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MADAME BUTTERFLY
stopped. Her head drooped slowly forward. Her arms penitently outstretched themselves toward the shrine. She wept.
"Oh, pitiful Kwannon!" she prayed.
The baby crept cooing into her lap. The little maid came in and bound up the wound.
When Mrs. Pinkerton called next day at the little house on Higashi Hill it was quite empty.
