Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948 / 2008-07-31 00:00:00

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[Illustration: "'IT WAS ONLY THE PEARLS YOU WANTED.'"]


THE SPLENDID IDLE FORTIES

_STORIES OF OLD CALIFORNIA_

BY
GERTRUDE ATHERTON
AUTHOR OF "THE CONQUEROR," "SENATOR NORTH" "THE ARISTOCRATS," ETC.

_WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY HARRISON FISHER_

1902



TO
THE BOHEMIAN CLUB
OF SAN FRANCISCO
AS A SLIGHT ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF
ITS COURTESY IN PLACING
ITS FINE
LIBRARY OF CALIFORNIAN LITERATURE
AT MY DISPOSAL


NOTE

This is a revised and enlarged edition of the volume which was issued
some years ago under the title, "Before the Gringo Came."


CONTENTS

THE PEARLS OF LORETO
THE EARS OF TWENTY AMERICANS
THE WASH-TUB MAIL
THE CONQUEST OF DONA JACOBA
A RAMBLE WITH EULOGIA
THE ISLE OF SKULLS
THE HEAD OF A PRIEST
LA PERDIDA
LUKARI'S STORY
NATALIE IVANHOFF: A MEMORY OF FORT ROSS
THE VENGEANCE OF PADRE ARROYO
THE BELLS OF SAN GABRIEL
WHEN THE DEVIL WAS WELL


THE PEARLS OF LORETO

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Within memory of the most gnarled and coffee-coloured Montereno never
had there been so exciting a race day.
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