uld know or suspect something, if it were
the case.

I approached one of the Mexican women and asked if the senorita had
risen. The woman started, and looked covertly round before she replied.
Did not Don Pancho know that Miss Mannersley and her maid had not slept
in their beds that night, but had gone, none knew where?

For an instant I felt an appalling sense of my own responsibility in
this suddenly serious situation, and hurried after the retreating
family group. But as I entered the corridor a vaquero touched me on the
shoulder. He had evidently just dismounted, and was covered with the
dust of the road. He handed me a note written in pencil on a leaf
from Miss Mannersley's sketchbook. It was in Enriquez' hand, and his
signature was followed by his most extravagant rubric.

Friend Pancho: When you read this line you shall of a possibility think
I am no more. That is where you shall slip up, my little brother! I am
much more--I am two times as much, for I have marry Miss Boston. At the
Mission Church, at five of the morning, sharp! No cards shall be left! I
kiss the hand of my venerable uncle-in-law. You shall say to him that
we fly to the South wilderness as the combined evangelical missionary to
the heathen! Miss Boston herself say this. Ta-ta! How are you now?

Your own Enriquez.

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