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Christina, however, neither answered him nor heard. Her eyes were fixed with a strange intentness upon him; her breath came and went as if she had run a race, and in the silence seemed unnaturally audible. "You carry orders to Olvera?" she said at length. Shere fetched the sealed letter out of his pocket. "So I must go, or fail in my duty," said he. "Give me the letter," said Christina.
He was now filled with distrust of Christina as half an hour back he had been filled with faith in her; so that he paid no heed to her apology, or to the passionate and pleading voice in which she spoke it. "So much was at stake for us," she said. "It seemed a necessity that we must have that letter, that no sudden orders must reach Olvera to-night.
"You are riding to Olvera?" she asked, after a pause, and in a queer muffled voice. "Yes. So I must say good-bye," and now he turned to her. But she was too quick for him to catch a glimpse of her face. She had already turned from him and was walking towards the door. "You must also say good-bye to Esteban," said she, as though to gain time. With her fingers on the door-handle she stopped.
"Be sure of that! Until you spoke of Olvera I did not know." "No," admitted Shere, "not laid for me to your knowledge, but to Esteban's. You were surprised at my coming Esteban only at the manner of my coming. He asked if I had ridden into the gates of my own accord I remember. He was in Ronda this afternoon. Very likely it was he who told my colonel of my knowledge of the neighbourhood.
Is there no one Esteban, for instance in the dark passage outside the door or on the dark road outside the gates?" "I will prove to you you are wrong." Christina dropped her arms to her side, moved altogether from the door, and rang a bell. "Esteban shall come here; he will see you outside the gates; he will set you safely on your road to Olvera."
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