THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
February 13, 1896.
L:IW ROGUES.
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COVRiGNT i86. SV MACMILLAN 4
(Continued from last week.)
" " CHAPTER X
We turned into the first posada we
Same to a poor, mean sort of an inn
and general shop, to be sure, but we
were in no condition to cavil about tri
fles, being fagged out with our journey
and the adventures of the day and only
too happy to find a house of entertain
ment still open. So, after a dish of saa
tages, with very good wine, we to our
Veda and an end to the torment of fear I
ftad endured from the moment I chang
ed my French habit for Spanish rags.
The next morning, when we had eaten
meal of goats' milk and bread and
paid our reckoning, which amounted to
few rials and no more, Don Sanchez
and I, taking what remained of Moll's
two pieces, went forth into the town,
and there bought two plain suits of
clothes for ourselves in the mode of the
country, and, according to his desire,
another of the same cut for Dawson, to
gether with a little jacket and skirt for
Moll. And these expenditures left us
but just enough to buy a good guitar
and a tambourine. Indeed we should
not have got them at all but that Don
Sanchez higgled and bargained like any
Jew, which he could do with a very
good face now that he was dressed so
beggarly. Then back to our posada, where
in our room Jack and I were mighty
merry in putting on our new clothes, but
going below we find Moll still dressed
in her finery and sulking before her
akirt and jacket, which she would not
put on by any persuasion until her fa
ther fell into a passion of anger. And
the sight of him fuming in a short jacket
barely covering his loins, and a pair of
breeches so tight that the seams would
ecaroe hold together, so tickled her sense
of humor that she fell into a long fit of
laughter, and this ending her sulks she
went up stairs with a good grace and 're
turned in her hated skirt, carrying her
fine dress in a bundle. But I never yet
knew the time when this shy baggage
would not please herself for all her seem
ing yielding to others, and we were yet
to have more pain from her than she
from us in respect of that skirt. For ere.
we had got way through the town she,
dawdling behind to look first into this
shop and then into that, gave us the
slip, so that we were the best part of an
hour hunting the streets up and down in
the utmost anxiety. Then as we were
wearing with our exercise and trouble,
lol she steps out of a shop as calm as
you please in a skirt and jacket of her
own fancy, and ten times more hand
some than our purchase, a red shawl
tied about her waist, and a little round
hat with a bright red bob in it set on
one side of her head, and all as smart as
a carrot.
"Ha," says she, "where have you
been hiding all this time?"
And we, betwixt joy at finding htr
and anger at her impudence, could say
nothing, and yet we were fain to admire
her audacity too. But how, not know
ing one word of the language, she had
made her wants known was a mystery,
and how she had obtained this finery
was another, seeing that we had spent
all there was of her two pieces. Cer
tainly she had not changed her French
gown and things for them, for these, in
a curious bundle, had her father been
carrying up and down.
"If you han't stole 'em, "says Daw
son, finding his tongue at last, "where
did you find the money to pay for those
trappings, minx?"
"In my pocket, sir," says she, with a
courtesy, "where you might have found
yours had you not emptied it so readily j
for the robbers yesterday, and I fancy,"
adds she shyly, "I may still find some ;
left to offer you a dinner at midday if
you will accept it. "
This hint disposed us to make light
of our grievance against her, and we
went out to Eavellos very well satisfied
to know that our next meal depended
not solely upon chance, and this, togeth
er with the bright sunlight and the
sweet invigorating morning air, did be-
in keeping with the smiling gay aspect
of the country about us.
It was strange to see how easily Moll
fell into our happy go lucky humor, she
who had been as stately as any Roman
queen in her long gown being now, in
her short colored skirt, as frolicsome
and familiar as a country wench at a
fair, but indeed she was a born actress
and could accommodate herself as well
to one condition as another with the
mere change of clothes. But I think this
state was more to her real taste than
the other, as putting no restraint upon
her impulses and giving free play to
her healthy, exuberant mirth.
