The finest goods in San Antonio were sent early on the following morning to her room; and the selection of three entire wardrobes gave her abundance of delightful employment.

She almost wept with joy as she passed the fine lawns and rich silks through her worn fingers.

And when she could cast off forever her garment of heaviness and of weariful wanderings, and array herself in the splendid robes which she wore with such grace and pleasure, she was an honestly grateful woman.
Then she permitted Lopez to let her old acquaintances know of her presence in her native city; and she was comforted when she began to receive calls from the Senora Alveda, and judge and Senora Valdez, and many other of her friends and associates.

They encouraged her to talk of her sufferings and her great loss.

Even the judge thought it worth his while, now, to conciliate the simple little woman.