The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 15, 1899, Page 21

SCTOBIER UA R ~9—92b ALFREL O PADILLA KED LONG Lovs M “ALL THAT NEXT) DAY, AND THE DAY AFTER THAT, THEY ROD £ = 7 ‘while the dying glory of a Mexican sum- set bathed the woods in opal endor. The Yaquis from a secure position in t mountain steeps had fired uj WA suspecting band. Fearing another detach J ment was following, 1 small in \ number and short of had L AN U fled without mutilating their victims. ‘While the soldier silen and buried his dead com to caress into life her lo appearance he had ev time after being wour marks down to the ri érawled for water, Life and death evigamtly fought a bard and long ba All night Lola v the sweet en- dearments of her language into his deaf ears and kissed the sightless eves. At the first streak of dawn the soldler dug another grave—t for the lieut, Lola was calm now—a s nnatural calmness that fri a. ‘“‘Poor Gabriella,” she said, fo g her couslr “Pobrecita Gabriella!” “You will alway love me, chiquita, will you not? Ml alma, mi dulce!” and' she kissed her agaln and again. Then she staggered back to her lover. Bhe stretched her suppiicating arms to pitying heaven as though beseeching for- giveness. There a quick, sharp re- port and Lola dying at her dead lover’s side. Before her tired eves closed forever she smiled into Gabriella’s horror-stricken face. “T am going with Alfredo, mi vida,” she sald brokenl She breathed another soft, gweet ‘‘Adios” to Gabriella, smiling all the while life ebbed away. And even in death’s icy chill she looked &t them ‘with the same frozen smile. dug a grave rades Lola tried From his ¥ lived soms There were er where he had d tened G la. ttle Catholle le la and Gabriella ymen worship. 1 Lola, fervently Mother; a ray of ht a yc g man’s eyes kneeling girl 2 ked long at Lola and seen her. It was ncisco, and many of ex But this girl seemed to period of his life, to memories back to childhood's ghters o r pravers, rose head after & manner Lolita,” i the watching traightway he was r in the garden at H It ow € irrange for an intro- la and Alfredo memories of other n with mutual prom ¢ friendship. They saw Mexican doors tors, sympa- vent girls in a Lola and Ga could find hospita- arned everything irriculum of the convent of 1 things Chief among n manner of woo- the M to a dam ) learned sever n custom of screened by iron bars When Alfredo Padilla went back to the City of Mexico wrried with him a promise from Lol ym Lolita, who never broke her word. When Alfredo Pa- dilla called upon Senor Alvarez in He: id y" politely but em- Another suftor h mosillo he s phaticall already been selected for his da suitor old but wealthy Lola laughed the idea to scorn when she heard it Another year of convent life winged by. T ice dur came to San wcisco. Lola and Ga- brielia were no longer allowed outside of convent walls, save with a sober robed Ifredo, and saw d teachers are schoolmates brimful of e themselves on the side But Lol saw white fi of the transgressor. There came a day of discovery, a wretched hour of confe on to the calm- eyed Mother Superior. A note of Lola's written to Alfredo carelessly dropped in the hall had given the clew sccasional fandango or coc to vary dull monotony. the very thought of Was not Colonel Juan Hernandez and was not her Alfredo on the staff of Colonel Hernan- An elaborate iwering nay to Lola’s “Is my uncle com- : Yet Lolita gang : COm- ¢ the conflict. There was not a vestige in the bud and Senor Alvarez sum- Two days after Alfredo's departure a mysterfously A soldier awaited The Yaquis had attacked Lieutenant There was a rumor that most of the little band had been ki Lieutenant Alfredo was amon the senorita any commands to give him? The sencrita had but one wish—to go at once to Alfredo dead or alive. not listen to his arguments, but flew to the house, to make ready for the journey. Gabriella begged and implored Then she, too, bundled a few necessaries stable, saddled the mules and in the twilight hour the three e report,” sighed muttered the sol- “Perhaps it W Lola and Gabriella back to In the Yaqui lo and forbade his daughter to 1in write to Alfredo. 4 it on the staff of Gen ) Lola managed to correspond him and to adroitly marriage to the suitor of her father's Lola into the g “Maria San- sunset they Padilla’s par now a lieutena Senor Alvarez was called to Torres on stave off her watchful eyes of uncle and aunt. uffering exquisite torture, ilving in a delirium of joy and fear. Twice Alfredo came to see her on his way to de- and messages. , now despalr claimed her for Thoughts of Alfredo’s danger strangled peace. A third time Alfredo met his sweetheart. He was on his way with a report of the The morning of came upon a band of peons. miles distant are some dead Me said the stolid peons. fiercely in Lolita’s heart. and drooping from fatigue and poor nour- ishment, could scarcely cling to her mule, Lolita, with bright red spots burningyin staring eyes, seemed dead to every feeling but the mad- dening desire to find Alfredo. Before another sun had set they found him, found his body lying stiff and cold 1g the twelfth month Alfredo, essa i Yaqui uprising turned her father's at her refusal into other He had property in the heart of the y that needed his attention. In the little town of Ortiz lived of Senor Alvarez. nd Gabriella w Hope still fluttered Gabriella, pale Thither he went, tak- h him, fearful Lola might escape to either cheek All the next day and the day after that they rode, Lola refusing to rest even for At length they reached the spot that rumor had marked as the scene her lover in the ( Ortiz is just west of tary of War. He had but an hour to spend hour of quaking fear for who played Sister Anne, an- aqul Indian little Mexican town, The soldler buried them together and marked thelr names in life bloed that their parents might find the spot. Then he carried Gabriella to the nearest ranch, where for days she hovered n the valley. of the shadow. And this is why there is weeping in the house of Padilla and wailing in the house of Alvarez. And this is why Gabriella is coming to a San Francisco convent. Not this time as a merry pupil, but to take the vell of the novitiate. For Gabriella’s heart lies buried by ths green banks of the river Yaqu!, where the blood-stained headstone marks the grave of Lolita and Alfredo. — e Some quick love making s now g on in the Choctaw Nation, Indian T ritory. It is stimated that 1000 white men will carry off Choctaw brides be- tween now and the first of next month. About 5000 wt ready won Choct and money The cat nouncem that g son T enrol! w br rush is a rec fon th all per- will not be Com civilized man. The Chocti &0 e are not dians whites. of Be (equal a bands) ing a able companion. The complexion of the rienced in find- rls is a clear ¢ ‘are of a tion, and are sa have tried to To avoid tr rying these g vide that all white men, befofe they can be admitted to the tribe, must produce recommendation of good character from the County Ju of the county where they last resided. It is said that some of the most beau- tiful and popular girls of s h o ish men of d to prove a queer taw town just now stopping at least a dozen men wh business is courting Choctaw women, w. the purpose of matrimony.