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SANDY POST O u r W e e k lv A S e r ia l SI a r y “ It has been a marvelous day,” said La Perouse almost sadly. “ And a beautiful night, I hope tom orrow night w ill be as clear, fo r we wish to make some astrological observa tions before we sail. We w ill not dismantle the observatory u ntil the last moment.” Angustias, about to turn into the gate, heard him. “ So!” she murmured. “ Tom or row night he w ill be on the beach at his funny tent! Perhaps . . . ” And she whispered her hopes to herself. " I have never been insubordinate,” she muttered to herself. “ But his Excellency doesn’t know everything. Especially about a woman's heart,” she added grim ly. At the door of the palacio Don Pedro lifted Eulalia from his horse and carried her into the house. dreamed she could flee, unencum- bered by baggage or impedimenta to the w aiting arms of an impatient and potential lover, but here she was struggling w ith bulky bulgy 2 — 2 —. 2 ■ » _ A V @ irg r s B rs a r B tle a t rtle tt bundles of clothes, like a washer V in irg ia in S ia tiv S e tive W N V S ervice woman. A ll her lovely clothes! But then she thought w ith satisfaction, the iC H A P T E R X X — C ob “ But what can I do?” asked the these we have brought from South expedition would no doubt stop at k • r' A m erica.. So I w ill leave one sack Governor in dismay the F ilip in o Islands, and there, in to m o r r o w nighflltg^ie sibilated, with you, Pere Lasuen, for your M anila, a real capital, she could “ I want to ask your permission to ?t£ach . . . a( the iabdra- mission garden, and one for you, buy new raim ent. It would be bet give him to the Senor el Conde de If it unclear w í - J ^ b t » Monsieur le Gouverneur, for that £ja Perouse,” s'r^ said. “ He is go te r th a t way, fo r it was only too E^çbser. na ' of garden of yours of which you are ing to' sail from here to the tropics probable that her clothes, which she w a itin g for so justly proud!” had had fo r more than three years, I understand, where it is warm, and ».Aven if it is were demode, and in Manila she A lte r the Governor and his party a safe place for little monkeys to ÌWT-’ Can you hadHridden away from the mission, dwell. Chichi would become alive would find lovely things from Paris. when the Indians "had retired for and well there.” She was tumbling She lifte d the load to her head, V j^ h o y ld e r with a the flight, F ra y Lasuen sat in his and experimented with a few steps’ her words one over another in her ‘felr , . t'.itaT made him shiver. cell and wrote carefully in his jou r excitement. "And though it w ill Yes, she could do it. She looked “ Fear not! I w ill be there, pre- nal: at herself in her m irro r, and swayed break my heart, I must let him go. pared, starlight or lo g !” "This has been indeed a day ol there, her hands on her hips. In Tbe Indian games and dancing historical importance. This day the When el Conde reaches those trop ic isles, he can release Chichi, and the m irro r she saw the face of her CHAPTER X X II were over, but the program Fray potato has been introduced into Cal then . . . and then he w ill be happy baby, staring at her in amazement Lasuen had planned lo r the guests ifo rn ia .” and well. And he w ill perhaps for H astily she dropped the bundle So the next morning Eulalia went was to continue with .some of ,the /» - — ------ get his adoring Angustias and,” she about her preparations for depar and w hirled on the child. The baby’s old Spanish' danceif *aSbv a?W3ier CHAPTER XXI sniffed loudly, “ find him a little ture. Indian nurse came hurrying in after group began tripping to the music Tears of self-pity blinded her as her, and stooped to pick up the of pome guitars and a flageolet One As ceyalcatjpi of the.