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Updated: June 4, 2025
That night we slept on piles of wheat in a mill at Soquel, near Santa Cruz, and, our supplies being short, I advised that we should make an early start next morning, so as to reach the ranch of Don Juan Antonio Vallejo, a particular friend, who had a large and valuable cattle-ranch on the Pajaro River, about twenty miles on our way to Monterey.
In the Salinas Valley, along the "Camino real," or royal highway, from the south to the north, were built Nuestra Señora de la Soledad and San Miguel Arcángel. A day's journey from Carmelo, in the valley of the Pájaro, arose San Juan Bautista. In the charming valley of Santa Ynez, still hidden from the tourist, a day's journey apart, were Santa Ynez and La Purisima Concepcion.
Accordingly, we were off by the first light of day, and by nine o'clock we had reached the ranch. It was on a high point of the plateau, overlooking the plain of the Pajaro, on which were grazing numbers of horses and cattle.
"Oh, Rufus," she cried, "why didn't you send it to me?" "Is it good?" asked Hardy, forgetting his pose; and when she nodded solemnly he said: "There is another verse look on the other side." Lucy turned the paper over quickly and read again: "Pajaro Corazon! Bird of the Heart!
It was a slip of yellow note paper, checked along the margin with groups of rhyming words and scansion marks, and in the middle this single verse. "Pajaro Corazon! Bird of the Heart!
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