"For everybody's sake!" Bobby echoed. "You're right, Carlos. Maria must be considered now. She shall have what was taken from her father, with interest. I know Katherine will agree."
Katherine nodded.
"I doubt if Maria will want it or take it," Paredes said simply. "She has plenty of her own. It isn't fair to think it was greed that urged her. You must understand that it was a bigger impulse than greed. It was a thing of which we of Spanish blood are rather proud—a desire for justice, for something that has no softer name than revenge."
Suddenly Rawlins stooped and took the Panamanian's hand.
"Say! We've been giving you the raw end of a lot of snap judgments. We've never got acquainted until to-night."
"Glad to meet you, too," Robinson grinned.
Rawlins patted the Panamanian's shoulder.
"At that, you'd make a first-class detective."
Paredes yawned.
"I disagree with you thoroughly. I have no equipment beyond my eyes and my common sense."