The next moment a black-browed soldier stood before them.
"Herrara, she has broken her promise--she refuses to enter a convent, and she defies me, and scorns our holy church.

I somehow expected this; and I charge you now, suffer her not to pass the threshold of her own room; guard well the door, there is no window.

See you, Inez, you cannot escape me ?" He whispered in the intruder's ear, and, promising to come again the ensuing day, left the house, carefully closing the door after him.

Lighting his cigarrita, Herrara requested Inez to seek her own apartment, that he might secure the door outside, and then return to the fire.

Without a word she ascended the stairs to her own room.