10/36 He can read and write--truly I have a letter from him here." She turned back the folded slip of Captain Carroll's note and discovered another below. "You jest at them, yet you uphold Pereo! Go, now, and sleep yourself into a better frame of mind. Stop! I hear the Doctor's horse. Run and see that Pereo receives him properly." Maruja had barely entered the dark corridor when she came upon the visitor,--a gray, hard-featured man of sixty,--who had evidently entered without ceremony. "I see you did not wait to be announced," she said, sweetly. |