Yet she was always the principal performer to an admiring audience.

Perhaps there was security in this multitude of admirers; perhaps there was a saving grace in this humorous trifling.

The passions are apt to be serious and solitary, and Jovita evaded them with a jest,--which, if not always delicate or witty, was effective in securing the laughter of the majority and the jealousy of none.
At the end of the week another peculiarity was noticed.

There was a perceptible increase of the Mexican population, who had always hitherto avoided Buckeye.

On Sunday an Irish priest from El Pasto said mass in a patched-up corner of the old Mission ruin opposite Rollinson's Ford.