New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-08-14
FENALLOSA.

paS " W ~ wv w iHel HA0s 4 Adc>O WoLC
the words that, coming from the veranda
in deep rico voice and most tenderly
imprisoned tone, btoke the capricious
silence that had just then fallen for a
moment on the singing and laughing of
the lighted rooms within . Will you
to marry meg ......., ...,. t... ,r.",.
1t was Ignacio Fenallosa's voice; and
he was repeating a question that, under
various DISCUSSES, he had asked Of Chrys-
tie perhaps hundred times before -.
Ouls was the prettiest, if: not the BUSH
2 est little village in the world, with all
its elG bowering green close upon, the sea,
and its two great counting houses to
which belonged all the wharves and ware
. houses of: the South trade car
ried Oh there;, and this was a young
South American who had come there,
with sonae others, in care OF the consign-
ees of the houses at home, for mercan.
tile and English education. He was
probably progressing g; reasonably that
is, we did not know whether he was or
not, for we saw little Of him-when at
length Cnrystie came home, net as, " I'D
III as a hawk, because she was, after all;
=, more like a dove, but a shy, startled,
swlft-movingF creature with a cloud of
hair just a shade more. yellow. than flax
en-, with immense dark k lashed eyes that
+ You. took at first for blackSeFes, till YOU
learned how dark the blue star-it mid
2 night skyacanabe, and5Witlla$s kin. where
the rich red came and went like a torch
=, that the wind blows on, a tall, 1.-THE slen-
der beauty, maynard as as the weather,
and born to1haYe Herso WIN Will Fs%g
81 Fenallosa%Was strolling BY. one Septem;;
>ber,day, as she sprang from thecoach and
ran up the cracking path, and threw her
arms round John, Allen, her brother-in-
4 law, who came to meet her. The youth
] stopped deliberately and surveyed the
scene. then lifted his stick and shook it
at John, and strobe: On. We heard after
ward that he that night assembled the
Z other young 'Spaniards, gas they were
called in the village, and the rest Of their
comrades, and gave them to understand
: that if they chose to enter, the race was
!: free; and fair bat there was To betno; fool
ishness, since for his part he meant to
} carry the girl Tgwiths> the scorn-silk hair
overseas with him and the. priests bless
ing; and he appeared next LAY With d
tassel of corn>silk from some late field in
his button hole, and as many days there
after as there was any to be had.
He did not wait for an introduction
bat climbed the fence, one sunset, and,
accosted her5Iin the, garden with such an
air of alteration and reverence thatSshe
couldsnot .be:Eofended;. but sas he could
thenonly speak Spanish, and she could
only Speak Engl1sh,sall she could do was
to retire with great dignity: at which he
was by no means abashed, for that, he
knew, was her proper course, and he
considered that he had now made her
acquaint ance. and he followed it ups A
few weeks later he, vas, heard to com
plain to young Juna that he had learned
.ail the English he wished; he had
learned mo- and 'Nevare,' and he was
going home in the next brig.
/" Unnecessary orsay that the brig sailed
without him, indeed, but never without
n the transaction of little high tragedy
8 on his part previously. He was leaning
'one, spring dav, over the rail Of the yer:
sanda, the lazy roller creeping under.
meath forsour house was close upon The
sea, built SO by grandpa, s whim, tue sum.
= mer parlorss almost, and the veranda quite
overhang ingS deep,s water, the solid old
stone foundations tsbe long once to. u
!; light house that had en- removed when
I. the brig rolled out again will all sail. set
J. Some day" said she to Chrystie, looking
" back At her, "'you will he sailing out il
J, her with me, and never back Hlf CHRIS;
\ tie had nodded, heswoald ave been con.
ID tent, and have asked for 40 more Just
y then, beng strenno risstbat she should dc
p nothing unb eceTniing but she shook he,
: head III He 50 took all for granted
y that dissent on her part seemed absolute
U rebeiHonssand then he snatched his hal
:. and staLked of win ut 3 word, and meet:
ingLeon ats the gate, pitched him him; :elean
over th9 fence and int % Il the discil Of
course a Challenge was the .resnl and q
duel was arranged, and have 10 di0utbt
would have come off but for notes that
flew from the naughty Chystie to tie
y com batants. in consequence of which, and
in total ignorance that each note had
been counterpart of the other, they
both appeared before her and bound
themselves over to keep the peace.
But Leon was tickle youth, AMI it did
not much signify AS for Fenallosa, we
rather wondered at Chrystie, for he was