San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-06-16
The Yellow Spring.
By WILLIAM HENRY BISHOP.

long to US after all, en-? Inc night goes
over to Neighbor Garcia, SUPPOSE"
Why, no; not to him either. l did
the same sort of work for him a couple
of years ago and his boundary stops
short of the other side of it. So the
space covered by the Barranca and a
little more is sort of No Mans Land,
to be contended for most likely by the
state and general government, if they
want it."
1T isn't at all strange; little land
more or less has been of no great account
here" said the general, turning to Amy
in an explaining way. Il will tell you
how the titles were chiefly established in
the first place. A viceroy would ride up
ON a hill with friend or client of his,
and say, Il give you all the land from
here rs far as your eye can reach Then
he would ride up on another hill, not so
very far remote from the first, with an
other friend, and say to him, i give
YOU all the land from here as far as you
can see, or perhaps, as far as you can
go in half a days Journey Thus, you
observe, there could easily be some con-
fusion"
Gen. del Prado was so we'll pleased
with the result shown him that he de-
sired to have Walter next undertake an
accurate plotting Of many irregular par
GELS of cultivated ground and pasture
into which the hacienda itself was divid
cd. The young man was delighted to
embrace the opportunity; he could not
himself have planned anything that
would have better gratified the wishes of
his heart.
This employment gave him association
with Amy i'll the freest, most natural
way He often remained over night, and
in the evening there was informal dane
ing in the long parlor, or She played for
them the national airs Of her country or
their own. She commended herself to
her hosts by her ready enthusiasm; they
were genuinely pleased to hear her de-
clare many things in Mexico much bet
ter than in the United States.
"You particularly understand how 10
make life stately,' she told them, land
that the Americans, with all their ex-
penditure, rarely arrive at"
The leaning to the picturesque and
| decorative was a strongly developed
factor in her life. She went about with
little sketch books, i'll which she put
Gown odd bits, with no great success,
but with tangible enjoyment to herself
1t is like living in picture land" said
she Fancy my waking up in room
with a saint and chrrubim in the corner
and the bed standing on dais with
! steps! Sometimes | 60 up very early in
the morning and ChnD low staircase
to the bells. like to sit there and look
off at the fresh lovely landscape with
he great bell just over my head helping
TO frame it in. Even the kitchen has a
hooded chimney and Alue tiles. | feel as
ifsomething historic, or, rather fairy like,
ought to happen to me here
Il can hardly appreciate the differ
enCe5 you dwell upon, scarcely ever hav-
ing been used to anything else" said
Don Walter
And he was led into questioning her
with interest on the appearance of things
in the United States, about which his
recollections Of infancy We're So exceed
ing vague. He was evaSive, and checked
himself, however, when there seemed
any approach towards need OF declar-
ing who his connections We're there and
under what circumstances he had left it.
They also rode together a good deal
about the hacienda, the young women
sometimes accompanying Walter, and
sometimes repairing, under proper
guard, to the curious points-sOme dis
tant corral, or an aQueduCt, or an iTri-
eating pond, large enough for lake,
where he was at work. Amy had looked
forward to mounting into the saddle-in
which she had had but slight experience
with a kind of longing dread, but. the
ice once broken, she made up in courage
what she lacked in skill
Young Walter thought her masculine
looking English habit, with her high silk
hat, from which flOated blue gauze veil
like light smoke in autumn, even more
becoming than her costumes of every
dav life.
They two, as Americans to whom all
things are permitted, were allowed to be
together with more freedom than might
otherwise have been the case. The fam
lily thought good to warn Amy on the
score Of Don Walters rather improyident
character. and that he would not be at
al good match in the peCuniary way,
but they We're treasured by her smile,
and felt that this companionship was
only another Of her ways of enjoying
with a keen zest the novelty of the
country. Besides this, too, their atten-