The Last of the Aucas Chapter XIII Continued
Don Sylvia and Don Antonio host Major Bloomfield at Carmen where a foreboding hangs over them. Pedro the bombero arrives in blood and mud reporting that hostile Indians are marching from twenty leagues away, a threat they cannot ignore.
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Hapter XIII
Patito
Corrocho
Don Sylvio
Don Valentine
Sylvio
Carmen
Don Sylvia
Estancia
Sylvia
Don Antonio
Major Bloomfield
Dona Concha
Bombero
Pedro
Juan
Pepe
Lopez
An Indian Descent Turns to Blood Drift
Don Sylvio d Arenal and Blas Sallazar defend against masked raiders in a brutal ambush on the pampas. The fight ends with both Spaniards slain and their attackers fleeing, as vultures circle over the aftermath of the violent encounter.
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Don Sylvia
Capataz
Don Blas
Blas
Don Sylvio d’Arenal
Indian Invasion Threat Looms Over Carmen Fort
Governor orders council of war as 700 men are planned from peons merchants gauchos and town crews to defend Carmen. Pepe brings grievous report of Indian plunder and massacres inclining Punta Rosa and San Blas estancias burned, urging immediate mobilization.
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Don Sylvia
Bloomzeld
Caballeros
Don Antonio
Estancias
Carmen
Bombero
Pepe
Pedrito
Ignacio Bayal
San Jose
Punta Rosa
San Blas
Vegetable Curiosities and Plant Antagonisms Across Gardens
A Baltimore Sun excerpt notes trees and plants exhibit social needs and mutual effects. It discusses how wind protection helps young trees, pine and yew suppression of neighbors, castor bean toxicity, thistles versus rape, rose and mignonette scent loss, and the assassin humen elegans that withers distant peach leaves. An anecdote closes with ironic barbed humor about hospitality.
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Russia
Baltimore Sun
A Country House Comedy of Love and Wiles
In a Turvey country house tale near Taylor, Lady Mertoncourt helps Earl Harold Armston plot a sham engagement to Dora Seaton Bingley. The ruse backfires as Gladys Mertoncourt and Armston become truly involved, leading to a fi xted marriage with comic social consequences and unlikely pairings.
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Lady Mertoncourt
Harold
Sixth Earl of Armston
Taylor
Earl of Armston
Gladys Mertoncourt
Seaton Bingley
Dora
Dora Seaton Bingley
Armston
Dora Bingley
Taplow
Gladys
Dora Seaton
Bingley
Mertoncourt
Ellison
Foreign Office
Maxwell
West End
Brigde
Armstron
Dic
Elson
Earl of Armton
Advertiser Confronts Editor Over Ad Error in Town Paper
Washington correspondent recalls a heavy local advertiser storming into the editorial offices in anger and disgust. He thrusts a copy of the paper at the editor and declares the ad a fine break, prompting the editor to seek calm while the dispute unfolds.
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Washington
Iowa
Advertiser
Harper’s
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Blas Sallazar
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