Ah! we know the senor's rules regarding his son." "One ?" repeated Steptoe.

"Who was it ?" "Oh, quite an hidalgo--an old friend of the child's--most polite, most accomplished, fluent in Spanish, perfect in deportment.

The Senor Horncastle surely could find nothing to object to.

Father Pedro was charmed with him.

A man of affairs, and yet a good Catholic, too.