chin, a large, mobile mouth, a high nose, are not uncom-
mon in Spain. Mrs. Tellamantez could not write her name,
and could read but little. Her strong nature lived upon
itself. She was chiefly known in Moonstone for her forbear-
ance with her incorrigible husband.

Nobody knew exactly what was the matter with Johnny,
and everybody liked him. His popularity would have been
unusual for a white man, for a Mexican it was unprece-
dented. His talents were his undoing. He had a high,
uncertain tenor voice, and he played the mandolin with
exceptional skill. Periodically he went crazy. There was
no other way to explain his behavior. He was a clever
workman, and, when he worked, as regular and faithful
as a burro. Then some night he would fall in with a crowd
at the saloon and begin to sing. He would go on until
he had no voice left, until he wheezed and rasped. Then
he would play his mandolin furiously, and drink until his
eyes sank back into his head. At last, when he was put
out of the saloon at closing time, and could get nobody
to listen to him, he would run away--along the railroad
track, straight across the desert. He always managed to
get aboard a freight somewhere. Once beyond Denver,
he played his way southward from saloon to saloon until
he got across the border. He never wrote to his wife; but
she would soon begin to get newspapers from La Junta,
Albuquerque, Chihuahua, with marked paragraphs an-