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Then, for the first time, she spoke, answering in her argent treble: "Zouzoune." All held their breath. Captain Harris lifted his finger to his lips to command silence. "Zouzoune? Zouzoune qui, chere?" "Zouzoune, a c'est moin, Lili!" "C'est pas tout to nom, Lili; dis moin, chere, to laut nom." "Mo pas connin laut nom." "Comment ye te pele to maman, piti?" "Maman, Maman 'Dele."
Chita!" She did not hear ... After all, what a mistake he might have made! Were not Nature's coincidences more wonderful than fiction? Better to wait, to question the mother first, and thus make sure. Still there were so many coincidences! The face, the smile, the eyes, the voice, the whole charm; then that mark, and the fair hair. Zouzoune had always resembled Adele so strangely!
"All correct, boys?" asked the captain ... "Well, we've got to be going. By-by, Zouzoune!" But Zouzoune burst into tears. Laroussel was going too! "Give her the thing, Laroussel! she gave you a kiss, anyhow more than she'd do for me," cried the captain. Laroussel turned, detached the little compass from his watch chain, and gave it to her. She held up her pretty face for his farewell kiss ...
But as she turned in going, his piercing eye discerned a little brown speck below the pretty lobe of her right ear, just in the peachy curve between neck and cheek.... His own little Zouzoune had a birthmark like that! he remembered the faint pink trace left by his fingers above and below it the day he had slapped her for overturning his ink bottle ... "To laimin moin? to batte moin!" "Chita!
The splendid bribe evidently impressed her greatly; for tears rose to the brown eyes as she answered: "Mo pas capab di' ca; mo pas capab di' laut nom ... Mo oule; mo pas capab!" Laroussel explained. The child's name was Lili, perhaps a contraction of Eulalie; and her pet Creole name Zouzoune.
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