Motion Picture Story Magazine (Feb 1914 - Sep 1916 (assorted issues))

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WORD COMES TO FERNANDO AND PEDRO OF CHONITA'S DOWNFALL off the bones — fire that did not sear, but destroyed. She had sloe-eyes ; cheeks of old ivory with a stain of blood beneath ; hair like some treacherous night before a storm, with a vivid, fragrant Mower in it ; lips more vivid and more fragrant than the flower ; a body all sinew and satin, all strength and weakness, all question and answer. "Teddy had never seen her like — no, nor have any of us. We do not breed that kind up here — and it is just as well. ''Only one had witnessed that flung rose in the dusk — that stolen kiss while Donna Luz, the duenna, was off guard. That one was the very one of all others who should not have seen it — young Pedro, the son of Don Alvarez, a friend of Don Fernando's — and Pedro loved Chonita with every fiber of a nature as fierce, as clamorous and as fatalistic as her own. His blood went bad. He knew that Teddy was not as others who wooed her. He knew that, proudblooded as her father, she did not give her favors thus to any other. And even