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Updated: June 20, 2025
I wander through those deserted salas sometimes, and, as the tears blister my eyes, imagination and memory people the cold rooms, and I forget that the dashing caballeros and lovely doñas who once called Monterey their own and made it a living picture-book are dust beneath the wild oats and thistles of the deserted cemetery on the hill. The Americans hardly know that such a people once existed.
There were two women stirring about the wife of the contrabandista, and his daughter, a plump, good-looking girl of eighteen or thereabout. "No han cenado, caballeros?" "Ni comido ni almorzado!" "Carambo! Rafaela! Jesusita!" shouted our host, with a sign, such as, among the Mexicans, often conveys a whole chapter of intelligence. The effect was magical.
"I mind Ribaut's last words, when Menendez slew him. 'We are of earth, says he, 'and to earth we must return, and twenty years more or less can matter little! That is our case to-night, old friend." "Maybe," said the Englishman. "But why talk of dying? You and I are Spanish caballeros.
The women of that class especially seemed positively fascinated by the long drooping nose, the peaked chin, the heavy lower lip, the black silk eyepatch and band slanting rakishly over the forehead. His high rank always procured an audience of Caballeros for his sporting stories, which he detailed very well with a simple, grave enjoyment.
God of my soul, but the caballeros are mad! And Doña Maria! By and by she can stand it no more and she go up to La Tulita and take away from the American and say, 'Do you forget and for a bandolero that you are engage to my nephew? And La Tulita toss the head and say: 'How can I remember Ramon Garcia when he is in Yerba Buena? I forget he is alive. And Doña Maria is very angry. The eyes snap.
It was you, Pereo, who took me before you on your pinto horse to the rodeo, when no one knew it but ourselves, my Pereo, was it not?" He nodded his head violently. "It was you who showed me the gallant caballeros, the Pachecos, the Castros, the Alvarados, the Estudillos, the Peraltas, the Vallejos." His head kept time with each name as the fire dimmed in his wet eyes.
The old culprit fell on his knees, and trembling violently, prayed Cayley for the love of the Virgin to spare him. 'One moment, CABALLEROS, he cried, 'I will give you all I possess. But I am poor, very poor, and I have a sick wife at the disposition of your worships. 'Wherefore art thou fumbling at thy foot? Thou carriest not thy wife in thy shoe?
She was surrounded at one time by caballeros, but she whirled and doubled so swiftly that every cascaron flew afield. The pelting grew faster and more furious; every room was invaded; we chased each other up and down the corridors. The people in the court had their cascarones also, and the noise must have been heard at the Mission.
Two hours later he returned to the hotel. He glanced in at the open door of the little combined reception room and cafe. Half a dozen of Macuto's representative social and official caballeros were distributed about the room. Senor Villablanca, the wealthy rubber concessionist, reposed his fat figure on two chairs, with an emollient smile beaming upon his chocolate-coloured face.
"The muchacha for she was but that had just returned from the convent at San Jose, where she had been for four years. Ah! what would you? The fonda was no place for the child, who should know only the litany of the Virgin and they had kept her there. And now that she was home again she cared only for the horse. From morning to night! Caballeros might come and go!
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