“You’ll be sorry,” he warned. “So will all the orchard people! Wait and see!”
CHAPTER 10
At the Cannery
AFTER Juan had disappeared among the trees, the land owner turned to speak to the Brownies. By this time all the girls had waded out of the water.
“I didn’t mean you,” he said. “You may stay here as long as you wish.”
“But why did you send Juan away?” asked Veve. She did not like the way he had treated her little friend.
“Oh, he’s a Mexican. The pickers have a camp not far from here.”
“But Juan is nice.”
“He’s a Mexican, and they aren’t allowed to use the beaches hereabouts,” the man repeated. “Juan, as you call him, may be all right, but if I let him swim here, all the camp would show up. The pickers are a shiftless lot.”