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 "I lak ret—and I lof yellow!"

"Good, Rosario! So do I. Listen:" Nan began to smile as her thought grew. "If there is time to make it, you shall have the most beautiful dress in Las Rubertas for the last day of school!"

Rosario's eyes were round with astonishment, and perhaps a little doubt; of course the señorita was wonderful, but she had not seen all the beautiful dresses in Las Rubertas.

Therefore Rosario's eyes outshone the candle in her hand when they went inside and Nan brought up from the bottommost depths of her trunk such a silk dress as Las Rubertas never had dreamed. How it shimmered! How it shone! How soft it was!

"O, señorita!" breathed Rosario, and Nan laughed gleefully at her shining, astonished eyes.

"If you can help me, we'll rip it to pieces to-night."

"Oh, I can help!" declared Rosario with such earnestness that Nan laughed aloud.

Carefully, so carefully, Rosario ripped her seam by the dim candle-light, stopping only,