When she was alone she called out to her sister, and said to her:--

"Sister Anne,"--for that was her name,--"go up, I beg you, to the top of

the tower, and look if my brothers are not coming; they promised me they

would come to-day, and if you see them, give them a sign to make haste."

Her sister Anne went up to the top of the tower, and the poor afflicted

wife cried out from time to time:--

"Anne, sister Anne, do you see any one coming?"

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