MARAH ELLIS RYAN

AUTHOR OF “TOLD IN THE HILLS” “THE BONDWOMAN” ETC.

WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS FROM
PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN EXPRESSLY FOR THIS BOOK
BY
HAROLD A. TAYLOR

DECORATIVE DESIGNS BY
RALPH FLETCHER SEYMOUR

ELEVENTH EDITION

CHICAGO
A.C. McCLURG & CO.
1920

Copyright
A.C. McClurg & Co.
1906

Entered at Stationers Hall, London

Photographs by Harold A. Taylor, by permission of
The Hallett-Taylor Company

The Author is indebted to the Southwest Society of the
Archæological Institute of America for the
Spanish Music contained in
this volume

Published May 12, 1906
Second Edition, Sept. 15, 1906
Third Edition, Oct. 1, 1906
Fourth Edition, Dec. 5, 1906
Fifth Edition, Dec. 15, 1906
Sixth Edition, Feb. 11, 1907
7th Edition, Aug. 31, 1907
8th Edition, Jan. 12, 1909
9th Edition, April 30, 1909
10th Edition, Oct. 15, 1910
11th Edition, Nov. 10, 1914

M.A. DONOHUE & CO., PRINTERS AND BINDERS, CHICAGO

Á MIS AMIGOS DE CALIFORNIA

que siempre me han prestado su ayuda con
aquella bonded que les es caracteristica.

M.E.R.

ILLUSTRATIONS

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"“Because of One Little White Vampire”[Frontispiece]
Doña Angela[32]
Raquel Estevan[56]
Keith Bryton[62]
“Never on Any Other Shore”[128]
“You Lied to Me—All of You!”"[166]
“Rũelas Me Fecit: Me Llama San Juan. 1796”.”[176]
“Then I Heard Your Voice”[240]
“Here among the Ruins Consecrated”[260]
“There is No Forgetting”[278]
The Aliso Tree[294]
An Inner Court[302]
The Serenade[312]
“After the Very Gay Supper”[316]
“Their Hostess had Arrived”[320]
“And—He was an Arteaga!”[334]
“Each Way He Turned He Met an Altar or a Priest”[352]
“One Wordless Minute”[368]
“Things Known and Never Told”[372]

CONTENTS

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CHAPTER I[11]
CHAPTER II[21]
CHAPTER III[55]
CHAPTER IV[65]
CHAPTER V[81]
CHAPTER VI[91]
CHAPTER VII[127]
CHAPTER VIII[147]
CHAPTER IX[165]
CHAPTER X[185]
CHAPTER XI[199]
CHAPTER XII[209]
CHAPTER XIII[239]
CHAPTER XIV[248]
CHAPTER XV[263]
CHAPTER XVI[293]
CHAPTER XVII[305]
CHAPTER XVIII[319]
CHAPTER XIX[330]
CHAPTER XX[350]
CHAPTER XXI[355]
CHAPTER XXII[377]

Capitan de un barco
Me escribio un papel
Que si ne queria
Casarme con el.