Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1895, Page 11

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Impelled by curios- ity, he apprcaches the wall of the garden, and startles the singer, a beautiful younz girl, who falls off the wall into his arms. She talks to him a moment, coquettishly. Tells him that she is Pepita Ramirez, daugh- ter of the mission gardener. The next day the preacher convinces himself that he has cause to convert her, He sends her a note privately, appointing a meeting at the wall that evening, which Pepita, clad in black lace from head to foot, honors by coming. PART III. is “You haven't brought your guitar,” he continued, still more awkwardly, as he no- ticed that she held only a long black fan in her hand. “For why? You would that I play it, and when my uncle say: ‘Where go Pepita, she is loss,’ some one shell say: ‘Oh! I have hear her tink-a-tink in the garden of the Amer- ano. who lif alone.” And then—it ess fin- ish!” Masterton began to feel exceedingly un- comfortable. There was something in this situation that he had not dreamed of. But with the persistency of an awkward man he went on: “But you played on the wall the other right, ard tried to accompany me.” “But that was lass night and on the wall. I had not speek to you, you had not speak “Are you a devil You had not sent me the leetle note by your peon” She stopped and suddenly cpening her fan before her face, so that crly her mischievous eyes were visible, added: “You had not ask me then to come to hear you make lof to me, Don Esteban. That is the difference.” The circuit preacher felt the blood rush to his face. Anger, shame, mortification, remorse and fear alternately strove with fim, Dut above all and through all he was conscious of a sharp exquisite pleasure— that frightened him still more. Yet he man- aged to exclaim: No! no! You cannot think me capable of such ~ cowardly trick? he girl started, more at the unmistaka- ble sincerity of his utterance than at the words, whose full meaning she may have only imperfectly caught. treek? A treek?” she slowly and won- deringly repeated. Then, suddenly, as If comprehending him, she turned her round black eyes full upon him and dropped her fan from her face. “And what for you ask me to come here; then?” “I wanted to talk with you,” he began, “on far more serious matters. I wished to”—but he stopped. He could not address this quaint child-weman, staring at him in black-eyed wonder, in’either the meas- ured or the impetuous terms with which he would have exhorted a maturer, respo sible being. He made a step toward her; she drew back, striking at his extended hand half impatiently, half mischievously with her fan. He flushed—and then burst out bluntly, “{ want to talk with you about your soul.” “My what?” “Your immortal scul, unhappy girl.” “What have you to make with that? Are you a devil?’ Her eyes grew rounder, though she faced him boldly. Ss “Lam a minister of the gospel,” he said, in hurried entreaty. “You must hear me for a moment. I would save your soul.” “My immertal soul lit with the padre at the missior—you mocst seck her there! My mortal body,” she added, with a mischiev- ous smile, “Say to you, ‘Good a’ night,’ Don Esteban.” She drcrped him a little curtsey and—ran awa “Ore mome' terton, eagerly; beyond his reach. He saw her little black figure passing swiftly beside the moonlit wall, saw it suddenly slide into a shadowy fissure and vanish. In his blank disapp' to me. ointment he could not ONE ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts zently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys- tem effectually, dispels colds, head- aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. 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His dis- comfiture was the more complete since he felt that his defeat was owing to some mistake in his methods, and rot the incor- rigibility of his subject. ‘Was it not spiritual weakness in him to have resented so sharply the girl’s imputa- tion that he wished to make love to her? He should have borne it as Christians had even before now borne slander and false testimory for their faith. He might even have avcepted it, and let the triumph of her conversion in the end prove his innocence. Or was his purpose incompatible with that sisterly affection he had so often preached to the women of his flock? He might have aken her hand, and called her “Sister pita,” even as he had called Deborah ster.” He recalled the fact that he had for an instant held her struggling in his arms; he remembered the thrill that the recollection had caused him, and somehow it now sent a burning blush across his face. He hurried back into the house. The next day a thousand wild ideas took the place of his former settled resolution. He would seek the padre, this custodian of the young girl's soul; he would be- seech him to give him an equal access to her spirit! He would seek the un- cle of the girl and work upon his feelings. He would begin his mission- ary work with