this refuge, to stretch out on its floor, to gaze at its corners and its roof, and to let her eye wander over the horizon that showed through its window; but hardly had she done so when there appeared to her a young man, fresh of skin, climbing the slope and making toward them. When he was a few steps away he said, greeting them with the hand in which he carried an empty waterskin:

— Peace be upon you...

Her parents answered:

— And upon you be peace...

— Would you, uncle, direct me to the spring?...

— A spring?!... And what spring, my son?!...

— I saw a clear rivulet running down from the other side of this hill... and I supposed it came from some spring nearby...

— Perhaps!... But, truth to tell, I do not know... for this is our first day in these parts!...

And her mother cried:

— Come, let us look for water, then... we have forgotten to drink!!...

As for her, she said, coming out of her refuge and shaking off the chaff that clung to her hair and her dress:

— And we have forgotten to eat!!!...

The young man answered, looking at her, and on his lips a smile of wonder and mockery and pain:

— And what is there that we have

not forgotten in these days?!... Tell me... are you refugees?!...

Her father answered:

— Yes, my son!... We are refugees!... And you?!...

— Like you... a refugee!...

— We agreed before ever we parted!... Come, let us look for your spring, my son!...

Her father said this, then pushed that stranger on before him, and the two went off to the other side of the slope; as for her, she went searching for what remained to them of provisions, feeling a hunger and a thirst she had never known before, until, when some

time had passed, she heard her mother crying out to her for joy:

— Look!... They are back!... They are back, and the waterskin full of water!...

And she rose and went to them, carrying a bag holding some crumbs of bread and lumps of cheese and heads of onion; she thrust it into the hand of the young man standing before her, and snatched from his other hand the waterskin, and began pouring it down her throat; and when she had drunk her fill of it she said, handing it to her mother:

— Never have I felt the sweetness of water as I feel it now!...

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