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As Captain Carroll urged his horse along the miry road to La Mision Perdida, he was struck with certain changes in the landscape before him other than those wrought by the winter rains.
It was I, Pereo, who warned your mother that each time he trod the soil of La Mision Perdida he measured the land he could take away!" He stopped pantingly, with the insane abstraction of a fixed idea glittering in his eyes. "And it was YOU, Pereo," she said, caressingly, laying her soft hand on his heaving breast, "YOU who carried me in your arms when I was a child.
But that isn't the reason of my calling it a bola perdida." "Why, then, Caspar?" asks Ludwig, with the hereditary instincts of the savant, like his father, curious about all such things. "Why do you call it a lost ball?" "Because that's the name we gauchos give it, and the name by which it is known among those who make use of it these Chaco Indians." "And pray, what do they use it for?
"What is it, Gaspar?" simultaneously interrogate the two, as they see him so closely examining the thing he has picked up. At the same time they turn their horses' heads towards him. "Una bola perdida." "Ah! a ball the Indians have left behind lost, you mean." "No, senoritos; I don't mean that, exactly. Of course, the redskins have left it behind, and so lost it.
The bridal suite was placed at the disposal of the young ladies for a dressing-room. The attendant genii surpassed themselves. The evening dresses of Maruja, Amita, and the Misses Wilson, summoned by electricity from La Mision Perdida, and dispatched by the fleetest conveyances, were placed in the arms of their maids, smothered with bouquets, an hour before dinner.
There was one which puzzled me for a long time a sharp, pealing cry that ended in a wail of angry despair, and, rising high above all other sounds, impressed the spirit like the cry of that bird in the tropic forests which the terrified Spaniards called the alma perdida.
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