Concepcion, and then: enlist her in the task of saving Pepita's soul. But remembering the old woman's singular con- duct—by the light of Pepita’s revelation—-he shrank from her questioning glances. A dreadful suspicion that she might have divined some secret impelling power in nature, that he had not dreamed of himself, began to haunt him. Then, for three or four days, he resolved to put the young girl from his mind. One evening his heart leaped at the familiar sound of Pepita’s guitar in the dis- tance. Whatever his ultimate intention now, he hurriedly) rant into the garden. ‘The sound came from the former direction, but as he unhesitatingly approached the mission wall, he could seg that she was not upon it, and’as the noted of her guitar were struck again, he knew that they came from the other side. Butithe chords were a pre- lude to one of his own, hymns, and he stood entranced as her ‘sweet, child-like voice rose with the very words,that he had sung. ‘The few defects were those of purely cral imitation, the accents, even the slight re- iteration of the were Pepita’s own: Cheeldren oof the Heavenly King, As ye journey essweetly ssing; Essing your great Redeemer’s praise, Glorioos is Hees works and ways. He was” astounded, Her recollection of the air and the words was the more won- derful, for he remembered now that he had orly sung that particular hymn once. But to his still greater delight and surprise her voice rose again in the second verse, with a touch of plaintiveness that swelled. his throat: We are traveling home to God, In the way our farzers trod; They are happy now, and we Soon their happiness shall see. The simple, almost childish words here died away with aasweep and crash of the whoie strings. Breathless silence followed, in which Stephen Masterton could feel the beatings of his own heart. “Miss Ramirez,” he called, in a voice that searcely seemed his own. There was no reply. ‘Pepita!’ he repeated; it was strangely like the accent of a lover, but he no longer carel. Still the singer’s voice was silent. Then he ran swiftly beside the wall, as he had seer: her run, until he came to the fis- sure. It was overgrown with vines and brambles, almost as impenetrable as an abattis, but if she had plerced it in her deli- cate crape dress, so would he! He brushed roughly through, and found himself in a glimmering aisle of pear trees close by the white wall of the Mission church. For a moment, in that intricate tracery of ebony and ivory made by the rising moon, he was dazzled, but evidently his irruption into the orchard had not heen as lithe and silent as her own, for a figure in a parti-col- ored dress suddenly started into activity, and, running from the wall, began to course through the trees until it became apparently a par: of that involved pattern. Nothing daunted, however, Stephen Masterton pur- sued, his speed increasing as he recognized the flounces of Pepita’s barred dress, but the young girl had the advantage of knowing the locality, and could evade her pursuer by unsuspected turns and doubles. ‘or some moments this fanciful sylvan chase was kept up in perfect silenc’ might have been a woodland nymph pursued by a wandering shepherd. Masterton pres- ently saw that she was making towards a tiled roof that was now visible as projecting over the presido wall, and was evidently her Caught. goal of refuge. He redoubled his speed; with skillful audacity and sheer strength of bis broad shoulders he broke through a dense Ceanothus hedge which Pepita was swiftly skirting, and suddenly appeared between her and her hous With the first cry, the young girl turned and tried to bury herself in the hedge; but in another stride the circuit preacher was at her side «nd caught her panting figure in his arms. While he had been running he had swift- ly formulated what he should do and what he should say to her. To his simple appeal for her companionship and willing ear he would add a_ brotherly tenderness that shculd invite ter trustfuiness in him; he would confess his wrong and ask her for- giveness of his abrupt solicitations; he Would propose to teach her more hymns; they would practice psalmody together; even this priest, the custcdian of her soul, cculd not object to that; but chiefly he would thank her; he would tell her how she had pleased him, and this would lead to m.ore serious and thoughtful converse. All this was in his mind while he ran, was upon his lips when he caught her, and for an instant she lapsed, exhausted, in his arms. But, alas! even in that moment he suddenly drew her toward him and Kissed her as only a lover could. The wire grass was already yellowing on the Tasajasa plains with the dusty decay of the long dry summer, when Dr. Du- chesne returned to Tasajasa. He came to see the wife of Deacon Sanderson, who; having for tle twelfth time added to the population of the settlement, was not “do- ing so well” as everybody—except, pos- sibly, Dr. Duchesne—expected. After he had made this hollow-eyed, overburdened, under-nourished woman as