Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-09-16

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the ruins with pick and spade and, select
ing a spot which seemed to answer the
description in their minds eye, began to
dig for the buried treasure. But no gold,
no silver or precious stones rewarded
them.
Their search was not entirely without
result, however, for, much to their sur
prise and delight, they unearthed the re-
mains of a dainty slipper with "A high heel,
| which, to, their heightened imagination,
was red.
Contenting themselves with the trophy,
| they returned to Los Angeles.
Some days afterward one of the men car
ried the slipper to Long Beach, at which
| place, he had been informed, lived an an
cient Mexican who was familiar with all
the old legends of southern California.
He found the man to be a veritable
patriarch, as wise as he is old and as gen
| tie as he Is wise, for he still lives, and, If
rumor is to be credited, he will soon round
| the century post without signs of impend-
ing dissolution. But while the venerable
Mexican was willing to speak he could
talk but little English.
An interpreter was found, and with
many digressions quite al interesting
| story was woven with the threads of mem
DRY and suggestion.
The aged ma took the slipper carefully
and tenderly. He examined it infinitely,
now brushing away some specks of dirt
and now stroking it caressingly. He
turned it over ana! over, especially examin-
ing the sole and the threads which in
places still held it to the upper He re-
manned silent a long time, but his thoughts
evidently were busy.
Yes, it is 50, senior, the turn of the sole
Is b same. 1t was made by Mexican
hands about the time ! was a lad. 1t was
probably worn by the divine senOrita-s she
for whom more than one gallant has
braved the poniard and, US / believe, more
than ono has found all untimely grave on
the mesa or in the canyon, for tho jeal-
| ousy of Morilla was quick to kindle and
the reapings of his wrath as sure as the
rising of the un. Few had the honor of
a duel, but all alike felt the descent of his
vengeance. He was as handsome as the
prince Of darkness and twice as wicked,
as graceful as the doe and as brave as the
lion, cunning as the fox and wise as the
serpent, chief of the ~maraudering band
that once held his section in fear and
trembling-fear for their focks and gold,
trembling for their women-and yet,
strange as it may seem, many were the
acts of courtliness and generosity which
they sometimes bestowed upon the unfor-
tunate aud desolste. The "Robbers'
Roost,'' to With you refer, was the last
stronghold they possessed in their neigh
borhood.
1.-The ~senorita whose slipper you have
fOtpvNd xvoc cuiA tN Io tho Vinco NJ MNri11o,
but, I doubt not, they bore a more tender
relation to each other. The senorita was
as beautiful as the dawn and as proud as
| q queen. Her word was law with the rob-
Der chieftain.
Gas the robbers grew holder the situa-
tion grew more ~aggravating to the set
tiers. Still the Americans kept coming,
the town kept increasing in population
and as the city grew the settlers pushed
more upon the ranches until at last the
ranchers determined to declare war upon
the banditti, thus stopping the predatory
incurslons. But 1t was a long time before
any Roadway was made. Law was slow
to make its way into the deflles, where the
m%Ountaineer was as much at home as 9TH
er wild game, and he poised upon the peaks
as secure as the eagle in its eerie. Many
times and oft the settlers organized search
parties, but old Father Time was q better
marksman than the Americans.
lone by one the bold outlaws fell a prey
to their own passions, and, weakened by
internal ~dissensions, they were driven far
mOne dav In Anil the last remnant of
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