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Updated: June 6, 2025
"There are some never-to-be-depended-upon fools in the world, and especially in Hamburg." "Everywhere," agreed Dom Corria blandly. Carmela's memory was not quite of the hereditary order. She had forgotten, for three whole days, that the letter containing the receipt was in her pocket. When Coke was pronounced fit for comfortable travel, David Verity and Dickey Bulmer conveyed him home.
"Go, then, and find that young Englishman, Philip Hozier. Tell him that the engagement between Miss Yorke and Mr. Bulmer is broken off." Carmela's black eyes sparkled. That wayward blood of hers surged in her veins, but Dom Corria's calm glance dwelt on her, and the spasm passed. "Yes, father," she said dutifully.
There was a curious bleaching of Philip's weather-tanned face. It touched a chord in Carmela's impulsive nature. "It is all right," she nodded. "You can go to her." She left him there, more shaken than he had ever been by thunderous sea or screaming bullet. "They are cold, these English," she communed, as she passed up the slope to the house. "It takes something to rouse them.
Two thousand five hundred years ago the prophet Jeremiah expressed incredulity as to the power of an Ethiopian to change his skin or a leopard his spots. The march of the centuries has fully justified the seer's historic doubt, so it makes but slight demand on the critical faculties to assume that two years' residence in Europe had not cooled the hot southern blood flowing in Carmela's veins.
An hour later, Dom Corria and Carmela met in a corridor. They were discussing arrangements for a speedy move to the capital when Iris ran into them. Her face was flushed, and she had been crying. Much to Carmela's amazement, the English girl clasped her round the neck and kissed her.
At times, he called himself to order; at times, both Iris and Carmela affected not to have heard him. But Carmela's interest never flagged. Nor did Bulmer's.
The Dona Pondillo deemed her a spirit when she appeared on the veranda, but Carmela's impetuous kiss soon disabused the worthy dame of her error. Iris, wondering why the lively chatter of her Brazilian friends was so suddenly stilled, to be succeeded by a hubbub of excited words as the older ladies present gathered around the new-comer, asked one of the Pondillo girls what had happened.
Completely mystified now by Carmela's glib reference to the two men whose names were so often in her thoughts though seldom on her lips, she could only gaze at the Senhora De Sylva in silent bewilderment. Carmela, feeling that she was gaining ground rapidly, affected a note of polite regret. "Please forgive me for being so abrupt. Perhaps I ought to have prepared you. But it is quite true. Mr.
Carmela's concluding words could not possibly be mistaken for anything else. Their meaning, on the other hand, was capable of varying shades of significance; but Iris was far too amazed to seek depths beneath their literalness. "If Mr. Verity and Mr. Bulmer are in Brazil " she began tremulously, but Carmela broke in with a shrill laugh. "There is no 'if. Look below there, near my father's tent!
Thus, she gathered one fact as to Carmela, and more than suspected another. For a reason that every woman will understand, she felt a subtle thrill of fear. If San Benavides were really Carmela's accepted lover, then, indeed, Iris had good cause for foreboding.
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