The Spanish Cavalier

esult of the bull-fight might be known. He proposed calling at the mansion in the Calle de San José on his

on when Lucius entered the deserted street. The glare

ked that the grating of the patio was ajar. Inez had forgotten to lock it after receiving from the muleteer the note from Alcala which crushed her last ho

e was thrown hastily back, and the trembling Inez herself hurried through the opening, and along the arched passage. Her dark eyes were dilated with fear, her p

lane which crossed the Calle de San José. They came not with shout or mirth, as if escorting a victor home, but slowly, like a throng who follow a funeral procession. There was no noise, save the tramping of feet, and ever and anon the wail of a woman. Lucius glanced at Inez, and read despair in her face. An icy numbness was creeping over her frame; s

laimed in a tone of authority to the crowd who pressed round the li

dispersed in various directions, whilst the

resa, whom he recognized, as she followed her

apartment. Alcala's wound had already been roughly bound up at the circus, the flowing blood had been stanched. He was

f Inez had returned. But not a word had she uttered, not a tear had she shed; her anguish had sealed her lips, her terror had dried up her tears.

drinks! there is life in

t of his race! Oh, woe's m

n-it was but little-that he chanced to have on his person. They had

e was a deep gash in the left shoulder, from which there had been a great effusion of blood. The

ived to see it!" cried Teresa, with passionate gestures. "The bull charged, and in a momen

ius sternly; "does not your

he tacit consent of its mistress; for Inez felt as if, in her sorest need, a helper and supporter had been sent to her by Heaven. The old woma

anied him out of the room, that his question, "Do you

?or," answered the surgeon. "Fever will probably ensue;

with rosary and crucifix dependent; with plump, dark, close-shaven face, and tonsured head from which the huge fla

uide to the room of Alcala. But the eyes of the Spaniard and the Englishman me

the visit of a spiritual director. The door was closed between them; no ordinary conversation could therefore be heard by one standing outside, who had no wish or in

which the raised tone in which they were spoken rendered audible,-though an indistinct murm

the priest's suspicions!" though

nd Teresa, though the former went but a few steps beyond the door

other the last rites of th

the sternly uttered reply. "I hope that I shall find him a true son of the Church;" the hope was expressed in

us, again his eyes rested on the young Englishman with an expre

the outer arch, while Lucius we

essed Virgin. If all the bulls that graze on the Sierra Nevada had come against him, the arm of an Aguilera would have prevailed, had his lance but been sprinkled with holy water. Had the

shared with Inez the long sad watch by the sufferer's pillow. As his presence certainly d

d projecting nails showed that pictures had once been hung where they no longer remained to bear witness to the wealth and taste of their late possessors. One family portrait alone was left, evidently painted by the hand of a master; but it had apparently served as a pistol target in the time when the French were quartered in Seville, as it was drilled with several holes. The ceiling had

marble. Almost as pale and as still, his sister sat watching beside him, scarcely ever raising her long dark lashes, so fixed was her gaze on the face of Alcala. Inez seemed scarcely to be aware of the

diced views of religion, that the English heretic should remain in the sick-room, which nothing would persuade Donna Inez to quit. But Teresa dared not speak out her mind in the presence of Lucius Lepine, above all in that still and solemn apartment. Even Teresa could hardly help seeing, though she would not have openly acknowle

ly moved and his brow was contracted with pain. Once a few scarcely articulate words escaped him: "Not a convent-no, not a convent!

s a slight sound of movement made her aware that Lucius had risen from his seat. The Englishm

od, and hope. I believe that your