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Updated: May 31, 2025
"Halloa, Jack!" "My dear Warrenia!" He reached up and pressed the small gloved hand and the grasp was warmly returned. "General Yozarro seems to have forgotten to be a gentleman," she said. "He never was one; if I ever meet the scoundrel I shall slap his face, if his whole army is looking on." "Then I hope you will never meet."
While Miss Starland was waiting and wondering, her friend dropped lightly from the saddle and came to her side. "Give me your hand, Warrenia; we are done riding for tonight." The next moment the two young women stood beside each other on the ground.
He declared further that the real name of Warrenia was the same as his own, that is Starland. He often addressed her as Miss Starland, and she, with her fun-loving disposition, pretended to agree with him. When together, they almost invariably spoke to or of each other as brother and sister, and there were not lacking those who believed they were actually thus related.
"How is it with you?" "I am still heart free. I won't deny that I have met one or two with whom I was pleased, but it was nothing more." "Because your love has gone elsewhere; it went long ago; you may think I am mistaken, my darling Warrenia, but you will soon find I am not." Then both laughed, kissed and talked of other things.
Nothing seemed more natural than that the son and daughter should become man and wife when they grew up, though neither father as yet had made any reference to such an event which would have been pleasing to both and eminently fit in every respect. Jack and Warrenia grew to maturity as if they really were brother and sister.
Jack will find it out within twenty-four hours, and General Yozarro must know what will happen then." "Dearest Warrenia, you do not see as much in this as I. What stronger proof can I give of my love to you than to say that we must separate and you must leave this part of the world with the least possible delay? Your own loveliness is your peril.
What was to prevent his taking Warrenia as a passenger, ascend the Amazon to the home of Manuela and pay that cherished visit? The plan was so simple that every one to whom it was mentioned wondered why it was not thought of before. Aunt Cynthia would accompany her niece as chaperon, and the pause would cause little delay in the voyage.
The American young woman leaned forward and kissed the dark cheek, and for a minute they sat without speaking. Then with the black eyes gazing into the blue ones, the owner of the former said in a voice, scarcely above a whisper: "Warrenia, I do not understand it." "And, Manuela, I'm afraid I do." "Tell me, then." "Surely you have a suspicion. Why should we mince matters?
It seemed to be bounding forward as if borne at the head of a charging regiment. "By heavens!" exclaimed the happy American, to whom the answering signal was one of the most familiar sounds on earth; "that's the Warrenia, my own yacht!" "I am pleased to know it," said Captain Ortega. Miss Starland was scarcely behind the others in climbing to the upper deck.
General Yozarro and his officers showed more promptitude than would have been expected. Seeing that a conflict was inevitable, they set out to win by their own quickness. Their armament was heavier than that of the American yacht, that is to say, though his pieces carried smaller missiles, he had two of them, while that of the Warrenia was a brass saluting twelve-pounder.
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