The Fontaine plantation was named Mimosa, for the grove of trees that surrounded the faded yellow stucco house. The trees' feathery pink flowers had fallen at summer's end, but the fern-like leaves were still vivid green on the boughs. They swayed like dancers in the light wind, making shifting patterns of shadow on the mottled walls of the butter-colored house. It looked warm and welcoming in the low, slanting sunlight.

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