-Qover she packed. Lonely, insulated from child, but Eulalia stopped her. fiS ke sjo o d ^u t a.feoi^g v V the world in this most remote and “ W a it!” she cried. She sank to WoiiUMa * scorned the Indian nor^were mounting their horses to desolate of the King’s colonies, with her knees and held her arms out to dances of her people, but had taken return from the fiesta at Mission nothing to look forward to but more the baby enticingly. pains to learn those of the Span Carmelo, Dagelet stooped for Eu loneliness, as the years passed; per iards, and w julo .her face showed, lalia's foot to assist her into her “ Come, come to Mother, dar haps more children; and at last the lin g !” she cooed. stolid and indifferent as she saddle. Suddenly he was good-na final desc’ ition of being laid in the danced, her slim body was alive turedly jostled aside by Don Pedro, The baby only stared at Eulalia, who, in sign language, made known and graceful, supple as a Saving. Campo Santo of the Mission Car nonplussed by such behavior on the melo. That was her life. For she part of the lady who generally ig The others stopped dancing to ad to the young Frenchman that he was sure now nothing would ever nored her good-naturedly. m ire her, and she stood alone. When would take care of the lady. Then, V ’ happen to call Pedro Fages away she had finished there was a burst to E ulalia’s surprise, instead of seat “ D arling, please, my little dar ing her on her horse, he took her ' op applause led by the Governor". from California. There were no ling, come to Mother . , . won’t more troubles with the Franciscans, you?” "O le !” he called. "B ravo, nina! in his arms, and tossed her into his and El Gobernador served his King Viva la nina de los ojos negros! own saddle, swung him self up be The nurse stood stolidly by, a too well in this colony where few jealous w arm th in her dull eyes. Viva la m orena!” With a gallant hind her and said, “ I think I w ill A ' men wished to come and bury them A t last the baby, finger in mouth, gesture he threw his hat at her have you ride w ith me. chiquita. like selves to be recalled by the Crown. sidled to the nurse and buried her fe e t She picked it up gravely, and a little peasant girl, tired and Her jewels were already stored face in the woman’s skirts. after a slight hesitation put it on her sleepy, from the fa ir. Que no?” away in their case, and she was head, did another improm ptu pirou Eulalia tried to sit bolt upright E ulalia rose to her feet. sorting out her clothes. Weeping, ette, and stood with her hands pro to express her outraged dignity, but “ Take her out of here!” she de vocatively on her hips. and recounting her grievances to manded im periously. Don Pedro only pulled her closer herself, she filled a great leather The Governor half rose to go to and- there was nothing to do but The nurse hugged the child close her and claim the sombrero with lean against him. in the circle of chest, and as she sat on the lid to to her and hurried out of the room. an embrace as was the custom. But his arm, and be q uiet close it, a thought came that made “ There, you see?” said La Gob La Gobernadora, who was staring her gasp with dismay. She could ernadora to the Madonna who was On they rode, silent under the at the performance with, set jaw and stars, with pine-needles thick be never get this bulky thing to the sm iling sadly at her. “ You see? disapproving eyes, clutched him be neath the horses' hoofs, and startled ! beach. There was no safe way of She does not love me at all! She fore he could rise. sending it . . . she couldn’t carry never comes near me! She prefers night birds rustling among the trees "S it dow n!" she commanded. “ Do it. For a moment she sat there, that black Indian woman, and her at the disturbance. From some of not make a scene of yourself. Well then a beautiful idea came to her. fa th er! You see? I t w ill never make the Tiders came bursts of song, the don?, moza," she called in a high She would make a bundle of her the slightest difference to her wheth voice, with a chill .smile. “ Well twanging of a guitar. The horse I clothes, then she would dress in a er I stay here or not.” ambled quietly, for no one seemed ■ tforte. Indeed.4 The Governor sub peasant dress, like Indizuela, carry She paced back and forth the side« autom atically before he could in a hurry to break the spell of the "Tomorrow Night,” He Sibi the bundle on her head, and bare length of the d irt floor. night. Eulalia abandoned her dig protest, and " the Indian g irl, her lated, “ on the Beach.” footed, slip down to the beach in “ As fo r young Pedro, he never face asmolder, carried the hat to