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®1|£ a mu of % tons (Pro torg) MURIEL FISHER T WAS spring in Cal- ifornia, away back in 1829, when the dusky Spanish Senor and the dark-eyed Senorita still held sway over the land ; long before the hustling Ameri- cano came to waken them f r o m their peaceful dream of life ; where nothing was done to-day, where everything was put off until manana. In the grey light of the early dawn, when everything was still quiet, a young man stood before the gate of a low wall surrounding one of the old Missions for which California is still famous. It was a quaint old church in a quaint old town nestled away at the foot of the Sierra Madre Mountains, in a spot from where you might look out over the San Gabriel Valley down to the sea. The almond orchard at the back of the Mission was in full bloom, the faint pink of the blossoms contrasting with the brown adobe of the building. The wild mustard covering the foot-hills looked at a little distance like soft yellow velvet. The white orange blossoms set in dark foliage filled the air with perfume and the stillness was
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only broken by the three liquid notes of a meadow lark repeated over and over again. But the young man at the gate saw none of these things. He stood with bowed head, looking unseeingly at his clinched hands on the gate in front of him. For many weeks he had been trying to persuade him- self that it was not his duty to give up his life and all it held for him. Only yesterday evening Margarita had confessed that she loved him. He had overheard her talking to her mother and a strange, sweet madness had seized him. He would go and clasp her close in his arms and never, never let her go. But even as the thought crossed his mind he knew it could not be, for Margarita the gay, Margarita the fun-loving, would never help him in the life of severe religion to which he had determined to devote himself. Through the long night he had struggled and now he had finally reached the gate on his way to tell the padre of his determination. He had reached that point so many times before and always the vision of Margarita ' s dark eyes and sweet wayward face had driven him back. But this morning, with the sound of her words in his ears, he knew that it was now or never. He couldn ' t give her up ; she was so adorable with her willful ways. No, he had been mad to have ever dreamed of doing such a thing ; he never could live without her. As he started to go back, the rising sun shining in long slanting beams across the mountains brought the tall yucca into sharp relief and threw strange shadows across the earth. Just as he turned his startled eyes fell full on The Shadow of the Cross. The next minute the gate clicked after him. He had gone in, leaving behind him Margarita and life. The world was sleeping in the heat of a summer noon ; the hot air shimmered over the dry brown fields and dusty road; a veil of heat hung over the mountains, behind which they appeared high and dim and far away.
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