"I have no audience, and for reasons would not choose this moment as one in which to encounter the least disfavor! I will stay here before your picture and admire until landing and stairways are bare." "If to be invisible is your desire," answered Manuel Rodriguez, "you have walked into trouble! The Queen is coming here." Don Enrique exclaimed.

Juan Lepe turned eyes to the painter.

The blue eyes met mine--there rose the rushy pool, there dozed the broken boat.
Manuel Rodriguez spoke in his voice that was at once cool and fine and dry and warm.

"It is best to dare thoroughly! Perhaps I may help you--as thus! Wishing to speak with Don Enrique of an altar painting for the Church of Saint Dominic, I asked him here and he came.

We talked, and he will give the picture.