This is how it came to pass that Celinina's corpse, that which had
been her visible self, was found the next morning holding two little
clay animals instead of the bunch of artificial flowers. No one could
solve the mystery, not even the women who kept watch, nor the father,
nor the mother; and the beautiful little girl, for whom so many tears
were shed, went down into the earth clasping the Mule and the Ox in
her cold little hands.
[Illustration]