The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-25
CHAPTER XII.
Pernous Favor.

Yet it was curious to know how in all
her grandeur, and while speaking with
careIes5ness and impression the new
language she had learned, Janet Mark
retained the manners of the off-hand,
hoydenish, half gypsy Scots wife. She
thought nothing of shouting the broad
est jests down from her windows to
the men-at-arns, and as for her hus-
band, if in aught he failed in his duty,
all the world knew Of it by the NOR
rows morn. Yet in spite of this, or be-
cause of it, Don Nicholas loved her 50
greatly that he was never happy out Of
her sight, and was reputed to have for
given her much more than is usually
overlooked by men of his nation and
profession.
Presently the coach came rumbling
and swaying back, and Juanita insisted
upon US getting in, in order that we
might try the luxury of the red velvet
cushions and admire the Venetian mir
rors set into the front and sides, in
which she was never tired Of regarding
the cOmelineSs of her own buXom
cOUntenance and wide smiling mouth,
with its fine double row Of teeth, white
as milk. Her husband made as if he
would accompany her, calling for a
seryitor to hold his horse. But his wife
waving her hand out OF the window and
crying back to the Senior Comnan-
dante: ''Bide where you are, Nicho-
las. Once off your beast is enough IN
one day for a man of your figure!'
Juanita then pumped her down
among the cushions of the back seat.
rolling from side to side in luxurious
content, varied by leaning out OF the
window 10 make the outriders go fast
er, VIII and had meelIly taken the
front places opposite to her, as became
our position. But Juanita would have
none of that.
Here, come and sit by me, one OF
you. Am I To be ratified about like a
pea in a bladder, because you are mum
mouthed? You Englishman, you are
the best looking; come hither!"
And though that was in no ways
true, yet l grudged not poor VIII his
honors. For ne had perforce to sit be
side her while Dor Nicholas spurred
mis- horse and cast the blacklist glances
upon the perilous favors to which my
comrade had been so suddenly adj
vanced.
And so all the way back to the town
Of Porto Rico the carriage swayed and
thundered, now swinging to one side,
now lUrching to the other. The stones
and soil from the half-made road, dis
slcated by the heat Of the tropics and
blown to dust by the trade winds, flew
IN clouds past the windows from the
spurning hoofs of the horses. Don
Nicholas clapped his hat tighter on his
head and set spurs in his beast, to keep
us in sight His wife waved a hand
out at the window as he dropped behind
and challenging him to a race, calling
him "Old Rum Puncheon,' Dutch
launches Lard Barrel together
with other yet choicer names, 80 that
the postiliicas before and men servants
behind had much ado to keep their
seats between their mistress japes and
the instant perils of the road.
For ne, declare 1 wished myself
well pack in the chain gang. Will con-
ressed to me afterwards that "she trod
on my toes looking at me the while as
cog does ar meaty bone If this be
favor with fine women folk, Lord send
me back TO poor Jean Carrel. 1 had
rather suffer for my religion any dayi"
Presently we crossed a creek, the
horses splashing to the hooks, the
water coming into the carriage and
Donna Juanita swearing like a grena-
dler, IN ciaeklng full-fayored oaths she
had learned from her father, who on a
time mad seen service with Grier Of
Lag Inc beasts pulled us up the bank