davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Pocahontas star herald., 1925-09-10

Wherever you go, in a radius of a
hundred miles in Northwest Arkansas,
you zee the mystic symbols, 'B. V. D."
everywhere-on sigh posts, ON fences,
on trees, on telephone poles, on bridge
heads, on the sides of cliffs But it
doesn't mean what you think, it is not
haberdasher's sign, it means Bella
Vista Drive" There may have been
some doubt about all roads leading to
Rome, but there is no doubt about all
roads i'm this section of the Wonder
State leading to Bella Vista. Only a
few years ago it was just wide place
in the unromantic valley of unambiti-
Gus Sugar Greek, with gently rising,
craggy, forest-clad hills ON either side.
Then utilitarian eyes surveyed the
scene, and the Linebarger brothers of
Dallas, Tex, dreamed a dream of a
great summer resort that has already
been realized. 1t has been only eight
years ago since the first cottage was
hung on the sides of these cliffs, but
now its fame has spread afar, and dur
ing the season the license tags of every
state in the Union are seen upon its
Pocahontas star herald., 1925-09-10
Little Rock Letter

Little Rock, Sept Political prog
nosticators are always with us. II is
whole year until the next primary.
But already State district and county
candidates are coming to the front,
indicating, us usual, long hard poIiti-
cal campaign. First interest natural
ly centers In the race for Governor.
Il appears probable that Governor Ter
raj will have opposition for a second
term, but this has frequently happen
Pocahontas star herald., 1925-09-10
NOTICE

TO all land owners in Running La
Drainage District The ditch tax "
be due Oct LIST and must be paid
Dec. list to avoid penalty. Pay
Randolph County Bank.
5-4t. f. Spinnenweber, Ire
Pocahontas star herald., 1925-09-10

for reelection. He win probably re-
enter school work, and has been men
toned as the possible successor Of Dr
Chas. II. Dicken as President Of Ouach-
ita College J. =. Wommack Of Jones
boro has already announced that he
win be a candidate for the Office. J,
G. Cubage viii not be a candidate.
Pocahontas star herald., 1925-09-10

Womanless weddings are a popular
form of entertaining in many localities,
But Benton county recently celebrated
what was dangerously near a manless
wedding. The marriage license was
issued by a woman county clerk. All
the attendants were women and the
ceremony was performed by woman
preacher There was not single mas
culine witness and the groom was sol:-
tary and alone in his masculinity.
Pocahontas star herald., 1925-09-10
Piles Cured in 6 to "a DAYS

Druggists refund money II PAZ0 oINTMENTfa "a
to cure Itching. Blind. Bleeding or Protrud
Piles. Instantly relieves Itching Piles, and y
can get restful sleep after first application.
Pocahontas star herald., 1925-09-10

II is difficult to separate fact from
fancy in our literature. For instance,
Edward Everett Hale, in his story,
The Skeleton in the Closet" discus
sing the hoops which were part of
the ancient attire Of woman, as late as
the post-Civil War period, says:
"Then the State of Arkansas offer
ed sixteen townships Of swamp land
to the first manufactures who would
exhibit FIVE gross of home manu-
factured article. But no one ever COM
peted."
The story details at length the diff
ficulties of the women of the confeder-
acy in securing hoops, and in a fanci-
full way the author ascribes to this
fact the eventful fall Of the Southern
Republic. We are wondering If there
is any foundation in fact for his state
ment that the state of Arkansas ever
offered sixteen townships of swamp
land for five gross of homemade hoops
1t bears the evidence of being simply
another one of the lies about Arkansas.
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cred number of objects into the cup
of his hand
'"This was no prehistoric man." he
said solemnIy. "Seel The eyelets and
the nails of shoes. The leather long
ago vanished. Here are two mother
Of pearl buttons, a pocket knife,
coins, the snap on wallet. This man
lost his life, Brena, many years ago."
She tried to speak, wetting her dry
lips with the tip of her tongue.
'"There are things of gold. too," said
Peter. Keep your nerve, dear. Look
at this !"
He held out in his trembling fingers
a signet ring with an II deeply en-
grayed upon it.
"That!" exclaimed Brena with hor-
ror. 1T was his Slim Hennepin's.
This is-him?"
"Yes."
Brena moved toward the pile of
bones half consumed by fire; then she
stopped and looked away.
He was killed." she said. HE was
shot or stabbed"
mo" replied Peter grimly. ut was
worse than that-more CHASTITY. He
was killed. But 1t was not by human
hand"
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CHAPTER XVIII

