CHAPTER IX.
DON LUIS SHOWS HIS CLAWS Senorita Francesca greeted her guests with extreme courtesy.
"She's a fine young woman," thought Harry, with a guilty feeling.
"Blazes, but it's going to come hard to show her father up as a scoundrel." "_Chiquita_," (pet) called her father, "it has not been the custom of this country to train our women in the ways of business.

But you are my only child.

Every _peso_ (dollar) that I earn and save is for you one of these days.

I have much money, but I crave more, and it is all for you, _chiquita_.

It is my wish to see you, one of these days, a very queen of wealth, as you are already a queen of goodness and tenderness.