girls. And my boy Harry. Did you see Harry? Fine little fellow,
Harry."

"I am glad to hear that you are better," said Don Caesar, hastily,
"and that the air of our country does you no harm. God benefit
you, senor," he added, with a profoundly reverential gesture,
dropping unconsciously into the religious habit of his youth. "May
he protect you, and bring you back to health and happiness!"

"Happiness?" said Slinn, amazedly. "I am happy--very happy! I
have everything I want: good air, good food, good clothes, pretty
little children, kind friends--" He smiled benignantly at Don
Caesar. "God is very good to me!"

Indeed, he seemed very happy; and his face, albeit crowned with
white hair, unmarked by care and any disturbing impression, had so
much of satisfied youth in it that the grave features of his
questioner made him appear the elder. Nevertheless, Don Caesar
noticed that his eyes, when withdrawn from him, sought the hillside
with the same visionary abstraction.

"It is a fine view, Senor Esslinn," said Don Caesar.

"It is a beautiful view, sir," said Slinn, turning his happy eyes
upon him for a moment, only to rest them again on the green slope
opposite.

"Beyond that hill which you are looking at--not far, Senor Esslinn--
I live. You shall come and see me there--you and your family."