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Updated: June 20, 2025
Should you be so fortunate as to catch a glimpse of an aeroplane circling in the blue sky, you may risk a guess that the aviator is Andrea, in the government employ. You may even learn that he wears a medal ever about his neck and that sometimes he carries with him Chico as a mascot: sometimes, but not always, for little Pepita is sadly lonesome when her faithful mate is long away.
Andrea had to look twice to be sure he was not mistaken, perched upon his shoulder was CHICO! To be sure, his feathers were a little disheveled, for he had been too busy with Pepita and the fledglings to take time to preen them, but apparently he was unharmed by the perils through which he had passed, and there was as saucy a tilt to his as ever. "Urra!
Yes, he repeated, it was his duty; to parley with the Apaches was a most dangerous enterprise; he did not feel at liberty to order any other to undertake it. Finding Coronado, he said to him, "I am going down to ransom Pepita. You know the Indians better than I do. How many people shall I take?" A gleam of satisfaction shot across the dark face of the Mexican as he replied, "Go alone."
"They talk too much of him," she answered, "and he is too vain. He thinks all women are in love with him, and that if a girl comes from the country she knows nothing, and will die of love if she only sees him." "I did not know that," said José, staring. "I never heard them say so. They call him a fine fellow." "I never heard them say so," Pepita answered scornfully; "but I know it.
"That court is absolutely swept and dusted. One might give a ball there. I should like to hear Lucretia Mott speak in it." Her reflections were interrupted by the courteous gestures of a middle-aged, dignified Moqui, who was apparently inviting the party to enter one of the dwellings. Pepita and the other two Indian women, with the wounded muleteers, were taken to another house.
"At three o'clock I roused myself and soon after the old woman came into the room with some lemonade. I observed that Pepita changed color, but she said nothing, and a moment after, making some excuse, she left the room. I was about to speak to Rube on the subject, when the window was darkened with men, Five or six shots were fired at us, and with a yell a crowd of Mexicans rushed into the room.
His uncle had been counted a rich man among his neighbors, but when his sister and her husband died and left the two children, José and Pepita, penniless, and with no protector save himself and their grandmother, already an old woman, it was upon the grandmother that the burden fell, for he did nothing for them except to give them, grudgingly now and then, a few poor vegetables or a little fallen fruit.
Only Pepita sat without color or applause only Pepita's fan was motionless amidst all the fluttering though her breast moved up and down, and the throbbing in her side was like the beating of a hammer. She was speaking to herself, though her lips were closed; she was speaking to Sebastiano. "He will look soon," she was saying. "He will look as he did that first day. My eyes will make him look.
Yet she had been to Adelaide all that the best and most affectionate kind of English mother can be, while Pepita had been a savage, now cruel and now fond; one day making her teeth meet in her child's arm, another day stifling her with caresses; treating her by times as a woman, by times as a toy, and never conscientious or judicious.
It had been a great undertaking for him in the first place, for he was a slow fellow José; slow as he was dull and kind and faithful to Pepita and the grandmother. He had a body as big as an ox, and a heart as big as his body, but he was slow and dull in everything but one thing that was his carpenter work.
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