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You
will
hear
also
that
Señor
Goodwin
,
like
a
tower
of
strength
,
shielded
Doña
Isabel
Guilbert
through
those
subsequent
distressful
days
;
and
that
his
scruples
as
to
her
past
career
(
if
he
had
any
)
vanished
;
and
her
adventuresome
waywardness
(
if
she
had
any
)
left
her
,
and
they
were
wedded
and
were
happy
.
The
American
built
a
home
on
a
little
foothill
near
the
town
.
It
is
a
conglomerate
structure
of
native
woods
that
,
exported
,
would
be
worth
a
fortune
,
and
of
brick
,
palm
,
glass
,
bamboo
and
adobe
There
is
a
paradise
of
nature
about
it
;
and
something
of
the
same
sort
within
.
The
natives
speak
of
its
interior
with
hands
uplifted
in
admiration
.
There
are
floors
polished
like
mirrors
and
covered
with
hand-woven
Indian
rugs
of
silk
fibre
,
tall
ornaments
and
pictures
,
musical
instruments
and
papered
walls
--
"
figure-it-to-yourself
!
"
they
exclaim
.
But
they
can
not
tell
you
in
Coralio
(
as
you
shall
learn
)
what
became
of
the
money
that
Frank
Goodwin
dropped
into
the
orange-tree
.
But
that
shall
come
later
;
for
the
palms
are
fluttering
in
the
breeze
,
bidding
us
to
sport
and
gaiety
.
The
United
States
of
America
,
after
looking
over
its
stock
of
consular
timber
,
selected
Mr.
John
De
Graffenreid
Atwood
,
of
Dalesburg
,
Alabama
,
for
a
successor
to
Willard
Geddie
,
resigned
.
Without
prejudice
to
Mr.
Atwood
,
it
will
have
to
be
acknowledged
that
,
in
this
instance
,
it
was
the
man
who
sought
the
office
.
As
with
the
self-banished
Geddie
,
it
was
nothing
less
than
the
artful
smiles
of
lovely
woman
that
had
driven
Johnny
Atwood
to
the
desperate
expedient
of
accepting
office
under
a
despised
Federal
Government
so
that
he
might
go
far
,
far
away
and
never
see
again
the
false
,
fair
face
that
had
wrecked
his
young
life
.
The
consulship
at
Coralio
seemed
to
offer
a
retreat
sufficiently
removed
and
romantic
enough
to
inject
the
necessary
drama
into
the
pastoral
scenes
of
Dalesburg
life
.
It
was
while
playing
the
part
of
Cupid
's
exile
that
Johnny
added
his
handiwork
to
the
long
list
of
casualties
along
the
Spanish
Main
by
his
famous
manipulation
of
the
shoe
market
,
and
his
unparalleled
feat
of
elevating
the
most
despised
and
useless
weed
in
his
own
country
from
obscurity
to
be
a
valuable
product
in
international
commerce
.
The
trouble
began
,
as
trouble
often
begins
instead
of
ending
,
with
a
romance
.
In
Dalesburg
there
was
a
man
named
Elijah
Hemstetter
,
who
kept
a
general
store
.
His
family
consisted
of
one
daughter
called
Rosine
,
a
name
that
atoned
much
for
"
Hemstetter
.
"
This
young
woman
was
possessed
of
plentiful
attractions
,
so
that
the
young
men
of
the
community
were
agitated
in
their
bosoms
.
Among
the
more
agitated
was
Johnny
,
the
son
of
Judge
Atwood
,
who
lived
in
the
big
colonial
mansion
on
the
edge
of
Dalesburg
.
It
would
seem
that
the
desirable
Rosine
should
have
been
pleased
to
return
the
affection
of
an
Atwood
,
a
name
honoured
all
over
the
state
long
before
and
since
the
war
.
It
does
seem
that
she
should
have
gladly
consented
to
have
been
led
into
that
stately
but
rather
empty
colonial
mansion
.
But
not
so
.
There
was
a
cloud
on
the
horizon
,
a
threatening
,
cumulus
cloud
,
in
the
shape
of
a
lively
and
shrewd
young
farmer
in
the
neighbourhood
who
dared
to
enter
the
lists
as
a
rival
to
the
high-born
Atwood
.
