Evening Star Newspaper, January 3, 1896, Page 11

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A cold wind of the impending night swept over the wilderness of mesquite. “Man,” said Richardson, in lame Mex- = as the servant drew near, “I want edt! I want sleep! Understand—no? Quickly! Understand?” “Si, senor,” said Jose, nodding. He stretched one arm out of his blanket and pointed a yellow finger into the gloom. “Over there, small village! Si, senor.” They rode forward again. Once the American’s horse shied, and _ breathed quiveringiy at something which he saw or imagined in the darkness, and the rider drew a steady, patient rein, and leaned over to speak tenderly, as if he were ad- He Shadowed His Master Along the Dimming Trail in the Fashion of an Assussin. dressing a frightened woman. The sky had faded to white over the mountains, and the plain was a vast, pointless ocean of black. Suddenly some low houses appeared, squatting amid the bushes. The horsemen rode into a hollow, until the houses rose against the somber sundown sky, and then up a small hillock, causing these habita- tions to sink like boats in the sea of shadow. A beam of red firelight fell across the trail. Richardson sat sleepily on his horse, while the servant quarreled with somebody—a mere voice in the gloom—over the price of bed and board. The houses about him were for the most part like tombs in their whiteness and silence, but there were scudding black figures that seemed interested in his arrival. Jose came at last to the horses’ heads, and the American slid stiffly from his seat. He muttered a greeting, as with his spur- red feet he clicked irto the adobe house that confrcnted him. The brown, stolid face of a woman shone in the light of the fire. He seated himself on the earthen floor and blinked drowsily at the blaze. He was aware that the woman was clinking earthenware, and hieing here and every- where in the maneuvers of the housewife. From a dark corner of the room there came the sound of two or three snores twining together. The woman handed him a bowl of torttl- las. She was a submissive creature, timid and large eyed. She gazed at his enormous silver spurs, his large and impressive re- volver, with the interest and admiration of the highly privileged cat of the adage. When he ate, she seemed transfixed off there in the gloom, her white teeth shin- ing. Jose entered, staggering under two Mexi- can saddles, large enough for building sites. Richardson decided to smoke a cigarette, and then changed his mind. It would be much finer to go to sieep. His blanket hung over his left shoulder, furled into a long pipe of cloth, according to a Mexican fashion. By doffing’ his sombrero, unfas- tening his spss and his revolver belt, he made himself ready for the slow, blissful twist into the blanket. Like a cautious man he lay close to the wall, and all his Property was very near his hand. The mesquite brush burned jong. Jose threw two gigantic wings of shadow as he flapped his blanket about him—first across his chest under his arms, and then around his neck and across his chest again—this time over his arms, with the end tossed on his right shoulder. A Mexican thus snugly enveloped can, nevertheless, free his fight- ing arm in a beautifully brisk way, merely shrugging his shoulder as he grabs for the weapon at his belt. (They always wear their serapes in this manner.) The firelight smothered the rays which, streaming from a moon as large as a drum- head, were struggling at the’ open door. Richardson heard from the plain the fine, rhythmical trample of the hoofs of hurried horses. He went to sleep wondering who rode so fast and so late. And in the deep silence the pale rays of the moon must have prevailed against the red spears of the fire until the room was slowly flooded onsts middle with a rectangle-of silver light. Richardson was awakened by the sound of a guitar. 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To-Kalon Wine Co.,614 14th fa2-208 "Phone 996. | POCO Ready- made & Ey The Light of a Torch Was Into the Room. times laughter arose, and often the voices of men saying bitter things to each other, but always the guitar cried on, the treble sounding as if some one were beating iron, and the bars humming like bees. “Damn it—they’re having a dance,” mut- tered Richardson, fretfully. He heard two men quarreling in short, sharp words, like pistol shois; they were calling each other ‘worse names than common people know in other countries. He wondered why the nolse was so loud. Raising his head from his saddle pillow, he saw, with the help of the valiant moon- beams, a blanket hanging flat against the wall at the further end of the room. Being of the opinion that it concealed a door, and remembering that Mexican