One."- Sue xlirugsed lightly. "In the
jrst place 1 care nothing for you. la
not tli:it enough?"
o. indeed. You'll get over that"
"Lt't us imagine, then, the contrary.
Ion Americans are entirely different
from our people. You are cold, de
liberate, wicked your social customs
are uot like ours. Yon do not nt all
understand us. How then could yon
he interested to meet a Spanish fam
ily 5"
"Why, you're balf American."
"Oh. yes, although it is to ht re
gretted. Why, there is no other nice
girl in oil Panama who would have
talked with you as I did in the forest
that day."
"But what has all this to do with
my coming to gee you?"
'It is difficult to explain, since you
will not understand. When a young
mi.n Is accepted into a Spanish house.
many things are taken for granted
Besides that, we do not know each oth
tr, yon and I. Also, if you should
come to see me it would cause gossip.
misunderstanding among my friends.'
"I'll declare myself in advance," he
promised warmly.
"No, no, no! We Spanish-Americans
do not care for strangers. We have
ur own people and we are satisfied.
It Is much better that old people who
re of more experience should discuss
these questions."
"But don't you want to have a voice
In your own affairs?" he eagerly urged.
She answered frankly: "I do rebel
sometime. I protest, but It Is only the
American blood In me."
"If you'd learn to know me a little
bit, maybe you'd enjoy having me
around the house.
"But 1 cannot know you, any more
thin you can know me," she cried,
with a little gesture of despair at bis
dullness. "Don't you see before we
could get acquainted nicely people
would be talking."
"Let's try. You're living at the conn
try place again, aren't you? Suppose
I should get lost some day tomorrow,
orlnstancef"
"No, no! Listen. It is the warning
bell, and we must return."
The crowd was filing into the theater
now. They fell In behind Senor Gara
vej and Mrs. Cortlandt
, "I'm going hunting again tomorrow,"
prophesied Kirk, "and I'm almost cer
tain to lose my way about 3 o'clock.
Suppose we have another atroil after
the next act?"
"I shall be with my father. Never
before have I enjoyed so much liber
ty." She sighed gratefully.
"Oh, I detest your blamed, strait
laced Spanish customs," he cried hotly.
"What do they amount to, anyhow? I
love you. I do, I do"
She laughed and darted to her fa
ther's side.
"Don't you think Miss Oaravel is a
pretty girl?" Mrs. Cortlnndt question
ed, as they strolled toward their box.
"She's a dream." Anthony's tone left
nothing unsaid.
"You got alone together capitally.
Most of the senoritas are Impossible." .
"By the way, what is her name?"
"Gertrudls. Rather pleasing. I think."
t Kirk thought so too. When, after an
-age, the curtain fell for a second time
he escaped from his companions, mum
bling some excuse or other, and made
haste to find her again. But as he ap
proached he felt a sudden pang of
Jealous rage.
, Ramon Alfarez was beside her, and
the two were chatting with an appear
ance of intimacy that made him furi
ous. Close at hand stood Garavel, deep
In conversation with Colonel Jolson.
' "Ah, Ramon, I wish you to meet Mr.
Anthony," said Gertrudls. "So! You
have met before?"
I "In Colon," Kirk explained, while Al
farez scorched him with his eyes. "Mr.
Alfarea was very hospitable to me."
"Ye"," the Spaniard exclaimed, "It is
my great regret that Senor Ant'ony did
aot remain for longer. Does Senor
Ant'ony discover our climate to be stM
agreeable?"
"Very. It hasn't grown too warm for
me yet."
"We are hot approaching onr "ot sea
son." The speaker's eyes snapped.
Heretofore Kirk bad bated Ramon in
a careless, indifferent sort of way, feel
ing that he owed him a good drubbing,
which he would be pleased to adminis
ter If ever a atting time arrived. But
now, since he saw that the jackanapes
bad the audacity to love Gertrudls, his
-feeling became intense. The girl, of
course, was fully alive to the situa
tion and, although she evidently en
joyed It, she did her best to stand be
tween the two men.
As for Alfarea, he was quick to fee'.
the sudden fierce hostility be had
ruased, and it seemed to make him
Bervoua. Moreover, he conceived that
be had scored heavily by bis last re
tort, at which Kirk had only smiled.
It therefore seemed best to him to
withdraw from the conversation (an
Boylngly conducted in English), and a
few moments later be stalked majes
tically away. This was Just what Kirk
wanted, and be quickly suggested the
balcony. But Gertrudls was obstinate.
1 must remain with my father," she
Mid.