"Brena, I want you to stand here by
this old well without walking away
from it a moment" said Peter, taking
her by the shoulders and looking
squarely into her dark eyes. "I'm
going to leave you alone a minute
It's not pleasant. l want you to do it
just the same"
Where are you going?"
Outside the wall again. I've seen
something there that you did not see"
Brena shivered.
'Don't be afraid, dear" he said
1--WE have had--both of us-the lesson
of futile fear. Once we told each
other that fear was a crime-a terri
Bile waste We are on the verge of
learning how terrible waste it can
be-"
She put her hands In his; with a
smile she said, you see, Peter, am in
the dark, dear. But just the same I'll
do as you tell me-
AS he walked away from her, his
head bent forward as If meditating,
she leaned back against the hot, fiat
face Of one of the huge stone blocks
of the well curb, following him with
her steady gaze. He disappeared out
side the old wall, and as he vanished,
so vanished all that attached her to
the living world. There was no sound,
no motion within the range Of the
senses; the place of death was still.
From the tablelands above, lonely
buzzard had come swooping down on
wide black wings, dipping and turn
ing, with one eye cooked down. as If
sometime before he had picked bones
in this inclosure and had returned to
the scene of gruesome feasts. Black.
in-Omened. carrion creature that he
was, Brena felt glad that he had come
"a thing Of life and motion-into this
place of vast dimensions filed by the
silences and rigidity of death. She
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CHAPTER XIX
I understand" said Brens.

IT understand" said Brena.
Then come with me-" Peter said,
holding out his hands. II will show
you all that remalns-the record-the
story written on the sand and dust.
He led her again toward the
charred bones; he found no resistance
In her.
"Look there, Brena. Do you see the
footprints? Here are yours and mine.
But look again on the sand There are
Others. too. A thin veil Of dust is over
them. They move here and there;
they criss-cross and move away. They
are the footprints of Compton ParnM-
lee. He has come to stand gazing
down at the white skeleton--white as
oyster Shells"
"Blackened," she said.
"Waitl" Peter said. "There are the
spots where he stood looking down.
He had his answer; no living Jim Hen
nepin of Virginia would ever fill him
with lead. And as he stood, Brena,
perhaps gazing down for long, long
time-because his footsteps are lost
In that stew of impressions-he was
filed with all the concentrated terror
that | suppose only murderer can
know. He went into crazy wild
panic of fear. These bones were his--
the grinning skull They must be
hidden
How do you know all this?"
Because he has moved toward this
old well. He reached the stone well
curb. He sprang up. Do you see
the marks? He found the mouth
choked with massive blocks. Nothing
could be hidden there! His track
moved back"
go on" said Brena.
GRO BE coNTINUED.)
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screams echoing back from the rocks,
his curses rising into this thin pale
blue sky and the vultures swing over
head"
Seven years ago." she whispered.
eyes, seven years. And four years
Of torturing fear-that was the pay of
the one who rode away"
Compton Parmalee?"
She said it without any external
sign of emotion.
eyes" said Peter. "He had succeed
ed in wiping out one blackmailer. But
another, more terrible, sprang up
fear"
'He feared discovery"
Eyes, and something else. He could
never feel sure that Hennepin was
dead. That was the curse upon him
the fear the murderer feels, twisting
and alternating with the fear Of a
physical coward who ever hears those
threats, those curses, those promises
Of vengeance coming across the moon
lit desert as he rode away that night"
She shuddered.
Eyes" said Peter. ''That was why
Parmalee destroyed the map. He had
probably ridden back to some other
settlement after shooting Hennepins
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Dangers 10 Gem.

