Then I want a disguise; but that I could get, if a friend would be in readiness to give it to me, after I had slid down the rope into the street." "How could I give you a rope, senor, with all these people about ?" "You could put it into the bottom of your basket, and cover it over with fruit.

You could take your stand near the door, at the foot of the stairs leading up to my room.

Then I could, in the hearing of the rest, say that it was my fete day; and that I was going to give the others a treat, so that I would buy all your grapes.

After we had bargained for them, I could hand you the money and say: "'Give me your basket.

I will run upstairs, empty it, and bring it down to you.' "As this would save my making five or six journeys upstairs, there would be nothing suspicious about that." "I will think it over," the girl said, gravely.