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CONTENTS Mission Bells In the Days of the Padres A Story of San Juan Capistrano The Ride of the Neophytes Matilija Concepción Agüella The Story of Little Rossiya The Penance Bell of Los Angeles Wana and Ahzi-Papoose Pirate Joe Dos Hermanas (The Two Sisters) Terésa, the Popeloutechom Neophyte El Molino Viéjo (The Old Mill)

ISBN: 1410104060

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...I RIDE OF THE NEOPHYTES Without murmur or plaint, in silent farewell, With sorrow and saintly submission The good Father meekly bowed his gray head In concession to man. The full rays of sun lined the hills in the east, And revealed to the Padre a thick cloud of dust On El Camino Real of the Mission. He watched it, but saw not; his heart lay beyond it. The clank of the anchor chain fell on the air; The good Padre shuddered and leaned toward the rail As the huge vessel kissed the waves of the ocean. (77) i MISSION TALES i Now his eyes saw again the dust on the road, And he heard a faint cry as if children were Wafting an angel s good-bye in the morning. The sound grew in volume; the dust formed to riders; A shout rent the air that made the crew tremble. Wild Indians they, who rode like the demon, They bent to the saddles, lay flat on their ponies, They shrieked and they cursed like the wildest of heathen, Unmindful of all, save the unanchored vessel. Down to the waters leaped...