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Updated: June 8, 2025
Did they know where Alessandro had married this wife of his, of whom every word they spoke seemed both like and unlike Ramona? Yes. It was in San Diego they had been married, by Father Gaspara.
"Take me home with you to your house," said Felipe, still trembling with excitement; "we cannot talk here in the street. I want to hear all you can tell me about them. I have been searching for them all over California." Jos's face lighted up. This meant good fortune for that gentle, sweet Ramona, he was sure. "I'll take you straight there," he said; "but first I must stop at Tom's.
"The gladness of it came to me long ago, my Senorita," he said. "I knew it!" "How?" cried Ramona. "And you never told me, Alessandro!" "How could I?" he replied. "I dared not. Juan Canito, it was told me." "Juan Canito!" said Ramona, musingly. "How could he have known?" Then in a few rapid words she told Alessandro all that the Senora had told her. "Is that what Juan Can said?" she asked.
Not in all the California herds could be found two superber horses than Benito and Baba. A wild, almost reckless joy took possession of Alessandro. Ramona was half terrified as she heard him still talking, talking to Benito. For an hour they did not draw rein. Both Benito and Alessandro knew every inch of the ground.
He could give no further information as to the location of the Ramona, providing the steamer still was afloat. And he would only be an added, and comparatively useless, passenger. He was not exactly the sort of personage one would desire in the rather cramped quarters of the Tartar, though he was kind and obliging.
"He will like to see it when he wakes," she said. The Senora seized it, and flung it far out in the room. "Take it away! Flowers are poison when one is ill," she said coldly. "Have I never told you that?" "No, Senora," replied Ramona, meekly; and she glanced involuntarily at the saucer of musk which the Senora kept on the table close to Felipe's pillow.
"Yes," she said; "I heard the Senora talking about it with Felipe, some days ago." "Was she against my staying?" asked Alessandro, quickly. "I think not," said Ramona, "but I am not sure. It is not easy to be sure what the Senora wishes, till afterward. It was Felipe that proposed it."
"They didn't mind the papers the Senora had for all that land of hers they took away," said Ramona, thoughtfully. "But Felipe said that was because Pio Pico was a bad man, and gave away lands he had no right to give away." "That's just it," said Alessandro. "Can't they say that same thing about any governor, especially if he has given lands to us?
Then, turning to his mother, "Ramona cannot come. She is not in the house. She has a duty to perform for to-morrow," he said; and he looked meaningly at his mother, adding, "we will not wait for her." Much bewildered, the Senora took her seat at the head of the table in a mechanical way, and began, "But " Felipe, seeing that questions were to follow, interrupted her: "I have just spoken with her.
This was the reason Felipe had selected it as the safest spot for his talk with Alessandro. When Ramona reached the end of the trellised walk in the garden, she halted and looked to the right and left. No one was in sight.
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