Her very step was a kind of dance,
and she must needs fall a-caroling of
songs like a lark when it flies. Then she
would have us rehearse our old songs to
our new music. So, slinging my guitar
in front of me, I put it in tune, and Jack
ties his bundle to his back that he may
try his hand at the tambourine. And so
we march along singing and playing as
if to a feast, and stopping only to laugh
prodigiously when one or other fell out
of tune the most mad, light hearted
fools in the world but I speak nut of
Don Sanchez, who, feel what he might,
never relaxed his high bearing or unbent
his serious countenance.
One thing I remember of him on this
journey. Having gone about five miles,
we sat us down on a bridge to rest
awhile, and there the don left us to go
a little way up the course of the stream
that flowed beneath, and he came back
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ffa a puny vi sweet Jonquils set ofl
with a delicate kind of fern very pretty,
and this he presents to Moll with a gra
cious little speech, which act, it seemed
to me, was to let her know that he re
spected her still as a young gentlewom
an in spite of her short skirt, and Moll
was not dull to the compliment either,
for, after the first cry of delight in
seeing these natural, dainty flowers,
she loving such things beyond all
, else in the world, she bethought her
to make him a courtesy and reply
to his speech with another as good
and well turned, as she set them in her
waist scarf. Also I remember on this
road we saw oranges and lemons grow
ing for the first time, but full a mile
after Moll had first caught their won-
drous perfume in the air. And these
trees, which are about the size of a crabs
tree, grew in close groves on either side
of the road, with no manner of fence to
protect them, so that any one is lief to
pluck what he may without let, so plen
tiful are they, and curious to see how
fruit and blossoms grow together on the
same bush, the lemons, as I knew, giv
ing four crops in the year, and more de
licious, full and juicy than any to be
bought in England at six to the groat.
We got a dinner of bread and cheese
(very high) at a roadside house and glad
to have that, only no meat of any kind,
but excellent good wine, with dried figs
and walnuts, which is the natural food
of this country, where one may go a
week without touching flesh and yet
feel as strong and hearty at the end, and
here, very merry, Jack in his pertina
cious, stubborn spirit declaring he would
drink his wine in the custom of the
country or none at all, and so squirting
it all over his face, down his new clothes
and everywhere but into his mouth be
fore he could come to do it like Don
Sanchez, but, getting into the. trick of
it, he so mighty proud of his achieve
ment that he must drink pot after pot
until he got as drunk as any lord. So
after that, finding a retired place it be
ing midday and prodigious hot, though
only now in mid April we lay down
under the orange trees and slept a long
hour, to our great refreshment. Daw
son, on waking, remembered nothing of
his being drunk, and being not a penny
the worse for it. And soon another long
stretoh through sweet country, with
here and there a glimpse of the Medi
terranean in the distance of a surprising
blueness, before we reached another
town, and that on the top of a high bill
But it seems that all the towns in these
parts (save those armed with fortresses)
are thus built for security against the
pirates, who ravage the seaboard of this
continent incessantly from end to end,
and for this reason the roads leading up
to the town are made very narrow, tor
tuous and difficult, with watch towers
in places, and many points where a few
armed men lying in ambush could over
whelm an enemy ten times as strong.
The towns themselves are fortified with
gates, the streets extremely narrow and
crooked, and the houses massed all to
gether, with secret passages one to an
other, and a network of little alleys lead
ing whither only the inhabitants know,
so that if an enemy got into them 'tis
ten to one he would never got out alive.
Here Jack and his daughter gave a
show of dancing, first in their French
suits, which were vastly admired, and
after in their Spanish clothes, but they
then were asked to dance a fandango,
which they could not However, we
fared very well, getting the value of 10
shillings in little moneys, and the inn
keeper would take nothing for our en
tertainment, because of the custom we
had brought his house, which we con
sidered very handsome on his part
We set out again the next morning,
but having shown how we passed the
first day I need not dwell upon those
which followed before we reached Barce
lona, there being nothing of any great
importance to tell. Only Moll was now
all agog to learn the Spanish dances and
I cannot easily forget how, after much
coaxing and wheedling on her part, sne
at length persuaded Don Saiichez to
show her a fandango, for surely nothing
in the world was ever more comio than
this stately don, without any music, and
57ie at length persuaded the don to $how
tier a janaanqo.
in the middle of the highroad, cutting
capers, with a countenance as solemn as
any person at a burying. No one could
be more quick to observe the ludicrous
than he, nor more careful to avoid ridi
cule. Therefore it said much for Moll's
cajolery, or for the love he bore her even
at this time, to thus expose himself to
Dawson's rude mirth and mine.
