San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-09-15
II confess, says Don Sanchez, your

Scneme is the pest, ana WOULD uySeu
have proposed it but that can do so lit
tie for my share.
''Why, what odds does that make,
senor?" cries Jack. "YOu gave us. of
the best while you had aught to give,
and tits but fair we should do the same.
Besides which, how could we get along
without you for spokesman, and
marked that you drummed to our dance
very tunefully Come, is it bargain,
friend?"
And on Don Sanchez's consenting
Jack would have us all shake hands ON
it for sign of faith and good fellow
ship. Then perceiving that we were ar
rived at the outskirts of the town, we
ended our discussion.
CHAPTER X.
We turned into the first posada we
came to-a poor, mean sort of an inn
and general shop, to be sure, but we
were in no condition to cavil about tri-
ties, being tagged out with our journey
and the adventures of the day and only
too happy to find house of entertain
ment still open. So, after dish of sau-
sages, with very good wine, we to our
beds and an end to the torment of fear
had endured from the moment chang
ed my French habit for Spanish rags.
The next morning, when we had eaten
meal of goats milk and bread and
paid our reckoning, which amounted to
a few rails and no more, Don Sanchez
and I, taking what remained Of Moll's
two pieces, went forth into the town,
and there bought two plain suits of
clothes for ourselves in the mode of the
country, and, according to his desire,
another of the same cut for Dawson, to-
gether with little jacket and skirt for
Moll. And these expenditures left us
but just enough to buy good guitar
and tambourine. Indeed we should
not have got them at all but that Don
Sanchez higgled and bargained like any
Jew, which he could do with a very
good face now that he was dressed so
beggarly. Then back to our posada, where
in our room Jack and were mighty
merry in putting on our new clothes, but
going below we find Moll still dressed
in her finery and sulking before her
skirt and jacket, which she would not
put on by any persuasion until her IA
Their fell into passion of anger. And
the sight of him Tuning in short jacket
barely covering his loins, and a pair Of
breeches so tight that the seams would
scarce hold together, SO tickled her sense
of humor that she fell into long fit of
laughter, and this ending her sulks she
went up stairs with a good grace and re-
turned in her hated skirt, carrying her
fine dress in bundle But never yet
knew the time when this shy baggage
would not please herself for all her SEEM
ing yielding to others, and we were yet
to have more pain from her than she
from us in respect of that skirt. For ere
we had got way through the town she,
dawdling behind to look first into this
shop and then into that, gave us the
slip, so that we were the best part of an
hour hunting the streets up and down in
the utmost anxiety Then as we were
swearing with our exercise and trouble,
| lol she steps out of shop as calm as
/ you please in a skirt and jacket of her
own fancy, and ten times more hand.
! some than our purchase, a red shaw
tied about her waist, and little round
hat with bright red bob in it set on
one side of her head, and all as smart as
carrot.
''Ha," says she, "where have yoU
been hiding all this timer"
And we, betwixt joy at finding hel
and anger at her impotence, could say
nothing, and yet we were fain to admire
her audacity too. But how, not know
ing one word of the language, she hat
made her wants known was a mystery
and how she had obtained this finery
was another, seeing that we had spen
all there was of her two pieces. Ger
tainly she had not changed her French
gown and things for them, for these, il
a curious bundle, had her father beef
carrying up and down.
eff you han't stole 'em, says Daw
son, finding his tongue at last, "wher
did you find the money to pay for thos
trappings, minx?"
In my pocket, sir, says she, with
courtesy, "where you might have foun,
yours had you not emptied it SO readil
for the robbers yesterday, and fancy,
adds she shyly, 81 may still find som
left to offer you a dinner at midday
you will accept it"
This hint disposed us to make hgh
of our grievance against her, and w
went out to Ravellos very well Statistic,
to know that our next meal depende,
not solely upon chance, and this, togeth
er with the bright sunlight and tn
sweet invigorating morning air, die be
get in us a spirit of happy carelessnes
in keeping with the smiling gay aspec
of the country about us.
1t was strange to see how easily Mo-
| fell into our happy go lucky humor, sh
who had been as stately as any Roma
queen in her long gown being now, i