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I have never been afraid of you; why should I be?" And Barbara thought that she spoke truly that she had never feared him; though Jefferson Worth knew better. So another tent house was built and Texas went alone to Kingston, to return with Ynez as Barbara had planned, and the young woman set about making a home for her father in the rude desert camp.
In the Salinas Valley, along the "Camino real," or royal highway, from the south to the north, were built Nuestra Señora de la Soledad and San Miguel Arcángel. A day's journey from Carmelo, in the valley of the Pájaro, arose San Juan Bautista. In the charming valley of Santa Ynez, still hidden from the tourist, a day's journey apart, were Santa Ynez and La Purisima Concepcion.
Polly Oliver's love of beautiful things was a passion, and one that had little gratification; but luckily, though good music, pictures, china, furniture, and "purple and fine linen" were all conspicuous by their absence, she could feast without money and without price on the changeful loveliness of the Santa Ynez mountains, the sapphire tints of the placid Pacific, and the gorgeous splendor of the Californian wild-flowers, so that her sense of beauty never starved.
Our only New-England acquaintances at Santa Barbara had evidently modified very much their ideas of living. We found them with bare floors; a great bunch of pampas grass, and a guitar hanging against the wall, in true Spanish fashion; the room being otherwise mostly empty. We had on one side the dark Santa Ynez Mountains, and on the other the sea.
Worth expected to be back two days ago and he is always on time, you know, Ynez." "Si, Senora. But mebbe so this one time different" "I do wish they would -Look, Ynez, look! There's some one stopping!" A carriage was turning in toward the house. "It is Senor Worth," said the Indian woman. "Someone is with him, Ynez. They have a child."
I know you have had nothing to eat since morning and you are all tired out. Ynez is away, but I will find something for you and you can rest here until father comes." Pablo retreated and Barbara rising, said: "You will excuse me, Mr. Blanton." "Are you going to let that greaser spoil our afternoon?" he asked in a tone of offended majesty. The girl laughed outright.
Do you mean pieces-of-eight and Spanish doubloons?" "Oh, no, I am afraid not. It would be bullion ore. They took it from one of the Fiske, Doane Co. mines in Chihuahua. That is why your brother would be interested. Perhaps you have heard of the Sant Ynez mine?" "Bullion!" Polly's face dropped.
Then as a sudden possible explanation came to her mind "Abe, has Uncle Tex Is he in trouble?" The surveyor smiled at her words. "It's nothing like that, Barbara. Tex is all right. But I don't think that you should be left alone here with only Ynez just now. Pat is at the power house and I must be at the ice plant, and Tex " He checked himself in alarm.
Her cheeks turned a deeper red and he felt her fingers tremble as she went on with her task. "If you laugh at me I shall turn you over to Ynez," she threatened, at which he promised so pitifully to be good that she smiled and he stirred again impatiently. "I am hurting you!" she cried. "I'm so sorry, but I'm almost through There now."
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