“The pen wins this time! Now for Juanita!”
CHAPTER XLVIII.
THE SWORD TRIUMPHANT.
“You are in unusually good spirits this evening, Senor Ashley.”
“I am always happy when I am near you, senorita,” is Jack’s fervent response. At which speech, the warmest she has ever heard from his lips, Juanita grows as rosy as the morn and does not appear displeased.
“Is that dreadfully important work which has occupied so much of your time this evening yet finished?”
“Very nearly.”
“And you can devote a little time to your friends?”
“I am ready to devote the remainder of my existence to one of them, senorita.”
“Oh, what unselfishness! When do you expect to begin?”