"
"Assuredly. Anything to escape this cave."
Miss Carmencita was at that moment reiterating her everlasting
determination to go wherever her father went. "If you think, sir,
that your faithlessness to him is a recommendation of your
promised faithfulness to me, I can only wish you more light on
the feelings of a daughter," she was informing Valdez, when her
father slipped through the panel door and stood before her.
"Brava, senorita!" he applauded, with subtle irony, clapping his
hands. "Brava, brava!"
That young woman swam blushingly toward him and let her face
disappear in an embrace.
"You see, one can't have everything, Senor Valdez," continued
Megales lightly. "For me, I cannot have both Chihuahua and my
life; you, it seems, cannot have both your successful revolution
and my daughter. "
"Your excellency, she loves me. Of that I am assured. It rests
with you to say whether her life will be spoiled or not. You know
what I can offer her in addition to a heart full of devotion. It
is enough. Shall she be sacrificed to her loyalty to you?" the
young man demanded, with all the ardor of his warm-blooded race.
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