The California padres and their missions . randfather. It was true. It appeared that themen, while on their way to the Mission, had stopped at theLos Ojitos, and Don Marianos notice had been attracted tothem by the brutal manner in which they treated the Indian,whom they made kneel down to eat, instead of sitting withthem at the table. Thus he recognized him so many yearsafter. Don Petronelo told me, I remember, that he questionedthe Indian about the matter, but that he always acted as ifloco, and could never be induced to say anything about every mention of the murders he always became
The California padres and their missions . randfather. It was true. It appeared that themen, while on their way to the Mission, had stopped at theLos Ojitos, and Don Marianos notice had been attracted tothem by the brutal manner in which they treated the Indian,whom they made kneel down to eat, instead of sitting withthem at the table. Thus he recognized him so many yearsafter. Don Petronelo told me, I remember, that he questionedthe Indian about the matter, but that he always acted as ifloco, and could never be induced to say anything about every mention of the murders he always became wildlyexcited, and seemed to be under the influence of the greatestterror. Such is the story of the tragedy of San Miguel Mission, anotable warning against that Golden Tempter from whosewiles the good St. Francis wisely tried to shield his followersand companions in the Way of Poverty. Verdaderamente,Don Diner0 es gran criminoso (Truly, Don Dinero [money]is a great criminal), murmured Don Leon, as we rose to goto bed. SAN ANTONIO DE PADUA. • ;^^ Mission San Antonio of the Oaks and theTradition of the Friar Who flew thither 7^0 reach San Antonio from San Miguel, one goes first to^^ Jolon, a mountain hamlet six miles from the Mission;and to attain Jolon, an automobile stage may be taken atKing City, after a comfortable country dinner at the hotelacross from the railway station. It was late afternoon whenthe stage delivered me, so I reserved until the morrow theadventure of this Mission of a wilderness still almost asprimitive as when the establishment was founded. It is a delightful walk thither from Jolon. For a mile ortwo the road passes an occasional ranch-house, and thenenters by a gate the lands of the great Milpitas cattle native oak trees stand everywhere about, set at lib-eral distances from one another, and forming a sparse sortof forest in whose grassy glades the cattle of Milpitas grazeand ruminate while the pasture lasts. Because of the preva-lence
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