She laughed bitterly, a green light in her eyes. "If it were I, no
one could keep me from belonging to him--I would---"

"Don't! Don't say it! You don't understand!" Jane reiterated.

"Dios, how I loved him! I would have gone through my whole life
with him! He must have known it, too."

"He was true to me," said Jane, her figure straightening involuntarily,
a new gleam in her eyes.

"Ah, you are lucky, senorita! I love you, and I could hate you so
easily! Go! Go! Take him with you and give him life! Forget me as
I shall forget you both!" And impulsively taking from round her
neck an Agnus Dei which she was wearing, she placed it in Jane's
hands, and added: "Give this to him, please, and do not forget to
tell him that I sent good-bye and good luck."

Jane would have kissed her had not the blazing eyes of the other
forbade. They merely clasped hands, and Teresa turned away.

"My uncle lives in Manila. He will take me to Maclrid. We cannot
live here with these pigs of Americans about us," she said shortly.
A moment later she was lost in the crowd.

Jane's heart was heavy when the ship moved away. Her eyes searched
through the throng for the slight figure of the girl who had
abandoned a lost cause.