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Her soft, dark eyes flashed to meet his, timidly and yet with an effect of fine spirit

"Si, señor"

"Good Shake hands on it, little partner"

She came forward reluctantly, as if she were pushed toward hiether with the sweetness of the glad emotion that trembled in her filmy eyes, lent her a rare charers touched his, then she turned and fled from the room

Mrs Corbett presently bustled in, fat, fifty, and friendly

"I can't hardly look you in the face," he apologized, with his etting sick on your hands like a kid"

Mrs Corbett answered his sed the coverlets

"You'll just have to be good for a spell to make up for it No ht"

"I reckon you better call me Gordon, ma'am" His mind passed to what she had said about his walk "Ce'tainly that was a fool pasear for a -headed, Mrs Corbett And Doc Watson had toldhed ruefully

"Well, you've had your lesson And you've worried all of us Miss Valdés has called up two or three ti to find out how you were"

Dick felt the blood flush his face "She has?" Then, after a little: "That's very kind of Miss Valdés"

"Yes Everybody has been kind Mr Pesquiera has called up every day to inquire about you He has been very anxious for you to recover"

A faint sardonic smile touched the white lips "A fellow never kno many friends he has till he needs theet on ht he could guess why that proud and passionate son of Spain fretted to see him ill The hu in his heart and would oppress hiot other friends, too, that have worried a lot," said Mrs Corbett, as she took up so

"More friends yet? Say, ain't I rich? I didn't kno blamed popular I was till now," returned the invalid, with derisive irony "Who is it this tirateful for?"

"Mr Davis"

"Steve Davis--from Cripple Creek, Colorado, God's Country?"