nity. nodded and dozed. the dusk, her face covered by a con La Perouse and Fages talked in j monkey wife! ’ she ended, her voice cealing rebozo. She m ight escape sees m e! He is w ith his father all him. presenting it with a contemp the tim e. He cares only for him. tuous gesture.. low tones. They spoke of La Pe- breaking on a high squeak. unnoticed, for Pedro Fages was and fo r his pony. W ill he miss me? La Perouse rose and stretched rouse's departure, and a little wist Fages saw the need for being sending loads of provisions as a Does he need me? No, of course not. Kirtfself delightedly. fu lly of his v is it in California. The firm. farewell present to his friends the Absurd! No one wants me, no one “ M agniflque!” he shouted across Frenchman had fallen under the No, Angustias. You must not French explorers, and many In d i needs me . . . I am going away the space to Fray Lasuen,' who was spell of the country so beloved of ask it Chictílha's" managed to live ans were being pressed into service. , . She cast herself on the bundle moying toward them wrth a pleased Pedro 'Fages, and would leave re here this long, and w ill not die un She giggled excitedly, hopped of clothes and wept. smile.. “ One of the most interest gretfully, he told his host. And the til his time comes. He would die from the chest, opened it and gath “ I am going away . . . and no ing performances I have ever seen! Governor had found a warm friend away from your loving care, I know ering as many things as she could, These Indians, whom I had thought in the genial little Frenchman, with one w ill care . . . I am going so The jungle is no place for him. Ana piled them into a heap, then tied so crude, so stupid, can really do his quaint Spanish, learned in the fa r . . . on the ocean! I will be besides. Conde de La Perouse has them in a blanket. She tried to lift things.’ can they not?” seasick, Oh. Dios m io !” She turned mountains of his native South of ! his hands so full of important mat- the bundle, but could not budge it tow ard the Madonna and held out “ Ah. Sehor el Conde.” replied the France, among the Basques. He priest, “ you must not underestimate would miss him when he was gone. f ters that it would not be fa ir to ask from the floor Sighing im patient her arms. my poor 'Children. Perhaps you Not since Junipero Serra s death him to do it. Think! He has two ly. she began discarding heavier “ Please, Our Lady of the Seas, would like to come through the es had there been anyone in California great ships for which he is responsi things, and at last had a weight that make the ocean smooth, please, oh, tablishment again, and see what with 'whom he felt such companion ble. and many men, and machinery she could lift. please!” and instruments, and plants, and She wept again as she discarded they have done?” he invited eager ship. A fte r a w hile she sat herself at a food „supplies, and ammunition, and the lovely gowns of brocade, vel ly A ll these things the two men made table to w rite a note to her hus • . . He stopped, for he realized La Peroftse protested hastily. vet, satin and lace. Eloping was band. known to each other, with few “ Non, non. tnon pere. I have a l words, as men speak, but of pro he was talking to himself, and An not so easy, after all. She had (TO BE CONTINUED) ready carefully examined the M is found meaning, then were silent. A l gustias was crying in her shawl. Yes, he was talking to himself, he sion San Carlos, you w ill remem though form al farewells would be bet1,' ancf have made notes about it made later, this was the real leave- suddenly was aware that he was all, and about you. Perhaps all Eu taking between them. Fages felt wishing that it was Don Pedro ¡ rope w ill some day read of this lit deeply the importance of the visit r ages who commanded the two tle place, and of your good works! of the French ships, the first for- ships, and the men, and was sail Game laws mean very little in tie musk deer to secure the musk N qw . I am leaving you a souvenir of eigners to visit California. And he ing away to find new worlds. China. In the more remote sec pod used only in the manufacture ol our v is it It is a m ill, a hand m ill wondered vaguely, what other