drink made men very drunk, he pulled his revoiver closer to him and prepared for sudden disaster. Richardson was dreaming of his far and beloved north. “Well, I would kill him, then!” “No; you must not?!” “Yes; I will kill him! Listen! I will ask this American beast for his beautiful pis- tol and spurs and money and saddle, and if he will not give them—you will see!” “But these Americans—they are a strange People. Look out, senor.” ‘Then twenty voices took part in the dis- Flared cussion. They quivering shrillness, as from men badly drunk. Richardson fett-the skin draw tight around his ms Gnd his knee joints turn- ed to bread. Hé slowly came to a sitting Posture, glaring @t‘the motionless blanket at the far end of the room. This stiff and mechanical movement, accomplished entire- ly by the muscles of the wrist, must have looked like the rising of a corpse in the wan moonlight, which gave everything a hue of the grave. My friend, t: executed by a the English lan; resembles it, ig The tumultuous terror destroyed cess of thought my advice and never be jeman who doesn’t talk It, or anything that S of the first and uni- ich is tone. Still it is disheartening nof:td be able to understand the detail of thréats against the blood of your body. : Suddenly, the clamor of voices ceased. ere was a siler ce—a silence of decision. The blanket was flung aside, and the red light of a torch flared into the room: It was held high by a fat, round-faced Mext- can, whose little snake-like mustache was es black as his eyes, and whose eyes were black as jet. He was insane with the wild rage of a man whose liquor is dully burn- ing at bis brain. Five or six of his fellows crowded after him. The guitar, which had been thrummed doggedly during the time of the high words, now suddenly stopped. ‘They contemplated each other. Richard- son sat very straight and still, his right hand lost in the folds of his blanket. The Mexicans jostled in the light of the torch, their eyes blinking and glittering. The fat one posed in the manner of a grandee. Presently his hand dropped to lis belt, and from his lips there spun an epithet—a hideous word which often fore- shadows knife blows, a word peculiarly of Mexico, where people have to dig deep to find an insult that has not lost its savor. The American did not move. He was staring at the fat Mexican with a strange fixedness of gaze, not fearful, not daunt- less, not anything that could be interpreted. He simply stared. The fat Mexican must have been discon- certed, for he continued to pose as a grandee, with mcre and more sublimity, until it would have been easy for him to have fallen over backward. His compan- fons were swaying in a very drunken man- ner. They still blinked their little beady eyes at Richardson. Ah, well, sirs, here was a mystery. At the approach of their menacing company, why did not this Amer- ican cry out and turn pale, or run, or pray them mercy? The animal merely sat still, and stared, and waited for them to begin. Well, evidently he was a great fighter; or perhaps he was an idiot. Indeed, this was an embarrassing situation, for who was going forward to discover whether he was a great fighter or an idiot? To Richardson, whose nerves were ting- ling and twitching like live wires, and whose heart jolted inside him, this pause was a Icng horror; and for these men who could so frighten him there began to swell in him a fierce hatred—a hatred that made him long to be capable of fighting all of them, a hatred that made him capable of fighting all uf them. A 44-caliber revolver can make a hole large enough for little boys to shoot marbles through, and there was a certain fat Mexican with a mustache like a snake who came extremely near to have eaten his last tomale merely because he frightened a man too much. Jose had slept the first part of the night in his fashion—his body hunched into a @eap, his legs crooked, his head touching his knees. Shadows had obscured him from the sight of the invaders. At this point he arose and began {o prowl quakingly over toward Richardson, as if he meant to hide behind him. i Of a sudden the fat Mexican gave a howl of glee. Jose had come within the torch's circle of light. With rears of singular fe- rocity the wholq. group of Mexicans pounced on the Amprican s servant. He shrank shuddering away from them, peseeching by every device of word and gesture. They pushed him this way and that. They Beat ping with their fists. They stung him with their curses. As he grov- €led on his kneesythe fat Mexican took him by the throat and said: “I am going to kil you!” And continually they turned their eyes to see if they were to succeed in causing the initial demonstration by the American. Richardson locked’on impassiv Under the bianket, however, his fingers were clinched as rigidly as iron upon the handle of his revolver. Here, suddenly; ‘two’ prilliant cla:hing chords from the guitar were heard, and a woman's vétce, fuil of laughter and confi- dence, cried from without: “Hello! Hello! Where are you?” The lurching company of Mexicans in- stantly paused and looked at the groun: One said, as he stood with his legs wii apart, in order to balance himself: “It is e!” He screamed in answer to the quesiion of the woman: “Here!” And, without waiting, he st on a pilgrimage toward the blankat-cov door. One could now hear a nuraper of female voices giggling and chatter ‘Two other Mexicans said:. “Yes, it i: girls!’ Yes!” They also started away. Even the fat Mex seemed to be affacted. tainly at the sti’ immovable American. Two of his friends 5 “Come, the girls ure hi cast another glower at this—" he began. Laughing, his comrades hustled him toward che door. On iis thresh- old and holding back the blanket with one hand he turned his yeiluw face with a last challenging glare .oward the Arerican, Jose, bewailing his stace in little sobs of utter despair and woe, crept to Richardson and huddled near his knee. Then the cries of the Mexicans meeting the girls were heard, and the guitar burst out in joyous humming. The moon clouded, 2n:1 but a faint square of light fell throuzh tse open main door of the house. The coals of ‘he tire wer: silent save for occasional sputters. Richardson did not change his position. He remained staring at the blanket which hid the strate- gic door in the far cai. At nis kneer Jose was arguing in a low, age’ tone with the saints. Without the Mexicans tacghed and danced, and—it would appear from the uund—drank “nore. In the stillness and nizht Richardson sat, wondering if some serpent-like Meaican was sliding toward isi in the dar‘ness and if the first thing he knew of it* would be the deadly sting of :he knife. “Sssh," he whispered to Jose. He drew his revolver from under the blanket and held it on his leg. = ‘The blanket over the door fascinated him. It was a vague form, black and unno ‘Through the opening it shielded wa: come, probably, menace, death. Sometimes he thought he saw it move. (To be concluded tomorrow.) pate nae * Choir Boys Entertained. The choir of St. John’s Church were en- tertained last evening by the rector at his residence, 1325 16th street northwest. A very enjoyable evening was spent. Several glees were sung under the direction of Mr. W. H. Daniel, also solos by Miss Jessie Tabler dnd Messrs. Turpin and Wright. Master George Martin sang “I Know That My Redeemer Liyeth” in a manner that quite surprised and delighted those who listened to him, and Master Arthur Crist played a piano solo in excellent style for one so young. Mr. Theophis accompanied tke singers in hig usual qapable manner. The feature of the,evening was the award of the prize for the best article written by a‘ chorister on the summer outing of the choir at Piney Point last July. Master Dean Corsa was ‘the successful competitor, and the reading By-him of his own compo- sition was greeted with deserved Applause. The rector added’ to the entertainment of his guests by gevéral selections on the phonograph. a The boys _greatiy:enjoyed the entertain- ment and departed with the “inner man” fully satisfied, anda great opinion of the hospitality of thé" rector and his wife. Among the guest¢ were Mrs. and Miss At- water, Dr. and Mrs. Reyburn, Prof. and Mrs. Bigelow, Mrs. Wilkes, the Misses Mc- Kean, Miss Ella Smith, Miss Ramsey, Rev. 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The guests then repaired to the gymna- sium, where they witnessed a good game of basket ball and inspected the handsome club house of the institute, after which dancing was indulged in to the music of the Carroll Institute Orchestra. Altogeth- er the occasion was one of the pleasantest that the institute has had during the sea- od STREET EXTENSION CASES. A Report on Two Importaut Ones Ex- peeted Monday. Foreman Louis D. Wine of the jury of seven appraisers in the two street exten- sion cases heard last month, 419 and 453, stated this morning that the jury would not be prepared to report their findings earlier than Monday next. At that time he was reasonably certain they would submit their report to Judge Cox in the District Court. It is understood that the jury have agreed upon their findings, but that today and tomorrow will be occupied in preparing their report, a matter of considerable labor. Case 443, University Park subdiviston, will not be taken up until the jury have submit- ted their report in the preceding cases, it is said. ————e Christian Endeavor Notes. Superintendent of the various junior Christian Endeavor societies will be enter- tained this evening at the