quirements of your position on my staff."

He turned his back and ordered a canoe to be
lowered. Since the arrival of the Governor and
Commandante, now three days ago, all restrictions
on his liberty had been removed, and the phrases
of hospitality were a trifle less meaningless. He
had been asked to give his word to keep away from
the fortifications, and as he knew quite as much of
the military resources of the country as he desired,
he had merely suppressed a smile and given his
promise.

This morning he wanted nothing but a walk. He
had slept badly, the blood was in his head, his
nerves were on edge. He went rapidly along the
beach and over the steep hills that led to the north-
eastern point of the peninsula. But he had taken
the walk before and did not turn his head to look
at the great natural amphitheater formed by the
inner slopes of those barren heights, so uninterest-
ing of outline from the water. Once when Luis
had left him to go down with an order to the Bat-
tery of Yerba Buena, he had examined it critically
and concluded that never had there been so fine a
site for a great city. Nor a more beautiful, with
the broken line of the San Bruno mountains in the
distance and a glimpse of the Mission valley just
beyond this vast colosseum, whose steep imposing
lines were destined by nature to be set with palaces