peo , harshl-v - both to him- ' tions. where trapping is carried on perfumes, but more often than no! upon which to grind barley. There ple. and ships of how many othbf self and the weeping woman. extensively, the operators use it catches the female musk deer, No. Out of the question. I for- I by one woman can do the work of nations would vis it the shores of the bombs and poison to make their the tufted deer and other small wild bid you to ask him. mujer ” many. Instead of grinding the meal distant province “ Ships and peo catches although this form of hunt animals which are of little or no by hand on stones as I have seen ple and cities.' La Perouse had sa^í1vKUS,laS dnfted 3Way' sniffln* ing is forbidden by law, but there value. This trap is perhaps the them do here. 1 w ill have It sent predicted. Fages pondered So deep are no wardens to enforce the pro most b ru tal and wasteful in use. over tom orrow ,” Fage, bent h i, head again over was he in thought that he had not vision. notes a w rite r in the D etroit The more humane means em Lasuen began an exclamation of noticed Angustias riding close be the sleeping Eulalia There was a News. ployed in China is the deadfall, warm perfume from her relaxed pleasure and. gratitude “ And I side him. When she spoke out of body, and the weigh: of her s a S The Chinese hunter has many bru w hich is a heavy log raised from am leaving something, else, aussi. the darkness, he started. tal methods of capturing w ild ani the ground in such a way as to fall against him wa, delicious to his sometl^lryt for you. and for m y host “ On my word. Angustias. you al senses. mals which are just as injurious as 15 on the q u a rry when it releases a hts .Excellency. the Gouverneur. most frightened me " the steel-jawed spring traps used cleve rly set trigger. This is used Perhaps I am being presumptuous his shiP»' and men "A i. Senor," sniffled the woman, by his American and European col extensively in the Manchurian for in thinking there Is anything you “ forgive me for speaking to you like and distant lands.” he thought “ I leagues. ests where there are many kinds of need In th is C alifornia. and I have this, but there is something I want have Eulalia " He lifted his head Thousands of animals suffer the accustomed to been wondering what It could be you to do for me. It means much Jb.d 7 aZ , r th fur-bearing animals. The set-gun more torments of a lingering death in is also employed and usually kill* that I m ight leave as a g if t and to to me. Excellency. A m atter that L * dark ' W00ded hiU* ’ insure the fact that you. perhaps, has lain sorrow fully close to my headv ^ 0Un5a,inS' H* breathed the Szechuan and neighboring Tibet in instan tly but is extremely danger ^ d° r ’ °* ’ ** ,nd Pin* ’ that a foot noose trap set in a runway ous to a person walking along the w ill not forget your French broth- heart fo r days . . e r i.” mujgled in the air, and heard the and fastened to a bent-down sapling runway on which it is set “ Sp^ak then Whst Is it?* Ha paused and looked about him. pounding restlessly on the cv m such a way that, when the ani- “ It is about Chichi. He is dvmg ocean press-decked cliffs. cy mal puts its foot into the fa ta l rin g beaming Don Pedro, in these togs and cold An Acre of D irty Dishes “ And I have my California " he and spring, the trigger, the noose •Tt is two sacks of potatoes." he weather of Monterey. 1 have man In 12 months the average woman tightens up, yanking the wretched announced. " I noticed that you aged tc keep him alive so far, but sal d^thanwuii,. hiring hls fac, J washes an-acre of dirty dishes, 3 victim into the air where it hangs have none, either that you have I am afraid he w ill die.” She sniv miles of clothes. 1 mile of gl*** At the great gat« of the presidio suspended by one leg t ill death frees planted or. that grow wild. And eled dismally. and 5 miles of floors, declared • ro u n d , good nights were is ” it from suffering. This type is used home service director of a ga* p rim arily in capturing the male lit- U t r o s s o f M o n te r e y I r g i n i a S tiv e rs B a r t le t t Hit Ml B' Chinese Use Brutal Trapping Methods to Capture the Fur-Bearing Animal« sociation in London i
