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Show Thursday, June 23, 1938 THE VIRGINIA STIVERS BARTLETT CHAPTER XXVI Continued 22 The courier spoke timidly. L "Excellency," he murmured dep- recatingly, unfortunately, I must be on my way, not being on a pleasure trip, like yourself, and . . . and there is a letter in there that I have on my conscience. I should have asked you about it before I left the presidio. It does not bear your frank." The Governor looked startled. "So? And who has sent a letter put without my frank?" "Her Excellency, La Senora La Gobernadora, Dona Eulalia." "Ah! Let me have it, and I will attend to it" The courier took the paper from among the rest and handed it to the Governor. It was addressed to the Viceroy of Mexico. The Governor shook his head and rubbed his eyes. The men watched him in amazement as he tore the letter open and read it" "A woman's tongue is only three inches long, but it can kill a man of six feetl You," he said to the trembling courier, "get on your way at once. I will keep this letter. And the rest of us will return at once to the presidio." At the exclamation of disappointment from his escort he laughed WTJTJ wear. Well, are you not going to get ready?" "I am not I am not going. Please, Pedro, do not do this to me, please. I am sorry I wrote because I am so unhappy it seemed the only way. Please, my darling, adored husband. Please, oh, please do not do this to me!" Whimpering like a child she threw herself at his feet before the scandalized eyes of the watching soldiers and servants. Angustias moved toward her, but the Governor motioned her back. His face was stern and drawn. "Get up, woman! What a scene to make before these people! A woman's tears and a dog's limping are not real. Wilf you go now or shall I be forced to make you?" Still she knelt on the flooor. "No! No! I will not go . . . you can not make me! Oh, Pedro! Oh, Mother of God! Oh, help me!" The Governor clutched his beard with one hand and gritted his teeth. "Pick her up," he ordered the soldiers, "tie her hands, and put her on a horse. Take her to the fathers at Carmel and tell them it is my orders she stay in the monjera until I return. Under no circumstances is she to leave before then. And if she misbehaves, she is to be beaten, ...... loudly. "But we will stay only a short while, and before this sun has set we will be on our way again. Our pasear is interrupted, companeros, not abandonedl" A little while later the presidio and gates were again thrown open, Govto the surprise of everyone, the ernor's party swept into the parade-groun- d in a cloud of dust and a clatter of hoofs. From her window La Gobernadora watched El Gobernador ride madly toward the palacio, and be- -' fore she could control the sudden 7 trembling that seized her, he strode into the room. Behind him came two soldiers, who had followed from the gate. !Senora," thundered the Gover nor, "I have come to place you under arrest" He motioned to the two soldiers, who stepped smartly forward and took their places one at each side of Eulalia. Their eyes goggled with amazement but they clanked the butts of their muskets smartly on the floor, and stood at attention. "What is the meaning of this," inquired Eulalia, "is it a drunken prank? For what am I to be placed under arrest?" "It is no drunken prank. Woman, you are under arrest for treason. I have here" and he slapped Eula-lia'- s letter to the Viceroy on to the table "I have here a document written by you containing treasonable utterances against the Governor of the Californias. And any treason against the Governor of the Californias is treason against his Most Catholic Majesty the King of Spain. Therefore I put you under arrest." Eulalia grew white around the lips, and her voice shook. she stammered. "Yes; you have said here that the Governor of California has been going slowly but surely insane for the past three years. That all his acts are the acts of a madman, a maniac. That his governance here has been a long period of misrule. with That he fails to the priests in their religious work. That everyone is afraid of him, and dare not report his madness to the Viceroy. That he has repeatedly threatened your life, and the lives of others, and that he neglects his duties to consort with Indian women. Is NEPHI. UTAH S. that true?" "Every word of it!" "I mean is It true that you have written this?" "Yes. I wrote it" "Very well, then. I arrest you in the name of the King of Spain." Eulalia wavered. "But but you can not do that! What what are you going to do me?" "You are with to be incarcerated in the