The one was interesting because she was the handsomest girl in Santa Fe, and would have been considered a handsome girl anywhere; the other was interesting because she was a remarkable woman, and even, as Mr.Jefferson Brick might have phrased it, "one of the most remarkable women in our country, sir." At least so she judged, and judged it too with very considerable confidence, being one of those persons who say, "If I know myself, and I think I do." The beauty was of a mixed type.

She combined the blonde and the brunette fashions of loveliness.

You might guess at the first glance that she had in her the blood of both the Teutonic and the Latin races.

While her skin was clear and rosy, and her curling hair was of a light and bright chestnut, her long, shadowy eyelashes were almost black, and her eyes were of a deep hazel, nearly allied to blackness.

Her form had the height of the usual American girl, and the round plumpness of the usual Spanish girl.