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Upon her sedate back he arrived at Sobrante, just as the sun was setting, and found that the household had temporarily forgotten their grief for Pedro in their rejoicing over Ephraim. "It's an up and a down in this world," quoth Aunt Sally, spreading and admiring the brilliant bits of calico which "Forty-niner" had given her. "Life ain't all catnip anyway you stew it.
Everybody at Sobrante knew the deep devotion of Lady Jess to her widowed mother, and the thoughtfulness with which she always sought to prevent her loved one's "worrying," and all realized that there might be something seriously amiss in this protracted, unexplained absence.
He had loved and revered her, ever since she came a bride to Sobrante, and had tended him through a scourge of smallpox, unafraid and unscathed. Though she was a woman, the sex of whose intelligence he had small opinion, he had regarded her as an exception, and his disappointment was great. "Is it but a 'thank you, si? Does not the senorita know what this gift means?"
Well, John, will you act escort for the little lady of Sobrante?" asked its mistress. "Will I not? And do me proud. She ain't to be trusted with any of the flighty ones, Samson now, or " Mrs.
I've outgrown spankin' though I'd be most willin' to submit if 'twould be any relief to your feelin's, or mine either. I tell you this here's the greatest day ever shone on Sobrante Ranch, not barrin' even the one when the 'captain' came home with the title in her hand." "You misguided boy, don't I know it?
Why, friend, you would better leave that till one the boys rides up for the mail. Due before this, indeed, for Sobrante ranchers are ever keen for their post stuff. No? A horse, then? Aleck was going to do a bit of plowing with her, later on, but he'll eagerly give over that for you."
Prince stood looking on, unmoved. He was not Sobrante raised and seemed to feel it; or so Jessica fancied, as she left off petting Nimrod and passed to Prince's side, to stroke his head also, and to murmur words of praise for good behavior in bringing Ephraim safely home. Then "Forty-niner" led the beast away, while Jessica sped after Ninian, who had been greeted almost grasped by Aunt Sally.
I can't imagine what Sobrante would be without her, and yet " She paused and "Forty-niner" took up her sentence: "It wouldn't be Sobrante, mistress. That's all. I, for one, couldn't stay here and serve under any other body now except my captain;" and so saying, as if a shadow of the future fell upon him, the old man rose and went out, quite forgetting to say good-night.
Sharp at last; and its import was that: "If you're willing to use your brains for Sobrante folks, as you used them once before, now's the time. There'll be a led horse at Marion till you come, and the sooner the better. 'Forty-niner." "A led horse. Why, he must have forgotten, if he ever knew, that I've my own Nimrod here, that Mrs. Trent insisted upon my accepting, when I left Sobrante before.
Come now, and share our rejoicing over that greater good that you have brought to Sobrante the salvation of its little captain. For that for that I have not even the 'thank you'; my feeling is too deep." Though he showed it little, the old man was almost as moved as she, and he followed her as proudly as if he were the "king" his fellow ranchmen called him.
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