monjera, the quarters of the Indian women at Mission Carmclo until I return from my trip. Then I will consider your case." "In the monjera! You can not do this to me! I will not go! You dare not degrade me, disgrace me this way, before the whole community! I will not go!" "You do not hesitate to degrade and disgrace me before all California, Mexico and Spain, Senora. You shall go to the monjera, and at once. Prepare yourself." "No! No! I will die first . . . Angustias!" Angustias was cowering in a corner, watching the scene In terror. At the doors and windows frightened servants listened and looked. "There is no use calling Angustias. I am through being ruled by women. Angustias will remain here with my children, and you shall go. At once, I said!" he thundered so suddenly that Eulalia Jumped. "And if you hesitate any longer you shall The go without any preparation. malron at the monjera will give you a robe such as the Indian girls mWmrf sycamores, water alders. willows and all manner of trees and shrubs, as ha sniffed the wild roses and drank from the clear springs; as he gazed at the mighty mountains or at the rolling restless surf of the Pacific he laughed. "My life for California!" he said. "By God, she is worth it the jadel" Each morning that found them on the road he carefully stamped out often the remains of the camp-firon a spot where he had built fires many times before. And as he did this he wondered. Out of these ashes, on one of these little mounds, would a city rise some day? He sighed at the thought, but indulged in prophetic retrospection. And at the missions he visited long with the padres; ate their good food, drank their good wine; admired their fat herds and sleek horses. Then passed on to the next mission. Passed through much rich country, or wild land alive with herds of antelope and elk, bear and moun tain lions. He killed the giant bear he had promised himself, and car ried most of it to the Mission San Gabriel ArcangeL There he rested for many days in the shade of the carefully tended trees, with the music of a little stream In his ears. And there he visited with some old, old friends who had traveled with him on the first expedition. "I am retiring," said one old com padre, Don Epifanio Sanchez, long sergeant of the guard at the Mis sion San Gabriel. "I am retiring, he repeated as Don Pedro sipped absently at his wine. "From what . . . ?" questioned the Governor. "From the King's Army. The King has granted me many varas of land. And I am choosing It well. There are springs on it, and meadow land for grazing, and land to raise corn and grapes. And I have already chosen the knoll on which I will build my house." He stretched his legs luxuriously before him and sighed with pleasurable anticipa tion. "Ah, and what a life that will live-oak- Compadre. recalcitrant Indian e, wom- Describes the Perils , ? "of Unscientific Safely Surely Comfortably Stndfor This Fret Bulletin OSmd h C Houston Goudiss Readers of this newspaper are i rmted to write to C Houston By C. HOUSTON GOUDISS a East 39th Street. New York City. Goudiss, at 6 East 39th Street, New York City, for his Y RECENT discussion of reducing in these columns Bulletin, which modern the that shows bow to reduce by the brought many letters, indicating safe and sane method of conscious. This is an encouryou retire and establish a grand woman is, fortunately, weight counting calories. aeine sign. For it shows that you are alert to the dangers of. hacienda, enjoy your wife and chilThe bulletin h complete with dren, and let the Indians do the overweight, which not only destroys beauty but may indirectly chart showing tba caloric value of work?" mil the commonly tued foods and to heart contribute disease, contains sample menus that yon can Don Pedro was quiet a long time. r as a gusde to comfortable a and diabetes, iron and copper ana lnienere idly twirling his beaker, and watch kidney disorders healthful weight reduction. of the hemo formation with the toll in little take their which Juice washing greatest ing the ruddy or red pigment in the blood. globin unAll waves against the glass. from among the heavyweights. One of the most common and make a vast difference in your consciously his old friend, in relatmost serious errors is to omit all appearance and in the enthusiasm bare ing his own hopes, bad laid potatoes and cereals, in the with which you greet your daily bread, Unscientific GoverGuard Against the deepest desires of the belief that carbohydrates are "rat- tasks. nor's heart Reducing Methods foods." Carbohydrates are tening A great estate of his own! He me