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
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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
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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
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