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of rock confronts us It is actually a cunningly-contrived door giving

entrance to a series of caves which Nature must surely have constructed

for my use And El Diablo Cojuelo has improved on nature He aqui!"

With his foot he pressed soround, and

ato the astonished eyes of Myra a

big, irregularly-shaped room that looked as if it had been hewn out of

the solid rock, a roohly-constructed chairs and a

settee on which there were s on the

rocky floor Most ahted with

electricity and warmed by an electric radiator

"I suppose I a forward

and gazing round ondering eyes "This is ician as well as a brigand?"

"Both, señorita," Cojuelo answered, as he closed the secret door, "but

there is nothing ical about it, after all It was a siled up here in sections It was

an equally sis and cushions from the Castillo

de Ruiz, since all the servants of Don Carlos, as I have told you, are

in my pay"