AS pearls consist OF carbonate OF
lime, vinegar and other acids will eat
away the polished surface in short
time Hot water is fatal to an opal.
destroying It's fire and sometimes caus
ing II to crack. Soap is deadly
enemy of the turquoise. If turquoise
ring is kept on the hand while wash
ing, In short time the blue stones
will turn to a dingy green.--Populai
Mechanics Magazine.
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horse In some gully and he wanted to
wipe out all evidence. For months he
resisted the temptation-that burned
and scorched inside-to see you"
ITO find out whether had been
told anything about Hennepin's desti-
nation? And then when he wasn't
sure-when there was that scrap of
paper not accounted for- Peter, 1t
is too horrible; he proposed that
to go away and take me with him. He
was afraid might remember some
wOrd-give some clew."
mo-" replied Peter. ut was that of
course. But that was not all. The
spark of real man that you saw in him
was there, Brena. Terror put 1t out at
last, but the real tragedy of Parmalee
was that he had that redeeming spark"
He waited for her to look up again;
she had been staring down at the vel
low-gray dust.
81 suppose you can see," he went on.
II suppose you can see now what was
in his mind. Two pictures. One was
the picture of Jim Hennepin alive
that great muscular athlete who drank
hard, who had the false traditions of
the South, the love of death oaths, the
degenerate temper, the sly smiling
ways Of carrying vengeance through.
He saw him escaping from the desert.
Brena-heaven knows how-but es-
Gaping by some desperate effort, some
chance, some miracle, some way that
Parmalee's brain could not conceive,
but yet couldn't be put out of range of
possibility. He saw Hennepin seeking
him. Yes, he saw tia picture-a
thousand haunting pictures Hennepin
with his malicious, desperate, haunt
saw him smelling along the trail for
his quarry. He saw him walking
about a quiet picture gallery, and
suddenly seeing your portrait and
realizing that Parmalee had taken you.
turn red with renewed wrath which
would send him out for knife"
"At last that imaginary Hennepin
became almost a reality" said Brena
| He shot at him once-at q reflection
in piece of glass. He kept Paul be-
cause Paul was a brute who would
| fight. He was afraid Hennepin would
send some assassin to get employment
as servant. He never knew when
Hennepin might cOme-and KILL"
But he saw the other picture too.
He saw the buzzards lowering over
what was left Of Rennepin, he saw
whitened skeleton grinning up at the
sunlit sky and at the stars. Brena.
That's what he saw And some day
some one would somehow come there.
Perhaps some one had been there al
ready. Perhaps at the very minute
a prospector, dirty and unshaved, or
some accursed archaeological explorer
from a university was in that very
| town where they had bought the
horses and was telling Of the skeleton
and Of finding the skeleton Of the
| riderless horse with the bit still held
between the white teeth. He might
have that bit In his pocket. Some one
recognizes 1t. Somehow the chain
once started never ends until
.srhere comes a hand upon the
shoulder" said Brena, as If In dream.
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Copyright by e. P. Dutton g Co.,

