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Feeling himself master of the craft, Starland now went back into the Captain's cabin to see his sister, whom he found seated in the quarters which had been occupied by her and the Señorita Estacardo the evening before.
"Where is that?" "A mile from the river among the mountains; the air there is cooler than at Atlamalco, and General Yozarro spends much of the hot season at Castillo Descanso, or 'Castle of Rest. Señorita Estacardo is his niece; he is a widower; he loves your sister and he hopes by his kindness and attention to win her for his wife, and to do this, he sees he must keep you and her apart as long as he can."
Her usefulness when in the naval service, required her presence in the Atlantic, but she was now free to go whither her owner willed. Thus the perilous voyage had been postponed for a few years. Manuela Estacardo had returned to her home in tropical America, and she and her dearest friend, Warrenia Rowland, were never laggard in their correspondence.
"You know not the perfidy of that man," was the commentary of the Dictator, his words inspired by jealousy. When the Castle of Rest was reached it justified all that Señorita Estacardo had said of it, though it lacked moat and drawbridge and the other feudal accessories. It was of massive rock and stone, sixty or more feet in length and almost as broad.
She comes from the Great Republic of the North, and no one elsewhere has the right to say yea or nay to her." "It distresses me very much, Señorita Estacardo, that special weight was laid by General Yozarro upon the order as affecting la Americana."
Positive and negative electricity draw together, which perhaps explains why the two most devoted intimates at the seminary were Señorita Estacardo and Warrenia Rowland. The latter was a true product of the North, with blue eyes, pink skin, hair like the floss of the ripening corn, and a figure as perfect as her sister's of the South, while the mental gifts in one were equalled in the other.
Standing beside one another for a minute or two, the American asked his guide: "Did General Yozarro start for this point when he left Atlamalco in his tug?" "I heard him say he intended to take the Señorita to Zalapata to meet her brother, and Señorita Estacardo went along to bear her company." "That's what the villain told me; did he pass beyond this point?" "He did so for several miles."
The moment Martella came within reach, the American extended his hand and addressed him in his native tongue: "The Captain says you are ready to show us the way to Castillo Descanso, where Señoritas Estacardo and Starland are staying." Martella nodded his head several times and said eagerly, "Si, si, si." "Are you certain they are there?" "I am not, but I think so." "The deuce!
"I beg your Excellency that I may have the privilege of a few words with my sister, Miss Starland, who came ashore from my yacht last week to visit her friend Señorita Estacardo, and whom it has not been my pleasure to see since then."
There were young women fitting for the missionary field in India and China; the daughters of eminent financiers in England, Germany, France and Spain, those whose parents' influence was felt in distant climes, including several from the revolution-pestered republics of South America. Manuela Estacardo was the only child of the deceased sister of President Pedro Yozarro, Dictator of Atlamalco.
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