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Demorest, uneasily observant of the influence of the giddy foreigner on his wife, and conscious of certain confidences between them from which he was excluded, leaned against a pillar of the porch in half abstracted resignation; Joan, under the tutelage of Rosita, lit a cigarette; Demorest gazed at her wonderingly, trying to recall, in her fuller and more animated face, some memory of the pale, refined profile of the Puritan girl he had first met in the Boston train, the faint aurora of whose cheek in that northern clime seemed to come and go with his words.
I would not trouble you before, until I ascertained the object of these visits. It is quite plain to me now that Dona Rosita is that object, and that communications are secretly carried on between her and some unknown stranger. He has been here once or twice before; he was here again yesterday. Ezekiel saw him and saw her." "Together?" asked Mrs. Demorest, sharply.
"The thing is so utterably unreasonable," she resumed, more calmly. "Why did they let you start if they proposed afterward to hang a sword above your head?" "The Board was ignorant of this law, as was everybody else, until it was brought to light by the applicant for cancellation," said Lee, "a certain Rodriguez, of Rosita." "Who is he?" Bryant shook his head. "Don't ask me.
I know why you consented to close down La Rosita for the present; I know your connection with this gang of crooks from New York; I know that Fred Cavendish was not murdered, but is being held a prisoner somewhere, until Enright, here, can steal his money under some legal form. I know you have claimed, and been promised, your share of the swag isn't that true?"
Rosita could just see his plumed hat, and below it his face, but she knew the face at once. It was that of the officer who on the day of San Juan had ogled her so rudely. She knew he was the Comandante Vizcarra. The officer, from his position, had a full view of the girl as she stood in the little enclosure of flowers.
And what a surprise he had for them in another way! His wonderful luck! The superb mulada and cargo, quite a little fortune indeed! Rosita should have a new dress, not a coarse woollen nagua, but one of silk, real foreign silk, and a manta, and the prettiest pair of satin slippers she should wear fine stockings on future fiesta days she should be worthy of his friend Don Juan.
Presently, however, he was amused by perceiving that his father not merely regarded it as a relief from an embarrassing charge, but as an entire acquittal for his own conscience for any slanders he had formerly believed of Dona Rosita. 'Can you excuse it, father? he said, with all the old debonnaire manner. 'You will never be a rich man, Louis.
Then Joaquin Murieta rode back with the survivors to Arroyo Cantoova; and if Rosita, who had been sent with the other women to the rendezvous early in the summer, felt her heart leap when she saw her lover coming, she soon felt it sink again, for he spent but few moments in her company. Horses and gold and his large plan to sweep like fire through California these were the only thoughts he had.
"Let Rosita to her loom, and weave rebosos that's what she's fit for. You, my son, can do great things deeds, ay, deeds; else have you not in your veins the blood of your father. He did deeds he ha! ha! ha!" The strange laugh caused the spectators to start, accompanied, as it was, with the wild look of her who uttered it.
"Wait, you don't know all, my son. He plans to build a dam and a canal and use that old water right out of the Pinas, taking the water with which we irrigate the farms down at Rosita.
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