Litchfield enquirer., 1872-05-30

head Then they were presented to his wife, good-natured, motherly sort of E lady. who seemed to compassionate them much. But, while Owen was explaining to her the objectof their trip, and it's dis astrons inteTup he suddenly stopped, open-mouthed, and blushing violently, with his gaze directed towards the open door of neighboring apartment. There he
 beheld, advancing towards him, the Beau l ty of the Carnival ball.
 The Governors lady named her as '.her daughter, the Senorita Juana." Spite of the different dress and circumstances, she. l too, recognized Frank, and colored slight ly as she came forward to receive his greeting. The Ensign, an impudent scamp enough in general, was, however, the more confused of the two; and his embarrassed salutation was entirely thrown l into the shade by the magnifcence of my grahdfather's bow. However, he present 1 lT recovered his assurance, and explained to the elder lady how he had previously enjoyed the pleasure (with 3 great stress ! npen the word9 of making her daughter,s acquaintance. Then he recounted to Juana the manner in which they had been driven i'll here, when on their way to Cadiz to see the bull-fght.
 "We are also going to ride thither to- l morrow, |" said the Senorita, softly.
 "Ah, then, we shall meet there said Frank, who presently after was seized with lit of absence, and made incoher- ent replies. He was considering how they might travel together, and had al- most resolved to offer to take the whole family to Cadiz in his boat-a proposal that would probably have somewhat as- tonlshed the little Governor, especially if he had seen the dimensions of the craft thus destined to accommodate himself | and retinue. But Garry was an adept in man6euvring, and marched skilfully upon the point he had in view. He drew such pathetic picture of the hardships they had f'pred on the voyage-their prob ab0H Iention here for most of their shoG v VoHave-their friendless condition,
 and their desire to see something of the l country-that the little Governor was in 6 manner impelled Gancying all the time that the impulse sprung altogether from
 his own native benevolence) to desire that
 the two forlorn Englishmen would travel
 to Cadiz under his escort. So it being settled entirely to Garry's satisfaction l that they were to start next morning at 1 break of day on horseback-an arrange ment which my grandfather's total igno- rance of Spanish prevented him from
 knowing anything about-they retired to
 the principal fonda, where the Major speedily forget, over a tolerable dinner,
 the tolls and perils of the voyage.
 l CHAPTER IT,
 Daybreak the next morning found them issuing forth from the ancient city of Tarifa on a couple of respectable-looking | hacks, hired from the inkeeper. Frank
 had, with his accustomed generalship,
 managed to secure position at the off rein of the Senorita Juana, who was mounted on beautiful little white barb.
 Under her side-saddle, of green velvet studded with gilt nails, was Moorish saddle-cloth, striped with vivid red and white, and fringed deeply. From the
 throat lash of the bridle hung long tas- sel, as an artificial auxiliary to the barb's tail in the task of keeping the flies of, further assisted by tuft of white horse hair attached to the butt of her whip. She wore looped hat and white plume, a riding-skirt, and an embroidered jacket of blue cloth, fastened, as was the wrought bosom of her chemise, with small gold 1 buttons. Frank could not keep his eyes off her, now riding off to the further side of the road to take ill at once the whole of 1 the beauteons vision, now coming close up to study it in it's delightful details.
 In front of the pair rode the little Gov ernor, side by side with Spaniard of about thirty, the long-betrothed lover of Juana-so long, in fact that he did not trouble himself to secure his authority in 9 territory so undeniably his own, but smoked his cigar as cool1y as if there were no good-looking Englishman within fifty miles of his mistress. He wore garments of the Spanish cut, made of nankeen-the jacket frogged with silver cords, tagged with little silver tishes-the latter append ed, perhaps, as suitable companions to the frogs. A hundred yards ahead was an escort of four horse soldiers with car pines on their thighs, their steel accoutre- ments flashing ruddily ill the level sun- light. Behind Frank came Major Flinders, clean shaved, and with jack-boots and regimental coat restored to something | like their pristine splendor; by his side rode another lady, the Senorita Carlota.
 Juana's aunt, somewhere about thirty years old, plump and merry, her upper 1 lip fringed at the corners with a line of dark down, quite decided enough for a cornet of eighteen to be proud of-a fem mine establishment too common for re- mark ill these southern regions, and, in the opinion of some connoisseurs, rather enhancing the beauty of the fair wearers.
 She talked necessarily, at first, to my grandfather, who did not understand a
 word she said, but whose native polite ness prompted him to say, 'Si, Senorita, ]"
 to everything sometimes laying at the same moment his hand on his heart, and l lowing with considerable grace. Behind this pair came another interesting couple viz, two servants on mules, with great saddle-bags stuffed to extreme corpulence with provisions
 It was glorious mornings gentle breeze sweeping on their faces as they mounted the hills, but dyinginto silence in the deep valleys, fresh, and glistening with dew. Sometimes they rode alonga rocky common, yellowed with towering shrub like ze-sometimes through unfenced fields sometimes along broad plains, where patches of blossoming beans made the air rich with scent, and along which they gal loped full speed, the Governor standing high in the stirrups of his demi-pique, the | Senorita's whita harh- a4e4aiug his neck till hrs nluzzle touched his chest under the pressure of the long bit, and my grand
 father prancing somewhat uneasily on his
 hard d-mouthed Spanish entero, whose nose
 was, for the most part, projected horizon
 tally in the air. The Major was not a
 irst-rate seat-he rode with a long stir rup, his heel we'll down, his leg straight,
 and slanting a little forward, body up-
 right, and elbows back, as may be seen in
 plates of ancient works on equitation-a
 posture imposing enough, but not safe
 across country: galloping deranged it ma ] fa7ss 0t1x &1-.
 and required long, strong pull, with the stirrups. The animal had a most voracious s appetite, quite overcoming his sense of what vas due to his rider; and, on seeing tuft of juicy grass, down went his nose,
 drawing my grandfather, by means of the tight reins, well over the pummel. On these occasions, the Major, feeling re- l siatenee to he in vain Rn1lld sit lnnkino