The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-09-11

remove. Longley suspected Julia's
cousin, joss Enron, who had shown I'M
utterable hatred for the young eastern
man.
For three weeks Longley lay in the
Estudillos' adobe suffering from con-
cussion Of the brain. Part of the time
he was unconscious. He had strange
dreams. The bare little chamber was .
prison CELL and Julia was his jailer. He
dreamed he clamored for Kitty-Kitty
back in Ohio-that is, he thought Exit
tyr and struggled to say it. to scream
it, but the spoken word turned to
"Julia." He strove, he fought, strug-
Cling as a drowning man struggles for
breath in the water, to call for Kitty.
He was not Julia's, he was Kitty's.
That kept floating back and forth in
bis brain like piece Of kelp sloshing
10 and fro in the tide.
When he got the kinks Strengthened
out in his head, he found that they had
finished calling the banns for him and
Julia, and that they were preparing for
the wedding to take place as soon as he
could stand
The thing was monstrous, without
doubt, but what could be done? Carpen-
ter was the only one who would even
try to interfere, and he could do nothing.
Julia clothed herself in stupidity, and
against that impenetrable armor Car
penter battered in vain. The mother, Of
course, understood no word Of English;
so it was useless to appeal to her. And
there they had poor, conceited, ratified
Longley fast.
The marriage could not take place in
the church, as Longley was not Gath
olic The priest did not approve and re-
monstrated with Sonora Estudillo in re-
gard to this impious alliance with a
hereto. "valgame Dios!'' she said,
with despairing shrug. "What would
you? Those of the true faith will not
work, and there are seven of US and
nine Of the family Of my sister. Would
you have us starve?" It is sad thing
that religion must give way to matters
Of expediency. The dollar dominates
even in slumberous old Monterey.
Carpenter, with grim line round his
mouth, wondered as he stood watching
the priests genuhections if Longley
was recalling any Of his somewhat in
temperate remarks about priests and
greasers. He looked white enough, as
he stood Imply by bridal robed Julia.
to be recalling the sins and misadven-
lures of bad life century long.
Longley never did get to looking
fright peart' he began work too soon.
He worked early and he worked late,
for were there not 10 blood relatives and
90 collaterals, also the blood relatives
of the collaterals, and all big eaters?
But it is an unwritten law that you are
not expected to clothe the collaterals or
their relatives.
A dozen or so would come down from
Tassajara, another dozen from Tres
Pinos, and there visit three or four
weeks at Longley's In the most perfect
amity. Being but human, Longley
would occasionally raise Gain and the
roof, but as most of his swarthy rela-
tives were surprisingly destitute Of a
knowledge Of English his revolts were
Intellectual.
They had parties every Sunday night,
and to the strains Of an accordion and
THREE or four guitars they would fairly
dance the lint out of the floor and walls.
In the old unfettered days that which
had met with Longley's most unquali-
fed scorn were these very Sunday night
dances Edith Wagner in Argonaut.