still unsatisfied;
"he was an executioner once."

"Well," said Rollo, "the fellow has been at his old trade again, it
seems. He may be Dictator any day now. They say he has ended the war in
the north--murdered fourteen of his own brother Generals and bought
fourteen of the other side. Bravo, Ezquerra, I always knew he would do
something in the fine old style one of these days! But fourteen at a
time is epic, even for Spain!"

"And so the war is ended--well, that is always one good thing anyway!"
said Concha, careless of the means; "come, Dolores, let us go and look
at the babes! These people ache to talk politics. They don't want us. It
is easy to see that!"

So taking the arm of Dolores Garcia (who had glanced once at her husband
when he came in and never looked at him again), little Concha walked to
the door sedately as became a matron and the wife of a grandee. Then in
her old flashing manner she turned about swiftly and from her
finger-tips blew the company a dainty collective kiss.

The curtain closed, leaving the three men all staring after her.

But in another moment it was put aside and Concha's pretty head peeped
out.

"Rollo," she said, softly, "you can come up when you like--when you have
quite finished your politics--just to look at baby. He has not seen you
since morning."

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