We reached Barcelona the 25th of
April, and there we staid till the 1st
of May, for Moll would go no farther
before she had learned a bolero and
tanaango, which dances we saw danced
at a little theater excellently well, but
in a style quite different from ours, and
the women very fat and plain. And
though Moll, being but a slight slip of a
lass, in whom the warmer passions were
unbegotten, could not give the bolero
the voluptuous, fervor of the Spanish
dancers, yet in agility and in pretty, in
nocent grace she did surpass them all to
naught, which was abundantly proved
when she danced it in our posada before
a court full of Spaniards, for there "iey
were like mad over her, casting tneir
silk handkerchiefs at her feet in homage,
and filling Jack's tambourine three
times over with cigarros and a plentiful
scattering of rials.
And I believe, had we staid there, we
might have made more money than ever
we wanted at that time, though not so
much as Don Sanchez had set his mind
on, wherefore he would have us jog
ging again as soon as Moll could be
brought to it.
From Barcelona we journeyed a
month to Valencia, growing more indo
lent with onr easier circumstances, and
sometimes trudging no more than five
or six miles in a day, and we were, I
think, the happiest, idlest set of vaga
bonds in existence. But indeed in this
country there is not that sp-jr to exer
tion which is forever goading us in this.
The sun fiile suie's heart with content,
and for one's other wants a few half
pence a day will suffice, and if you have
them not 'tis no such great matter, for
these people are exceeding kind and hos
pitable. They will give you a measure
of wine if you are thirsty as we would
give a mug of water, and the poorest
man will not sit down to table without
making you an offer to share what he
has. Wherever we went we were well
received, and in those poor villages
where tbey had no money to give they
would pay us for our show in kind, one
giving us bed, another board and filling
our wallets ere we left 'em with the
best they could afford.
'Twas our habit to walk a few miles
before dinner, to sleep in the shade dur
ing the heat of the day and to reach a
town, if possible, by the fall of the sun.
There would we spend half the night in
jollity and lie abed late in the morning.
The inns and big houses in these parts
are built in the form of squares, inclos
ing an open square with a sort of arcade
all round, and mostly with an awning
running over the sunnier side, and in
this space we used to give our perform
ance, by the light of oil lamps hung
here and there conveniently, with the
addition maybe of moonlight reflected
from one of the white walls. Here any
one was free to enter, we making no
charge, but taking only what they would
freely give.
And his treatment engenders a feel
ing of kindness on both sides (very dif
ferent from our sentiment at home, where
we players as often as not dread the audi
ence as a kind of enemy, ready to tear
us to pieces if we fail to please), and to
us 'twas as great a pleasure to amuse
as tneirs to be amused. I can recall to
mind nothing of any moment occurring
on his journey, save that we spent some
time every day in perfecting our Span
ish dances, I getting to play the tunes
correctly, which at first I made sad
bungling of, and Dawson in learning
his steps. Also he and Moll acquired
the use of a kind of clappers called
castanets, which they play with their
hands in these fandangoes and boleros,
with a very pleasing effect j
At Valencia we staid a week and
three days, lingering more than was
necessary in order to Bee a bull fight.
