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Carlos de Ruiz," continued the superior official "He also states that

he understood you to assert positively that Don Carlos is El Diablo

Cojuelo Is that so, señorita?"

"If you have no love, show no mercy" The words of the note she had

found on her breast flashed back into Myra's mind in the fraction of a

second that she hesitated before answering the question on which the

fate of Don Carlos depended And in that fraction of a second she

found the answer to estion!" she exclaimed with scarce a tremor in her

voice "The officer is quite itated that I did not knohat I was saying, and was

obsessed with the idea that El Diablo Cojuelo was close behind h

"You hear, señors!" he exclai if I left it to Miss Rostrevor to assure you the fantastic

suggestion is without foundation Now I a Are you satisfied now? The Señor

Standish has told you that I was flung into the cell in which he was

imprisoned after he had tried to kill Cojuelo, and that Cojuelo

afterwards threatened to torture hireed to

his terms"