The Grange advance., 1874-09-09

two gentlemen, and began With genuine
Spanish bwvardage to discuss the same
theme. He was little, nervous man,
about 80 years of age, whossb&ld head
contrasted singularl y.with his youthful
face. ~ ..,;;~..., ,.''F"
''Do you know, T. said he, with a.
chuckle, do you know that Lieut..
Pablo has forbidden. his - ci-devant
fiancee to dance!'' ="
''ls it possible g.: -
81, caballeros,'' continued the lit
tie man, lit is Senorita Inez wrote him
a letter in which she told him she was
compelled, although much against her
will, to attend the ball, and begged him
not to judge her too severely, for, if she
was obliged to outwardly seem indiaer- ,
ent, she was most sad at heart. TO
this the Lieutenant answered that he
hoped she would at leastynot dance, for
the mere thought ot seeing her in the
arms Of another was of itsef almost
sufficient to drive him mad.n 70 stAes
The orchestra now begaAi to play a
spirited polka. Within two minutes the
floor was full of dancers.
s:There, there, you see what effect the .
Lieutenant's letter has" :" said one of the :
elderly gentlemen to whom had been
listening. 80 :, E,&G :t.HE
son my soul, you are right" sta,n--
mered the other: ''there she is, dane
ing ~@-.,.-s'
Senorita 1nez had finally yielded to.
the opportunities Of cavalier, and,
although deathly pale, was whirling-.
around the hall with the others.
''You see was right, after all, said
the skeptic, who had doubted the depth
of her love. $50 it goes! to-day dying:
of longing after one, and Tomorrow
the happy bride of another The gen.
tleman is doubtless her present fiance -
II don't know; but look yonder-by
the columns
''What is it 2:
''The Lieutenant Doesn't he look
like one risen from the grave? What
a face he makes ovef it!''
''He is pale with rage
"Ah, he hastens awav-he is going TO-.
be avenged. In another moment YOU
will see him whirl past US with some Sc
norita, like the rest.''
The conjecture was wrong. The Lieu
tenant disappeared in the crowd, and
was not seen again during the dance;
nor did he appear again until Senorita
lnez S partner conducted her back to her
seat. Then he pushed his way hastily
through the throng. / could hardly be-
lieve my eyes, when l saw him, as he.
reached Senorita Inez, draw some dark
object from his bosom and thrust it to-.
ward her back. 1t looked to me much
like fan, and the whole movement.
seemed more like bit of pleasantly
than anything else-such a liberty, for
example, as a brother would take with
q sister, or one cousin with another.
But l was destined to soon be convinced
Of my error. When the Lieutenant
withdrew the dark object, the young
girl fell forward with a groan, and
in a very few minutes she breathed
her last in the arms Of her mother.
The mysterious weapon the Lieutcn-
ant had thrust into the back of the ILL
starred girl was trabatco.
Murder! - murder - murder!''
cried the woman, and in a moment all
was commotion and excitement.
Don Pablo made no effort to escape.
He folded his arms and looked at his
victim with n expression of wild con-
tent. He gave the mother Of the poor
girl look of savage hatred, and al
lowed himself to be led quietly away.
What now follows is even more charac--
teristic than the incident itself. A
very considerable portion of those
present expressed desire, despite the
terrible crime that had just been COM.
mitted in their midst, to continue the
dancing as though nothing had oc-
CURED, and, had the managers not had
q sufficient sense Of propriety: to oppose
it, they would have gone on dancing
over the very spot where one of their
number had just been assassinated:}"
The opinions expressed with regard
to the Eeutenant's criminality. differed
as widely from what they would have
been under normal conditions as can
we'll be imagined. The majority of
the you oung men boldly asserted that the
assassin was quite right-that they
would have acted similarly under like
circumstances; and one of Pablo's
army comrades even went 20 far as to-
say he ought to have served the mother
as he did the daughter, for she was the
real cause Of the tragedy. >L' TO-:
The next day mass was said in one Of
the churches for the murdered girl, all
traces Of the bloody deed were washed
from the hall, and in the evening it was
as we'll filled as usual with amusement
seekers. ''.'
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