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Show I Mistress of Monterey CHAPTER XX Ceallnued 17 Tomorrow night." he tiblleted. beech . . et the lebors-lor- y camp. If It la clear we will be making soma but obiervatione of the atari . . . I will be waiting for you. 1 wiU manege it even if It ! not clear . . . I will wait Can you disguise yourself? She caressed his shoulder with a felina gesture that made him shiver. on wanted "TFACHERS IIHU N NOBTHWCJT IB Uto oty. 'Tear notl I will be there, pared, starlight or fog! Tho Indian games and dancing wars over, but the program Fray Lasuen had planned for the guests waa to continue with some of the taBasjjJ old Spanish dances, and another group began tripping to the music of soma guitars and a flageolet One figure stood out among them. Indbuela scorned the lnrii.q dances of her people, but had taken paina to learn (hois of the Span0ota- vKk Print - La iards, aad while her face showed nioro dheibt stolid and indifferent si ghe CttT- - flt- SISAoIYIFm- - -danced, her slim body was alivs POULTRY and graceful, supple as a sapling. The others stopped dancing to admire her, and she stood alone. When P ee. UWf. Vianirt. Cmllffl. she had finished there was a burst INSTRUCTION. or of applause led by the Governor. SKETCH DRAW, TO mdIjKI far Ole! bo eaUed. Tot ( wtL nine I iST J3 PMrnl IchMto. Viva la nine do los "Bravo, ojog negro I S5t WIr3in Vivo la morena! With a gallant Tlcohol gesture he threw his hat at her feet She picked it up gravely, and after a slight hesitation put it on her - Blt twt eh Smith head, did another Impromptu pirouette, and stood with her hands proBUILDING on her hips. vocatively CO. BRICK IJdFRKTATE Fir Ow Th Governor half rose to go to Brick iMh. BuSlIne Til VltriSed Scwr M her and claim the sombrero with Tile Roof and Mantel. "urain 7. E. IALT LAKE BY CM. on embrace as was the custom. But La Gobernadora, who was staring OFFICE EQUIPMENT nt the performance with set jaw and aad IjTiumlsiED ink tkalr. disapproving eyes, clutched him before he could rise. ATHLETIC GOODS Sit down I" she commanded. Do not make a scene of yourself. Well GOODS WESTERN ATHLETIC EAT she called In a high Bata, Ukraa. Baacfcalto, Saftkalla, done, moza, (m, UTAH-IHI.MK Athktir riwn, at. voice, with a chill smile. "Well SCHIIOI. al'FPLT CO. Sail Lak done. Indeed." The Governor subICE CREAM FREEZERS sided automatically before he could COUN- - protest, and the Indian girl, her 1CK CBEAM )A EOrNTAINS nEEZEKS and Ic Cream aabiiMta face acmolder, carried the hat to fiatana, StooK Carbonaton. Staam lmaal larma him, presenting it with a contemphi Aka reeeadHIwd CO. Maaafactanr tuous gesture. Ball Lak CUT Pan Otic Mara La Perouse rose and stretched MOTORCYCLES himself delightedly. LEY Prica he shouted across "Magnifique! Writ far rata loan. il Xotmgrrii. or HOPPEB. 14 K. My- - Halt Lak the space to Fray Lasuen, who waa moving toward them with a pleased FARMER ALMANAC mile. "One of the most interestMXXALDK FARMER ALMANAC far I have ever seen! Nuar Rradr". Price ID I a copy. ing performances These Indiana, whom X had thought laa Friallag Ca. - - Blaahaart. N. T. so crude, so stupid, can really do. FURNITURE can they not? things, 1 1 It carvat mat HAM; Uaad Monarch "Ah, Senor el Conde, replied the CalrunlUUM Uaad Uaad aprieht pfmnlhl aaaauat Wtafarn FarnHara Ca. priest, "you must not underestimate Balt Lak City my poor children. Perhaps you would like to come through the esPHOTOS tablishment again, and see what k xlouy print la albnaactt iltaaatieaal. ralanicawnt lb ran. IU. they have done? he invited eager- WK 4 Brcardrar ,JL W TJt W i treatment Blrij material !. - O f VlfflniWTOItivirs Bartlett night will be as clear, for to maks some astrological tions before we saiL We dismantle the observatory Berries FUaa - tkaapaajr. Mil Wark No. Paratt. BALT Ida. LAKE VACATION OR - BUSINESS HOLLYWOOD I0ULDER DAM Glamour Wonderful YELLOWSTONE GLACIER "Tk PARK Play land Coolness Nitioail Pirki Roafa" Astern Air Express f Sj Afarita, Idafca me. ly. La Perouse protested hastily. "Non, non, mon pere. I have already carefully examined the Mission San Carloi, you win remember, and have made note about it all, and about you. Perhaps all Europe win some day reed of this little place, end of your good works I Now, I am leaving you souvenir of our visit It la n min, a hand mill upon which to grind barley. Thereby one woman can do tho work of many, instead of grinding the meal by hand on stones aa I have seen them do here. I will have it sent over tomorrow. Lasuen began an exclamation of pleasure and gratitude. "And