Yet I will be true to Mary and to you.

Fear nothing for me, and let me pass on my errand." He stood aside.

"Bueno noche, Senorita." "Bueno noche;" and she glided on.

"I fear I have lost time;" and hastily glancing toward the east, she saw a faint light stealing up from the horizon.

Redoubling her speed she pushed on, but, despite her efforts, the moon rose with uncommon brilliance as she approached the place of rendezvous, and soon every object was bathed in a flood of light.
The Alameda, which she had just entered, was a long double row of majestic cotton-woods, which, stretching out in the direction of the Powder-House, was the favorite promenade with the inhabitants of the town.