Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-05-06
PAYBTTBTILIB TENN, TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1851.

waiting too longr l stepped for
ward and seating myself at her feet
took her extended hand and kissed it
The hour you named is not ye
past said l.
'Wen, well,' she replied, running
her hand through my hair. you
are here now atall events: l viii moi
complain, since you have come
did you wish to see me very
much indeed?' said l.
1Can you ask?' And she gave me
a look which said more plainly thar
any words could, that she wanted to
see me alone Of all the world What
could l do? Itook her hand in one
of mine, and placing the other round
her waist, drew her gently to me.
DO you love me, then2' l whisp-
cred. /.
She gazed in my face a moment,
and then throwing her arm over my
shoulder, abandoned herself to my
caresses.
The crack Of a rifle resounded
through the garden, and with a wild
scream she sprang from my arms and
fell to the ground! | jumped from
the hammock, and drawing a pistol,
rushed out upon the walk. Another
crack resounded among the trees,
and a balEwhis tied by close to my
head. Immediately afterward Iheard
footsteps hurry ing away. pursued,
but as | came in. sight of the gate
on the Calze ReqE, it vi IS closed and
locked from the outside ! climbed
I'd the top of the wall, but no one
was visible on the street. The pro-
cd dssion and high mass had assembled
al most all the inhabitants Of the city;
as far as the eye could reach not a
human being was visible.
l returned to the arbor, and found
Sd ntiago and a peon woman lifting
Carlota upon a bench. The ball in
tended for me had entered her tenn
pie and she wa dead! Her face was
turned upward, and the blood was
slowly dripping from the wound to
the ground. Young, innocent, pas
sionate and beautiful, her VAIN Jaf-
fections had led her to a premature
and violent endi
you had better not stay said
Santiago, as | stood gazing upon the
ruin before me. My masteE will be
home soon, and you musAot let
him find you here. Juanna and !
will tell him
He was right; l could do no good
by staying, and might do harm.
Telling the boy to say to his master
that ! would call upon him on the
following day and explain my con-
nection with her death, / looked
for the last time upon the lifeless
form and slowly left the place.
The remainder of my story is
soon told. Her uncle never knew BY
whose hand she had died; but the
disappearance Of his son lie d him to
suspect Benito. The latter left the
city Immediately after the procession.
He was observed to talk a moment
With a Mexican, and then disappear
ing down street near by, he was
seen no more Yet his own hand
had not done the deed, for he wasIin
the processio N at the time and
throughout the mass. The explana-
tion | suppose to lie in the fact, that
be had got information some way
Of the appoint tment; probably by find
ing the note which had dropped;
and having hired two assassins, Fur
posely showed himself in the process
Sion, in order to escape the suspi-
cion of having murdered me, fol
whom the shot was intended. All
efforts TO arrest him were unsuceess.
| ful, probably, because they we're dis
eouraged by his friends.
We stayed in the city long enough
to witness the magnificent fune era
service of tho Catholic Church, Will
what feelings, ! will not stop to stay
ealled-to see her uncle, but | an
now not surprised that heF refused t.
see me. On the following day, W.
went to Sisal. HereI took shipping
for La Habana, and have not been II
Merida since.
The Pof4 ALTO RoT REwARD.-Th