X am leaving something else, au.il, something for you, and for my host Me Excellency, file Gouvemeur. Perhaps I am being presumptuous in thinking there le anything you need in this California, and I have been wondering what it could be that X might leave as a gift, and to insure the fact that you, perhaps, will not forget your French broth- ers. He paused and looked about him, beaming. LaaVaaaa, Salt Laka Falla. Paralalia Brine, Greet Belli u Being Optimist i nan kin be 10 much of an mid Uncle Eben, "dat he ,ly PM through life aellin1 bricki." hia-to- ld It is two sacks iff potatoes, he announced. "I noticed that you have none, either that you have planted or that grow wild. And these we have brought from South America. So I will leave one sick with you, Pere Lasuen, for your mission garden, and one tor you. Monsieur le Gouvemeur, for that garden of yours of which you are so justly proud! After the Governor and his party had ridden awey from the miaaion, when the Indian! had retired for the night. Fray Iaauen sat in his cell and wrote carefully in hla Journal: "This has been Indeed a day of historical importance. This day the Cal. potato has been introduced into ifornta. il. CHAPTER XXI THOMPSON Muiigtr Fnprfir Medbm Priced t 4tb SoeH. eed Mein hmont of H Sfafr Id I, 5Ft? fiv, ,w C C C ,uperrUSon 01 the R1" department need in Utah, of- - R1 eiwd that the interior fcWMmn C0",i1ri'R Pinne for Tenttive piem cnll Hit , SyCBtW!,Ll0Cltedlt pSisssathe belvedere t L Salt Lake. Largeet Apt Hotel W Atta. - As the cavalcade of the Governor were mounting their horse to return from the fiesta at Mission Carmelob Dagelet stooped for Eulalia's foot to assist her into her aaddi- - Suddenly he was jostled aiide by Don Pedro, known who, in sign language, made to tho young Frenchman that he would take earn of tho lady. Then, to Eulalias surprise, instead of seattook her ing her on her horse, ha hia in bis arms, and tossed her into beown saddle, swung himself up hind her and said, "I think I win have you ride with me, chlquita, like a little peasant girl, fired end no? sleepy, from the fair. Qua Eulalia tried to sit bolt upright to express her outraged dignity, but Don Pedro only pulled her closer and there was nothing to do but lean against him, in tha circle of WNU we wish observawill not "THOUGH until the ld ... five-pou- a billa that have to be paid at the end of every month hang heavy over hia head. "Then," he aaya with enthusiasm, "Id rub my lamp an when that old genie came I'd tell him to bring me a motorcycle just like the road cops ride only littler, an a police uniform an a machine gun that could shoot ford box of candy ever an' a just like the one you got for your birthday yesterday. And," ha adds with a smile that shows all of hla dimples, Id bring you down about half of the candy.". The object of his visit has been attained. And he leaves with hia pockets foil of my birthday chocolates, the rain having let up five-poun- five-pou- self-pit- Baseball announcer who announced an entire game without utilizing the adjective "beautiful" in describing tha weather, the crowd, or the playa. Book reviewer who never wrote that it waa a book you simply can't put down. Neighbor, who, when scooping snow or mowing the yard, went several feet past his boundary line into hia neighbors territory. Person who retrieved a tennis ball outside the court and threw it over the backstop on the first throw. Man who said, "Now for a good night's sleep," and waa not disturbed by someone hunting a book in hia room or the telephone jangling. Group of relatives who didnt heckle the young male member of the household by inquiring as to his status with girls, and add, whether it was true or not, "Look at him blush I Kansas City Star. "What Knows He of England Who Only England Knows?" Car-me- la . ... "Temerrew Night, He BiU-"e-a tha Beach." weather of Monterey. I have managed to keep him alive so far, but I am afraid be will die. She sniveled dismally. "But what can I do? asked the Governor in dismay "I want to ask your permission to give him to the Senor el Conde de La Perouse, she said. "Ha it going to sail from here to the tropics I understand, where it is warm, and a sate place for little monkeys to dwell. Chichi would become alive and well there. She was tumbling her words one over another in her excitement "And though it will break my heart I must let him go. When el Conde reaches those tropic tales, he can release Chichi, and and then he will be happy then and well. And he will perhaps forget his adoring Angustiae and, she little sniffed loudly, find