The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-02-29

with gentle and tender marks o
ctialfeon.
"We shall never be changed to
ward each ether, darling, aud N,
future shall be yours"
"You will never forget me, Nor
anita "
"Forget all my life-forget my
existence all the days o
happiness we have had together
"Wlll you do me one last favor
eyes, any favor in the world"
"Rido once more your horse, Dia
yolo, round the ring; let me once
more SEQ you in your glory; let mt
once more hear the audience ap
plaud you."
81 will do it, father"
The Due was violently opposed tc
this caprice OF the clown, but Mora
nita said firmly: -,
at is the last request ne vii
have Il right to ask Of me | will
obey him"
The Due was SO much in love that
he did not dare oppose one OF Mora,
nita's wishes. Even when he thought
of her dashing horse, as Le had al
first seen her, he felt al anticipation
of delight in seeing her again in the
ring.
The eventful night arrived; the
circus was crowded to suffocation
The Due, with the Viscompte de
Villiers, with one Of loves superstl-
tions, sat in the very seat whore first
he had seen her. On she comes
the audience shout; Fortunio fol-
lows and closes the barrier, as the
horse leaps with his dainty charger
on his back into the ring.
Never had Moranita looked more
beautiful. The Due had insisted
that her costume should be OF dla-
monds and real yelvets and silks
where she had before worn imitation
Round and round she goes, execu'
ting, with grace and case, her won
derful dance.
The clown stands leaning against
the barrier he has just closed, gazing
with his arms crossed, on his daugh'
ter.
All at once the horse begins tc
snort, and throw down his head
Moranita shows no signs of fear
She holds the reins with firm hand
but presently the horse is evidently
ungovernable. There is n shout
from the audience, a pressing for
ward of those standing in the ring
but the clown keeps them back, an(
he tells the Due who, pale anl
trembling, stands beside him, that !
is part of the exhibition.
All ut once Moranita utters
scream; she has lost control OF he
horse; the horse is covered witt
foam, snorts ank kicks, and as the
Due, breaking from the clown
bursts into the ring, Moranita iall'
to the ground and the horse rolls
over her. The hose and the pool
girl are but one mass; but tho Due,
needless of al! danger, has dragged
her from beneath tie horse, but it Is
a dead, .enseless form he holds i'll
his arms. Moranita is dead.
But now there was Il terrible shout
and the crowd leceded with great
rush. Fire was issuing from the
cars and nostrils OF tho horse, and
in the agonies of pain he was dash
ing wildly around. The ringmas en-
seeing lives were in danger, ad,
vanced and with answering hand
shot the animal through the head.
"There has been treachery here,
cried the Dnc.
Yes, said the clown, advancing
"treachery-I did it. l preferred
to 500 her dead than to give her tc
you. Do with mo as you VIII.
put sunpowder with a match into
his ears, made him thus ungoverna.
BILE, and so he killed her Due,
loved her-I loved her She was al
in all ome. You will forget her
never shall, for / shall die for her.
The DUO has forgotten her the
clown is in the galleys, but he is
content to expiate her death-he
would rather know her dead than
another's.