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"Ah, but I fear the woman Nina Micheltoreña I fear her terribly. She is close at hand knowing all, angry with you, and jealous and still loving you." "Loving me? Oh, no, Jose! Nina, like you, loves the spoils, not me. No, I raid on . . ." A silence fell upon the two men, which was broken by Sonora calling out: "Bring along the greaser, Dep!" "All right!" answered the loud voice of the Deputy.
Next, he had the unhappy task of taking down the American flag and replacing it with the cactus and eagle banner of Mexico, to which the guns of his vessels gave a salute of honor. From Monterey he sailed away to San Pedro. There he waited while he sent a messenger to Governor Micheltorena, who was living in Los Angeles, asking permission to call upon him and apologize in person.
Unfortunately, however, in one of his weak moments, he had foolishly permitted himself to become entangled with a Mexican woman Nina Micheltoreña, by name whose jealous nature now threatened to prove a serious handicap to him. It was a particularly awkward situation in which he found himself placed, inasmuch as this woman had furnished him with much valuable information.
Good blood ran in the veins of Nina Micheltoreña. It is not in the province of this story to tell how it was that a favourite in the best circles of Monterey came to be living in a Mexican camp in the Sierras. Suffice it to say that her fall from grace had been rapid, though her dissolute career had in no way diminished her beauty.
The case was presented strongly, the evidence overwhelming on our side, but we happened to be fighting previous decisions of the Land Commission that had brought them into trouble; so that if Micheltorena had himself appeared in Court and testified to his giving you the grant, it would have made no difference, no Spanish grant had a show then, nor will it have for the next six months.
Miguel was not so much in love but he perceived the drift of Victor's suggestion, and remarked that the rubric of Governor Micheltorena was exceedingly complicated and difficult. "She shall do it!" responded Victor, with decision.
We do not wish to be drafted." The priest's brow relaxed. The padres had little respect for a system that owed its existence mainly to the vanity of governors and generals, and the present governor, Micheltorena, had by no means won the approval of the Church. "You are welcome, my sons," he said.
"No strangers are allowed in this camp," he said, glowering at Johnson; and then, his remark having passed unheeded by the other, he sneered: "Perhaps you're off the road; men often get mixed up when they're visiting Nina Micheltoreña on the back trail." "Oh, Rance!" protested the Girl.
On March 29, 1843, Governor Micheltorena issued a decree which restored San Diego Mission temporalities to the management of the padre. He explained in his prelude that the decree was owing to the fact that the Mission establishments had been reduced to the mere space occupied by the buildings and orchards, that the padres had no support but that of charity, etc.
On a table in front of him was a bottle, for it was a part of Ashby's scheme of things to solace thus all such weary hours. Although a shrewd judge of women of the Nina Micheltoreña type and by no means unmindful of their mercurial temperament, Ashby, nevertheless, had felt that she would keep her appointment with him.
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