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76 4Along the Rio Grande
"I am not in sympathy with your natural laws at
all, " she said. "I believe only in divine laws." I moved my
chair nearer to the philosopher.
"I know a lot of people who would have been
killed if they had depended merely upon natural laws,"
she continued, and I began to see that there was a practical
side to her teachings. "A woman acquaintance of
mine was thrown out on her head in a rocky gully near
here. The cart passed right over her neck. According
to natural laws she should have been killed, but she kept
saying to herself, 'I believe in the divine law, I believe
in the divine law,' and her neck wasn't even scratched.
"Another friend of mine lit a gasolene stove in the
kitchen and went into the next room. She heard an
explosion and ran back. The whole room was in flames,
but she said to herself, 'I believe in divine law, I believe
in divine law.' She went into the room. The flames
vanished immediately and she carried the stove safely
outside. What do you think of that?" she demanded
belligerently.
I thought it best to go to my room and unpack my
bag by means of natural laws, so I left her and the philosopher
discussing the pros and cons of her belief.
After dinner, at which a number of officers from the
regiment stationed at Ysleta were present, we adjourned
to the sitting room, where Mrs. O. P. Lansden. the charming
and interesting "manageress" of the inn, told us of
the various raids recently made by the Mexicans in that
vicinity and particularly of the one at Columbus in which
a large number of those involved were friends of hers,
and had either lived in Ysleta or had been stationed
there for military duty.
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