... it, and the adjacent ground was, for a space, covered with transplanted grass and shrubs. A little lake, long and narrow, glimmered in the sun at the rear. Further away stood the shacks of the ... the autumn clip, and had then subsided into an anesthetic cloud of Havana smoke. Only as incompetent a judge as a woman would have failed to note long ago that at least a third of his salary ... like a liability than an asset. Those are the places where the centipedes are found, and cowboys, and fandangos." "&apos ;The Rancho de las Sombras,'" read Octavia from a...