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A little beyond them, in the shadow of the doorway, stood the major-domo, Juan Ramon and the pretty housekeeper, Rosita. "Dios! but she is magnifico the tall one!" whispered Juan to Rosita as the girls passed them, nodding and smiling in response to Juan's deep salutation and Rosita's courtesy. "And the little one," said Rosita in turn. "Is she not like a half-blown pink rose?" "Aye!
Nevertheless, it is worthy of being recorded that from that moment the usual familiar allusions, playful and serious, to Rosita's mysterious visitor began to diminish in frequency and finally ceased.
"Do you believe them capable of attacking a private carriage and carrying off a solitary, defenceless woman? Come, Blandford, this is a school-girl romance not an act of mercenary highwaymen least of all Cherokee Bob and his gang. This is some madness of Rosita's, surely," he continued with a forced laugh. "Does this mean that you think better of your promise?" asked Blandford, dryly.
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