sun, and it gradually grew dark and the shadows flitted till lost in the gloom.
It was evening when they alighted and reached the home of Camilo with his family. The house of Camilo was one of those hospitable Filipino homes. Their hearts flowed kindly towards Lucio. They were. good-natured and loving people, frank in their manners and simple in their ways of living. They were farmers and landholders, their family being one of the well-to-do in Merry Town. That accounted for the reason why so many of their tenants gathered around them, as is customary among provincials when a stranger arrives, especially so as Camilo was one of the pet boys in that village.
Lucio was given every kind attention and brotherly treatment possible, for Camilo looked upon his visiting friend as a brother and an equal, nothing more and nothing less. They were still mere schoolboy friends of the same class in school.
The people gathered around to welcome them.. The young ones spread the news around town that a certain good-looking chap came down with their master's son to spend his vacation there and study farming: life and local conditions. Many other favorable sayings spread along about his manners and his ways of treating others. This gossip covered the whole village: of Merry Town.
In that town there lived also a Governor, who failed thrice in election contests but succeeded at the:
