Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-01-02

Salano had scarcely completed putting
up the valuables when the somnOlent
beauty moved uneasily on her couch and
manifested signs Of awakening. He
seized the precious casket, and sprang
with cat-like silence and agility into
what he supposed to be q closet or ward
robe, but in reality was q dumb-waiter,
communicating with the kitchen below.
Imagine his establishment, then, when,
in q moment more he found himself
sprawling on the floor of the culinary
department, while a million or 40 OF stars
of the first magnitude danced before his
bewildered eyes. The cook, who was
entertaining y male friend, was fully
persuaded that the apparition in the
domino descending % suddenly by the
dumb-waiter could be no less a person.
age than ISatanas, and thereupon she set
up a series of hysterical screeches that
would have awakened the dead. Her
lover was no less frightened than her
self, and in attempting to secrete him
self in a fireplace, he brought his naked
feet in contact with the Goals Of fire
which the cook had recently covered
with ashes, and he burned them severely,
and the pain caused by the burning GIN
ders made him leap &C suddenly that he
overturned a kettle of boiling water sit
ting upon the hob, and in the agony and
terror he rolled upon the floor, and howl
ed and prayed to his patron saint in a
manner at once ludicrous and painful to
see.
The cook was the first to recover pres
ence of mind, which she Immediately
made manifest by an absence Of body,
for she fled, uttering piercing screams,
leaving her companion to his fate, what
G it might be.
In the passage she encountered Don
Alamada, and the appearance of a second
specter in a somber domino added, if
possible, to the terror of the frightend
domestic, and she vanished up the stairs
before mentioned with a dispatch that
would have done credit to the most agile
harlequin.
The way being clear, Salano Joined his
companion, and the two escaped from the
house, and ere long were at their lodg-
ings engaged in inspecting and dividing
their booty.
The piercing screams of the frightened
cook and the howls Of the boOrish lover
oon aroused the entire house, and it
was some time before its master could
gain any clue to the origin of the terrible
clamOr. The cook insisted that an ap-
partition Of a man bedecked with ribbons
and tinsel like a metadOr, and followed
by a specter bull, and roaring in anger
and breathing sulphurious flames from his
n~ostrils, had suddenly emerged from the
dumb-waiter, while her lover with teeth
chattering with terror stoutly MAIN
tanned that it was most certainly the
evil one, inasmuch as he had seen his
barbed tail and closely observed his
cloven hoofs.
1t is scarcely necessary to add that La
Bonita on New Years Day acquired the
much-coveted diamond rings, but within
a week she decamped for Paris, escorted
by a %well-known gambler and roue; and
few days later SalanO and Don Alamada
were arrested and thrown into prison,
the authorities of Barcelona having
traced the robbery to them by means Of
some of the gems which they attempted
to dispose of being recognized by the
merchants of the city.