him monkey wife! she ended, her voice breaking on a high squeak. Pages sew the need for being firm. "No, Angustias. You must not ask it Chichi has managed to live here this long, and will not die until hla time comes. He would die way from your loving cere, I know. The jungle is no piece for him. And besides, Conde de La Perousa has his bands so foil of important matters that it would not be fair to ask him to do It Think! He has two great ships for which he is responsible, and many men, end machinery, and instruments, and plants, end food supplies, and ammunition, and . . ." He stopped, for he realtaed Anhe was talking to himself, and shawL her in was crying gustias he Yes, he was talking to himself, wee nnMnly was aware that hePedro wishing that it was Don the two Pages who commanded wee sailend men, the and Mps, worlds. ing awey to find new He spoke harshly, both to himself and the weeping woman. -- No. Out of the question. I forbid you to ask him, mujer." Angustias drifted away, ... idly. again over Pages bent hie headThere wae e Eulalii. the sleeping relaxed her from warm perfume and the weight of her MlltoS She giggled excitedly! hopped from file chest opened it and gathering is many filings as she could, piled them into a heap, then tied them in blanket She tried to lift the bundle, but could not budge it from the Bom. Sighing impatiently, sha began discarding heavier things, and at last had a weight that she could lift She wept again as sha discarded file lovely gowns of brocade, velvet satin and lace. Eloping waa not so easy, after alL She had dreamed she could flee, unencumbered by baggage or Impedimenta, to the waiting arms iff an Impatient end potential lover, but here She was struggling with bulky bulgy bundles of clothes, like a washer-woman- . her lovely clothes I But then, she thought with satisfaction, file expedition would no doubt stop at tha Filipino Islands, and there, in Manila, a real capital, aha could buy new raiment It would be better that way, for it was only too probable that her clothe, which she had had for more than three years, were demode, end in Manila sha would find lovely things from Paris. Sha lifted file load to her heed, and experimented with a few steps. She looked Yes, she could do at herself in her mirror, and swayed there, her hands on her hips. In the mirror she saw the face of her baby, staring at her in amazement Hastily she dropped file bundle and whirled on the child. The baby's Indian nurse ceme hurrying in after her, end stooped to pick up the child, but Eulalia stopped her. "Wait! she cried. She sank to her knees and held her arms out to the baby enticingly. Come, coma to Mother, darling! she cooed. The bsby only stared at Eulalia, nonplussed by such behavior on the part of the lady who generally ignored her "Darling, pleese, my little darling, come to Mother . . . won't you?" The nurse stood stolidly by, a jealous warmth in her dull eyes. At last the baby, finger in mouth, sidled to the nurse end burled her face in the woman's skirts. Eulalia rose to her feet. "Take her out of here! she demanded imperiously. The nurse hugged the child close to her end hurried out of the room. "There, you see?" laid La Gobernadora to the Madonna who was see? smiling sadly et her. "You She does not love me at all! Sha never comes near met Sha prefer that black Indian woman, and her father! You see? It wiU never meka the slightest difference to her whether I stay here or not" Sha paced back and forth the floor. length of tha dirt "As for young Pedro, he never sees mel He is with his father eU the time. He cares only for Mm, end for his pony. Will he miss me? Does he need me? No, iff course not Absurd! No one wants me, no one I em going awey needs me . . . She cast herself on the bundle of clothes end wept "I am going away . . . and no one will care . . . I em going so on the ocean! I will be for seasick. Oh. Dios miol She turned toward the Madonna end held out her ormis "Please, Our Lady of the Sees, make the ocean smooth, please, oh, please! After while she sat herself at a bus- table to writs a note to her and v people took on the bright aide of things bo persistently that they wind up the proud possessors of a gold brick. Some men make money hand over fist. And then their wives make fist hand over money. Big men get the beat jobs, Tm told. Because the small men are so often overlooked? Then there waa the man who was so lazy he bought a Great Dane so he wouldnt have to stoop over to pet it. Money doesnt grow on trees. Just the same, its the smart birds that get it. Some "Even