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Well, there is no reason we should not eat, and, thanks be to that good mayor domo, we still have a bottle of wine. But I would give something for a gourd of water. However, we have not been girls yet, and we will not begin now, my friend." The boys ate their breakfast, but their spirits felt little lighter, even after a long draught of wine.

On its southern curve was a high mountain. As the boys approached, a vaquero sprang upon a mustang and rode toward them rapidly. Roldan recognised one of the men that had been at the rodeo. "At your feet, senores," said the vaquero. "The Senor Don is away, and all the family; but I am mayor domo, and in his absence I place the house at your disposal."

Even Olive, whose major domo, driving a Ford, had paid daily visits to the farms and brought back what eggs, chickens and other succulences the peasants would part with for coin, had lost her brilliant color and the full lines of her beautiful figure.

The sumptuous guard stood outside to receive me, and as the door closed behind me the band struck up a swelling measure that I shall not soon forget. "Well," said the Major Domo, as we proceeded back to my quarters, "did he receive you nicely?" "Who?" said I. "Jupiter, of course," he said. "I didn't see him," I replied, sadly. "I fell in with a beastly old bore who wouldn't let go of me.

Thus one learned that the main body of the service staff was Chinese under a major domo named Shaik Tsin Chou Nu's "second-uncle" who enjoyed Prince Victor's completest confidence and was, second to the latter only, the real head of the establishment, its presiding genius.

We shall not attempt to explain his meaning nor connect his sentences; and our readers must be satisfied with our informing them that they were expressed with all that coolness of contempt that a man might well be supposed to feel for a monkey. Nearly two hours passed in this sleep before the major domo was awakened by the noisy entrance of Richard, Major Hartmann, and the master of the mansion.

During the month of May seven persons were appointed to examine, my papers, and among the inquisitorial septemvirate were two men well known and filling high situations. One of these executed his commission, but the other, sensible of the odium attached to it, wrote to say he was unwell, and never came. The number of my inquisitors, 'in domo', was thus reduced to six.

"The library," said the Major Domo, pointing to tier upon tier of teeming shelves, upon which stood a wonderful array of exquisitely bound volumes to a number past all counting. I was speechless with the grandeur of it all. "It is sublime," said I. "How many volumes?" "Unnumbered, and unnumberable by mortals, but in round, immortal figures just one jovillion."

Back across the velvety lawn, through the feathery strips of foliage, the lights of The Sanctuary, shaded and subdued, were dimly visible. The dining-table under the cedar-tree had already been cleared. Hedges, newly arrived from town to play the major domo, was putting the finishing touches to a little array of cool drinks. And beyond, dimly seen but always there, the wall.

How easy it would be for me, I thought, to write my future books if Jupiter would only let me loose here with a competent stenographer to copy off the pages of manuscript as yet undreamed of! I suggested this to the Major Domo. "He wouldn't let you," he said. "It would throw the whole scheme out of gear." "I don't see why," I ventured. "It is simple," rejoined the Major Domo.