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The royal cause is just now in a critical condition, and we need all our resources." "Then you can go with the Spanish señorita," said Harry. "But I'm afraid," said Katie. "Afraid!" said Harry. "Why, there will be no danger. You will be sent with a guard." "Oh, it's not that it's not that," said Katie; "it's because I'm afraid I shall never see you again. And it's cruel very, very cruel in you!"
He had loved and revered her, ever since she came a bride to Sobrante, and had tended him through a scourge of smallpox, unafraid and unscathed. Though she was a woman, the sex of whose intelligence he had small opinion, he had regarded her as an exception, and his disappointment was great. "Is it but a 'thank you, si? Does not the senorita know what this gift means?"
He looked up as Barbara's figure darkened the doorway. "Jose!" said the girl. The old man rose to his feet and came toward her. "Eh? Senorita, eh?" he cackled. "You are Jose?" she asked. "Si, senorita," replied the old Indian. "What can poor old Jose do to serve the beautiful senorita?" "You can carry a message to one of Pesita's officers," replied the girl.
Whether by accident or purposely, the lady herself only knew, but when the volante, in the circular drive of the Paseo, again came opposite to the spot where Lieutenant Bezan was, the Senorita Isabella dropped her fan upon the carriage-road. As the young officer sprang to pick it up and return it, she bade the calesaro to halt.
"Why, this is wonderful!" exclaimed Myra, with an involuntary laugh. "I never expected such luxuries in such a grim-looking, old-world place. Tell me, are all the rooms like this?" "This, señorita, is the most beautiful of all, but all the guests' rooms are lovely," the maid answered. "The master himself designed and planned them all. He is wonderful."
Discontent marred her face as she gave her hand to the Governor to kiss, and looked down upon the brilliant town. The Señorita Doña Ysabel Herrera was poor. Were it not for her uncle she would not have where to lay her stately head and she was La Favorita of Monterey, the proudest beauty in California!
Again the twist of her pretty, pouting lips, blood-red and tempting. Her José! For just a minute the face of Teresita showed vague to him before his wrathful eyes. "When you tell your beads again, Señorita," he advised her crisply, "say a prayer or two for your José also.
It was this animal and its rider that held Kendric's eyes. In the saddle was what appeared a weary little figure, drooping forward, clutching miserably at the horn of the saddle with both hands. As she came nearer and there was more light he saw the bowed head, made out that it was hatless, even saw how the hair was all tumbled and ready to fall about her shoulders. "You will get down, señorita."
As he went down to the bunk-house he said softly under his breath: "Well, I'm damned. I most certainly am!" Wrinkled, grizzled old half-breed José, his hands trembling with eagerness, stood in the smaller rose-garden culling the perfect buds, a joyous tear running its zigzag way down each cheek. "La señorita ees come home!" he announced triumphantly as Lee drew near on his way to the bunk-house.
Again she was all at sea, and in a vain effort to say something, she stammered: "Señorita, you are certainly the strangest person I ever met!" "Not strange, only different," laughed Chiquita, throwing back her head and meeting Blanch's full gaze. "Señorita," she continued, "you are beautiful more beautiful than any woman I have ever beheld.
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