Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-03-05
there was left the memory of her agony like
haunting spirit.


10 the ravine, half an hour after, down
among the dense shadows Of the bushes.
bali dozen torches threw lurid light on
score Of glittering bayonets, a prisoner
stripped for execution, and faintirg wo-
man. The prisoner was Rodrigo, standing
there with folded arms.
"Quick !" he cried. "quick cannot
witness her agonyl Let the blow fall, be-
fore sorr0w humans me !"
o, the despairing frmpess of that voice
The parting words had all been said-the
parting kisses had all been given, and,
fainting with despair, the lovely Inez had
been torn from her husbands arms. Now
she lay there upon the ground, her head
supported by a kDeeling soldier, while
another was bathing her hands and brow
with water.
why this delay" calculated Rodrigo.
g 1t is torture to me. Let me give the
word-ready, aim, fire !"
The soldiers did not obey the prisoner
1t was only when their lieutenant repeated
the word ready !" that their musket bar
rels dropped from their shoulders to their
hands, and the sharp click was heard as
they cooked their PIECES
Aim ~ and up the dozen muskets went,
and the soldiers eyes cleaned along the
tubes to see that the muzzles pointed full
at the bosom of Pinon cl Rodrigo.
Just then the prisoner spoke-a last
ejaculation
My wife. Inez de Rimenas, farewell !
Heaven keep you %
1t was the maiden name of his wife that
the doomed man had uttered. The word
" tire " was just trembling on the Lisuten-
ants lips
Hold, l command you, on the pain of
death. Numbered new voice. A cloaked
form, which had hitherto been concealed in
the shadow of tree, came forward
am your General. Platoon, shoulder
armsi'
The pieces, undischarged, were thrown
to perpendicular position again, and all
present stood in fixed surprise.
Prisoner" cried Santa Anna, "you
called her Rimenas. Where was your
wife born ?''
In the hacienda of Los Formio," re-
turned the astonished prisoner. " Her
fathers name was JUAN"
Thank the saints thank the saints !''
cried the chief. at is the daughter of
Isabel de Rimena. Isabel was nv bene-
factor years ago. l have debt Of graft
tude to pay. Inez-Irez de Rimena, wife
OF Rodrigo, arise !' and he stopped and
tenderly took the lady's hard. Your
husband is pardoned p'
That glad announcement was potent
charm. A minute only elapsed, and hus-
band and wife were in each others arms.
lnez weeping tears of joy.
Santa Anna softly Withdrew to his pa
vilion.
Next day when the fierce battle Of Buena
Vista was fought, when, for many long
hours, less than five thousand Americans
bore up against the repeated charges of
twenty Thousand Mexicans. no man was
found fighting more brayely for the chill
dren Of the sun than the captain of the
Guadalajara company of light infantry
PinOn e! Rodrigo.
And when at last, shattered and routed.
the Mexican army retired, and left the
Americans to mourn the loss of a large p,rt
OF their effective force, Captain Rodrigo
was to be found in the suite of Santa Anna
Tor even in the hour of defeat the merci-
less Mexican chief had not failed to re-
member the debt of gratitude he owed to
the mother Of lnez-Isabel de Rimenas.
Thus 1t is, that in every mans career
there are bright spots to be found. that
should shine like stars SO long as his name
is remembered among mea.