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Myra shook her red-gold head despairingly, and sank down into a corner

of the couch with a sigh

"If he were the only man on earth, I would not marry him now," she

answered "But that does not alter the case or excuse your conduct"

"I do not understand, Myra," said Don Carlos "It was only because you

had proainst

love and me You have surrendered to love now, at last, and----"

"I have not," interrupted Myra "I hate you for what has happened"

"Yet, hating me, you have become my wife," Don Carlos commented, with

an air of perplexity

"I am not your wife," protested Myra "You have fooledthat the farcical service, gabbled in

a language I do not understand by one of your e"

"Padre Sancho is an ordained priest The ceremony was not a farce

You are noife--the wife of El Diablo Cojuelo, the outlaw Later

on, when you marry Don Carlos--if Don Carlos still desires you--you