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Perhaps , for she smiled . The daughter answered with a smile ; and then , hand in hand , they stepped from the cliff into the mists and on through the opal gates of death . ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Book IV -- The Ku Klux Klan Aunt Cindy came at seven o'clock to get breakfast , and finding the house closed and no one at home , supposed Mrs. Lenoir and Marion had remained at the Cameron House for the night . She sat down on the steps , waited grumblingly an hour , and then hurried to the hotel to scold her former mistress for keeping her out so long . Accustomed to enter familiarly , she thrust her head into the dining-room , where the family were at breakfast with a solitary guest , muttering the speech she had been rehearsing on the way : `` I lak ter know what sort er way dis -- whar 's Miss Jeannie ? '' Ben leaped to his feet .