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DAWN AND THE DONS 146 Conception’s father was the next to the last Governor of California under Spain; her brother, Luis Antonio Arguello, was the first Governor of California under Mexico; and a half century after her betrothal to the Russian baron, the Sister Mary Dominica Arguello died at Benicia, where the Dominican

Order moved in 1854,

following the removal of the State Capital. From the historic facts here briefly told, Gertrude Atherton has woven one of the greatest of her romances of California,
 * “Rezanov.”