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Updated: June 1, 2025


"And you will lend them to me?" cried Eulogia, forgetting her coquetry, "I want to read them." "Aha! Those cool eyes can flash. That even little voice can break in two. By the holy Evangelists, señorita, thou shalt have every book I possess." "Will the Señorita Doña Eulogia favour us with a song?" Don Carmelo was bowing before her, a guitar in his hand, his wrathful eyes fixed upon Don Pablo.

"Ebbene! chi sa!" he replied, with a gay little shrug of his shoulders, yet with a sudden tenderness in his keen eyes that did not escape me. "There is a maiden my mother loves her well she is little and fair as Carmelo Neri's Teresa so high," and he laid his brown hand lightly on his breast, "her head touches just here," and he laughed.

At Santa Clara, the decorations of the ceiling were restored as nearly like the original as possible, but with modern colors and workmanship. At Pala Chapel the priest whitewashed the mural distemper paintings out of existence. A small patch remains at San Juan Bautista merely as an example; while a splashed and almost obliterated fragment is the only survival at San Carlos Carmelo.

Just God! what had Carmelo Neri done to deserve the priceless jewel of a true woman's heart? what had I done to merit such foul deception as that which I was now called upon to avenge? Suddenly I thought of my child. Her memory came upon me like a ray of light I had almost forgotten her.

We had scarcely run into harbor when a small party of officers and gendarmes, heavily laden with pistols and carbines, came on board and showed a document authorizing them to search the brig for Carmelo Neri.

He came close up to the brigand and spoke carelessly, with a slightly mocking smile playing round the corners of his mouth. "Ebbene!" he said, "you are caught at last, Carmelo! You called me here I am. What do you want with me, rascal?" Neri uttered a ferocious curse between his teeth, and looked for an instant like a wild beast ready to spring.

Three days of carnival followed, but on the second day Governor Sola withdrew from the festivities, made the Stations of the Cross which the fathers had erected between Monterey and Carmelo, and on reaching San Carlos of Carmelo was shown to the tombs of Junipero Serra, Juan Crespi and Francisco de Laseun. Here the Governor knelt and remained long in prayer.

My wife, entirely absorbed in counting over Carmelo Neri's treasures, apparently saw and heard nothing. Suddenly she broke into another laugh a chuckling, mirthless laugh such as might come from the lips of the aged and senile. The sound curdled the blood in my veins it was the laugh of a mad-woman! With an earnest, distinct voice I called to her: "Nina! Nina!"

The mission in Carmelo was not completed until later, as the Padre was obliged to secure authority from Mexico, that he might place it on the pasture lands of Carmelo, instead of the sand-hills of Monterey. When the discoveries of Portolá and Ortega had been reported at San Diego, the shores of this inland sea of San Francisco seemed a most favorable station for another mission.

To think of a little woman like that with such a devil in her! It is her boast that no man, save Carmelo, has ever touched so much as a ringlet of her hair. Ay; she is true to him more's the pity." "Why you would not have her false?" I asked. "Nay, nay for a false woman deserves death but still it is a pity Teresa should have fixed her love on Carmelo. Such a man!

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