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"Has he to do with mines?" inquired the Chilean, tentatively

"Yes"

"I know hiht, señorita"

"Would he be acquainted with this man, Anacleto, do you think?"

"Can't say José would know anybody whom he could touch for a few

pesetas"

She left hi to visit hie coone: he was all s

extracted such infor

to her store of knowledge Incidentally, she meant to widen the

doctor's views

"Why have you taken to lecturing me?" she asked, with a simple

directness which Christobal was not slow to profit by

"Because, though old enough to be your father, or your elder brother,

as you were kind enough to put it, I have not yet reached years of

discretion"

If candor were needed, he would be candid Sophistry orse than

useless with a woman of Elsie's type The only way to win her was to

be transparently honest To Christobal, after an experience of a

generation of Chileans, this ca novelty

"You mean, I suppose, that if every one attended to their own affairs

it would be a less spiteful world? I aely ht that the desperate conditions under which we exist at this