Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1844-11-21

loss of thirty thousand dollars more
coolly than that
Five minutes elapsed, during which,
the bankers were busy counting out
their bank, in order 10 see the exact
sum due to them by the unfortunate To-
ser. When the jingle Of money and
rustic of paper ceased, Vallejo looked
round for the second time.
How much is there, Senores:' cried
he.
Thirty thousand four hundred and
thirty Collars lost, Senior Conde,' re-
piled the old Marquis, with bow of
profound respect for one who could
bear such loss with such admirable
indifference.
very good, was the Counts answer
'and here comes theman who will pay
it you
Accordingly, the next minute hasty
step was heard upon the stairs. Alt
eyes We're turned to the door, which o.
pened, and Rafael SoIano entered.
where is the Count exclaimed he
In a hurried voice, and with'a discomS
posed countsnance.
Again every head was turned to-.
wards the window, but the Count had
disappeared. At the same moment,
from the street below, which was
quiet and unfrequerted one, there arose
an unusual uproar mi noise of voices.
The monte players rushed to the WIN
dows, and saw several persons collec1r
ted round man whom they We're rais
sing from the ground. His skull was
slightly fractured, and the pavement
around sprinkled with his blood. Ra@
fael and some others hurried down.
but, before they reached the street,
Count Luis Vallejahad expired. The
gamblers last stake had been his life.
When young Solana reached his.
fathers house, and, repairing to his
fathers apartment, opened the desk Of
which Vallejo had given HIM the keys
he found that it contained neither notes
nor anything else of value, but merely
few worthless papers. Astonished
at this, and in spite of his proposes
sion in favor of the count, feeling his
suspicious little reused by what he
could hardly consider an oversight, he
hurried back to the monte-room, where
his arrival served as the signal for the
catastrophe that has been related.
The same evening the amount lost
was paid by Rafael Soiano INTO the
hands of the winners. The following
day the body Of the count was private
ly inferred.
After the lapse of a few weeks, there
came letter from Mexico, in reply to
the one which Don Jose Solana had
written to announce the arrival Of VAL
leia. His Mexican correspondent.
wrote in all haste, anxious, if still pos
sible, to preserve DonJose from becom-
ing the dupe of a swindler. The Com
de de Valleia, he said, was the last and
unworthy scion of noble and once
respectable family. From his early
youth he had made himselc remarkable
as we'll for the vices of his character as
for the skill with which he concealed
them under mask ofagreeable accom-
plishments and fascinating manners
His father, dying shortly after he be-
came of age, had left him the uncon-
! trolled master of his fortune, which he
speedily squandered; and when it was
gone, he lived, for some time, by the
exercise of his wits, and by preying on
all who were sufficiently creduloSs TO
conide in him. At length, having ex-
hausted every reSource-when no man
of honor would speak to him, and no
usurer lend him a marvedi at any rate
ofinterest--he had, by an unworthy
article, duped the very last person who
took any interest in him, out of few
hundred dollars, and taken ship at
Vera Cruz for Europe.
1t is scarcely necessary 10 add, that
the letter of credit was forgery.