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RICHMOND RODEO | THEIR LAST BAILE mlT was one of the beautiful moonlight evenings of early i summer in California. Scarcely enough breeze crept through the windows in the old adobe salade baile to flutter the flame of the many brilliant candles. The music mingled with the merry-hearted laughter of girls and the carefree jesting of the men. For this was a time which had been long looked forward to by all the young folks for miles around the little pueblo of San Pablo. The event was the marriage of Maria Del Norte, the daughter of one of the oldest Spanish settlers, to Pedro Brignone. The fiesta was to last six days—six days and nights of dancing, racing, drinking and gambling. ‘‘Loretta,’’ Maria said to her pretty, black-eyed Spanish cousin, the day before the fiesta, ‘‘you will just have to quit thinking of Joaquin Murietta for the next few days. Surely you are not ignorant of the fact that Manuel Piora is infatuated with you, and you have treated him shamefully. Since J oaquin left you have neither heard nor seen anything of him, and I should think you would be too proud to let all the people in the village see you grieving so.”’ ‘Yes I know, Maria,’’ Loretta replied, with a sigh. ‘‘I will have to do differently. But,’’ she added, in defense of Murietta, ‘‘It would be certain death for Joaquin to come back here since that price of a thousand dollars was set on his head.’’ So it happened that Loretta Lorenza, the prettiest girl in all the country around, appeared at the baile on that memorial night with Manuel Piora in close attendance. Loretta was at her best. Dressed in a bright, spangled ball-gown, with a red rose over each ear, and her black eyes snapping, she was the belle of the baile. ‘‘The next dance is ours, is it not, Senorita?’’ whispered 15
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