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Updated: June 25, 2025
"It is important that thou shouldst refresh thy memory for a moment. Look back fourteen years, mother; it is but yesterday to thee. Thou dost remember the baby a little muchacha thou broughtest me then fourteen years ago?" The old woman's eyes became intelligent, and turned with a quick look towards the open door of the church, and thence towards the choir. The Padre made a motion of irritation.
"MUCHACHA!" he exclaimed deprecatingly. Dr. Archie stuck a thermometer into his mouth. "Now, Thea, you can run outside and wait for me." Thea slipped noiselessly through the dark house and joined Mrs. Tellamantez. The somber Mexican woman did not seem inclined to talk, but her nod was friendly. Thea sat down on the warm sand, her back to the moon, facing Mrs.
With only a blind instinct of some dreadful sacrilege in this act, Father Pedro would have rushed forward, when the girl's voice struck his ear. He stopped, breathless. It was not Francisco, but Juanita, the little mestiza. "But are you sure you are not pretending to love me now, as you pretended to think I was the muchacha you had run away with and lost?
Ever since the arrival of Walt Wilder in the valley he has been watching the movements of the latter. Not without observing that between the great Texan hunter and the little Mexican muchacha there has sprung up an attachment of a suspicious nature.
The impresor had been ravished at the sight of a beautiful girl a mere muchacha yet of a beauty that deprived the senses this angel clearly the daughter of his friend! Here was the old miracle of the orange in full fruition and the lovely fragrant blossom all on the same tree at the fonda. And this had been kept from him! "Yes, it was but a thing of yesterday," said the senora, obviously pleased.
Down in the hot country, MUCHACHA," turning to Thea, "people keep a pet snake in the house to kill rats and mice. They call him the house snake. They keep a little mat for him by the fire, and at night he curl up there and sit with the family, just as friendly!" Gunner sniffed with disgust. "Well, I think that's a dirty Mexican way to keep house; so there!" Johnny shrugged his shoulders.
The Lieutenant took the trouble further to convince the trio of my total ignorance of Spanish by a distinct and elaborate explanation, in English, of the difference between the words "muchacho" and "muchacha." Then we wandered down past the grimy steerage station to the shore end of the little wharf to await the doctor and our proteges.
His two supporters were the brothers of my muchacha, who lived in the same yard and who evidently had convictions about standing by a comrade in misfortune.
Señora Bayot translated and the child told the same story as had his sister. The Justice of the Peace issued an order for the step-father to report to him on the next day. That night my muchacha told me that her step-father had threatened to kill the child if he did not tell the Justice that he got the hurt by falling out of an orange tree.
"And the board-money?" she exclaimed, with instant eagerness. "I guess it'll be all right. Mr. Keene said he'd send it every month." The señora's eyes narrowed. "He said so! Ay, but who can say he shall remember? There are eight chickens to eat of our meal already. No, Mees Combs! The muchacha was left to you. It is a charge very sacred. Ave Maria! yes!" Jane had closed the gate.
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