"May I alt beside you, then? Do yoo
know, rm going to nestle op to jroor
fattier and nak-hJm ilk p- "
"Agam you are speimiig of that sub
ject. have known you but an hou.,
and j j-j talk of nothing but my father,
of me, of coming to call. I have lost
all modesty to sneak of those things.
You force me t" eniliarrass myself."
"You once spoke of a chap your peo
ple had picked out. It Isn't Alfarez?"
She let her d irk eyes rest upon his a
moment, and Ms senses swam. Then
she nodded slowly.
"You do riot like him?" j
"Just like a nose bleed. The day you j
and I are married I'm going to send
him a wreath of poison ivy."
"It pleases you always to joke."
"No joke about thiit. You won't give
in, will you ?"
"There is no question of force nor of
surrender, senor. I insist now that we
shall speey of other things."
A few moments later he was con
strained to rejoin his hostess' party.
"When are you going back to Las
Savannas?" he asked as he reluctantly
arose.
"Tomorrow."
"The hunting ought to be good"
But she frowned at him in annoy
ance, and be left her after all without
knowing whether he had gained or lost
ground. She was not so warm and
Impulsive as he had supposed. Her
girllshneas, her simplicity, her little
American ways, cloaked a deep reserve j
and a fine sense of the difference in i
their positions. The plague of it was
that if anything be was more in love
with the definite and daazling Gertru
dls Garavel than he had been with the
mysteriously alluring Chlqulta. And
then, too, there was Alfarea t
CHAPTER XVI.
An Awaktning.
E was in no more satisfactory
frame of mlud when, on the
next afternoon, be shoul
dered his gun and set out for
the country. He went directly to the
fairy pool, and waited there In a very
fever of anxiety. Despite the coolness
and peace of the place, be felt bis
pulses throb and his face burn. If she
came, K would mean everything to
him. If she stayed away why, then
be would have to believe that after all
the real Gertrudls Caruvcl had spoken
last nigh't at the opera. The sound of
a voice shot through his troubled
thoughts like a beam of sunlight
through a dark room. '
"Oh, Senor Antonio! Oow you
atartled me!"
Instantly his self possession came
back, ne felt relieved and gay.
"Good afternoon, queen!" He rose
and bowed politely. "I thought I saw
one underneath the watenun jusi
now."
"Who would have expected you to
be here?" she cried, with an extreme
and obviously counterfeit amazement
that filled him with delight.
"I'm lost," he declared; then, after
one look into her eyes, be added, "Ab-
1 '
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Oh, Ssnor Antoniol How you startled
m."
solutely. utterly, Irretrievably lost
Won't you sit down?"
"Since we have met quite by ac
cident, perhaps it would not be so Tory
Improper." She laughed mUchlevotisly
and settled uncertainly beside htm like
a butterfly Juat alighting, ready to take
Bight asraln on the Instant
"Perhaps I can help yon to rind jour
way, senorr she said, -with Ingenuous
politeness.
"Ton are the only one who can. Miss
Garavel. I don't know that I aver told
you, but I'm In lova."
"Indeed r
"I gB the moet miserably happy Pr
aaa In the world, for I hart Jo this
saoment beiron to hellere that tbe
joanf lady likes n a Utile bit"
"Oh! But I forgot the real raaaoi
way I cam. I bar something I am
"All right But honestly now, didn't
you want to come?"
She turned upon lilm in a little burnt
of passion. "Yes!" she cried. "Of
course I did! I wished to come, mad
ly, senor. It makes my heart patter,
like thnf-she made her little Angers
"putter" "to be wooed even by a
Yankee. But I do not love you In the
least Oh no! Even if I wished to do
so, there are too many reasons why I
could not, and when I explain you will
understand."
"I know. It's Ramon Alfarez.
You're halfway engaged to him. But
you know you don't love him."
"Ah, it la not too sure! He is of fine
family, be Is rich, he Is handsome.
Not possibly could 1 care for any man
who waa not all of those. All my life
I have thought him a very sweet pen
tleman, and for a long time It has been
agreed that I should be his wife. TV-re
are so ninny reasons why I should say
yen."
"You haven't mentioned any thiit
would be binding In law."
"My father's wish. Ia not that suffi
cient?" "You disregarded that once."
"Thnt was but a flutter. All the time
I kuew 1 slionld 1)0 Ramon's wife
Uwlien the time arrived. Perhaps I
could refiiHe to, wed a man my father
choe for me, but no nice Spanish girl
would dure to wed a man ber father
did not like. Do you seer
"But it's no cinch your father won't
positively hunger for' roe once we get
chummy."
"You ara too different you disregard
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