"For ever!"
"Come, I will not recall my word," he said with a good-humoured laugh. "You are an angel: I shall end by loving you madly."
"Let us go!" she exclaimed.
"Will you not join our party, Belhumeur?" Valentine asked.
"Certainly; for I wish to speak with Don Louis."
"That is it," Don Rafaël observed. "I will escort the padre with Black Elk and Eagle-head. Señor Don Valentine, Belhumeur will serve as your guide to the Hacienda del Milagro."
"By Jove!" Valentine said with a laugh, "you will probably see me before you expect."
"Come whenever you please: you will ever be welcome."
After exchanging affectionate farewells the two parties turned their back on each other, and left the gorge by opposite roads.
[1] Enemy whom I adore, of Spain the second Helen, oh that I were born blind, or you born without beauty! Accursed be the day and hour when my star caused me to be born! Breasts that nourished me, better to have given me death. You will pay——