"Then I paid my visit to Mr. Beverly, but with no cowhide . ' Mr. Beverly,' said I, 'I want to announce to you my engagement to Miss Ethel Lansing, whose Michigan copper land you have lately acquired. I hope that you bought some for your mother.'"
"Those," concluded Mr. Richard Field, "are the circumstances attending my engagement which I felt might interest you. And now, Ethel, tell your story, if they'll listen."
"Richard," said Ethel, "that is the story I was going to tell."
PADRE IGNACIO
Or The Song of Temptation
BY OWEN WISTER
I
At Santa Ysabel del Mar the season was at one of those moments when the air rests quiet over land and sea. The old breezes were gone; the new ones were not yet risen. The flowers in the mission garden opened wide; no wind came by day or night to shake t
