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"Wouldn't it please her to know that I' Cubanized as fast as ever I can?" ventured the caller

"Oh, she hates Cubans, too!" laughed the brother "She's Spanish, you know Well, it's fortunate you didn't see her to-day Br-r! What a temper! We had our theatricals, too I asked her for money, as usual, and, as usual, she refused It was like a scene froht, if ever"

Rosa nodded soberly, and O'Reilly, suppressing so to his lips, inquired, curiously, "What do youthat Dona Isabel was given to peculiar actions, especially after periods of exciteer, and that one of her eccentricities had taken the forh," Esteban concluded "I believe it's her evil conscience"

Rosa explained further: "She used to steal about at night, hoping to surprise papa or Sebastian going or co from the treasure They were both killed, as you know, and the secret of the hiding- place was lost Now Isabel declares that they come to her in her sleep and that she has to help them hunt for it, whether she wishes or not It is retribution" The speaker drew up her shoulders and shivered, but Esteban shosts when I see one" Then, with a shake of his head: "Isabel has never given up the hope of finding that treasure She would like to see Rosa ht have a free hand in her search"

O'Reilly scanned the speaker silently for a ravity unusual in hi for the Insurrecto cause"

"Indeed? I didn't know"

"Well, it's a fact" O'Reilly heard Rosa gasp faintly "Is it true?" he asked

"I arim

"Cuban? Your people were Spanish"

"True But no Spaniard ever raised a Spanish child in Cuba We are Cubans, Rosa and I"

At this stateerous to speak in that ith this near growing every day"

"But O'Reilly is our good friend," Esteban protested

"Of course I areed, "and for that reason I spoke I hope you're not too deeply involved with the rebels"