San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-06-16

cal troubles. Still, he was a person of
much consideration, he stood high with
the government, being sustained by the
favor of prominent persons of the more
radical wing at Mexico, and Gen. del
Prado, moved by grounds Of worldly
policy, thought well to give ample OPP
portunity for his suit, and to see if the
reluctance of his daughter might not be
overcome. The daughter, too-since he
was her first suitOr, even though u re-
pulsive One-was not so wholly unCivil
to him as might have been supposed.
Meanwhile, Amy had not forgotten the
sweet looking young nun she had met at
Cuernavaca. This was figure by whose
appearance and unusual history she had
been particularly struck. Sonora del
Prado took her to see the embrOideries Of
the ex-sisters, and she sometimes re-
turned there alone. They lived in a
pleasant, one story house, of the rural
sort, in the hamlet of Campo Florido,
not far from the hacienda. Their prin-
cipal room was of large size, brick fiOored,
and cool, and looked out on one side into
the grass grown, principal street, and on
the other into a charming, simple
garden.
Amy, whose imagination was easily
kindled, said to Beatriz, as she sat there
with the latter one day, learning a new
lace stitch
How charming and peaceful your
iSi = -nn,,,S i1ao1 Sprnati,paS I ron-
not help envying YOU"
"Ah, no; | am very unfortunate.
am neither of the world nor out Of it,"
returned the recluse, sadly. How many
Of its distractions and temptations are
thrown in uiOn us here! am not strong
enough to withstand them. | often feel
myself falling away from high ideal
and growing worse daily"
Dona Beatliz returned the liking of the
pretty American, SO novel a person for her,
and was sometimes also at the hacienda
to repay her visits. They We're all as
sembled in the corridor on one occasion,
Just after she had left them, when the
Jefe Politico, wholly without tact and
riding rough shod over the favorite lean
ingS Of those whom he was making a
pretense to COnciliate, began:
BAH They're fine lot, the nuns
these mincing, genteelish ones Of the or
der of Santa Rosa as well as the rest.
Id send them all packing, if | had my
way, many or few"
"Senor COrcovedO!" protested the
Madre flushing strongly with indigna-
ton. This was the day that finally set
tied his case, so that after that they
would have nothing more to do with
him.
Il speak only for myself" said the
Jefe The point is here, Immediately
here. Well, then, for example-does it
not seem 50 to you'll have many excel
lent ideas. discuss from the point of
view of science. In science | can tell
you everything, absolutamente every
thing have made many orations, as is
necessary for a public otticiai-for exam
pie, at banquets-you understand what
mean"
Amy footed al imaginary trumpet be-
hind him.
"They pull poor faces" he Went on,
these women, like the one WHO has Just
gone away, bat I'll bet the three have
the treasure that used to belong to their
convent comfortably hidden somewhere.
have had a notion more than once to
employ detectives and look it up
1t was probably taken out Of the
country by the mother superior and
others who went abroad" suggested the
general.
Il don't believe it-no, sir. Somebody
has brought me the story that it was
not. Besides, it WAS too bulky. Why,
they had solid silver railing across
their altar, and golden candlesticks high
er than | am, and as thick through the
body. say nothing of all the crowns,
bracelets, necklaces and rings. set with
precious stones. they had or the images,
with the rain Of cmeralds, ruNie5, pearls
and diamonds, scattered over their silken
garments, and the solid cash in the treas
ury And now they make the govern
ment pay some hundreds Of dollars a
year to support them
He was much more direct in his talk
on such point as this Indeed, III all
matters involving rough sort Of cxecu-
tive ability, especially III the directions
Of greed and persecution, he was not
lacking in spite Of his foggy speech.
The Sonora del Prado and her daugh-
ter had already gone away in dudgeon
This talk, in fact, broke up the group
Don Walter and Amy Went to the gar
den. 1t was in the great gardens that
perhaps their pleasantest hours of all
We're spent. They passed along bosky