Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-11-19

other of the players. s.He must be rich. I,
would be difficult 10 take the oos of thirty
thousand dollars more coolly than tha,.''
Five minutes elapsed, during which the
bankers were busy counting out their bank
IN order TO see the exact sum due 10 them
by the unfortunate loser. When the Jingle
OF money and hustle ofpapers ceased, Val
lela loo" ed round fer the second time
How much is there. Senores?" cried he
Thirty thousand four hundred and thir.
ty dollars Tart, Senior Conde," replied the
old Marquis, with a bow OF profound respec,
tor one who should bear such q loss with
such admirable indifference.
Every gooe," was the counts answer.
sand here comes the man who will nav i,
to YOU"
Accordingly. the next minute hasty
step was heard upon the stairs. All ewes
were turned TO the door, which opened, and
Rafael Solano entered
w here is the Countw exclaimed he.
IN hurried voice, and with discomposed
countenaace.
Again every head was turned towards
the window, but the count had disappeared
AT the same moment, from the street be.
iow' which was quiet and unfrcquentec
one. there arose an unusual uproar anc
noise of voices. The monte players rush
ed to the windows, and saw several persons
collected round IA man whom they were
raising from the ground. His skull was
irIghtluIly fractured, and the pavement
around sprink!cd with his blood. Rarae
and some others hurried down; but, before
they reached the street. Count Luis VaIleia
had expired The gamblers last stake had
been his life.
When young S"ano reached his fathers
house, and, repairing to The counts apart
ment, opned the desk OF which Valeia lac
given him the key, he found that it con.
tanned neither notes or anything else Of val
ue, but merely few wor HESS papers
Astonished at this, and in spite Of his pre-
possession in favor ofthe unit, feeling his
suspicious little reused by what he couc
hardly consider an oversight, he hurried
back to the monte-room. where his arriva
served as the signal for The catastrophe tina
has been related.
The same evering, the amount lost wa:
paid by Rafael Solano into the hands Of the
winners. The following day, the body O
the count was privately inferred.
After the lapse Of a few weeks, there
came letter from Mexico, in reply to ont
which Don Jose Solano had written TO an
nounce the arrival of Vallrja. His Mex
ican correspondent wrote in all haste, anx
lous, IT still possible. 10 preserve Don Jos,
iiom becoming the Dupe of swiddler.-
he Condo de Valleia, he said, was the las
and unworthy SCION Of noble and rcspec
table lamly. From his early youth he hat
made himself remarkable, as well for tn
vices of his character, as for the skill will
which he concealed them under a mask @
agreeable accomplishments and rascinain.
manners. His father, dying shortly alie
he became Of age, had left him the uncon
iroI'ed master of his fortune, which h,
speedily squandered; and hen i, was gone
he lived, for some lime, by the exercise o
his wits. and by nreving on all who were
sufficiently credulous 10 cofde in him.
At length, having exhausted every resource
when no man of honor would speak iC
him land. no usu1crs lend him marvedi a
any rate of interest-hc had by an unwor
thy ar:lice, duped the very last person who
took any interest in him, out of a few hun
d:ed dollars, and taken Il ship at Vera Cruz
for Europe.
1t is scarcely necessary to add that the
letter of credit was forgery.