nice, how dignified and how sweet does the name Governor sound, indeed!
The name of this famous Governor was Don Pancho Ismael. Yes, that don meant everything-the title: suggested its meaning--an easy life. More, he was a dangerous man to dally with, Mery Town heard him often blow his own horn, especially since he had been inaugurated as a de facto governor of the Province of the Plains.
There was another current story told that he once-had during his troublous gallant days a paramour-hidden somewhere, nobody knows.
In the same province there were peaceful, law. abiding citizens, among whom was Juan de la Cruz, a benevolent-looking, hard-working, and liberty-loving man, common among the many types of Filipino younger element. He was a restless citizen, roving and discontented; and, therefore, well known to every Furthermore, he was one who could keep no secrets. He was without a permanent residence-no cedula and, consequently, he had been a townmate of everybody.
In not a far distant barrio, there also dwelt a family of the middle class: a middle-aged woman called Felipa on whose careworn face Time had obliterated the beauty once her own, the pride of her younger days. She had a child bred in the government public. schools. She called her Rosa Garcia,-a blooming flower was she. She was fair-built, of white Malayan
