"Perhaps because during your last visit down here he was in Mexico, making love to the girl he is to marry very soon."
"Oh! is that why you are guarding him so carefully?" she said, laughingly. "Well, since I am married, I am willing to stay and dance at his wedding; but, Keith, if I had seen him first—"
She broke off, laughing at the quick anger in his eyes.
And Teresa, listening, understood the game of Rafael and the mocking laughter, and the anger of Bryton, and was as happy as she was likely to be, with Miguel under the ground.
CHAPTER III
Many things had happened, and it had been a bad day. "A day cursed of God!" said Pedro Gallardo, the driver; and against such ill fortune the carriage of Señora Luisa Arteaga made such progress as might be, from San Luis Rey to San Juan.