San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-06-17

on large rock, near which "a cool brook
ran forth, and the children went and
waded merrily in the water, mingling
their laughter with its babbling.
There was one place where broken ar
row heads and fragments of earthenware
remains of the Aztecs could be picked
up. Amy was much pleased to find these
antiquities herself, but Walter treated
them indifferently, promising her better.
Il Is your permission to bring you a
little i.L.s4 fnrHd awhile ago in the
ruins Of the temple at Xochichalco," said
he. 1T is of Chalchihuitl, the green
stone once considered sacred. 1t is of no
sort of use to me-"
"Xochi?-and chal?"
The mouths vi some charming for
eigners are too small to pronounce such
long words all at once"
"Oh, avec ca. 1t will be large enough
to say something pretty severe if you
make such absurd speeches"
On the very crest of the ascent was
found "a tall tree, in the top of which was
a neglected seat, reached by steps, which
a part of the Escorial like roofs of the
hacienda, with CLINT of statues and of
waters in the fertile expanse spreading
ont before it.
Gazing down the outward slope, you
saw as it were a field of newly plOwed
earth, which was in fact a vast lava field,
cutting off access to the mountains on
that side. Very far away and high up
was had a glimpse of the white and
splintered wall of chasm. One fan
Cied also he saw film of steam rising
from it, such as hovers over Popocate-
petl.
There is the Barranca of Cimarron,
and of the traditional Yellow Snake, -
said Don Walter, pointing it out. Il
dare say those cliffs are 5000 feet high. "
Always the Yellow Snake. Did you
tell me you had never been there"
why, no, not to penetrate to it. 1t
is all but inaccessible, you know"
There is so little enterprise here in
your Mexico. If we Americans had ii
we should have had railroad excursions
and guides, patent medicine signs
painted on the rocks. and score of very
large anu very bad hotels which would
have taken most Of our worldly sub
stance for the privilege of seeing all
those wonders"
But You forget how sparsely settled
the country is, and the difficulty of get,
ting about: AMI it has by no means al
ways Leon safe There are extremely
few persons who would want to make
such al excursion. And there must be
plenty mora places as well wh.::'a man
has hardly ever yet set foot.
Il am just dying for adventure" con,
tinued Amy, willfully, but what is there
| poor women can dO:"
They can inspire everything in men,
returned her companion, with a rather
| determined air.
oh, did not mean that; am not SO
silly. | only meant Well, think
only like TO hear myself talk"
These We're the days of which she
wrote to her friend Emily:
y seem to be living in a kind OF
heaven upon earth-everything around
me so beautiful, everybody so good tC
me, tiat appreciate it with an over,
fulness Of the heart, and all the sin and
trouble Of the world apparently removed
to an infinite distance"
Don Walter brought her the little
| green image of which he had spoken. 1t
made a pretty ornament, and she attach
Ell it to her watchguard. Soon after
this Don Walters labors at the hacienda
came to an end Then he disappeared,
| and was neither seen nor heard from
| again for a considerable time.
CHAPTER V.
"GOLD, THE sun AMONG METALS"