At dawn on the road to San José a tramp slips into the hills like a coyote, and the story moves to a rich old rancho near the cañada del Raimundo. There Maruja, the wilful, half-Spanish daughter of the house, keeps a circle of suitors guessing, while a hidden past and old Californian superstition shadow her family.
A short Harte novel of Spanish California in its last romantic years. Download the free EPUB.