“All stories are beautiful if one has a magic cap,” answered Big Brother, smiling down into the winsome little face, but not with his old gay smile. Yet there was something sweeter in it than before. “No,” corrected Pilarica, who was kissing the empty sleeve over and over. “It is Rafael who has the magic cap. It turns badnesses into gladnesses.” “And it will turn this pain into splendor, my brother,” said Rodrigo, reeling from weakness and catching at Rafael’s shoulder with the one thin hand. “Have you a bit of chocolate about you, laddie? How tall you have grown! And how you have come to look like Father! That is his own courage I am seeing in your face.” “I will run on ahead to Tia Marta, who will make you a feast,” cried Pilarica, so lost in rapture that still she did not catch the meaning of what Rodrigo had said. “Bread and cheese will be feast enough, especially if Tia Marta adds her pinch of pepper,” replied Rodrigo, with a queer little ghost of a laugh. “The Geography Gentleman--Heaven reward him!--cared for me and a dozen more of us at Granada and gave me gold for the railroad journey north to you; but there were so many of my half-starved comrades on the train that the money was all gone before we had reached Leon and I have been walking and living on the charity of berry-bushes and walnut-trees ever since. But bide a wee, Caramel Heart! I have grand news for you. You are to go to school,--a real girls’ school. What do you think of that? It is in charge of a lady from over the sea, Doña Alicia, a lady who loves Spain and was kind to us poor fellows in the hospital. Father would, I know, be glad to have you go to her and learn.” “It will be lovely to learn,” trilled Pilarica, the leaves rustling a song of their own under her tripping feet. “And when Father comes home, we’ll be just as happy under the sky as the angels are on top. Grandfather says they dance all night and sometimes they jostle down a star. And Father will come home soon, for the pillar prayers are always answered. Only see! Dolores’ prayer and mine are answered already.” “Mine was answered first,” said Rafael, and his voice, though a sob broke through it, was proud,--the voice of a hero’s son. LIST OF SPANISH WORDS, PRONOUNCED AND DEFINED =Abdorman Murambil Xarif.= (Ab-dōr´-mahn Moor-ahm´-beel Xah-reef´.) There is much reason to fear that this Moorish name was made up by Rafael. =Adolfo.= (Ah-dŏl´-fo.) Adolphus. Adolph. A boy’s name meaning Noble Wolf. =Augustin.= (Ah-goos-teen´.) Augustus. Austin. A boy’s name meaning August, Exalted, Imperial. =Alameda.= (Ah-la-meh´-dah.) A shaded walk, as through a park. =Alfonsito.= (Al-fŏn-see´-to.) Little Alfonso. =Alfonso.= (Al-fŏn´-so.) Alphonso. A boy’s name meaning Ready. The present king of Spain is Alfonso XIII. =Alhambra.= (Al-hăm´-brah.) The famous fortress and palace built by the Moors on a hilltop overlooking Granada. The name is Arabic and means Ruddy, perhaps from the color of the stone.