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So Santan's suit seemed promising for a time. But the Hopi type ran true in her, and she put off the Apache year after year. It is a strange case in Indian romance, but romance everywhere is strange enough. The Apache type also ran true to dogged purpose. Besides being an Apache, Santan has some Ramero blood in his veins, to be accounted for in the persistence of an evil will.
Ferdinand Ramero sprang up, the blaze of passion, uncontrolled through all his years, bursting forth in the tragedy of the hour. Eloise was right. In his anger he was a maniac. "You dare to threaten me! You pen me in a corner to stab me to death! You hold disgrace and miserable poverty over my head, and cant of restoration and repentance!
I have known them to do the most cold-blooded deeds." Poor Eloise! The net about her had been skilfully drawn. "I don't know Father Josef's motive, but I can trust him. And no shadow shall trouble you long, Little Lees. Jondo and Uncle Esmond tote together, Aunty Boone said long ago. They know something about the Ramero blood, and Jondo has promised to tell me his story some day.
"It is another cruel act in the old tragedy of Ramero against Clarenden and others." "Will the Church be bribed by the St. Vrain estate and urge this wedding?" I asked. "The Church considers money as so much power for the Kingdom. I have heard that the St.
And looking back to-day it seems that, of the many times I walked the long miles of that old Santa Fe Trail, no journey over it stands out quite so clear-cut in my memory as the home trip after I had watched the going away of Eloise, and witnessed the flight of Ferdinand Ramero, and listened to the story of Jondo's life.
One of the same Clarenden family is ready to be your friend now," I said, tenderly, remembering keenly how Uncle Esmond and Jondo had loved and protected three orphan children. "The Rameros think nobody but a Ramero can do that now. Marcos is very much changed. He has been educated in Europe, is handsome, and courtly in his manners, and as his father's heir he will be wealthy.
"And never have to fight Marcos any more? Oh, good, good, good! Let's go now!" She frowned darkly at Ferdinand Ramero, and, clutching tightly at Esmond Clarenden's hands, she began pulling him toward the open door. "Eloise," Father Josef said, "you are about to go away with this good man who will be a father to you. Be a good child as your mother would want you to be."
The priest's tall form rose up on a great mass of rock across the cleft before us Father Josef with bared head and flashing eyes and a physique of power. Ferdinand Ramero turned like a lion at bay. "You are one man. My force number a full dozen. Move on," he ordered. Again the voice of Father Josef ruled the listening ears.
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