comfortable as he could in her rude, neglected surround- irgs, to change the dreary chronicle of suffering he turned to the husband and said: “And what has become of Mr. Mas- terton, who used to be in your—vocation?” A lorg groan came from the deacon. “Hallo! I hope he has not had a re- lnpse,” said the doctor, earnestly. “I thought I'd knocked all that nonsense out of him—I beg your pardon—I mean,” he added, hurriedly, “he wrote to me only a few weeks ago that he was picking up his strength again and doing well.” “In his weak, gross, sinful flesh—yes, no dcub:,” returned the deacon, scornfully. “and, perhaps, even in a worldly sense, for those who value the vanities of life; but he is lost to us, fer all time.” “But are you sure?” said Dr. Duchesne, with pe ps less concern than before. “Sure,” returned the deacon, angrily; “didn’t Brother Bulkley, on account of warning reports made by a God-fearing and soul-seeking teamster, make a special pil- srimage to inquire. Didn't he find Stephen Masterton steeped in the iniquity of practic- ing on an organ—he that scorned even a violin or harmonium in the tents of the Lord—in a chapel, with a foreign female for a teacher? Didn't he find him visiting the schools of the mission where this young singer teaches the children to chant in un- known tongues? Didn't he find him living with a wrinkled Indian witch, who called him ‘Padrone,’ and speaking her gibberish? Did not he find him, who left here a man mortified in flesh and spirit and pale with striving with sinners, fat and rosy from na- tive wines and flesh pots, and even vain and gaudy in colored apparel? And, last of ail, didn’t Brother Bulkley hear that a rumor was spread far and wide that this miserable tackslider was to take to himseif a wire from these people? What do you call that?” “It looks a good deal like human nature, said the doctor, musingly, “but I call it a cure!” (The end.) ee Death of Mrs. Calberson. A telegram has been received in this city announcing the death at her home in Jef- ferson, Texas, yesterday of Mrs. David B. Iberson, wife of Judge Culberson, Rep- resentative in Congress from Texas. Mrs. Culberson is remembered By a large circle of friends In this city, where she spent so many years during the sessions of Con- gress. She did not come north this winter as she had been in failing health. She was a native of Georgia, and had been married nearly fifty years. Her son is the present governor of Texas —_—-__ Diphtheria Prevails in New York. Diphtheria is very prevalent in New York city. The bureau of contagious diseases reports 282 cases, probably the largest num- ber at any one time that there has ever been in the city. The cases are of a mild type, however. The board of health claims that the anti-toxine treatment has dore much toward decreasing the diphtheria death rate. The deaths from diphtheria for the week ending las: Saturday were twenty-two, which is very ttle above the average. WOULD SAVE MONEY. Estimated Cost of Municipal Eleciri Lighting in Philadelphia. The senate investigating committee in Philadelphia yesterday resumed its work of inquiring into the municipal affairs of that city. Every member was present. Ex- Councilman Beasley, who at a previous meeting of the committee, testified to his inability to find the contract signed by the Philadelphia Traction Company giving the city the right to do away with overhead trolleys when a better system became known, gave some minor testimony, after which he said he had found the contract in the mayor's office. He said it was sign- ed by the traction officials, but not by Mayor Stuart He was not prepared to and whether this vitiated the contract or not. The subject of electric lighting was then taken up. Myron Law, ex-superinten- dent of the Brush Company, estimated that the cost of each light per night if a plant was owned by the city would be about 22 or 25 cents. He referred to the present system of overhead trolleys, and said an underground system could be adopted for about the same cost. Other witnesses were examined, showing that the, companies now furnishing light sublet their contracts. shown by’an electrical expert that could furnish its own light at a than 16 cen‘s per light per d of paying from 35 to 45 to the night inst contractor: The committee's counsel, Lawyer Pettit, then announced the beginning of the in- vestigation of the police bureau. He call- ion to the prevalence of poli . “speak easies” and houses of ill- fame, and the participation of policemen in politics. All these things and perhaps more, he said, would be shown. The com- mittee adjourned with Secretary Gibbeney of the Law and Order Society on the stand testifying to “speak easies.” ———_++- A Joint Meeting. A joint meeting of the District of Co- lumbia Christian Endeavor Union, Ep- worth League, Brotherhood of St. Andrew and Brotherhood of Andrew and Philip will be held in Foundry M. E. Church Friday evening, the 20th instant. Dr. Teunis S. Hamlin, D. 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