The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-10-14


few hour bef V e0 nt 81 . Lovers OF all the % or
Poor Conca CROPPED great unacceptable of life
whole lit by love its chief incidents fleeing vision Of the
But dropped ashcs upon this uraung vision
dd So inevitably She began to excuse the man
None knew of
shaking only California itself Appeal
only alternative was flight That would mean the wreck of Rcza-
po avowed purposes coming this Of New Spain and
perhaps of others dm1y suspected very
misery his Sikans
lany might prove mistake in his career for which
his communicative
about himself except when he had object
more lie silly caballero warbling drumming
PASSIONS were in the leash Of remarkably acute and ambitions
BRAIN She thrilled with pride his for She knew
And What was she to Seek to roll inbIi7g blocks n} tb [
OF man like that In this garden for four long days
had dreamed exalted dreams OF the manifold gifts She should de
had once felt all girls mpatience when her mothers
reed be- and although She knew that her capacity for tender
e was as great She resolved TO mould herself in larger shape
,t Blu, She siehea and dropped little The burden Of vo"ans
he had been i'll before chat bararous north And in ali
certain that Russian Ship California again until
me Treaty was signed and oi4e3 news Of had made its slow way
10 ee me"G~t shores She had resented in her young ambition
n 's Tin Of the world but never So much as in that
e sat- WIN arrested breath and rea'zei to the full The
Connie from Sr; or ' ''' b ne we, e '' OF letter ''a' did not
~Woud that lived generation later" She thought with
hc[ sigh IroSrcss is almost automatic and land fertile
and desirable this the turn I'm due course Ti not
] my time. Not in my time"
She rose and leaned her elbows The cnraslre Of
where Santiago had restored The bars and looked the c
Of grain planted by The padas the immense beyond
chat shut the lovely bay from sight, the hills embracing the print
tive scene in irownng With all her Imagination it was long
before She could picture great city covering and
almost desert space pueblo in time perhaps
awakened her mind the Importance the as port OF CALL
Many adobe homes where the hot an ding
few ships in the bay when Spain had
Jealous Vigianceor-whO knew?pcrtapsa flousrne colony
when the Russian bear had devourcd Spanish lion She knew
something and suspected more OF the otcnnc and ncifency
SPAN and were Russia nation OF Rezanovs what opposition in
California against the tide laundering down
perhaps the city that had travelled from the Russian
to when the had yelled towers
palaces and bazaar the thousand little
slender atop the forts the villas the ho
lows and all the islands hills when She and her lover
were dust When She and her lover dust.
But She ardent the ravens
OF the spirit Two eternity happiness the past
rolls together like scroll and naugh fell to DREAMING
Her lips that had been set with the gravity relaxed in warm
The color back her check light to her eyes
She girl her grating with the poignant above her and
me world radiant aung and all for her swimming the violent
beyond
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Rcanov in those days literally and master at the Pre-
did tho hra