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I think I may venture it. Nay, I must; and there's no help for't. We have to get home somehow--and soon. Ah! the Senora! poor lady! What will she be thinking by this time? And what when we get back? _Valga me Dios_! I don't know how I shall ever be able to break it to her, or in what way! It will sure drive her out of her senses, and not much wonder, either. To lose one of them were enough, but both, and--Well, no use dwelling on it now; besides, there's no time to be lost. I must start off at once; and, maybe, as I'm riding on, I'll think of some plan to communicate the sad news to the Senora, without giving her too sudden a shock. _Pobrecita_!