A Tale of Lone Mountain UNK before the grmgoes came to Lahforma the old Xlxssxon Dolares xxas knoxxn onlx to the Illflli-1118 and the texx ever patlent padres xxho had braxed the perxls ot xonng Xmerxea to preach the xxord of God to lhex had taught the Indxans to relx more on their erops than the ot the tha e for food to use nnplements an thexr xxork that redueed half and to build substantxal homes and hxe a more cleanlx hfe than the lessness and squalor to xx lnch they h ul been aeeustomed Xnd after all hoxx betttr It xxas to see a trxbe of lllflllSlI'lUllN peaceful Inchans than a ba braxes xx ho hxed on the frtnts of thelr squaws patlent labor them spolls It by sllft mueh nd ot So thought lather Serra as he looked at the great sea of softlx XX3.Vlllg' gram the roxxs and roxxs ot fresh xoung greene the xxell kept roads that serpentxned across the xallex and aboxe all the httle adobe NllQ9lOIl burled ln a kale1doseop1e mass of floxx ere Th1Q had all been done bx the Indxans and the kmd old padre lox ed them one and all But doxxn the road a very dlfferent Qcene xvab belng enacted Secca xxas Sxttxnff m the shade of a tall tree xxatchmg the others Spadlng up the hard Nll'0'lll soil 111 the heat of the summer sun He xxae Nlllflilllg hxs dutx but that xx 'ts no uneommon thmg and hls brothers had long ago ceased to lle had fexx frlends among them for hx moroee taclturn nature lllxll6 confldences X affue rumors xxere XNlllSIX.I'CKl about that he hved at the XIISSIOII get lus share ot the crops at harxest tune but as Qecca xx as of great xx onder chd not on v tm stature 'md an enemx to be reckoned Wllll these rumors dld not take defimte form lust the opposlte xxas Cheetah the faxorxte of the NIINNIUII and the xx arm before Cheetah had been brouvht to the XllS's10Il xxlth an arroxv ln hxs slde Xursed baelx to hfe bx the kxnd old padre he became lns dexoted Qerxant 'md self 'lpplillllitl protector Xs Cheetah xx as thus runnnatlng ox er the past he heard xoxees and lookmq baek saxx Seem bemg taken to task for lns dlshonestx bx l 'lther Serra qecea xxas the onlx one xxho had exer felt the padres xron hand beneath the ffloxe md eaeh tune It made hnn more hateful 'md rexengeful rlhough he anexxered the padre m an utterlx emotxonless xolee hrs soul xxaQ burmng at xxhxte heat and as Father Serra turned axvax lns hand mxoluntarnlx sought hrs belt Cheetah obserxed all thxs and sxxore bx the Great God he had been taught to loxe that he xxould not let Secca out of hrs Qxght for a moment Seeea stood there long gazlng at the httle crow on lone Xlountam that told the tale ot the XIINNIOUN to all the countrx round then he xxent illlkllV tu xxork seoxxhng noxx and then at the Nlxssxon That nxght txxo figures crept Qtealthllx doxxn the road toxxard Lone Nloun tam qecca xxould haxe been rather chsagreeablx surprxsed had he knoxxn that Cheetah xxas cloee on lns heels but as no such thought entered his head he dnl not look back Xfflxlllff at the toot mt the nll he stopper' for one long loolx at the eros then strode t1relesQlx up the slope The top reached Cheetah fell back a httle and erouclnng behmd a trxendlx rock xxatched the proceedlnffe xx1th mterest He xxondered xxhat Qecca xxas gomg to do to the cross but resolved that no harm Qhould come to It for he had been one ot the choeen texx xxho under father Serra had put It up and he felt a lf part of lt belonged to htm Qecca collected some drx brush and pxled rt around the baQe of the cross then he bevan to strnke hx flmt for a Qpark Cheetah noxx Qaxx xxxth horror that he xxas gomg to burn lt and scareelx Inq Te utx ll I ,..-. -. . ' , 2 , , I I 5- - A, Q I ' I I I I - I CI' ' v 5 I ' - l ' H' ty ' I LV f K' . h- I ' I V' v 5- ' ' ' J v V Y I . 1 I , K I I I V K N I Im I I .1 V V I :I N I v 5 .h A IQ. If I v I I1 .1 Uv, ' 5 3 ' ' f . ' - . li' t .' .C ,C V .' b , . I ' f .W ', 1 v Y. I .C .l . A . . fast friend of lfather Serra. This friendship had begun. when, two years , c A I ' . A .A X C v I I x I If v I V I K. L-xl 'C I I 1 I I ,I C I -I xI I ch- . I I LI' K ' A ' , .l ' Ii 'wc x- ' ' .R Il if I -' :1 I' I 1 . I xr -the I Y' - C rx I I I 'S I A V I c x -' .lf Y I . C ' . 1 ' I 1 , I' 4 Iii I yu 'I' . v I Y .1 .I I If v D- C I v 'V C , I ' A T , ' Z , 5 ' 4 C . B. N ' . , . A - . I v 1. ' ' , .C ' .f A ' 1' - l' 7 f. - . 'I ' I 5. Y .Q . V ' ' , ' f S I I I . , L T I IS ' I L ,. , U I ILT . 0 A'
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