Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1898-12-29

+ The MAJ ter little. and have Concluded
that Your staying il the government
house as his guest viii be rather favor
abe 10 o.. - L..
enc Of the most hospitabie men l ever
met-gise you anything he's got. ex-
cept his daughter, and she's pretty
J enough to eat. Here's a picture Of
I them, with the officers Of the coloneFS
sfaf, taken with the patio. rs a pref
fair likeness of the crowd, consider
ing the size. What 90 you think OF
them?"
l examined the photograph care
fully.
why they're fuii-blooded Span
iards aren't they? They lock like
educated people,
"Hmpf! If it comes to blood, De
Garma can trace his family back to
branch of he Braganzas on the distaff
side; he family are Portuguese, no
Spanish, though they've lived in Ora
NADIA for generations. But what do
YOU think of the girl-Senorita Doro-
tea? Isn't she peach?"
.She Is beauty, isn't she? What an
internal pity o hide away a girl like
advantages she should have are de-
MED her."
Il think, myself. that Agana is no
place FOR her; yet she won't stay here
always, and she isn't by any means the
untutored barbarian you imagine her
to be They lived in Granada and Mad
rid until she was IL"
"Then what the devil did they
ever
Come TO the Ladrones for9 Bust
ness; all in the line of business. As
lieutenant colonel, the old mans or
binary salary of 200 year didn't cut
much ice in Madrid. Out here, as
gobernador of the Ladrones. he gets
about 400 more besides tine pickings :"
"Pickings?"
Yes. What he can squeeze out oe
the barrangays, or tax districts
Gobernadors don't work for their
health, any more than United States
senator's. Then Guajan is one of the
most delightful Islands in the Pacific,
and it costs them little or nothing to
live there. Al the end Of his six years
they get their passage home at gov
eminent expense, and carry with them
quite a respectable pot of savings
which means opera, cafes, bull-fights,
wine, and innumerable cigarrillos. for
several years. 1t takes good deal of
genius to work an influential relative
in the cortes."
His six years must have nearly eX-
pired by this time; l notice o. sen
orita's gown isn't exactly up t o date"
That's the fault of her blasted
cousins in Manila. l lost my temper,
~, day before we left, when they sent
.1t Of clothes down TO the steamer
for me to take to her. There was moth
lug but a flimsy string around the pack
age, and when the quartermaster ac-
eidentally dropped it on deck it
bursted open; so [ had the fun of rak-
ing together those female belongings
and trying TO guess which matched and
which didn't. If the girl finds out that
| saw some of the things, I'm afraid
therell be a GOODNESS between US. You
see, they Jewell, mixed gear, l should
say. What makes me so mad is the
fact that those women II Manila have
spent the money she sent last voyage
on their own new clothes. and have
sent her a lot of buds four years out
cf style. | suppose they think that,
being out of the world in those islands.
she'll never know the difference. and
that they are plenty good enough"
What a beastly shame!"
yes; isn't it devilish. And that lit
tie girl likes TO be well dressed Just
as much as they do. Got heap bet
ter taste. too. Here Just look at these
things in the box, will you?-they're
almost as Anticipated as the dress she's
wearing in the picture" We gingerly
lifted out one garment after another
specializing as TO the use of those we
were not sure about
Look here. Dick; you don't happen
to have any nice. stylish dresses on
board, do you?"
No, ! don't. I'm carrying hard
ware and stores this trip"
Afterward the conversation drifted
into description Of the kind of life
] might expect to find among the is
lands, suggestions in regard TO the
handling of cafamarans at sea, and
ether details of my proposed move
ments; but | couldn't keep the Senior
ita de Garma out of my mind 1t
seemed likely that should see a good
deal of her before | left Agana, and
the meanness of her Manila cousins
made me speculate somewhat as t O the
effect of such surroundings upon a
a girl of refined tastes. Finally an idea
occurred to me. But. fearing his OBJ
iections upon various grounds, didn't
mention it 10 the captain at the time.
it seemed somewhat risky. yet after
another look at the Photograph
which | absently put in my pocket
l determined 10 carry ii out il possible.
CHAPTER ".
Senorita Palacios asked me at
breakfast if l could play accompani-
ments en- the piano. explaining that
She had brought number Of songs