The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-07-16
CHAPTER II.-Continued.

"Inoy pun poor races, ne went on,
"these women, like the one who has just
gone away, but I'll bet the three have
the treasure that used to belong to their
convent comfortably hidden somewhere.
have had notion more than once to
employ detectives and look it up"
sit was probably taken out of the
country by the mother superior and
others who went abroad" suggested the
general.
81 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 on the images,
with the rain of emeralds, rubies, 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
year to support them"
He was much more direct in his talk
matters involving rough sort of execu-
tive ability, especially in 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
were spent. They passed along bosky
walk, opening into q sort of Pantheon of
clipped foliage, in inches of which were
set Flora, Bacchus, Apollo and the like
The path hence was narrow, and at the
end of it you came, quite by surprise,
upon an immense, oblong fish pond, with
a straight avenue of noble trees leading
upward with a gentle undulation from
it's farther end. At one side of the fish
pond were most ornate flower gardens;
on the other, extending it's whole length,
was broad flight of steps with rows of
broken columns along them, and at the
top, little corner pavilions looking down
over miniature barranca. The couple
sat down upon these steps, near the wa
ter
"When I first saw all this" said Amy
II realized the enchanted gardens of
Armida."
In the fish pond were six little formal
stone islands, which served as place of
support for roses. They were to be
reached by boats, high popped, green and
gilded, such as indeed might have been
found in the gardens of Armida. Nor
was all this too carefully kept; it was
treated in practical, every day fashion
that but added to it's charm. Some of
the luscious superabundance of mango
and guava lay rotting along the terrace
walks, and appetizing odors coming
forth from the corner turrets showed that
they, too were used for the storage of
fruit
Amy had grown rounder and plumper
since coming to Las Delicias; her health
was better than before, and she had
probably never looked so we'll in all her
life as now. Her companion was drawn,
perhaps, by some unusual appearance of
bloom, to refer to it.
eyes," she said, welcoming the refer
ence brightly, 81 got old Trinidad Jose
to weigh me ON his scales the other day,
and the result is, after calculating your
kilograms into pounds which is no easy
matter--I weigh good 49,"