If he does not open, some one will go and wake him up, and then go away again so as not to be seen." She clenched her small hand, and knocked three times.

Such a sound could make not the slightest impression upon Eudaldo's sound sleep, but her reasoning was good, as well as ingenious.

After waiting a few moments, she knocked again, more loudly.

Dolores held her breath in the silence that followed.

Presently a door was opened, and a woman's voice was heard, low but sharp.
"Eudaldo, Eudaldo! Some one is knocking at the front door!" The woman probably shook the old man to rouse him, for his voice came next, growling and angry.
"Witch! Hag! Mother of malefactors! Let me alone--I am asleep.