And this pastime they do not as we
with dogs, but with men, and the bull i
quite free, and, save for the needless j
killing of horses, I think this a very
noble exercise, being a fair trial of ad
dress against brute force. And 'tis not
nearly so brutal as seeing a prize fought
by men, and not more cruel, I take it,
than the shooting of birds and hares for
sport, seeing that the agony of death is
no greater for a sturdy bull than for a
timid coney, and hath this advantage,
that the bull, when exhausted, is dis
patched quickly, whereas the bird or
hare may just escape capture, to die a
miserable long death with a shattered
limb. I
From Valencia we traveled five weeks,
growing, I think, more lazy every day,
over very hilly country to Alicante, a
Beaport town very strongly protected by
a castle on a great rock, armed with
guns of brass and iron, so that the pi
rates dare never venture near. And here
I fully thought we were to dawdle away
another week at the least, this being a
very populous and lively city, promising
much entertainment. For Moll, when
not playing herself, was mad to see oth
ers play, and she did really govern,
with her subtle wiles and winning
smiles, more than her father, for all his
masterful spirit, or Don Sanchez, with
his stern authority. But seeing two or
three English ships in the port the don
deemed it advisable that we should push
on at once for Elche, and, to our great
astonishment, Moll consented to our
speedy going without demur, though
why we could not then discover, but did
soon after, as I Bhall presently show.
CHAPTER XL
Being resolved to our purpose over
night, we set out fairly early in the
morning for Elche, which lies a dozen
leagues or thereabouts to the west of
Alicante. Our way lay through gardens
of oranges and spreading vineyards,
which flourish exceedingly in this part,
being protected from unkind winds by
high mountains against the north and
east, and here you Bhall picture us on
the white, dusty road, Moll leading the
way a dozer yards in advance, a tam
bourine slung on her. back with stream
ing ribbons of many colors, taking two
or three steps on one foot and then two
or three steps on t'other, with a Spanish
swing of her hips at each turn, swing
ing her arms as she clasps her castanets
to the air of a song she had picked up at
Barcelona, and we three men plodding
behind, the don with a guitar across his
back, Dawson with our bundle of
alnthes. and I with awnllf tt b1'
cions nanging o' one side and a skin of
wine on the other, and all as white as
any miller with the dust of Moll's danc
ing. "It might be as well," says Don San
chez in his solemn, deliberate manner,
"if Mistress Moll were advised to prac
tice her steps in our rear."
"Aye, senor," replied Dawson, "I've
been of the same mind these last ten
minutes. But with your consent, Don
Sanchez, I'll put her to a more serious
exercise."
The don consenting with a bow,
Jack continues :
"You may have observed that I
haven't opened my lips since we left
the town, and the reason thereof is that
'I've been turning over in my mind
whether, having come this far, it would
not be advisable to let my Moll know
of our project. Because if she should
refuse the sooner we consider some oth
er plan the better, seeing that now she
is in good case and as careless as the
bird on the bough, and she is less trac
table to our purposes than when she felt
the pinch of hunger and cold and would,
have jumped at anything for a bit of
comfort." ,
"Does she not know of our design?"
asks the don, lifting his eyebrows.
"No more than the man in the moon,
senor," answers Jack "For, though
Kit and I may have discoursed of it at
odd times, we have been mighty care
ful to shut our mouths or talk of a fine
day at her approach. "
"Very good," says Don Sanche.
"You are her father. "
"And she shall know it," says Jack,
with resolution, and taking a stride or
two in advance he calls to her to give
over dancing and come to him.
"Have you forgot your breeding," he
asks as she turns and waits for him,
"that you have no more respect for your
elders than to choke 'em with dust
along of your shuffling?"
"What a thoughtless thing ami!"
cries she in a voice of contrition. ' ' Why,
you're floured as white as a shade. "
Then, taking up a corner of her waist
shawl, she gently rubs away the dust
from the tip of his nose, so that it stands
out glowing red from his face like a
cherry through a hole in a pie crust, at
which she claps her hands and rings out
a peal of laughter.
"I counted to make a lady of you,
Moll," says Jack in sorrow, "but I see
plainly you will ever be a fool, and so
'tis to no purpose to speak seriously. "
"Surely, father, I have ever been
what you wish me to be," answers she
demurely, curious .now to know what he
would be telling her.
"Then do you put them plaguy clap
pers away and listen to me patiently,"
says he.
Moll puts her hands behind her, and
drawing a long lip and casting round
eyes at us over her shoulder walks
along very slowly by her father's side,
while he broaches the matter to her.