First Baptist Church. Two prominent Illinois Christian En- deavorers are in this city looking up head- quarters for the state delegation and hotel accommodations for from 1,200 to 1,5 young people, which they expect to bring to the convention in July. They are Rev. Oliver W. Stewart, president of the Illinois State Christian Endeavor Union, and H. H. Spooner, his right-hand man in the work. They have looked over the ground thor- oughly, and will come to a decision as to their location in the near future. The two visitors were taken in hand by the com. mittee of 1896 yesterday, and are enthu- siastic over the prospects of the big con- vention. Christian Endeavorers of Washington will be interested in the Year Book and Almanac for 1896 just issued by the United Society, which was prepared by Amos R. Wells, the “Caleb Cobweb” of the Golden Rule. The almanac is-filled with interest- ing information on Christian Endeavor subjects, and contains suggestions as to the peacnent of the weekly prayer meeting topics. = Death of W. K. Ryan. The death of W. K. Ryan, a well-known owner of property in the District of Co- lumbia, is announced at Charleston, 8. C. Mr. Ryan was sixty-nine years old and had made a large fortune as a cotton merchant. He served in the confederate army during the war, and after the surrender at once returned to his business in Charleston. Many years ago he bought large tracts of suburban property, among them being “Grasslands,”ex-Secretary Whitney’s form- er home, and Dumbarton property, near Washington, and for several years spent a portion of his time here. Mrs. Frances S. Nash of this city was his daughter. 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Hundreds of people lose their lives every year through being run down by horse cars, cable cars or electric trolleys. Thousands of people are daily risking their lives in another way. They are run down and killed by reason of ill health. They allow their systems to get weak, and some slight illness develops into a fatal disease. It is wiser to take no risks but to build up health, strength and vitality by the use of a healthful stirhulant. There is nothing better than 7 Duffy’s Pure Malt Which is unequaled for its strength- ening, invigorating, tonic effects. It is not an ordinary whiskey, but a preparation having wonderful medi- cinal powers. It is universally pre- scribed and recommended. Be sure that you get Duffy’s pure malt whiskey. It is the only medici- nal whiskey in the market. erty’s “Complete Flour.” The color is a brilliant white. Nutty flavor—appe- tizing. It has NO woody fiber (bran) in it. It makes beau- tiful bread. It is very rich (rear 300 times the best flour) in the elements that nourish the BRAIN, the DIGES- TIVE FLUIDS, the TEETH and BONES. Con- stipation, brain fatigue, indi- gestion, irritable stomach and dyspepsia, caused by under- fed and starved organisms, are cured by the simple and sensible process of supplyi the needed nourishment . BRAIN, NERVE, BILE, BONE. “Equitable redit” is a team that nothing can beat. We have harnessed bargains and accommoda- tion together—and you can enjoy the benefits of the com- bination. = All the ‘urniture— Ranges— Carpets— Crockery Ware— Mattings— Bed Wear—_ Draperies— Lamps— Rugs— Bric-a-Brac— Stoves— Etc, in stock now MUST be sold before moving time—which isn’t far off. So we have “close-reefed” the prices all around—smaller than were ever quoted before for equal values. Ask for credit—you can have it—and on your own terms. House & Herrmann, ‘The Leading Housefurnishers, 817, 919, 821 AND 9233 TTE SE de28-844 638 MASS AVE. ALL GASES OF DEAFNESS, CATARRH, ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS And Other Lung Troubles are troat~d by we with due regard to each indi. .] Yidual condition, no detail too small to neglect, got one remedy for evecything—that is why I am successfal in curing this class of diseases. Consul- tation free. Dr. Jordan, 1421 F St. N. W. Office hours, 9 to 11 a.m. 2 to 4:30 and 6 to om - del4-284 Supplying Flowers, Palms, &., for Social Occasions —is a great specialty. with us. Every facility for making unique and original elaborate dis- plays at very amall cost. A. Gude & Bro., #0" Ja2-124 A HAPPY NEW YEAR Will only be by those having their feet Nulis treated without pals’ Guscges moderate, PROF. J. J. GEORGES & SON. Chiropodists, 1115 Pa. ave. nw. Hours, 8 to 5:30. Sundays, Y to 12. 104 eas i ] iFrench Fans.) We are now able to sell a Beautiful Hand - painted French Fan as low as $5. ‘Galt& Bro.' JEWELLERS, SILVERSMITHS & STATIONERS 1107 Penn. Ave. Jal-260. eT NOUN j Get the Best— “IRE CONCORD HARNESS,” Bore Bignkets and Lap Robes in great variety and at sowest prices. LUTZ & BRO, 497 Pa. Ave. N.W. =2-164 (Adjoining National Hotel)