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"Don Manuel has it right, señorita Gordon is my name; Muir, too, for that matter Richard Muir Gordon is what I was christened"

The underlying red of her cheeks had fled and left theht the scornful eyes had absorbed all the fire of her face

"So you have lied to me, sir?"

"Let me lay the facts before you, first That's a hard word, señorita"

"You gave your name to me as Muir, You imposed yourself on my hospitality under false pretenses You are only a spy, coainst me"

"No--no!" he cried sharply "You will reht be aard, but I did not foresee this"

"That you would be found out before you had won your end? I believe you, sir," she retorted contemptuously

"I see I'm condemned before I'm heard"

"Will any explanation alter the facts? Are you not a liar and a cheat? You gave me a false naave a wrong name?" he asked

"That is different," she flaed you in it But you seem to have found out my real name since Yet you still accepted what I had to offer, under a false narants You have lived a lie from first to last"

"It ain't as bad as you say, ma'am Don Manuel had told me it wasn't safe to come here in my own name I didn't care about the safety, but I wanted to see the situation exactly as it was I didn't knoho you hen I came here I took you to be Miss Maria Yuste I----"

"My na woman explained proudly "When, uessed it at Antelope Springs"

"Then why did you not tell me then who you are? Surely that was the time to tell me My deception did you no harm; yours was one no man of honor could have endured after he kneho I was"

"I didn't ai I meant, in a day or two----"

"A day or two," she cried, in a blaze of scorn "After you had found out all I had to tell; after you had got evidence to back your robber-clai with a spy?"