"Just two things more, Francis. First, and I forgot to tell you, Leoncia is not a Solano at all, though she thinks she is. Alfaro told me himself. She is an adopted child, and old Enrico fairly worships her, though neither his blood nor his race runs in her veins. Alfaro never told me the ins and outs of it, though he did say she wasn't Spanish at all. I don't even know whether she's English or American. She talks good enough English, though she got that at convent. You see, she was adopted when she was a wee thing, and she's never known anything else than that Enrico is her father."
"And no wonder she scorned and hated me for you," Francis laughed, "believing, as she did, as she still does, that you knifed her full blood-uncle in the back."
Henry nodded, and went on.
"The other thing i
