Felipe learns Alessandro has been murdered and rides straight toward Ramona's mountain home.
1. Ramona, Chapter XXV Part 2, follows Felipe's race to the Cahier village after Joss and Aunt Tree learn that Alessandro has been killed.
2. LibriVox volunteer Ellie reads the chapter, and Joss, Felipe, Aunt Tree, Sam Merrill, and André carry the action through dialogue and translation.
3. The chapter's central question is whether Felipe can reach Ramona before her fever and grief make the mountain visit useless.
4. Joss coolly answers Felipe's suspicion about Benito and Baber, then repeats the same explanation in Spanish so Felipe understands the horses are not stolen.
5. Felipe jumps into the wagon, shouts that the horses have been found, and says he has been searching California for them.
6. Aunt Tree arrives running and announces that Alessandro has been 'murdered,' which makes Felipe collapse into the news instead of the reunion he expected.
7. She decides to go with Felipe, insists that Ramona may still be alive because of her baby, and rejects the formal title 'Signora' in favor of 'Aunt Rie.'
8. The Merrill family warns that the trail is a cruel road with steep angles, six miles of lumber road, and a steep ascent into the Cahier village.
9. A younger Merrill guides the party, and the ride passes pine forest, a sawmill, clearings, meadows, and the south side of San Jacinto Mountain.
10. At dawn the travelers reach the village and face hostile faces because Alessandro's killing and Ferrer's release have reopened the anger.
11. Aunt Tree answers the crowd with blunt contempt, while Sam Merrill calls Jim Ferrer's shot after the death 'a darned mean thing.'
12. Inside the house, Felipe finds Ramona on a wretched pallet with dishevelled hair, glittering eyes, scarlet cheeks, and a rosary of gold beads.
13. The villagers have kept candles burning for Alessandro and Ramona for ten days, but they have not been able to end the fever.
14. Aunt Tree runs back to the hillside, finds a patch of soft shiny grey leaves, and returns with the plant she thinks will break the fever.
15. She presses the bitter infusion on Ramona with blistered hands, and the narration explicitly turns the treatment into a struggle between death and life.
16. Ramona sleeps before night, and Felipe and Aunt Tree keep watch as the room quiets.
17. The tone is urgent but plain, mixing frontier logistics, dialect speech, and a bedside rescue instead of ornamental narration.
18. The format shifts from street argument to mountain travel to nighttime prayer, so the chapter feels like a sequence of practical actions.
19. Readers who like classic American novels, mountain travel, and family rescue scenes.
20. Listeners wanting a modern discussion, a standalone mystery, or fast comic pacing.
