mater. The boy's grandmother also still lived in the home

wherein, he himself had grown to manhood. His eyes filled

with tears when he remembered the red brick house in Canal

Street, with its white door and dormer windows, and its one

cherry tree in the strip of garden behind.

But Dona Maria's national and religious principles, or rather

prejudices, were very strong. She regarded the college of San

Juan de Lateran in Mexico as the fountainhead of knowledge.