Mary Ware In Texas Author:Annie F. Johnston MARY WARE IN TEXAS . - CONTENTS - CHAPTER I. IN SAN ANTONIO . IV. MARY FINDS GAY . VI. ON THE CREEK-BANK . , VII. CHRISTMA . S VIII. DIE KLEINEN T EUFE L . IX. AT THE BARNABRYA NCH . X. IN JOYCES TUDIO . XI. PHILG OES T O WARWICHKA LL XII. IN BLUE-BONN E T T IME . XIII. JACK . XIV. SAN JACINTOD AY . XV. NEW TRAILS . . . PAGE i LIST OF ILLUSTRATI... more »ONS PAGE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN JOY TO HER SOUL COULD SHE HAVE SEEN HERSELF See page 308 . Frontispiece A DASHING GIRL IN KHAKI AND A COWBOY HAT, ASTRIDE A FIERY L I E MU STANG . 59 HE . . . SEATED HIMSELF BESIDE HER, COFFEE - CUP IN HAND . 113 6 SHE SENT THE BOAT DOWN STREAM WITH LONG, SWIFT STROKES 34 C THRE A E L ERT AND EXPECTANT LITTLE FIGURES SAT IN A ROW ON THE STEPS . . . . 198 6 LEANIN A G GA INST THE MANTEL, LOOKED DOWN AT HER, THOUGHTFULLY . . - 263 WELL, IM GOING AWAY AND I MAY NOT SEE YOU AGAIN . 375 MARY WARE IN TEXAS CHAPTER I IN SAN ANTONIO THE musicians were tuning their instruments somewhere behind the palms in the hotel courtyard. It was one of the older hotels of San Antonio, much sought by Northern tourists on account of that same inner garden, around which the big building stretched itself. The rooms opening on to it had vine-covered balconies, and, looking down from them into the tropical growth of. palms and banana trees and roses, one felt that it was summer time, no matter what the calendar said. It was on one of the second floor balconies at the close of a November day that Mary Ware stood looking around her with eager eyes. Queens wreath and moon-vines made such a thick screen that no one could see her, so she might lean over the railing as far as she pleased to watch the brilliantly lighted scene below. Electric bulbs were strung through the cacti and devils ivy like elfin lamps...« less