And this he did with some difficulty, for
'tis no easy thing to make a roguish
plot look innocent, as we could see by
his shifting his bundle from one shoul
der to the other now and again, scratch
ing his ear and the like, but what he
said we, walking a pace or two behind,
could not catch, he dropping to a very
low tone, as if ashamed to hear his own
voice. To all he has to tell she listens
very attentively, but in the end she says
something which causes him to stop
dead short and turn upon her, gaping j
like a pig. j
"What 1" he cries as we came up. i
"You knew all this two months ago?"
"Yes, father," answers she primly, j
"quite two months. " j
"And pray who told you?" he asks.
"No one, father, since you forbade
me to ask questions. But though I may
be dumb to oblige you I can't be deaf.
Kit and you are forever a-talking of it. "
"Maybe, child, " says Dawson, might
ily nettled, "maybe you know why we
left Alicante this morniDg. "
"I should be dull indeed if I didn't,"
answers she. "And if you hadn't said
when we saw the ships that we might
meet more Englishmen in the town :
than we might care to know hereafter !
why well, maybe we should have been
in Alicante now. " j
"By denying yourself that satisfac- j
tion," says Don Sanchez, "we may con
clude that the future we are making for
you is not unacceptable. "
Moll stops and says, with some pas
sion : i
"I would turn back now and go over
those mountains the way we came to
ride through France in my fine gown
like a lady."
"Bravo! Bravo!" says the don in a
low voice as she steps on in front of us,
holding her head high with the recol
lection of her former state.
"She was ever like that," whispers
Dawson, with pride. "We could never
get her to play a mean part willingly
could we, Kit? She was forever want
ing the part of a queen writ for her."
The next day about sundown, coming
to a little eminence, Don Sanchez points
out a dark patch of forest lying betwixt
us and the mountains and says :
"That is Elche, the place where we
are to stay some months. "
! We could make out no houses at all,
' but he told us the town lay in the mid
dle of the forest and added some curious
particulars as how, lying on flat ground
and within easy access of the sea, it
could not exist at all but for the suffer
ance of the Spaniards on one side and
of the Barbary pirates on the other;
how both for their own convenience re
spected it as heutral ground on which
each could exchange his merchandise
without let or hindrance from the other ;
how the sort of sanctuary thus provided
was never violated either by Algenne
or Spaniard, but each was free to come
and go as he pleased, etc. , and this did
somewhat reassure us, though we had
all been more content to see our destina
tion on the crest of a high hill.
From this point we came in less than
half an hour to Abade, a small village,
but very bustling, for here the cart road
from Alicante ends, all transport of
commodities betwixt this and Elche be
insr. done on mules. So here there was
"WhatP' he cries. "You knew all fhta
two months auot"
great commotion ot carriers setting
down and taking up merchandise and
the way choked with carts and mules
and a very babel of tongues, there being
Moors here as well as Spaniards, and all
shouting their loudest to be the better
understood of each other. These were
the first Moors we had seen, but they
did not encourage us with great hopes
of more intimate acquaintance, wearing
nothing but a kind of long, ragged shirt
to their heels, with a hood for their
heads in place of a hat and all mighty
foul with grease and dirt
Being astir betimes the next morning,
we reached Elche before midday, and
here we seemed to be in another world,
for this region is no more like Spain
than Spain is like our own country.
Entering the forest, we found ourselves
encompassed on all sides by prodigious
high palm trees, which hitherto we had
seen only singly here and there culti
vated as curiosities. And noble trees
they are, standing 80 to 100 feet high,
with never a branch, but only a great
spreading crown of leaves, with strings
of dates hanging down from their midst.
Beneath in marshy places grew sugar
Oanes as high as any bagstock, and else
where were patches of rice, which grows
like corn with us, but thrives well in
the shade, curiously watered by artificial
streams of water. And for hedges to
their property these Moors have agaves,
with great spiky leaves which no man
can penetrate, and other strange plants,
whereof I will mention only one they
call the fig of Barbary, which is no fig
at all, but a plant having large, fleshy
leaves growing one out of the other,
with fruit and flower sprouting out of
the edges, and all monstrous prickly. To
garnish and beautify this formidable
defense nature had cast over all a net
work of creeping herbs with most ex
traordinary flowers, delightful both to
see and smell, but why so prickly no
man can say.
