There were three or four closely written notes in Spanish and English.
"Love-letters, I reckon," said Prince--"that's why the old girl wants 'em back.

She don't care to have the wheedling that fetched the Doctor trotted out to the public." "Let us look more carefully," said Carroll, pleasantly, opening each letter before Prince, yet so skillfully as to frustrate any attempt of the latter to read them.

"There does not seem to be any memorandum here.

They are evidently only private letters." "Quite so," said Prince.
Captain Carroll retied the packet and put it in his pocket.

"Then I'll return them to her," he said, quietly.
"Hullo!--here--I say," said Prince, starting to his feet.
"I said I would return them to her," repeated Carroll, calmly.
"But I never gave them to you! I never consented to their withdrawal from the papers." "I'm sorry you did not," said Carroll, coldly; "it would have been more polite." "Polite! D--n it, sir! I call this stealing." "Stealing, Mr.Prince, is a word that might be used by the person who claims these letters to describe the act of any one who would keep them from HER.