So I
imagine Janet will refuse to go--at the last moment."
"Would Inez go, as a maid?" asked Belle.
"I fancy so. She says she has done so before, since the change in
her fortunes. And mother and I like her very much. Besides, she
speaks Spanish, and that would be a great help."
"Why, Walter said--" began Bess, wonderingly.
"He knows just two words of Spanish, and he speaks them as though he
were a German comedian," declared Cora. "Wally is all right
otherwise, but as a translator of the Castilian tongue, I wouldn't
trust him to ask what time it was," she laughed. But Inez would be
such a help."
"Then why don't you take her?" asked Bess. And, when it had been
talked over with Mrs. Kimball, it was practically decided upon.
"Lets go tell Inez," proposed Belle, "when the decision had been
reached. It will be such a surprise to her."
The Spanish girl, though not fully recovered from the long period of
insufficient food and weary toil, had insisted upon taking up some of
the duties, of the Kimball home. But Cora's mother required that she
rest a portion of each day to recover her strength. And, as the
girls sought her in her own little room (for Inez was anything but a
servant), they found her just awakening from a sleep.
"Oh, Senoritas!" she exclaimed, her cheeks flushed under their olive
tint. "I have had such a beautiful dream. I dreamed I was back in
my own dear country--on Sea Horse Island.
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