''and a voice saying, We have looked
long time for you"
Eyes. There wasn't one fear"
Peter said, marking two lines In the
sand with his forefinger. "There were
two fears. They fought each other
and their battle-ground was Parmalee's
soul. 1t was trampled into a wallow
Of terror, of questioning, of doubt.
Do you know, Brena, that somehow
there creeps into me great pity for
himT'
'If he had been able to put his
finger upon some button that would
have blown him to bits he would have
taken that way" she said. But he
had an exaggerated instinct for self
preservation. 1t threw him back from
any approach to suicide"
Peter, getting up, came to her and
put his hand upon her shoulder as
II to give her strength. She had
spoken with a voice too evenly meas
ured to deceive him as to the strain
she felt. 1t had been long pull for
her, he thought. The last steps,
though they might lead out into the
sunlight of freedom, were upon rough
ground-rough even for man. He
was wondering how he could save her
from pain. He wanted to have this
surgery over, and to have it over
there was only one way.
at was inevitable that he would
come herein the end" he said. He
had to see. He had covered his ter
rors by cowardly process of trying
to make you believe that some mys-
terry that chung to you was the cause
of them. He began to fear disclosure.
He feared that he would allow you
to know in some mad moment. He
was coming to the end of his rope"
Eyes. the end of his rope"
Peter stopped and looked up at the
ugly symbol of Kuk-ul-can carved on
the rocks.
"He procured copy of Father Car
los map second time" he said. He
had to have 1t to find the way. After
four terrible years he revisited the
Pueblo Mescalero, two hundred miles
from nowhere 1t called him back. He
had to come"
He stopped again, looking at Brena,
whose palms were pressed against her
knees, whose face with it's wonderful
profile was still held uplifted looking
into the vast distances of the desert,
her lips closed, her eyes unseeing,
like some carved diety who had been
sitting thus for centuries.
"He bought a high-powered car,
Brena," said Peter. And all alone
he came"
.'And where is he now?" she cried
out at last, in sudden disclosure of
her pain. do you know? Where is
he now?"
She looked searchingly at Peters
sun-bronzed face, where upon the sur
face of youth lines of strength had
been engraved by war. and lines of
tenderness perhaps by great new un-
Outstanding of love and life.
HE is here again. he answered.
HE Is here. Do you under
stand?"
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at ls There--Here In the Sand--a
Record" He Said. A Ghastly
Record"
watched the magnificent grace and
power of his flight until Peters voice
broke the silence again, and, Tapping
toward the west. the bird began to
circle up whence he had come
"Brena," said Peter, who came to her
with an expression drawn as If with
some stress within.
"Yes?r
"Sit down with me here where these
blocks cast shadow, dear. l will
show you what / have found--a thing
like the writing of giant finger of
justice-here in the desert. But first
want to tell you tale. Brena--true.
revolving and terrible"
"Tell me-" she said. sitting with her
elbows on her knees.
II. Is Of surprising brevity. Brena,"
he asserted. Its simplicity is the
thing that makes ridiculous the many
things expected, all the nightmares
Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-07-31

Elephants Of Africa do tremendous
damage to native farms.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1925-02-24

porci6n; tai vez, en- proportion
que no varie mucho; y como de to
dos modos, la nuestra siempre tie
no ndmeros que SON mry altos, que
dara constantemente mas pr6xima
en- sus valores, las cifras con que
cuente el hierro.
Aqui damOs las dos formulas pa
"a terminar: ete @
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1925-02-24

35.T2 k1iogramoS dc eobEe
$50 kilogramos de cromio
2.e5 kilogramos de alunlinio
4.3O kilogramos de eabalto.
Esta formula tiene u1i peso ato-
mico de 55.S2, y una densidad de
1856; Y este, en- conjunto, le aproxi-
ma mas los valores que represen-
tan al hierro dulce; de mRnera que
nos parecera que 81 la densidad, por
cuanto que es factor indispensable
para obtener ,volumen atomico, es
tambien aproximada, esta formula
sera mas 1nagnetica que la anterior.
aunque no es recomendable por su
precio comercial.
Modus Facienduni: sobre la ma
nera de hacer,, los que con mas
acierto pueden determinar son los
expertos fundidores, pues siendo los
puntos de fusion Y ebullicion de
los elementos citados correspondent
tes nImeros muy POGO cercanos,
entire 81, puede haber la creencia de
q. cuando unos comienzan fundir-
Sc los otros, habiendo pasado Ell IL
mite de La ebullici6n, estarian vo-
latiIizandose Y aunque no 10 lie
garan a hacer del todo, al rebajar
sus. cantidades, desajustar grande-
mente la formula.
Sin embargo, que estos al pare
Ger inconvenientes, deben tener al
gRna favorable soluci6n, 10 prueba
ei hecho de que existen indnidad
de aleaciones que estan en- el misnno
case aparente. Las materias usa-
das, es necesario que sean a 10
menos, como Sc dice vulgarmente:
quimicamente !, puras; y. el cobre,
que de seguro puede obtenerse mas
puro que 10 que significa esta fra
ee, debe ser electrolitico. Pues cual
quier impureza en- exceso, puede des
ajustar La formula; y asf mismo,
spude ser motive de clio, la eqnivoca
ci6n al medir las nasas.
Dados los escasos conocimientos
que tenemos sobre aleaciones, dis
pensad 10 NAL que hayamos pre-
sentado esta hip6tesis.
Reynaldo REYES.
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sEaUNDA HIPoTEsIs DE
hEYNALDo,


