homeward by the shortest way, which happened to lead through the
grounds of the temple Shin-Banzui-In.

Suddenly his attention was attracted by two new tombs, placed
side by side, at the rear of the temple. One was a common tomb,
such as might have been erected for a person of humble rank: the
other was a large and handsome monument; and hanging before it
was a beautiful peony-lantern, which had probably been left there
at the time of the Festival of the Dead. Shinzaburo remembered
that the peony-lantern carried by O-Yone was exactly similar; and
the coincidence impressed him as strange. He looked again at the
tombs; but the tombs explained nothing. Neither bore any personal
name,--only the Buddhist kaimyo, or posthumous appellation. Then
he determined to seek information at the temple. An acolyte
stated, in reply to his questions, that the large tomb had been
recently erected for the daughter of Iijima Heizayemon, the
hatamoto of Ushigome; and that the small tomb next to it was that
of her servant O-Yone, who had died of grief soon after the young
lady's funeral.

Immediately to Shinzaburoe's memory there recurred, with another
and sinister meaning, the words of O-Yone:--"We went away, and
found a very small house in Yanaka-no-Sasaki. There we are now
just barely able to live--by doing a little private work...."
Here was indeed the very small house,--and in Yanaka-no-Sasaki.
But the little private work...?

Terror-stricken, the samurai hastened with all speed to the house
of Yusai, and begged for his counsel and assistance. But Yusai
declared himself unable to be of any aid in such a case. All that