Some of these letters caused the body in order to The Film Stars' Method could see himself riding over the great concern, however, because required by fats in the diet, ana utilize the Thin the simple and scientific meth sleek see the herds, could land; they indicateof tnat when reducing, they are also nec- od of controlling the weight is the spirited horses he would raise; could in my excess spite fatty one used by film stars m Hollyessary to burn np see the fields of corn and grain, against tissue. warning wood. It is essential that they squashes, beans and chiles; he wanmeth unscientific Just as fire cannot burn without keep slim and practically every dered through his own orchards and re ods of weight air. fat cannot be utilized in the important film player has a clause vineyards. Ai, Dios, that was what duction, many without the presence of in her contract calling for a can he wanted! A great house where he women still cling body starch or sugar. When the diet cellation if she permits her weight could entertain a hundred guests, to the idea that contains insufficient carbohy- to increase a certain point. and where a hundred servants would there is some mag drates, fat burns incompletely, re- But at the beyond same time, film stars do his bidding; where there would M ic in the various pills, powders, capsules, soaps, salts and mechanical de vices that are sold at fancy prices and hold out alluring promises of speedy reducing without dieting or wine. "Before God, Don Epifanio, you exercise. It is bad enough that most of are sent by Satan to tempt me! fail to reduce. For they can these it but be That may your life, may delay the day when the vic never be mine." "I am sorry, my friend. For there tim of overweight win unaenaKe are many of us who campaigned a sound and scientific program of with you who are going to do this weight reduction that will effec very thing of which I have spoken. tively take off weight thus imbenefiting In fact many have sent for their proving appearance, wives and families to come irom health and increasing the cnances Mexico, and, as I said before, those of longevity. But what is far of us who have not wives vill find more serious is that some of these them here. Yes, we will aund a preparations may endanger health new civilization, I think, in this or cause lifelong physical impair strange new land, and you should ment. be music and flowers and hospitality . . . and at the end a host of strong sons to speed his departure into that dark uncertain land . . . But the vision did not hold Eulalia. With a bitter laugh he gulped his -- be one of the founders." The Governor left San Gabriel visited the troublous little village of Los Angeles, and left there shaking his head over the laziness and im morality of its inhabitants. South then, to the Mission San Juan CaDristrano. and at last to the Pre sldio and Mission of San Diego, the cradle of California. Then he turned north again, to return to Monterey, more restless, more unhappy, more disturbed in mind than when he had started on his journey. He had not left his anxieties behind. They had traveled with him. And to them was added the nagging certainty that he was at a crisis in his life. He could not continue living as he had been. He and Eulalia were killing each other. He must resimi as governor of the Californias. And after that what? One of two things. Remain in the province as an hacendado, and ful fill his dearest dreams, regardless Or return to Mexico, of Eulalia. perhaps to Spain. He groaned In spirit and worried his grizzled beard as he considered that possibility. The soft breath of California kissed his cheek as he rode north The very brambles and wild roses reached out and clutched him with clinging fingers; and when he lay down at night the warm earth seemed to cradle him in loving arms that would not let him go. When at last he rode through the gates of the Royal Presidio Monterey two months after he had swept through them, he had made a de cision. He would not leave California. (TO BE COSTISUED) Farm Appeal to Peasants of France; Children Prefer City Life one-tim- e O'ireturettjAt Methods for Losing Weight Has well-define- d Are You Advice About Reducing REDUCE Service of your life to your King and this country- - The King would be more than willing to award you a great slice of this land that you have governed so long. Why not do it? Let someone else be governor and have all the worries and anxieties, while Yes," muttered Fages. "And what will you do with this great "Pedro!" Eulalia shrieked. "Pe rancho and house you are going to dro, not