Who was she?--who was her Julien? ... When the Estelle and many
other vessels had discharged their ghastly cargoes;--when the
bereaved of the land had assembled as hastily as they might for
the du y of identification;--when memories were strained almost
to madness in research of names, dates, incidents--for the
evocation of dead words, resurrection of vanished days,
recollection of dear promises,--then, in the confusion, it was
believed and declared that the little corpse found on the pelican
island was the daughter of the wearer of the wedding ring: Adele
La Brierre, nee Florane, wife of Dr. Julien La Brierre, of New
Orleans, who was numbered among the missing.

And they brought dead Adele back,--up shadowy river windings,
over linked brightnesses of lake and lakelet, through many a
green glimmering bayou,--to the Creole city, and laid her to rest
somewhere in the old Saint-Louis Cemetery. And upon the tablet
recording her name were also graven the words--

.....................

Aussi a la memoire de
son mari;

JULIEN RAYMOND LA BRIERRE,
ne a la paroisse St. Landry,
le 29 Mai; MDCCCXXVIII;
et de leur fille,
EULALIE,
agee de 4 as et 5 mois,--
Qui tous perirent