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A SPANISH LOVE SONG
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girl. Think you she is the only handsome woman in Mexico, or that Don Jose is used to being put off by the child of a peon? The girl comes to my house to-night, or not at all. Is gold so plentiful with you that you fail to seize a handful, or are you not master in your own home?"
With a furious gesture, Pedro turned upon the girl, but shrank, cowed, before the strange, new light in her eyes. Mastering his anger, he sought to beguile her with soft words, while Don Jose leered, and held out his arms.
' ' How I hate you all ! How I despise you ! And I defy you all ! " Juanita suddenly burst out, passionately, and rushed from the place.
Had fate granted more than one brief, chance meeting to the lovers ; had not Jack's racial caution caused his passion to spend itself in rosy dreams, instead of activity in the
seeking of his fair one ; had Juanita been less imbued with the idea of parental control, or had her gentle nature been of stiffer fiber, probably the girl's declaration that she would beg no more for her drunken father and unclean mother would have been adhered to. But, unsupported from without, and with heart heavy with the thought that to the young American she had been less than a passing fancy, she was soon driven back into the habits of years. Moreover, she hungered, for the only food that came into her home was that purchased with the money her singing provided. And, so curious are the ways of Providence, had she not again taken her guitar to the saloons, the promise of Don Jose that Jack Mason should pay for that knockout blow would have been fulfilled.
In a vague restlessness, Jack had come into the town from the mines, and injudiciously, being alone, en
JUANITA OVERHEARS THE CONSPIRACY