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I will be with you by seven o'clock to-night at D'Erraha." Fitz did not offer to accompany him, and Cipriani de Lloseta rode that strange ride alone; unknown, an outcast in his own land, he rode through the most fertile valley in the world, of which every tree was dear to him; and no man knew his thoughts.
Harrington turned upon the Spaniard quickly, but nevertheless too late to catch the warning frown which he had directed towards Eve. Mrs. Harrington looked keenly into his face, which was blandly imperturbable. "Then you are the owner of D'Erraha?" "I am." Mrs. Harrington gave a strange little laugh. "What a rich man you are!" she said. "Come! Let us go to dinner."
It was Eve who spoke next smoothing out her silken trifle of needlework and looking at it critically. "I never thanked you," she said, "for all your kindness to me at D'Erraha. You were a friend in need." It was quite different from what it had been at D'Erraha. Possibly it was as different as were the atmospheres of the two places.
And yet I know That tears lie deep in all I do. The pine forests on the mountain-tops were beginning to gather the darkness as the Count de Lloseta rode up the last slope to the Casa d'Erraha. The sun had just set behind the rocky land that hides Miramar from D'Erraha. A stillness seemed to be creeping down from the mountain to the valley. The wind had gone down with the sun.
I cannot legally force you to hold the estate of the Val d'Erraha. I can only ask you as the daughter of one of my best friends to accept the benefit of a very small doubt." Eve hesitated. What woman would not? Captain Bontnor set down his cup very gravely on the table. "I don't rightly understand," he said sturdily, "this 'rotas' business.
His world had always been bounded on the south by the Val d'Erraha, on the north by the Valdemosa road, on the west by the sea, and on the east by Rosa. He had never suffered from absolute hunger, and nothing but absolute hunger will make a Spaniard leave his home.
She had apparently expected him not to look back, and yet wanted him to do it, and at the same time would rather he did not do it. Felipe Fortis would have turned half a dozen times, with a salutation and a wave of the hat. But the sun went down behind the tableland of the Val d'Erraha and Tomaso did not return.
It was, he said, his intention to come back to his "possession," as these Majorcan country houses are called, to inhabit it the larger part of the year, and to pass the remaining winter months at his palace in Palma. In the afternoon he mounted his horse, and in the evening, as has been said, he reached D'Erraha.
Will you reconsider your decision with respect to the Val d'Erraha?" Eve shook her head and looked at her uncle. "No," she answered; "I cannot do that. Not now." "Some day?" he suggested. "Not now," repeated the girl; and, looking up, her face suddenly became grave, as if reflecting the expression in the dark Spanish eyes bent upon her. "You are cruel!" he said. "I am young "
For Eve Challoner had telegraphed to her countrymen at Port Mahon when this strange and horrid numbness seized her father. The sun was setting behind the distant line of the sea when Fitz and his companion urged their tired horses up the last slope to the Casa d'Erraha. Within the gateway Mrs. Baines, the only English servant in this English house, was awaiting them.
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