70 BRUNO 



CHAPTER XI 



NOT long after Bruno's self-imposed night 

 watch we found ourselves settled on 

 our own estate, ready to carry out our plans for 

 the future. Briefly they were as follows. We 

 had intended to make an orange-grove, and 

 while it was coming to maturity, we expected 

 to raise early vegetables to ship to northern 

 markets. We brought with us only money 

 enough to make our place and live for a year : 

 by that time we had fully expected to have 

 returns from vegetable shipments which would 

 tide us over till another crop. We had plenty 

 of faith and courage, and were troubled by no 

 doubts as to the feasibility of our plans. Nor 

 need we have been, if only our land had con- 

 tained the proper elements for vegetable grow- 

 ing. It was good enough orange land, but it 

 would be a long time before we could depend 

 on oranges for an income. 



All this time we had been learning many 

 things, taking care, as we began to understand 



