The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-05-19
BY BRET HARIE,
Frorn the New Yofk TImes.

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Good, said the Padre, believe me still,
Can him Dan Jnan 1E w fnsw n, gNSS here p
AS Don Diego del Sud. fear
The story's no new one. VIII you hearE
One OF those spirits you can't tell why
God has permitted. Therein
Have the advantage, for hold ~ at. ID
And And we save the wolf, II we'd get the lamb.
You're no believer! Good. am.
Well. for some purpose, grant you, dim,
The Don loved women, and they loved MIN.
Zach thought herself his last love! worst,
And. such are those creatures, since the Fall,
The very doubt had a charm Tor an
You laueh, You are young-but I-indeed
/ have no patience. To proceed - q, -,
You saw as you passed through the upper town
The Encinal, where the road goes doWn
To san Felipe. There, one morn,
They found Diego; his mantle torn. ,.,s
As there We're wronged Rusbands-you under
stand? frai FL r
..Dying.p SO said the gossips,. .Dead,"'
Was what the frisrs VINO found him said.
Good QUEEN sabe? Who else should know
Th gss @a nun fanersi. small mail indeed
Private. What would you?
cam ef ssset 10 proceeu'
Scarcely the year had flown. One night.
The commandment awoke in fright
Hearing below his easements bar
The weIi-known twang of the Don's guitar
And rushed TO the window just to see
His wife-s-swoon on the balcony
One week later, Don J ian Ramirez
Found his own daughter, the Donna lnez,
Pale as ghost. leaning out 10 near
Even Aicaide Pedro Bias
saw, il was said, through his nieee's glass
The shade of Diego twice repass.
What these gentlemen each confessed .-
Heaven and the Church only Knows. AT best
The case was a bad one. How 70 deal
With Sin as q ghost they couldn't but feel
Was an awful Thing: Til certain Fray
HnmDly offered TO show the way.
Aud the way was this:-Did say before
That the Fray was q stranger? No Senior,
Strange! Very strange! should have said
That the very week that the Don lay dead,
Silent; nor ever to one he spoke.
So he had vowed ii. Below his brows
His face was hidden. There are such vows.
Strange, are they note You do not use
Snuff? A bad nabiti
Well. the views
OF the Fray were this; That the penance done
By the caoaileros was right; but one
Was Donna Dolores Gomez, chief,
And Inez. sanchicaY ConeePelon, ., town
AND Sarmen. Wei; nan tne gir,s IN low, oown
These were TO come on a certain day
And ask at the hands of the pious Fray
For absolution. That done. small fear
But the shade OF Diego would disappear.
They came, each came in her turn and place
To the pious Fray with his hidden face.
And voiceless lips, and each again
Took back her soul freed from spot or stain,
TIL the Donna Inez, with eyes downcast.
And a tear on their fringes, kneit her last.
And then-perhaps her voice was low,
From fear or from shame-the monks said So
But the Fray leaned forward, when, swiftly all
Were thrilled by a scream, and saw her fall
Painting beside the Confessional.
And so was the ghost of Diego laid
AS the Fray had said. No more his shade
Was seen at San Gabriel's Mission. Eh!
The girl interests you, dare say?
<sNothing," she said when they brought her Il
sNothing-a faintnessw They spake more tru
Who said twas a stubborn soul. But then
Women are women, and men are men!
So to return. AS said before,
Having got the wolf by the same high law,
We saved the lambs from the VOLTS own jaw,
And that's my story. The tale, fear,
But poorly told. Yet it strikes me, here
Is stuff for moral. What's your view?
You SMILE Don Pancho, All that's like you.