gh Guadalajara and I'll run in to see Dolores Tristeza.

J.

_On the Train to Guanajuato._

Sally, she came running to meet me and flung herself into my arms!
The sister says she's never done that to any one before, and she told
me the child had talked of me constantly. They're going to let me
take her out for a whole day when we come back. She called "_Hasta
la vista!_"--and threw me a kiss. She has quite wiped out the
lizard and the _insurrecto_.

_Later._

This is the most fascinating place yet! I'm glad the C.E. lives here,
rather than in the cloying prettiness of the _tierra caliente_. It's
great fun, arriving at a new place after dark. The town is high in
the hills above the station and we came up in a mule car, rattling
through the twisting, narrow streets. I sat near the driver, only
his soft, bright eyes showing between his high-wrapped _serape_ and
his low-drawn _sombrero_, and he told me that his mules were named
Constantino and The Pine Tree, faithful animals both of whom he
tenderly loved. The few pedestrians scuttled into doorways or
flattened themselves against the walls as we caromed past, and from
time to time he blew a deafening blast on a crumpled horn.

We stepped from the car straight into the office of the hotel, and
then the C.E. and I set out with Lupe to escort her to her uncle's
house, but at the first dark turning she gave a smothered little
scream and melted into the arms of a dusky cavalier. Emilio, when
he could spare the time to be introduced, proved something of a
landscape,--large for a Mexican, very much the patrician with his
slim hands and feet and correct Castilian manner. Guanajuato is
rather old-fashioned and he wears the high class, native costume,
and when Lupe is at home here, she always wears a _reboso_ instead
of a hat.

He is the son of so many revolutions, it must make him dizzy to
remember them, but I like him and I mean to help him win his pearl
maiden. He discreetly left us before we reached Lupe's house and
delivered her over to a very impressive Blue-beardish sort of person
who was very gracious to us and asked me to visit Lupe. I shall,--it
fits in perfectly with my plans! I go there to-morrow.

Meanwhile, I go to sleep!

Drowsily,

JANE.

_At Senor Don Diego's Palacio._

Sally, _mia_,