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The
young
woman
who
came
to
her
to
find
what
had
happened
to
her
husband
styled
herself
the
Widow
Paris
.
She
was
high
-
breasted
and
young
and
proud
.
She
had
African
blood
in
her
,
and
European
blood
,
and
Indian
blood
.
Her
skin
was
reddish
,
her
hair
was
a
gleaming
black
.
Her
eyes
were
black
and
haughty
.
Her
husband
,
Jacques
Paris
,
was
,
perhaps
,
dead
.
He
was
three
-
quarters
white
as
these
things
were
calculated
,
and
the
bastard
of
a
once
-
proud
family
,
one
of
the
many
immigrants
who
had
fled
from
St
.
Domingo
,
and
as
freeborn
as
his
striking
young
wife
.
"
My
Jacques
.
Is
he
dead
?
"
asked
the
Widow
Paris
.
She
was
a
hair
-
dresser
who
went
from
home
to
home
,
arranging
the
coiffures
of
the
elegant
ladies
of
New
Orleans
before
their
demanding
social
engagements
.
Mama
Zouzou
consulted
the
bones
,
then
shook
her
head
.
"
He
is
with
a
white
woman
,
somewhere
north
of
here
,
"
she
said
.
"
A
white
woman
with
golden
hair
.
He
is
alive
.
"
This
was
not
magic
.
It
was
common
knowledge
in
New
Orleans
just
with
whom
Jacques
Paris
had
run
off
,
and
the
color
of
her
hair
.
Mama
Zouzou
was
surprised
to
realize
that
the
Widow
Paris
did
not
already
know
that
Jacques
was
sticking
his
quadroon
little
pipi
into
a
pink
-
skinned
girl
up
in
Colfax
every
night
.
Well
,
on
the
nights
that
he
was
not
so
drunk
he
could
use
it
for
nothing
better
than
pissing
.
Perhaps
she
did
know
.
Perhaps
she
had
another
reason
for
coming
.
The
Widow
Paris
came
to
see
the
old
slave
woman
one
or
two
times
a
week
.
After
a
month
she
brought
gifts
for
the
old
woman
:
hair
ribbons
,
and
a
seed
-
cake
,
and
a
black
rooster
.
"
Mama
Zouzou
,
"
said
the
girl
,
"
it
is
time
for
you
to
teach
me
what
you
know
.
"
"
Yes
,
"
said
Mama
Zouzou
,
who
knew
which
way
the
wind
blew
.
And
besides
,
the
Widow
Paris
had
confessed
that
she
had
been
born
with
webbed
toes
,
which
meant
that
she
was
a
twin
and
she
had
killed
her
twin
in
the
womb
.
What
choice
did
Mama
Zouzou
have
?
She
taught
the
girl
that
two
nutmegs
hung
upon
a
string
around
the
neck
until
the
string
breaks
will
cure
heart
murmurs
,
while
a
pigeon
that
has
never
flown
,
cut
open
and
laid
on
the
patient
’
s
head
,
will
draw
a
fever
.
She
showed
her
how
to
make
a
wishing
bag
,
a
small
leather
bag
containing
thirteen
pennies
,
nine
cotton
seeds
and
the
bristles
of
a
black
hog
,
and
how
to
rub
the
bag
to
make
wishes
come
true
.
The
Widow
Paris
learned
everything
that
Mama
Zouzou
told
her
.
She
had
no
real
interest
in
the
gods
,
though
.
Not
really
.
Her
interests
were
in
the
practicalities
.
She
was
delighted
to
learn
that
if
you
dip
a
live
frog
in
honey
and
place
it
in
an
ants
’
nest
,
then
,
when
the
bones
are
cleaned
and
white
,
a
close
examination
will
reveal
a
flat
,
heart
-
shaped
bone
,
and
another
with
a
hook
on
it
:
the
bone
with
the
hook
on
it
must
be
hooked
onto
the
garment
of
the
one
you
wish
to
love
you
,
while
the
heart
-
shaped
bone
must
be
kept
safely
(
for
if
it
is
lost
,
your
loved
one
will
turn
on
you
like
an
angry
dog
)
.
Infallibly
,
if
you
do
this
,
the
one
you
love
will
be
yours
.