that! Ai, Dies mio . . . build? Will you live alone? What not that!" will you do without wife or chil The Governor was trembling as dren?" much as the terrified woman at his Don Epifanio stirred uneasily. ' feet "Pues, compadre, you know how "Verv well. Not beaten. But If it is. I have already chosen me a in be must put she misbehaves, she wife. Just an Indian girl. That is, the stocks. Take her at once.' part Indian. Her father was a SpanAs the frightened soldiers lifted ish soldier, though God only knows her from the floor, she struggled like who he was. But she is beautiful a cat. writhing and sobbing. and very young, and has been well "Best tie her hands," ordered the educated here at Mission San GabriGovernor coldly. "Or you will be el. She can cook, and sew. She scratched." He handed one a hand can even play the guitar! And she kerchief, and watched grimly while is young. Oh, yes, very young. Fifher struggling hands were tied at teen. But look you, I am barely her back. She faced him with lea fifty! So I will have many years tures distorted, streaked with tears, ahead of me. and God willing, many but her eves fierce. He laughed. "Who knows Pedro children." mad brutal, "Cruel, but we will start a new race in this sufwill "You cried. Fages!" she new land?" fer for this!" She wrenched against Don Pedro was very quiet as the the bonds that held her hands. Oh, other dreamed of his future happi let me tro! Let me go!" over his wine-glassol ness mused the Governor to Fages merely motioned to the "Yes," diers, who dragged her out or we himself. "You will have a happy house. Still screaming and Strug life. An Ideal life. Ah, yes . . ." nna of them managed to The other broke into his musings. fe.'.'B, throw her before him on his horse house rushed from the Anonetia No Life wringing her hands and weeping out-o- f All the servants crowded rinors. The soldier touched his spurs to the horse. The shrieking writh ing La Gobernadora and her escort People leave farms In France started across the paraae-gruuiifor the same reasons as evlargely toward the nresidio gate. Angustias erywhere else. Ever since the founrunning lamenting beside. dation of the Third republic (nominally 1870) peasant children have XXVII CHAPTER been getting education, though the number of illiterates as shown by Forth on El Camino Real again the army conscript examinations is rode the Governor of the Californi- surprisingly high. With education, as. The royal road was now a the ambition of the average peasant strip of yellow highway, has been to make his son a gentlepressure through slowly but surely, man (a monsieur), which means while-colla- r of many feet and hoof beats of many generally to get him a the itself upon horses, printing His daughter likewise he preJob. connectdesk off to a pleasant soil of California Presidio of Up- fers to marry than to city ing the Mission and young rather worker Misper California with the ancient observes a writer in the capital Loreto, In farmer, Tribune. sion and Chicago California. Lower By a process which has gone on As he rode he remembered sud- in other languages, even the word since denly that 20 years had passed peasant has fallen into bad repute. he had first traveled this way. No It is now never used in the news of pioroad then: that first party of the Paris press. When a neers had pushed their way through reports word must be used, a peasant is trail through ferm-ie- r virgin soil, breaking and called a cultivater. The word the wilderness, marking It hereoften-enever been used has r (farmer) but of stone, there with cairns extensively, and not often would it with crosses. be an accurate translation of our Twenty years! He started at the word farmer. thnuRhL Nearly half his life. In Even if he cannot get a coveted be sevtwenty years more he would with the government, the young iob the for siren. All those years enty. usually prefers to come to smilpeasant the at looked California. As he He and take a chance. acres the and city acres ing spring sky, the in an auto eh in on the of full canons may get the of an." EAT and WHY You can retire, Don Pe dro? You have given the best years But your wife?" asked Don Pe dro. "Will she consent to come here and live with you?" Had you not heard? My poor wife, God rest her soul, died last year in Mexico City. She would never join me here. And I could not leave here. You understand? Life was lonely for her, I suppose. We bad no children . . . and so ." He shrugged his shoulders. "God took her home. You are most fortunate, Don Pedro, In having Dona Eulalia with you. Most for- tunate!" Go 4ouiton (joudtu Ofifieti Mote Why do you not be!" "I Am Retiring," Said One Old like any s, PAGE SEVEN WMAT M onterey is&ress o Virginia SUveta Bartlett TIMES-NEW- mobile factory or punch tickets in a subway station. The average French farm has not been improved as the American one has within the last generation. The radio is rare; automobiles are even rarer. The standard of living is undoubtedly higher than before the war, and currents of life now flow freely through the French countryside, but the peasant still thinks of his life as a dull one as compared with that in the city. Practical, Practicable Practical means that which --Dan- Drugs Drugging is particularly to be condemned, and no one should at tempt to reduce by this method except under the advice and watchful eye of a physician. There are many invalids today who would be happy and healthy if they had not attempted to take sulting in the dangerous acetone type of acidosis. calories at every meal, making certain that you consume fewer calories each day than your body requires for its normal energy exnenditure. I will erladlv send to every read er of this newsnaoer. a copy of mv reducing bulletin. This in eludes a chart showing the caloric value of all the commonly used foods plus a week's sample re ducing menus. By following this scientific plan for weight reduc Doilies Soon Done In Jiffy Croche - i'". SEND FOR THIS FUSE VITAMIN PRIMER OFFERED BY C HOUSTON GOUDISS Do you want to know where to jind tht different vitamins? Just write to C. Houston Goudiss at 6 East 39th Street, New York City, for his new "VITAMIN PRIMER." It tells the facts that every hotnemaker needs to know about vitamins. In simple chart form, the functions of each vitamin are explained, and there is a list of foods to guide you in supplying your family with adequate amounts of each of these necessary aubstances. step on the scales. Weight Is Normal Keep It That Way If Your It has been determined that the ideal weight that is the weight that best promotes health and longevity after thirty, is the normal weight for one's height at the age of thirty. If you are approximately thirty and your weight is normal, you should send for my Calorie Chart and Reducing Bulletin and use it to help maintain your present weight! If you are over thirty and overweight, you should not lose another day before sending for the bulletin so that you can begin at once to regain your normal weight by the safe, simple, scientific and comfortable method of counting calories. As the pounds disappear you will feel as though you had stepped out of a prison of fat into a new world of physical freedom. WNU Don't Diet Without Direction A carefully regulated diet will not only maintain normal weight, but will banish overweight by forcing the body to burn its own excess fat as fuel. Having heard of this scientific principle, many women frantically and foolishly attempt to prescribe their own reoften with dis ducing diets astrous results. There is always the possibility that one may omit calcium-bea- r ins foods and thus impair the teeth, or leave out foods rich in - Counting Calories the Easy Way to Reduce Counting Calories Is Fun In Hollywood they make a game The one safe, sure and scien-tifimethod of getting rid of sur- of counting calories. You, too, plus weight and at the same time will find it amusing, as well as maintaining top health is to con- beneficial to health and looks. And sume a diet that is balanced in you will be rewarded by noting a every respect, but to count your drop in weight every tune you some "reducing medicine" without consulting a physician. One preparation that is still bought by foolish women in spite of repeated warnings against its use may even result in permanent blindness. 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To leave room all you need do is to go out bj the door but if the door is locked on the outside that method of icav n. is inipracticnuie. 10 Aisle of Woman's Dreams one floor Suppose you knew that one aitle ofnee-Jeto every thing you in one store had d purchase! Suppose on that airtle you could buy household necessities, smart clothing, thrilling gifts for bride, graduate, voyngcr I How much walking that would navel How much time, Irouble and fretful shopping you would be rparedl i what advertisements in this in pnprr can do fur you. They bring all That, rfTref, in one convenient place. ?iiop irom your the nerds of your daily life into review with the advertisements. Keep abreast of bargains, instead of chasing rny-fhai- r, tl irm. Spend time in your newspaper to nave tune ana money hi me ... sun. |