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But Juanita is different. She irons the fine linen. She is good as good as his Excellency's mother and beautiful. Maria! His Excellency should see her eyes. You know what eyes some Spanish women have. A history and something one does not understand." "Yes," answered Cartoner again. "I know."
At three o'clock the Navy Department at Washington reported to a gunboat out of sight of land that the last sighting of the supposed "Juanita" placed her on the same course as hitherto reported. At four o'clock came word that the Navy Department had had no new report as to the schooner by wireless. At five o'clock another wireless despatch was flashed through the air.
Coroner Price, with the approval of Captain Strawn of the Homicide Squad, had set the inquest into the murder of Juanita Leigh Selim for ten o'clock, and there was much that Dundee wished to say to the district attorney before that hour arrived.
And though Daisy was very shy of intimacies with strangers, she liked to feel Juanita's hand on her shoulder; and after the paroxysm of tears was past, she still stood quietly by her, without attempting to increase the distance between them; till she saw Sam coming down the lane with the pony. "Good-bye," said Daisy, "there's the boy." "My lady will come to see old Juanita again?"
It brought the tears into Daisy's eyes at length; the song of the kildeer came so close home into her heart. Juanita had gone to make the tea. While the kettle had been coming to a boil, she had put her little cottage into the nicest of order; and even filled a glass with some roses and set it on the little table.
"No I can see nothing." "There is a chapel up there, on the slope." "Our Lady of the Shadows," answered Juanita and lapsed into silence again. She knew now why the name had struck her with such foreboding, when she had learnt it from the lips of the laughing young captain of infantry. It told of calamity the greatest that can happen to a woman to be married without love.
"Reparation enough for her to have had you," said Juanita, with that rapid disloyalty of one loving woman to another in an emergency. This provoked another kiss from Cranch, and then Juanita said demurely, "But we are far from the trail. Let us return, or we shall miss Father Pedro. Are you sure he will come?" "A week ago he promised to be here to see the proofs to-day."
I missed Rochford greatly; and though I was interested by Lejoillie's remarks on the natural history of the country, I was very glad when we at length reached Castle Kearney. I watched my cousin Juanita when Carlos was giving her an account of Rochford's disappearance, "I am very sorry," she answered in quite an indifferent tone.
Morton sought to secure a seat at Greg Carker's side, but in a clever manner Carker had avoided such proximity to her, without seeming to do so intentionally. Instead of having her at his elbow, it was Juanita who sat there. "Well, señorita," said Carker, smiling on her, "what do you think of Frank Merriwell's home and his friends?"
Then, having satisfied herself, Juanita would go about the business of the morning. First her fire was made, and the kettle put on for breakfast. Daisy used to beg her to leave the door open, so that, though she could not follow her with her eyes and see, she could yet hear what Juanita was doing.
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