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She was not conscious of fear now, but Cojuelo's reply to her question scared her more than a little. "Sweet señorita, what man with a heart and eyesight could resist falling in love with so beautiful a woman?" he responded. "Perhaps I shall fall in love with you myself and refuse to surrender you, no matter how great a ransom is offered.
Myra, again with the sensation that the whole affair was a sort of fantastic dream, squeezed through the cleft revealed by the light of the electric torch, advanced two or three yards, passed through another cleft at right-angles to the first, and stopped at Cojuelo's bidding. "You perceive, señorita, that we seem to have come to a dead end," said the bandit, flashing the light about.
She led the way through a regular maze of crooked passages, and Myra saw that Cojuelo's mountain lair was a strange freak of nature, probably the result of a volcanic upheaval or an earthquake in some prehistoric age. It was a series of caves connected with fissures, a sort of irregular honeycomb of rock.
"I don't suppose it matters much now whether I am Cojuelo's wife or only his mistress." "His mistress!" Lady Fermanagh was white to the lips as she repeated the words. "You mean that he ?" The hot colour stained Myra's pale face as she met her aunt's eyes, and nodded her red-gold head in shamed assent. "Myra, you are ruined!" Lady Fermanagh almost wailed, wringing her be-ringed hands.
"I don't know, but the officials wanted to know if I saw Don Carlos at Cojuelo's place, and how I got away," Standish answered. "I told a lot of lies, and said that Cojuelo let me go when I promised to pay a ransom of fifty thousand pounds. Myra, you won't give me away and show me up? I'll shoot myself if you do.
"He will certainly bear you ill-will for having kidnapped me, and make every effort to kill you," retorted Myra, recognising that Cojuelo's muffled voice did resemble that of Don Carlos. "Because he loves you?" queried Cojuelo, with a chuckle. "You think he will be mad because I have robbed him of his heart's desire?" "How do you know that he loves me?" asked Myra in amazement.
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