CROSS PURPOSES Though Iris gave such warlike counsel, it would be doing her a grave injustice to assume that her gentle disposition was changed because of the day's sufferings.

The erstwhile light-hearted schoolgirl and youthful mistress of her uncle's house had been subjected to dynamic influences.

The ordeal through which she had passed, unscathed bodily but seared in spirit, had left her strung to a tense pitch.

Relaxation had not come--as yet.

She only knew that she resented to the uttermost the Brazilians' malevolent fury.