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 When all were seated again, Dr. Monygham. who had come to dislike lie .irtily everybody who approached Mrs. Gould with an. intimacy, kept aside, pretending to be in profound meditation. A louder phrase of Antonia made him lift his head.

"How can we abandon, groaning under oppression, nose who have been our countrymen only a few years jo, who arc our countrymen now?" Miss Avcllanos was saying. " How can we remain blind, and deaf, And without pity to the cruel wrongs suffered by our brothers? There is a remedy."

"Annex the rest of Costaguana to the order and Prosperity of Sulaco," snapped the doctor. "There is no other remedy."

"I am convinced, Señor Doctor," Antonia said, with the earnest calm of invincible resolution, "that this was from the first poor Martin's intention."

"Yes, but the material interests will not let you jeopardize their development for a mere idea of pity and justice," the doctor muttered grumpily. "And it is just as well, perhaps."

The Cardinal-Archbishop straightened up his gaunt, bony frame.

"We have worked for them; we have made them; these material interests of the foreigners," the last of the Corbelans uttered in a deep, denunciatory tone.

"And without them you are nothing," cried the doctor from the distance. "They will not let you."

"Let them beware, then, lest the people, prevented from their aspirations, should rise and claim their share of the wealth and their share of the power," the