"Hold on! What's your father's first name?
I'll send a team over there for you to-morrow." "And is it true that you frightened the handsome Captain Carroll away from Amita ?" said Dolores Briones, over the edge of her fan to Raymond.

"Perfectly," said Raymond, with ingenuous frankness.

"I made it a matter of life or death.

He was a soldier, and naturally preferred the former as giving him a better chance for promotion." "Ah! we thought it was Maruja you liked best." "That was two years ago," said Raymond, gravely.

"And you Americanos can change in that time ?" "I have just experienced that it can be done in less," he responded, over the fan, with bewildering significance.