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224 The next day Inez Garabella questioned him, through her niece, and learned who he was and how he had come in the neighborhood.

"My aunt, she know one Capitan Russell," said Rosa. "She want to know if you and the capitan are of the same family."

"Captain Russell!" ejaculated Walter. "He is my brother!"

When told of this, Inez Garabella smiled and clasped her hands together. "I knew it," she cried in Spanish. "I knew it! They look so much alike."

Through Rosa she told to Walter her story of the meeting in the monastery and of how Ben had foiled Barnabas Moval's base designs. "My aunt, she is deeply grateful to your brother for that," said Rosa. "And in return she will be your friend."

"She has done a good deal for me already. I shall never forget her kindness. I presume those villagers would have left me to die where I fell."

Walter then asked about the other prisoners and about Si, but could learn nothing of them. The rebel army was not in the neighborhood, having begun to concentrate along the shore of the