A sudden recollection of the coyote of the morning recurred to Carroll uneasily.

"And the Indians," he said, with an effort to shake off the feeling; "they, too, have vanished." "All that remained of them is in yonder mound.

It is the grave of the chief and his people.

He never lived to see the fulfillment of his prophecy.

For it was a year after his death that our ancestor, Manuel Guitierrez, came from old Spain to the Presidio with a grant of twenty leagues to settle where he chose.