And Carlotta?
Ah, Carlotta.
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APPENDICES AND NOTES
On the fate of Carlotta de Leyva.
Carlotta had been killed a week before this.
The day after her arrest, some hours after Hi had started on his journey, Don Lopez ordered Carlotta to pray to him while he sat throned in public on the high altar of the Mission Church of Santa Barbara. On her refusal, he ordered her to be enclosed in a house of common prostitutes.
The mistress of this house, an Englishwoman known as Aunt Jennings, refused to admit her, saying, “That none but a dirty dog would have thought of sending her.”
When this was reported to Don Lopez, he ordered that Carlotta and Aunt Jennings should be taken by the hangman to the new town, and that there their throats should be cut. This deed was at once done by Don Lopez’ son, Don José, assisted by the two half-breeds, Zarzas and Livio.
This was the first of the many crimes committed by the Red party in the year of madness, 1887-1888.
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