after months in England my wife sometimes had to call upon the housemaid to translate some item in the laundry list, or to interpret between her and the rashers'; a slice of ham is a gammon rasher, and the best cut of beef to a piece of topside.' Gasoline is 'petrol,' kerosene Is 'paraffin,' and paraffin to 'paraff- grocery boy, declares Mr. Harry in wax. An English cook does not A. Franck, the irrepressible rinse the dishes, she swills When my wife told the in Footloose in the them. British Isles." "In England a nursemaid to bathe the children, vest is an undershirt, not a or to give them a bath, the maid waistcoat. Suspenders ere gar- proceeded to bath them or give ters, and braces' are suspenders. them a bathe. " A childs underwaist is a bodice, while rubber boots are WellAustralian Camel Patrol ingtons. The word sweater still strikes many of the English as a and odoriferous: trifle The Australian government they call it a jersey,' jumper,' maintains its own breeding and pullover, or cardigan.' training stations for camels. The "In the drapers shop (which two greatest fences in the world-o- ne unmeans drygoods store) that bars the pestilential rabbleached muslin is calico1 and bits from entering the great Cheese- wheat belt of Western Australia, calico is cottonprint. cloth is butter muslin,' and in- the other erected against wild stead of using cutting flannel for a dogs and rabbits along the border childs pajamas one buys 'wince-yett- of New South Wales and South and asks for a sleeping Australia are both maintained by suit. A spool of thread is a 'reel government camel patrols. of cotton. An American who asks In Australia, in a country for crackers will get firecrackers asToday aa the United States, large or a package of those Christmas camels stand aa an important paper bonbons that explode when means of transportation in tha to pulled. In England a crackqr central and arid and semi-ari- d a 'biscuit,' and biscuit is a roll. western areas and, in some reA muffin is something else again, mote areas, are the only means of and cookies are as unknown as if transportation at all. were word the Persian. Imported from India originally to "Our kind of bacon 'streaky with their Afghan breeders and handlers, camels were introduced to Australia aa soon as the dryness Growing Virtue of the interior became known. SpeBeea will not work except in cial beasts and picked men were darkness; thought will not work ferried from India, for instance, virtue work except in secrecy. Let for the benefit of the famous exnot thy left hand know what thy plorers, Burke and Wills, who right hand doethl Like other crossed from Melbourne on the plants, virtue will not grow unless south coast to the Gulf of Carpenits roots be hidden, buried from taria on the north as early as the eye of the sun. Let the sun 1880. And In 1886 camels wera shine on it, nay, do but look at imported for all general service, it privily thyself, the root withers, and in general service they remain A. R. Wetjen in Globe and no flower will glad thee. today, globe-trotte- r, tow-cla- ss e Thomas Carlyle. Magazine. All it body, delicioua to hia against him was men "Let him have his ships, and I and distant lands," he thouRht his heed, have Eulalia." He lifted accustomed to and saw with eyes hills. the more wooded the dark the his arm, and be quiet breathed the He On they rode, silent under the distant mountains.see end Pine of beodor thick heady atari, with eir. end heard the neath tha horsea hoofs, end startled mingled in the restlessly on the cy- trees tha ocean pounding night bird rustling among eome at at the disturbance. From P"AndMiave my California." he tha riders cams burets of eong, the lifting his face to horse thankfully, Tha said twanging of a guitar. no 0M ambled quietly, for fi At tha greet gate iff the presidio In a hurry to break the ipcB of ssW. her dig- grounds good night. wera abandoned Eulalia night day, marvelous a been "It has nity, nodded end dozed. almost sadly. And bands Perouse La aid In (TO BE COMTI.UEW La Perouse end Fsges (piked I hope tomorrow of La Pe- a beeutifol night epoke tones. low They pine-needl- Joseph seven-year-o- leave-takin- Lillian Oakley C McClur Nswspapcr fcmdicata. a strong wind waa rousee departure, and a little wist- last moment blowing, driving aheeta of rain fully iff his visit in California. The Angustias, about tq turn Into tha acroaa my front yard, I wasnt surFrenchman had fallen under the gate, heard him. prised to see Joseph, my little "Sol" she murmured. neighbor, making spell of the country so beloved of Tomorhia way