The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-03-07

nave uOne WIN your CiihNNtii NUM-
answers Jack testify. Don't you see
| m a-thinking? Heaven knows there's
enough to swallow without any bug
bears Of your raising"
With that, having finished his inspec-
ton Of the interior, he goes out and
looks at it outside.
WELL" says Don Sanchez, what
think you Of the housef"
"Why, senior, tits no worse that I can
see than any other in these parts and
hath this advantage, which they have
not, Of being in sweet air. With bit
Of continuance we could make a shift TO
live here we'll enough. We should do
amiss neither for furniture, seeing that
tits the custom Of the country to eat of
the floor and sit upon nothing. A pot to
cook the victuals in is about all we need
in that way. But how we are to get any
thing to cook in is one mystery, and. !"
clacking his tongue, what we are 60
ing to drink is another, neither Of which
/ can fathom, for, look you, senior, If
one may judge of mems. characters by
their faces or Of their means by their
habitations, we may dance our legs off
ere these Moors will bestow a penny
piece upon us, and as for their sour
milk I'd as lief drink hemlock, and Gefer.
Now, IL this town had been as we count
cd OH, like Barcelona. all had gone as
merry as u marriage bell, for then might
we have gained enough to keep us in
jollity as long rs you please. but here, II
we die not Of collie in week, twill be
to perish Of starvation in fortnight
What say you, Kit?"
Twas forced to admit that i had never
seen a town less likely to afford "a sub
sistence than this.
Then Don Sanchez, having heard us
with great patience and waited "A min.
ute to see If we could raise any further
objections, answers us in measured tones.
81 doubt not, says he, THAT with a
little ingenuity you may make the house
habitable and this wilderness agreeable.
My friend, Sidi ben Ahmed, has Offered
to provide us with what commodities
are necessary to that end. agree with
you that it would be impossible to carr
the meanest livelihood here by dancing
It would not be advisable if we could.
For that reason, my knowledge of va
rious tongues making me very service
able to Sidi ben Ahmed, who is the mos
considerable merchant of this town,
have accepted an office in his house
This will enable me to keep my engage
ment with you. You will live at my
charge, as l promised, and you shall
want for nothing in reason. If the Moor
drink no wine themselves, they maxi
excellent for those who will, and 20,
shall not be stinted in that particular.
Come, this sounds fair enough,
cries Dawson. but pray, senior, are w,
to do nothing for our keep"
Nothing beyond what we came her
to d." replies he, with a meanin,
glance at Moll.
"What?" cries poor Moll in pain
eve are to dance no more?"
The don shook his head gravely, AM
remembering the jolly, vagabond, care
less, adventurous life we had led thes
past two months, with Thousand pleas
ant incidents of our happy junketings
we were all downcast at the prospect O
living in this place-though paradis
for year without change.
Though 1 promised you no NOR
than Offer" says the don, yet IL thi
prospect displease you we will cry quit
and part here. Nay" adds he, taking
purse from his pocket, II will give 20
the means to return to Alicante, wher
| 800, ,,,o,, live nc haitian yIaacaS x,o,, -
1t seemed to me that there was an ur
feigned carelessness in his manner, as
he would as lief as not throw up hi
hazardous enterprise for some othe
more sure undertaking. And indeed
believe he was then balancing anothe
alternative in his mind.
At this generous offer Moll dashe
away the tears that had sprung to hi
eyes, Frightening up wonderfully, BIT
then, casting her eyes upon the don, hi
face fell again as at the thought of lea'
ing him, for we all admired him All
she prodigiously for his great reserv
and many good qualities which con
manded respect, and this feeling WI
tinged in her case, l believe. with
kind of growing affection
Seeing this sentiment in her eyes, Il
don was clearly touched by it. aud
laying his hand gently ON her should,
he says:
my poor child, remember you Il
ugly old women we saw dancing at Ba
celona? They We're not more than ~
What will they be like in few year
Who will tolerate them! Who will 10,
themy Is that the end you choose t,
your own life-that the estate to whic
our little princess shall fall!"
mo, no, mol" cries she in passion
clinching her little hands and thrown
up her head in disdain.
And no, no, no, say l, F" cries Dav
son. "Were our case ten times as ba,
I'd not go back from my word. As it /
we are not to be pitied, and warral
ere long we make ourselves to be envie,
Come, Kit, rouse you out of your letha
gies and let us consult how we may in
prove our condition here, and do yo
senior, pray order us little of that san
excellent wine you spoke Of, if it be b.
pint, when you feel disposed tn
way"
The don inclined his head, but hinge
ed, talking to Moll very gravely and y
tenderly for some while, Dawson and
going into the house to see what v
could make of it, and then, telling
we should see him no more till the ne
day, he left us. But for some time aft
he was gone Moll sat ON the side Of Il
we'll. very pensive and wistful. an one
whom the future was opened for Il
first time.
Anon comes banging at our gardt
gate, which Moll had closed behind Il
don, and, going to it, we find Moo
ish boy with a barrow charged wi
many things. We could not understal
q word he said, but Dawson decide
these chattels were sent us by the d.
by perceiving a huge hogskin of win
for which he thanked God and Don Sa
chez hundred times over. So the
commodities we carried up to the hous
marveling greatly at the don's for
thought and generosity, for here were
score of things over and above those '
had already found ourselves lacking
. namely, earthen pipkins and wood
vessels, a bag of charcoal, a box of ca
penter's tools, which did greatly delig
Dawson, he having been bred carpe