Inez, who had heard what was said, looked curiously at Cora, and then exclaimed:
"Ze papairs—for my father's release!"
A look of alarm showed in her face, as she hurried toward the stairway that led to her room.
CHAPTER XVII
OFF IN THE "TARTAR"
"What's the matter?" asked Walter, quickly, as he saw Inez hurrying away. "She see alarmed about something."
"She is—or fancies she is," answered Cora. "It's about those papers which she hopes will free her father of that political charge which keeps him locked up—poor man."
"Did she lose them?"
"No, but as soon as she heard that Senor Ramo had left suddenly, she associated it with the taking of her documents, evidently."
"Nonsense!" exclaimed Walter.