bundle of papers the Spanish girl had given her into the house safe,
begged Walter to keep a sharp lookout for the possible return of the
mysterious man, and then she went back to stay with Inez until Dr.
Blake should be able to see the foreign visitor. Harry and Walter
talked in the library, and Bess and Belle--after a brief chat with the
other boys, went home to tell their folks the news, and consult Mr.
Robinson about the Spanish prisoner.

"Rest--rest and a change of scene--a complete change is all he
needs," had been Dr. Blake's verdict regarding Jack. "If he could go
south for the winter, it would be the making of him. He'll come back
in the spring a new lad. But a rest and change he must have. His
nerves demand it!"

"And we shall see that he gets it," said Mrs. Kimball. "Now about
that girl, Doctor."

"Nothing the matter with her--just starved, that's all. The easiest
prescription to write in the world. Feed her. You've already got a
good start on it. Keep it up."

"Of course you can't advise us about her father, and the story she
tells."

"No. She seems sincere, though. As you say, Mr. Robinson, with his
business connections, will be the best one at that end of it."

"Poor girl," murmured Cora. "I do hope we can help her."

"She has been helped already," the physician informed her. "And, if