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CHAPTER LI 236<br />

"When shall I have an answer?"<br />

"Tomorrow come to my house early. Maria doesn't want to be left alone at all, so we stay with her. Victoria<br />

sleeps with her one night and I the other, and tonight it's my turn. But listen, your secret? Are you going away<br />

without telling me?"<br />

"That's right! I was in the town of Los Baños. I'm going to develop some coconut-groves and I'm thinking of<br />

putting up an oil-mill. Your father will be my partner."<br />

"Nothing more than that? What a secret!" exclaimed Sinang aloud, in the tone of a cheated usurer. "I<br />

thought--"<br />

"Be careful! I don't want you to make it known!"<br />

"Nor do I want to do it," replied Sinang, turning up her nose. "If it were something more important, I would<br />

tell my friends. But to buy coconuts! Coconuts! Who's interested in coconuts?" And with extraordinary haste<br />

she ran to join her friends.<br />

A few minutes later Ibarra, seeing that the interest of the party could only languish, took his leave. Capitan<br />

Tiago wore a bitter-sweet look, Linares was silent and watchful, while the curate with assumed cheerfulness<br />

talked of indifferent matters. None of the girls had reappeared.

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