From the Murat Family Album.(Brief Article)(Short Story)

Chicago Review | March 22, 2000| | Copyright

One by one the four children, having climbed the wooden stair, appear in early light, clothed who knows how, on the deck of HMS Tremendous. One after the other, they yawn; then they stretch out their arms. Up and out go their arms, as if they were sending telegrams by semaphore.

The amaranthine dawn of the Adriatic welcomes the children, their names are imprinted on the salt air: Achille, Letitia, Lucien, Louise. Their father is hiding in a cave behind Toulon; a farmer comes crunching up the mountain trail to the mouth of the cave: I have a place for you in my ...

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