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"But he is not here he is gone!" "Gone?" Jack looked at the clerk blankly. "Yes. He left, Senor, soon after you went away. He said business called him." "That is strange," murmured Jack. Inez, who had heard what was said, looked curiously at Cora, and then exclaimed: "Ze papairs for my father's release!" A look of alarm showed in her face, as she hurried toward the stairway that led to her room.
"Nothing like making a good impression, from the start, on the pretty stranger," he added. "Eh?" "Just my luck!" murmured Harry, with a tragic air. "Oh, you silly boys!" laughed Belle. She hastened up the stairs to the room where Inez as resting, the lace trailing from the half-opened valise. "Oh, you have it back my satchel!" gasped a Spanish girl. "Oh, if ze papairs are only safe!"
At that moment Inez came into the cabin. Whether she had been all this while "laying down the law," as Jack phrased it, to the Spaniard was not, for the present, disclosed. But she was greatly excited, and she flourished in her hand a package of documents. "I have ze papairs!" she cried, exultantly. "Now my father will be free.
"I should say it was not!" declared Walter, positively. "And get into trouble saying it, Wally," remarked Jack. "No, the best thing to do in this case is to keep quiet about it." "But my papairs!" cried Inez. "My father in prison. I must get him out." "Yes, and I think you can best do it by not letting it be known that you have discovered the theft," Jack said.
"It is all yours, and too little for what you have done for me!" "Nonsense!" exclaimed Cora's mother. "This lace is beautiful. I shall be glad to purchase some of it, and pay you well for it I can't get that kind in the stores. You didn't show me this at first." "No, Senora, I was too tired. But it is all yours. I care not for it, now zat I have ze papairs safe. Zey are for my father!"
"I tried to keep secret ze fact zat I was working for my father's release. I will not tire you wiz telling you all, but some enemies know I have papairs zat prove ze innocence of Senor Ralcanto. Zis man Pedro Valdez he call himself has been trying to get zem from me. He tried in New York, and he said he would give me no rest until he had zem.
"Now, what is it, Inez?" and, after a quick glance about the ransacked apartment, he gazed at the girl. "My papairs for my father zey are gone!" With a tragic gesture she pointed to the opened valise. "Was your room this way when you came in?" asked Walter, who rather imagined he was gifted with amateur detective abilities. "Just like this yes, Senor Jack." "Never mind the senor.
"Yes, Senorita more so even zan I am telling you. Of myself I know but little, save zat if I can get ze certain papairs to my father, he might go free. But how am I to go to Sea Horse Island, when I have not even money to buy me food to keep from starving? I ask you how can I? And yet I should not trouble you wiz my troubles, Senoritas." "Oh, but we want to help you!" declared Cora, warmly.
"What?" asked Cora, half forgetting, in her own grief and anxiety, what the Spanish girl had gone to ascertain. "My papairs for my father! Oh, Senorita, what shall I do?" "Gone?" echoed Cora. "Do you mean taken stolen?" "I fear so yes. See, my room has been entered." There was no doubt of it.
But I am too what you call foxy, for him! I slip through his fingernails. Ze papairs in my valise Oh, where is it? I when I faint I have it at my feet " "It was on the porch!" exclaimed Mrs. Kimball. "I forgot all about it in the excitement. It was full of lace Oh, if some one has taken it!" "And my papairs zat could free my father!" cried the girl. A shout came from the front of the house.
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