Part 49 (1/2)

”Well,” he agreed, ”I guess that's so Anyway, the gauns in the next few days”

”Yes; and as we don't knohat part we'll have in it, you'd better get solad of the opportunity to sleep; and Grahaot hot, sat still, with his mind busy and his eyes fixed upon the road

At noon Blanca ca down at Waltheith a coentleness that she did not try to hide The half-healed cut showed plainly on his forehead, his brown face looked worn, and he lay in an attitude of deep weariness

”It is a pity to wake him, but we must start,” she said, and indicated the scar ”I suppose you can guess that he has borne soot that wound for you”

”I'et it,” Grahame answered quietly

”No,” Blanca said with a curious smile ”You do not make many protestations, you men of the North, but one can trust you”

She stooped and touched Walthew gently

”It is noon and we o”

Her voice was quiet, but Walthew see to his feet with a half-asha,” he said, and looked at Blanca anxiously ”Have you rested enough? Are you quite fit to travel?”

Blanca sht up thenew in his manner Hitherto, it had been one He was assiduously careful of her, but with a hint of proprietary right

So had happened since she had last seen hilance, but his face was i beside the irl spoke as they ht he understood, and his eyes twinkled with a Blanca suspected hiranted

CHAPTER xxxII

LOVE'S VISION

It was late when Walthew led Blanca's h the rebel ca There was a half moon in the sky, and as they passed between the rows of round, here and there an upturned face caught the light and shone a livid white In places a sentry's forainst the sky, but except for this all rapped in puzzling shadow, and silence brooded over the camp

One of Don Martin's staff sat beside the table, sarette, another lay asleep near by, but a s up his grave face against the gloom He put down his pen and waited when Walthew stopped the irl to dis the senorita froot my partner out of the _carcel_,” he said

”Yes,” Don Martin returned in a quiet voice, ”I have heard sohter at the _hacienda_ Perez Was it by accident?”

Walthew, re Grahame's remarks on the subject, felt elance was significant

”Certainly!” he answered ”I had never heard of the _hacienda_ before I reached it For all that, I would not have kept away if I had known the senorita was there”

”One e your frankness,” Don Martin remarked ”Well, what happened afterward?”

Walthew looked at Blanca, but she seean a brief account of their adventures