"I guess ez heow you ain't much on American.

You folks orter learn the language if you kalkilate to keep a hotel." But the momentary vision of a waistless woman with a shawl gathered over her head and shoulders at the back door attracted his attention.

She said something to Mateo in Spanish, and the yellowish-white of Mateo's eyes glistened with intelligent comprehension.
"Ah, posiblemente; it is Don Ricardo Demorest you wish ?" Mr.Ezekiel's face and manner expressed a mingling of grateful curiosity and some scorn at the discovery.

"Wa'al," he said, looking around as if to take the entire Posada into his confidence, "way up in North Liberty, where I kem from, he was allus known as Dick Demorest, and didn't tack any forrin titles to his name.

Et wouldn't hev gone down there, I reckon, 'mongst free-born Merikin citizens, no mor'n aliases would in court--and I kinder guess for the same reason.