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For a moment the eyelids fluttered weakly; then they opened slowly and the eyes smiled. "It was fine!" he said, almost in a whisper. "Fine! Say, bring him again to-morrow, will you?" Blue Bonnet promised, and as she mounted Chula a few minutes later, a weak voice called: "To-morrow! Don't forget you promised!"
Altogether, thanks to the efforts of Mabel and her influence upon a certain invisible person whose identity changed often but who was always to be identified as the "help," things were much better at the Commonwealth than one had a right to expect in a town the size of Chula Vista. Compared to Conejo, it was like entering into the promised land.
Citrus fruits, as the orange and lemon are called, do well in all the southern counties, and San Diego County boasts of not only the largest lemon grove in California, but in the world. This is a thousand-acre tract overlooking San Diego Bay and cultivated by the Chula Vista colony. It was once a pasture given up to wandering bands of cattle and sheep.
Do you remember, Elizabeth wore her hair that way when she first began putting it up? The child grows to be more of a Clyde every day." "We're going out to see Chula," Blue Bonnet announced, coming back after she had put her things away. "Chula? Why, dear, didn't Aunt Lucinda write you that Chula is out at pasture? She was eating her head off in the barn, and with no one to exercise her "
Someone muttered a prayer in a foreign tongue: "... Nuestra Dama de Guadalupe te pido, por favor... Tengo miedo I'm scared... Pero pienso mas en ella I think more of her. Mi chula, mi linda... My beautiful Eileen... Keep her " The prayer broke off, as if a switch was turned. It had been brash Ramos... Now there were only some fragments of harmonica music...
I only know that I let her get away from me once, and, selfish brute that I am, I'm going to tie her to me now while she's in the humor." Not far from the Mexican border lies the town of Chula Vista, New Mexico.
"P. S. Please tell Alec that Aunt Lucinda has promised to look after the General and Solomon when I'm gone. I am going to miss Chula awfully, but there is a riding-school where Miss North lets the girls get horses and ride with a teacher. "P. S. Miss North seems very nice, but you never can tell how people are going to be until you live with them, I hope for the best.
It took a moment or two for the rest of the party to grasp the fact that Chula, gentle, docile Chula, was in earnest; that she was really running away. There was a shriek from Debby, which did not help matters in the least, and a horrified groan from the rest of the We Are Sevens.
"Would you like to see my pony?" Gabriel's eyes brightened. "Bet yer!" he said. "Could I get on him?" "Maybe. I'll see." "Can you get him now?" "I reckon I could yes." She was back in a short time on Chula; Knight Judson with her on Victor. They hitched the horses round at the back of the little house so that Gabriel might get a good view of them. "Gee! Oh, I wish Couldn't I get on one of 'em?
But in the morning Alec arrived with Knight Judson, and in the rush of things Chula was again neglected. It was the third morning after Blue Bonnet's arrival that Chula was at last brought round to the side door. There was to be a riding party; a scamper through the woods with lunch in the hills afterward.
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