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Updated: June 17, 2025
In an hour he was away to windward as far as you could see, and his pursuer and the Josefa were once more at anchor in Port Royal. That evening I returned to the dockyard, where I found every thing going on with Lotus Leaf as I could wish.
She hopes to hear something from her." "Good Antonio," said Carlos, dropping a piece of money into the other's hand, "give this to Josefa tell her to be active. Our hopes rest entirely with her." "Don't fear, master!" replied the half-blood. "Josefa will do her best, for the reason that," smiling, "her hopes, I believe, rest entirely upon me."
The peon was busy with his oxen, but the poblana's face wore an expression of curiosity. "Like whom, Senorita?" innocently inquired she. "One whom I know. No matter, Josefa." And, as the lady said this, she raised her finger to her lips, and looked significantly towards the peon. Josefa, who knew her secret, and who guessed the "one" meant, remained silent.
Two young ladies or women of Puebla, introduced by Señor , came to proffer their services in giving me all the necessary particulars, and dressed the hair of Josefa, a little Mexican girl, to show me how it should be arranged; mentioned several things still wanting, and told me that every one was much pleased at the idea of my going in a Poblana dress.
The last salutation was uttered hurriedly; and, as the lady pronounced it, she wheeled her glossy mustang and galloped back towards the town. She need not have doubted that Josefa would fulfil her instructions about "remaining below until the morning!" for the poblana was nearly, if not quite, as much interested as herself in this journey.
Silently we moved on through the darkness, Kanimapo and Gerald leading the way, and I bringing up the rear, while my father and our two attendants walked by the side of our mother and Norah, with Josefa and the children. Morning dawned as we were travelling along the side of the lake, between which was some forest which would conceal us from the view of any persons on the higher ground.
After a moment the lady drew her mustang nearer the carreta, upon the side on which Josefa sat, and, bending over, whispered to the latter: "Remain below till the morning; you will be too late to return to-night. Remain! perhaps you may hear something. Come early not to the house. Be in time for oration. You will find me in the church. Perhaps you may see Antonio. If so, give him this."
I felt sure that he must be my youngest brother, the baby, as he was called, whom I had never seen, and that the woman must be our nurse, Josefa. She gazed at me, doubting whether the tall young man she saw approaching could be the little boy who had gone away but a few years before.
I had seldom seen a vessel so weatherly before. In an hour more, she was abreast of the town, and abeam of the Josefa, who, from being cooped up in the narrow inner channel, had, ever since the sea breeze set down, been bothering with short tacks, about, and about, every minute.
A diamond set in a golden circlet sparkled a moment at the tips of the lady's fingers, and then lay hid in the shut fist of the poblana. "Tell him for whom he need not know who sent it. There is money for your expenses, and some to give her; or give it to her mother, if they will accept it." Here a purse fell in Josefa's lap. "Bring me news! oh, bring me news, dear Josefa! Adios! adios!"
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