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Updated: June 17, 2025
Castro, when taken to task, had replied haughtily that it was the Governor's place to look after his own dignity; he, the Commandante-General of the army of the Californias, had more important matters to attend to. The result had been a furious war of words, ending in a lame peace. "Tell us, Excellency," said José Abrigo, "what will be the outcome?"
Four vaqueros in black velvet small-clothes trimmed with silver, spotless linen, and stiff glazed black sombreros, walked up and down, leading the impatient mustangs. Two of these horses were a beautiful bronze-gold in colour, with silver manes and tails, a breed peculiar to the Californias; one was black, the other as white as crystal.
But when Mexico shall have given up the Californias, which there seems every probability of her being compelled to do, or to see them overrun by the active emigration from the United States, the impulse will be still more rapid, powerful, and extensive. We look upon the whole series of these coasts as all indication of some striking advance prepared for the general family of man.
Certainly there was the plain announcement among the arrivals of "His Excellency Paul Hathaway, Lord Lieutenant-Governor of the Californias." A light flashed upon him. "This is George's work. He and Colonel Pendleton were here with me last night." "Then you have seen the colonel already?" she said, with a scarcely perceptible alteration of expression, which, however, struck Paul. "Yes.
It is flight once more to Los Angeles. We will stay there where he would not dare touch us if he came until he repents or makes sure that we will have told if we intend to tell. Will you come?" "Will I? I would go to Mexico if I could. I feel that there is not room in the Californias for those hands and myself."
Our women will marry Americans, respect for men who are men will overcome prejudice, the crossed blood will fight for a generation or two, then a race will be born worthy of California. Why are our few great men so very great to us? What have men of exceptional talent to fight down in the Californias except the barriers to its development?
One day he went to Padre Arroyo and told him that Pilar was the prettiest girl behind the wall the prettiest girl in all the Californias and that she should be his wife. But the kind stern old padre shook his head. "You are both too young. Wait another year, my son, and if thou art still in the same mind, thou shalt have her."
Do you understand? and you go with me. We will dodge these servants of a tyrant government the length and breadth of the Californias. When the danger is over for this year we will return not before. Now, you will ask me to go to my room as soon as possible after you have given me some supper, for I am tired and want sleep. You also will take a nap.
The governor motioned to the nurse to follow Chonita and myself, and she trotted after us, her ugly face beaming with pride of position. Was not in her arms the oldest-born of a new generation of Alvarados? the daughter of the governor of The Californias? Her smock, embroidered with silk, was new, and looked whiter than fog against her bare brown arms and face.
"Yes; of the North, thou knowest. His Excellency thinks there is no man in the Californias like him, so bold and so smart. Thou rememberest the books that were burned by the priests when the governor was a boy, because he had dared to read them, no?
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