'You may trust me to do that,' the girl said cheerily.
'Yes, I know we can. Now, how about your father?'
'I think it will be better not to bring father into this at all,' Dolores answered very promptly.
'No, dear girl? Now, why not?'
'Well, perhaps it would seem to him wrong not to let out the whole thing at once to the authorities, or not to refuse to receive any suspicious persons into the house at all, and that isn't, by any means, what you and I are wanting just now, Captain Sarrasin!'
'Why, certainly not,' the old soldier said, with a beaming smile. 'What a clever girl you are! Of course, it isn't what we want; we want the very reverse; we want to get them in here and find out all about them! Oh, I can see that we shall be right good pals, you and I, dear girl, and you must come and see my wife. She will appreciate you, and she is the most wonderful woman in the world.'
CHAPTER XIV
A SICILIAN KNIFE
The day had come when the Dictator was to dine with that 'happy warrior,' the Soldier of Fortune.