Fengp asta ap6teuas pes testimonao
e gFatatua , prnsba de henoEes
sns sstey an4leso por Esndir 81
pfsfsa1F A. W. Br0wns De IA
nnlver34sA ds CeFnen
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PRIMERA FORMULA:

500 volumenes de cobre IS
LOO volumen de aluminio
40 volumen de zinc.
La misma formula por cantida-
des dc masa; ~
2o.576 kilogramos de cobre
2.65 kilogramos de aluminio
2.86 kilogramos de cinz.
Basandonos en- calculos te6ricos.
esta primera formula tendra ur
peso at6mico de $3.50, Y su densi-
dad serS correspondence a TAO.
Sabiendo que el hierro fundido tie
ne densidad de TAO y un peso at6-
mico muy justamente aproximado
a 55.s6, vease entonces la diferen-
cia y comparese la que tambisn pue
de resultar, cuando la que Sc COM
para es la aleaci6n de Heusler.
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sEeuNDA FORMULA:

Daremos su composition por masa
solamente:
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1925-02-24

AL @4AS 4@@% ~~1As o0OSAASo n. So
cuaidades de una aleaci6n, segIn
queda especificado; segdn Sc de
duce de Las reglas que dejainos nu-
meradas, sufriran desa juste que nos
impidan obtener los resultados que
debieran espefarse por los calculos
te6ricos,
Asf, pesos at6nicos y gravedades
especifcas, que te6ricamente ten
gan unos promedios Representatives
por alguna cifra, practicamente, es
taran Representatives por otra dis
tinta, debido que los volamene'a
at6micos, afinidades distancias, Sc
alteraran por la razon de que la
niezcla estara compuesta por ato-
mos de soluci6n s6lida, y por ato-
mos de los diversos elementos sin
sclubilizar; para mayor explana-
ci6n; tenernos en- cuenta que los
puntos que Sc funden los diversos
elementos, dar$n un .promedio prac
tico muy diferente cuando Sc OBJ
|serva Ell compartments de una
aleaci6n con respecto al calor. Des
de luego, que este hara que las
densidades y las gravedades especf-
ficas reales de las dos aleaciones:
La de Heusler v La nuestra, no
correspondent a los nlmeros que
les hemos asignado te6ricamente;
mas como sabemos que Ell incon-
venients regira sobre las dos aiea
clones, el desajuste que sufra una,
10 sufrir& IA otra en u misma pro
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1925-04-05
Las OLElNFCAS A CERCA. ESPAlVA

