Stories by
American Authors
VOLUME X
| PANCHA | MANMAT’HA | |
| By T. A. JANVIER | By CHARLES DE KAY | |
| THE ABLEST MAN IN THE WORLD | A DARING FICTION | |
| By E. P. MITCHELL | By H. H. BOYESEN | |
| YOUNG MOLL’S PEEVY | THE STORY OF TWO LIVES | |
| By C. A. STEPHENS | By JULIA SCHAYER |
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1896
Copyright, 1884, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
PANCHA: A STORY OF MONTEREY.
By T. A. Janvier.
⁂ Century Magazine, September, 1884.
When the Conde de Monterey, being then Viceroy of this gracious realmof New Spain, sent his viceregal commissioners, attended by holypriests, up into the northern country to choose a site for an outpostcity, there was found no spot more beautiful, none more worthy to becrowned, than this where the city of Monterey stands to-day. And sothe commissioners halted beside the noble spring, the ojo de agua,that gushes out from its tangle of white pebbles in what now is thevery heart of the town; and the priests set up the sacred cross andsang a sweet song of praise and thankfulness to the good God who hadso well guided them to where they would be; and the colonists enteredin and possessed the land.
This all happened upon a fair day now close upon three hundred years[Pg 6]gone by. From century to