San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-23

yards and the fruit gardens which
clustered the slopes of hillside
mile or two out of town.
At length the girl stopped, with
a laugh of exhaustion.
"Ah, Tony, you must either slow
down or let me do the dance to
carry on wit your she painted.
at is only by dancing that | can
keep up the allegro movement you
are beating with your long legsp
"Sorrym said Buckenham, slow
ing his step, 81 wasn't thinking
about you, Panchita."
"Ah, no, ! fought not!'
Panchita's voice caught for a
mere instant. Tony did not hear it.
81 want to keep on walking, Pan
chita," he said. 81 want to bury
myself somewhere in the interior
of the little island for few days.
Perhaps things will have straight
ened themselves out with-with
Judy, by the time we get back"
The Spanish girl laughed. Yet
in her black eyes there was no
laughter, but only dog-like eager
ness. ~
"'There should be village soon,"
Tony said, breaking a long silence.
"Me, could sleep in the woods"
she said, softly, "and you should
seek the village, Tony. We should
then be as our forefathers. For |
come from the Spanish gypsy peo-
pie even as you come from the
I.l.Ioo. 10 ,lnn+ ~ palonn Rl1t
for my feet wit the golden slip
pers, perhaps | should be now
dancing in the market-places in
Spain wit my toes naked. 1t is
why could nevare stick to money,
however much the t'eatres paid me
because l am Bohemian. All,
when | see the moon COM up out
of the sea and feel my feet of the
soft grass, | do not want to go
to New York next mont to dance
for a t'onsand dollars each night"
Funny little GIRL" Tony said,
with a gentle laugh, "and yet that's
how | feel. | was a dashed sight
happier with Smoker and the car
avian than | was at Deepdene
Grange. | guess the blue-blood
you worship sometimes goes to
sleep and forgets itself for a gen.
Grafton"
Greetings, man and maiden"
"a deep, austere voice spoke to
them in Italian-"is it a lodging
for the night you wish?"
Tony hesitated. A simple hostel
stood by the side of the road, ap-
parently the hospitable house of
some brotherhood. But he had
meant to find some more or less
comfortable inn. AS he stood ST.
lent the friar took his arm.
at is the custom of the island
that you and the maiden should
stay with US. Tomorrow you will
reach Tagliari, Signor English
man," the dry voice said. Only
later did the words recur with any
significance.
He nodded acquiescence. Pan
chita and he went into the hostel,
and, after a frugal supper of bread,
olives and fruit, were shown to
their bare but scrupulously clean
bedrooms, where. sleep. overlook
them Immediately.
The two newly recruited gypsies
were stirring early next morning.
Before mathis rung from the hill
monasteries they were afoot.
They lunched at little wayside
inn that was buried in wild vine,
and it was here that another beg
ging friar flung fervent blessings
at them and put them on the road
to Tagliari, though they had not
mentioned the place.
They've decided that we are
going to Tagliari - everybody"
Tony remarked with a laugh.
1t was in the early afternoon
when Panchita, with one Of her
light shoes cut almost to ribbons
on the stony road, began to limp,
and it was barely ten minutes later
that Tony deserted a gentle-look-
ing mule cropping the grass by the
roadside. A fragment of harness
and the broken stump of shaft
still chung to it. Tony guessed it
was the mule which had bolted in
the thunderstorm with Judy and
Chatterton. The animal trotted
docilely to his call.
"Up with you, little pal" he
command,
He caught Panchita as she hesi-
tated, and swung her on to the
back of the beast. II started at
a sharp walk as though for a
familiar destination, and before
another hour had passed they
were moving down into a village
that slumbered in the sunshine
with the blue sea tapping its out
skirts.
"Tagliariw Tony IIgttered. He
recognized the village. So did
Panchits, though they had reached
it by a roundabout route, and she,
as the beggar-boy who had sought
Judy, had gone over the hills to it.
A large and placid friar, in skull.
cap and rusty robe, approached
with low salutation.
1--WE await you at the monastery
signor and signorina," he said
gravely. He placed himself be-
tween them, and moved down into
the village street. To Tony't
frown of bewilderment he turned
a couple of blue eyes that twinkled