friend. She, the Senorita Eve, cannot be left alone, with her
grief."

He spoke Spanish, knowing that the Englishman understood it.

They drew down the blinds and passed out on to the terrace, where
they walked slowly backwards and forwards, talking over the future
of Eve and of the Casa d'Erraha.

In Spain, as in other southern lands, they speed the parting guest.
Two days later Edward Challoner was laid beside his father and
grandfather in the little churchyard in the valley below the Casa
d'Erraha. And who are we that we should say that his chance of
reaching heaven was diminished by the fact that part of the Roman
Catholic burial service was read over him by a Spanish priest?

Fitz had telegraphed to Eve's only living relative, Captain Bontnor,
and Fitz it was who stayed on at the Casa d'Erraha until that
mariner should arrive; for the doctor was compelled to return to his
ship at Port Mahon, and the priest never slept in another but his
own little vicarage house.

And in the Casa d'Erraha was enacted at this time one of those
strange little comedies that will force themselves upon a tragic
stage. Fitz deemed it correct that he should avoid Eve as much as
possible, and Eve, on the other hand, feeling lonely and miserable,
wanted the society of the simple-minded young sailor.

"Why do you always avoid me?" she asked suddenly on the evening
after the funeral. He had gone out on to the terrace, and thither