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"Which, of course, makes you fonder of her," scoffed Miss Underwood "Does she hate the ground that Don Manuel walks on?"
"Now you've got o to the foot of the class, because I don't know"
"But you wish you did," she flung at hiain, Miss Kate I'll sure report you if you waste the State's tiaily
"Since you're in love with her, why don't you marry Miss Valdés and consolidate the two claiirl
Her chin was tilted iuessed that there was an undercurrent of e for running your matrimonial bureau?" he asked innocently
"The service comes free to infants," she retorted sweetly
She was called away to attend to other business An hour later she passed the desk where he orking
"So you think I'as," was her saucy answer
"You haven't--not a mite What about Don Manuel? Is he an infant at it, too?"
A sudden fla at Gordon seemed irrelevant, but he did not think theone
Dick's eyes twinkled He had discovered another reason for her interest in his fortunes
Later in the day, when the pressure of work had relaxed, the clerk drifted his way again while searching for some papers
"Your lawyers are paid to look up all this, aren't they? Why do you do it, then?" she asked
"The case interests me I want to know all about it"
"Would you like to see the old Valdés house here in Santa Fé? My father bought it when Alvaro Valdés built his nen house One day I found in the garret a bundle of old Spanish letters They ritten by old Bartolomé to his son I saved them Would you care to see thereat character I suppose he was really the last of the great feudal barons The French Revolution put an end to them in Europe--that and the industrial revolution It's rather a that out here in the desert of this new land dedicated to de"
"I'll bring the letters to-morrow and you can look them over Any time you like I'll show you over the house It's really rather interesting--much more so than their new one, which is so modern that it looks like a thousand others Valencia was born in the old house What will you give me to let you into the room?"