Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-09

Dust curled behind us like smoke creeping under
the tarpaulin that covered luggage the roof,
and into suit cases, powdering our clothing like
fine white sugar. Despite the good springs and deep
cushions of the car Pillars light body danced up and
down, and Our two guests who had thought them
selves motor enthusiasts, did not respond ardently
to Dicks forced praises of the sport.
We were far from towns or villages, out in the
country, when, Bang came the bursting of a tire.
Luckily everybody was ready for lunch and Pillar
and the Cherub had had the forethought to order
things which would not have occurred to Dick or
me. Not far away, on the crest of a hill stood
road members house, with an outside adobe
oven like huge beehive We crawled to it, trav-
cling the collapsed tire, and were served by
delightful brown family,-served as if we had been
the King and his suite, who had unched so said the
brown family, on that spot few weeks ago. Out
came the chairs which the King and his friends had
sat in, plates and glasses from which the King and
his friends had drunk and the simple people derived
a chdlike pleasure from dwelling on the episode.
While we others ate lunch Ropes lacked UP the
Gloria and changed the inner tube, pausng now and
then to MUNICH sandwich swallow draft of
wine with an unruffled air characteristic of him.
When the road member entioned that four bandits
had been captured in the morning by the civil
guard, on the road along which we had passed, his
expression did not change by the twitching of
muscle Indeed, he looked equal to disposng of
half dozen brigands without the aid of a single
guard.
After forty minutes by the waysde, set off to
penetrate farther into that melancholy country
which CervanteS loved, and almost at once
the Venta de Cordenas, that wide and stony waste
where Don Quixote rode to do his penance. The
gayest spirits must have been dashed by the gloom
of the knight self imposed prison, and mine were
not improved 1 had disquietng impression that
Monica's voice, calling appeal came echoing
from the mountain walls. Of course there
nothing in it, except superstitious of which
l ought to be ashamed; yet l could not shut my
ears to her voice. which seemed cry the words her
fingers once had written, Don't desert me! Don't
leave alone!
We had talked of Lnares, the lead mining town.
as hating place for the night, were pledged
skirts of Baylen, as twilight fell the Gloria
brought to a sudden stop in the midst of pusating
crowd that we might ask the way.
As always We brought the fasclnat1ons of the
Cherub to bear upon them trains the latest
gun upon the enemy; and his Grooming brought
out facts which made Dick think it high time he
got things into shape, and model motor service to
running 1t seemed that upon time good
road had been made from Baylen to Linares; but
sorry supports for bridge had been built it turned
out that girders had been forgotten. Somehow, it
nobody's place to jog anybody's else memory,
and there the matter had ended, so long ago that
grass and flowers had sprouted among the futile
stones 1t appeared the most natural thing in the
world to the people of Baylen, who accustomed
to ford the river, when they wanted to cross with
horses; but though the weather had been dry for
the last few days, the recent torrents which had
fallen in the mountains still sweed the volume of
water to such height that it might put out the fire
in the automobile
l was glad to hear this, because if it would put
out our fire, it would put out Carmona's; and as
he was prudent in matters
concerning his car, he