"And Leon is not dead?"
"At least he was alive three months ago. Oh! you do not know, you cannot understand the great joy with which I but recently learned how we had all been deceived."
Her face glowed with enthusiasm.
Every atom of his old mad idolatry seemed resurrected, and Roderic was almost ready to bend down in order to kiss the hem of her garment, he felt so abased on account of the wrong his hasty action had brought upon her.
"Where am I to search?" he asked, eagerly, as though ready to start on the jump.
"He is in Porto Rico."
"Good. That is where I am going to-morrow."
"And whither we also expect to bring up as soon as steam can take us."
"Tell me what you know of him, this brother who was dead, yet lives. How shall I know him?"