seating himself on one of the stone
inooring-posts, with his eyes fixed upon
the vessel, said :
"Then you shall."
This is his story as closely as I can
recollect it, word for word :
Fifteen years ago two people who
oved one .mother more than well lived
at the farmhouse of the Finca Suberney
in the Barranco (valley) de Algan
dar. One w as a girl of the farm,a creature
of a beauty as pure and sweet as our
summer sky ; and a spirit as loving aud
wayward as the wind that blows from
the orange gardens of Alayor.
The other, a lad of twenty, half sail
or, half hiisbandman.bnt all true lover,
had been anchored in the valley by the
cable of his heart, and in her eyes for
gotten to long for the free air and the
ealt spray.
They were man and wife, of but a
few months standing man and wife,
who went to labor, in the lime groves
and orange orchards side by side, and
to whom, even with its weary work
and common fare, the valley was a
Paradise.
In the third month of their marriage
a stranger appeared in the valley.