senora Cornelia")
Los espanoles Sc preoeupan con
exceso de las habladurfas inter-
nacionales. Todos los pafses po-
seen su racion de leyenda negra,
v no es leve la que en- Espafia ro-
dea Franeia. La guerra grande
la pds0 bien clara. Ante tales ac-
titudes incomprensivas, 10 fnico
hacedero es que el que Sc sienta
herido por la leyenda negra pro-
cure ser plnto de arranque. de una
leyenda blanca, al 1nenos cola
borar con quienes intentan librar
de negruras la senda de su pa
tria. En- lugar de hacer este, ell
espafol Sc nolesta ~ de modo
especial en- America), con quienes
en- su patria estan ocupandose
afanosamente por restaurar los
estragos de un pasado, no STEM
pre- digno de inlitaci6n. Es evil
dente, por ejenplo, que en- el or
den de Ia cultura pdblica. de la
hygiene, de la vida polftica, la Es-
paha del sigIo Xxx ha de recti-
ficar la conducta de la Espana
del sig1o XIX. Este cambio ye-
ces Sc puede hacer en- silencio,
sin que el publico Sc de cuenta y
sin que trasciehda al extranjero
Ia lucha interior; pero veces Sc
arma ruido porque ell enferno gri-
ia o el escolar Sc insubordina. Y
surgen yoces y alboroto. Y es fre-
cuente entorces que muchos espa-
fioles no conprendan el alcance re-
novador de la lucha v de la dis
cusion, y digan esas tonterfas de
que Ia ropa sucia Sc lava en- casa.
Lo inalo es que no Sc lave Ia 1o-
pa; pero 81 Sc lava. POGO im-
porta que algdn curioso Sc asome
al lavadero.Vo atcitar IN elem
plo. milo, porque 10 conozco bien
v no por otra causa. Durante
nueve amos he estado laborando,
sin demasiado ruido, para que la
Universidad de Madrid posea en-
senanzas de lenguas riodernas. Ell
que en- la Universidad de Madrid
no Sc ensele nj frances, nj inglEs,
tContfnda en- Ia pig. 12)
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1925-04-05
La 1EYENDA NEGRA

Asf aconteoe que las exagera-
clones de la critiea extranjera,
ESQ que sc llama la leyenda negra,
naci6 Y crecio antes que en- otra
parte en- la nlisrna Espana. Nues-
ira yiolencia, Ia exageraci6n del
caracter, nos llevh a altfsirnas
empresas, pero asin1isrno a Ia fa-
ell desesperaci6n. Ya en- 1917 es-
cribfa Crist6baI Suarez de Figue-
roa: "Se debe corisiderar sean tan
inGtiles los espafioles que en- sts
ocurrencias les convenga valerse
de advenedizos. :. Esto, 81 Sc mi-
ra bien, Sc ajusta con su inclina-
ci6n, sujeta impacieneia, jue-
go, a sensualidad, a crapula" Pc
70 este Suarez de Figueroa era
un sujeto grundn v agrio, muy
parecido a 10 que hoy 1lamamos
un fracasado. Cervantes, en- cam
bio, hara decir a una DANA ex-
tranjera, en- trance apurado: 'Vos,
senor, me habeis de hacer mer-.
eed de venir conmigo, que llevan-
do un espanol mi lado,. y tai
como yos me parcels, hare cuen-
ia que llevo en- mi guarda los
ejercitos de Jerjes: mucho os pido,
pero mas obliga la deuda de
responder 10 que la fama de
vuestra Nacion pregona" - l"La
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tico es cada dia mas evidepte. Los
hombres mas eminentes de. nues-
tro pasado fueron grandes viaje-
res, estuvier6n en- contaeto con la
cultura international en- una u
otra forma: Nebrija, Wives, Ger
vantes, Quevedo. Pues biens mu-
chos espaioles de Santiago sc
enojaron, con gran ascn1bro mio,
va que estoy acostunbrado, a de-
cir Y a or afiImaciones analogas.
Aquellos espanoles aun no habian
entrado en- el periodic critico. Ola
ld no entren en- el 81 han de caer
en- el otro escollo, en- la sandia
idea de que sornos una raza aca-
bada, incapaz y expuesta todas
las desdichas.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1925-04-05
(Por AMERICo CAsTRo)
UN DISCURso

FL discurso universitario del jo-
ven professor Sainz alude nueva-
nlente al tena secular de las po-
lemicas en- torno al valor preteri-
to y actual de nuestra Espana.
Ciertas frases intencionadas del
Sr. Sainz acerca del momento po-
lftico por que cruza mi pals die
ron pie a una demostraci6n de
simpatfa, Y fueron pretexto para
que algunos politicos Y dos gene
rales intentaran hacer un pinto
antidirectorial. La policfa disoI-
VIC el banquete, los dos generates
taarcharon sendos castiIlos, pero
el tema del discurso conserva
siempre actualidad, prescindiendo
de las circunstancias que hayan
podido convertible en- piedra de
escandalo