"I?" said the señorita--she was standing now, ready to depart--"I gain a better country! My father is a soldier and serves his country by helping to keep the peace along this troubled border. If I had been a son I might have done as much. But I am only a daughter, Antonio! And yet"--and she put her arm over Riego's shoulders as she spoke--"if I help to make loyal even _one_ of America's adopted sons, am not I, too, serving my country?"