The Irish standard., 1898-12-10

"You will come to see me and ell
Ricardito? But shall in Seville be-"
Exactly; so will Dick as soon as he
can get there
"Dios! qui temerario! But suppose
suppose do permit him not-?"
"He'll come all the same; 1 think l
know Dick" (iIere she placed the
palm of her hand over my mouth, MS
If to keep me from saying more, but
her bright eyes were swimming with
delight.)
"'Sh! FL padre may you hear. 1t
was to speak of him did wish when, we
on deck did come He has been OF you
speaking to el cura, Enrique, asking
the questions all about vou,-whether
you really I'm comerchnte were in
Manila and Hong ong-why this
voyage you were making. In some way
he seems you to doubt, and he remarks
upon the long talks in su camara you
do have with ell captain. lie nothing
knows of Ia senorita's vcstida, or your
destina ton he would have suspected
much sooner than did and, surely,
your object. You must so very careful
be what you do say, no matter where.
Everything the padres 10 know, and
in Madrid much influence has ell Sc
bastino. You will remember, will you
not, Enrique? And you must let him
see not that of him you are suspicious,
as last night You did; do not you see
how quickly did he notice..and did you
make to him like in spite of yourself?
Now take below me, and to ell Captain
Dix explain"
The more I thought over what she
had told me, the more felt that my
oleaginous clerical friend was likely
to make trouble for us sooner or later;
and when we were alone repeated
the conversation for Halstead's ben
eft. He and Mcpherson, counting
upon the PADRES good offices. had been
inclined to doubt his misunderstanding
ability, though their experience in the
east had taught them better; but after
digesting the senorita's warning and
recalling several remarks of Sebastl-
AMOS. he began to look thoughtful.
There's going to be enough diff
Guilty as matters are" he said, with
out having a suspicious priest to con-
tend with. It begins to look as It
there might be some connection be-
tween Parde Julian's absence and Sc
bastiano's trip out here. If what the
senorita told you is true, about his
being influential at Madrid. it seems
mighty queer that so big gun should
waste his time in the Ladrones. You
see, there aren't enough of heheathen
to convert, nor are there any oppor-
tuuities to WELD influence in the Phil
tppines from such base of operations.
The cura, now, might easily be COM
ing out to practice on the natives; but
neither the pickings nor the political
pull are big enough to interest man
OF any standing"
at would be an odd coincidence,
wouldn't it, if old Julian and this chap
had figured the thing out and were
actually upon the sam e errand as our
selvcs?"
"Hmpf! Itwould seem n heap queer
er to them if. after the time they must
have spent in studying the matter, two
casual travellers like ourselves should
happen to hit on the same idea, yes,
and by sheer fool luck TO reach the
islands better equipped for such job
than they can possibly I've. But, by
the great green turtlet I'm with you
on getting that cash. didn't take
much stock in the idea Mt first, and
when I agreed to go in was thinking
more of you than of myself; but I've
been seeing good deal of Don Sill
vestre's daughter during the last 4s
hours. and that makes q heap of Diff