up the front walk. YesPedro Fsges, and would leave re- row night he will be on the beach at waa my birthday and he gretfully, he told his host And tho his funny tent! Perhaps And terday Governor had found warm friend Jhe whispered her hopes to herself. waa here when the postman box of to the genial little brought me a Frenchman, with "I have never been Insubordinate, hia quaint Spanish, learned in the he muttered to herself. "But his candy, and Joseph has a weakmountains of his native South of Excellency doesn't know everything. ness for good chocolates. France, among tho Basques. He Especially about a woman's heart" He cornea puffing in and while he would min him when ho wee he added grimly. sheds his waterproof coat he looks gono. Not since Junipero Serra's death At the door of the palacio Don around for the candy. But all the had there been anyone in California Pedro lifted Eulalia from hia hone candy spots are vacant. My bonwith whom ho felt such and carried her into tha Misv. bon resistance la below normal on companionbad days and I have put all the ship. All these things the two men weets away and resolved not to CHAPTER XXH made wn to each other, with few bring them out for a week. But WOTds, si men speak, but of So the next morning Eulalia .rent now from past experience I know profound meaning, then were silent Al- about her prepantiona for depar- that without once asking ma for though formal farewells would be ture. any candy Joseph will soon have made later, this was the real me bringing out my Team at y g blinded her between them. Fsges felt he packed. Lonely, insulated from box and urging Mm to take an He haa an indirect deeply the importance of tho visit the world in this most remote and he wants. of tho French ships, the first fordesolate of the King's colonies, with method all hia own that never coneigners to visit California. And he nothing to look forward to but mors flicts with any of the rules of etiwondered vaguely, what other peo- loneliness, as the yeara passed; per- quette and always gets him what ple, end ships of how many other haps more children; and at last tha he wants. nations would visit the shores at the final desolation of being laid in the He pulla a low stool in front of distant province. "Ships and peo- Campo Santo of the Mission the fire and while he warms hie That was life. her and For she hands he looks over hia shoulder ple cities, La Perouse had predicted. Pages pondered. So deep was sure now nothing would ever at me and aaya, to call Pedro Fagea away was he in thought that he had not happen "Guess who I'd be if I could be noticed Angus tin riding close be- from California. There were no side him. When she spoke out of more troubles with the Franciscans, anybody I wanted to be? and El Gobernador served hia Kin This is easy for he alwaya the darkness, he started. too well in this colony where few wants to be Tarzan or On my word, Angustias, Dizzy Dean. alyou men wished to eome end bury them- But most frightened me." Im all wrong. selves to be recalled by the Crown. "AI, Senor, sniffled the woman, Not today," he says with emHer jewels were already stored "forgive me for speaking to you like phasis, "today I'd be 'Laddin An in their end away ease, she was Hia Lamp. this, but there is something I want you to do for me. It means much sorting out her clothes. Weeping, And guesa whats the first to me, Excellency. A matter that end recounting her grievances to Id teU that old genie to do has lain sorrowfully close to my herself, she filled a great leather thing after I rubbed my lamp?" and as she sat on chest, tha to lid heart for days . . . This isn't really meant to be a close it, a thought came that made "Speak, then. What is It?" gasp with dismay. She could question so I simply ait still and "It is about ChichL He is dying, her never get this bulky thing to tha took interested. Don Pedro, in these fogs end cold beach. Then wae no safe way of "I'd tell him to build my mothshe couldn't carry er the finest home in town an fursending It it. For a moment she sat then, nish it full of the finest furnitui'e then a beautiful Idea cams to her. in town an have a hot supper on She would make a bundle of her the table ready for her when she And I'd clothes, then she would dress in a got home from work. peasant dress, like Indizuela, carry make him give me sofne money the bundle on her head, and bare- an Id go down town an' pay footed, slip down to in aU of her bills an' put em on the the dusk, her face covered by a con- table by her plate." 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