"Surely this must be paradise," cries
Moll, staying to look around her.
And we were of the same thinking un
til we came to the town, which, as I
have said, lies in the midst of this for
est, and then all our hopes and expecta
tions were dashed to the ground, for we
had looked to find a city in keeping
with these surroundings of fairy pal
aces and stately mansions. In place
whereof was naught but a wilderness of
mean, low, squalid houses, with me
andering, ill paved alleys, and all past
everything for unsavory smells heaps
of refuse lying before every door, stark
naked brats of children screaming every
where and a pack of famished doge
snapping at our heels,
Don Sanchez leads the way, we fol
lowing, with rueful looks one at the
other, till we reach the market place,
and there he takes us into a house of
entertainment, where a dozen Moors are
squatting on their haunches in groups
about sundry bowls of a smoking mess
called cuscusson, which is a kind of
paste with a little butter in it and a
store of spices. Their manner of eating
it is simple enough. Each man dips his
nand in the pot, takes out a handful and
dances it about till it is fashioned into
a ball, and then he eats it with all the
gusto in the world.
For our repast we were served with a
joint of roast mutton, and this being
cut up we had to take up in our hands
and eat like any savages, their religion
denying these Moors anything but the
bare necessities of life. Also their law
forbids the drinking of wine, which did
most upset Jack Dawson, he having for
drink with Ijis meat nothing but the
choice of water and sour milk, but which
he liked least I know not,, for he would
touch neither, saying he would rather
go dry any day than be poisoned with
such liquor.
While we were at our meal a good
many Moors came in to stare at us, as
at a raree show, and especially at Moll,
whose bright clothes and loose hair ex
cited their curiosity, for their women dc
rarely go abroad, except they be old,
and wear only long, dirty white robes,
muffling the lower part of their faces.
None of them smiled, and it is noticea
ble that these people, like our own don,
do never laugh, taking such demonstra
tion as a sign of weak understanding
and foolishness, but watching all our
actions very intently. And presently an
old Moor, with a white beard and more
cleanly dressed than the rest, pushing
the orowd aside to see what was for
ward, recognized Don Sanchez, who at
once rose to his feet, we, not to be be
hind him in good manners, rising also.
"May Babar?" says the old Moor,
and repeating this phrase thrice, which
is a sure sign of hearty welcome, he
claps the don's hand without shaking it
and lays his own upon his breast, the
don doing likewise. Then Don Sanchez,
introducing us as we understood by his
gestures, the old Moor bends his head
gravely, putting his right hand first to
his heart, next to his forehead and then
kissing the two foremost fingers laid
across his lips, we replying as best we
could with a bowing and scraping,
These formalities concluded, the don
and the old Moor walk apart, and we
squat down again to our mutton bones.
After a lengthy discussion the old
Moor goes, and Don Sanchez, having
paid the reckoning, leads us out of the
town by many crooked alleys and cross
passages, he speaking never a word and
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exceedingly what is to happen next
And following a wall overhung by great
palms we turn a corner and find there
our old Moor standing beside an open
door with a key in his hand. The old
Moor gives the key into Don Sanchez's
hand, and with a very formal salutation
leaves us.
Then, following the don through the
doorway, we find ourselves in a spacious
garden, but quite wild for neglect, flow
er and weed and fruit all mingling
madly together, but very beautiful to
my eye nevertheless for the abundance
of color, the richness of the vegetables
and the graceful forms of the adjacent
palms.
A house stood in the midst of this
wilderness, and thither Don Sanchez
picked his way, we at his heels still too
amazed to speak. Beside the house was
a well, with a little wall about it, and
seating himself on this Don Sanchez
opens his lips for the first time.
"My friend, Sidi ben Ahmed, has
offered me the use of this place as long
as we choose to stay here, " says he.
"Go look in the house and tell me if
you care to live in it for a year. "
(To be Continued.)
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