The penance of Magdalena : and other tales of the California missions . bel Enriquez: and there Hesupon her breast a tiny baby form. Alas! muy gueridal Ra-mon walks behind, and looks neither to right nor left, as theytake their place at the head of the little procession. And sothey go, up the white, dusty road, to the campo santo. Muy querida, muy querida, says the great bell: slower andslower, muy querida, muy . . and so, ceases. The sun was going down, its warm light djdng away upthe ancient wall. Far away sounded the faint thrumming ofthe mandolin in the cottage across the road: the three M
The penance of Magdalena : and other tales of the California missions . bel Enriquez: and there Hesupon her breast a tiny baby form. Alas! muy gueridal Ra-mon walks behind, and looks neither to right nor left, as theytake their place at the head of the little procession. And sothey go, up the white, dusty road, to the campo santo. Muy querida, muy querida, says the great bell: slower andslower, muy querida, muy . . and so, ceases. The sun was going down, its warm light djdng away upthe ancient wall. Far away sounded the faint thrumming ofthe mandolin in the cottage across the road: the three Mexi-cans were still silently gambling. Yes, it is a desolate Kttle spot, the campo santo of San The foregoing sketch was written some short time ago, before certainrenovations were made about the cemetery which have changed the atmos-phere of the place. I confess to an unreasonable wish that Gods Acre mighthave been spared by the industrious hand of the whitewasher, when the zealfor cleaning up seized upon the village fathers of San Gabriel. SAN FERNANDO. The BtmiED Treasure of Srui ^Phe idea of finding buried treasure has always exercised^^ what seems to me an unreasonable charm over peoplesminds: unreasonable, not, of course, that there would not becharm ia finding it, but because of the disparity between theamount of attention that has been spent on the quest and thereal prospect, usually, of success. Treasure islands, treasureships, treasure graves, and many other such possibilities havebeen many times exploited, both in fact and in story; so it isnot surprising that the California Missions should also havehad their vogue as a supposed Tom Tiddlers ground. Andas a matter of fact, a good many of the buildings show plaintraces of the ravages of pick and shovel, sometimes wieldedboldly by parties of declared prospectors, but more often insecret by knights of the dark lantern. Why it should be supposed that riches were buried in theseplaces is not clear; but somehow
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