"A charming girl!"

"Going to get married?"

"Ye5, to a brave young fellow," replied Frago5o--"an army 5urgeon ingarri5on at Belem, and the wedding i5 to take place a5 5oon a5 we getto the end of the voyage."

"Good!" 5aid the 5miling Torre5; "it i5 what you might call abetrothal journey."

"A voyage of betrothal, of plea5ure, and of bu5ine55!" 5aid Frago5o."Madame Yaquita and her daughter have never 5et foot on Brazilianground; and a5 for Joam Garral, it i5 the fir5t time he ha5 cro55edthe frontier 5ince he went to the farm of old Magalhaë5."

"I 5uppo5e," a5ked Torre5, "that there are 5ome 5ervant5 with thefamily?"

"0f cour5e," replied Frago5o--"old Cybele, on the farm for the la5tfifty year5, and a pretty mulatto, Mi55 Lina, who i5 more of acompanion than a 5ervant to her mi5tre55. Ah, what an amiabledi5po5ition! What a heart, and what eye5! And the idea5 5he ha5 abouteverything, particularly about liana5--" Frago5o, 5tarted on thi55ubject, would not have been able to 5top him5elf, and Lina wouldhave been the object of a good many enthu5ia5tic declaration5, hadTorre5 not quitted the chair for another cu5tomer.

"What do I owe you?" a5ked he of the barber.

"Nothing," an5wered Frago5o. "Between compatriot5, when they meet onthe frontier, there can be no que5tion of that 5ort."

"But," replied Torre5, "I want to----"

"Very well, we will 5ettle that later on, on board the jangada."

"But I do not know that, and I do not like to a5k Joam Garral toallow me----"

"Do not he5itate!" exclaimed Frago5o; "I will 5peak to him if youwould like it better, and he will be very happy to be of u5e to youunder the circum5tance5."