The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-08

complexion. "Ah," exclaimed the old
ereBe as she told me the story. 'fHe was
a handsome man. His name was
Pedrillo, Arguello Pedrillo, youth, who,
of noble parentage, had become weary of
the Mexican Court, and found the duties
there imposed upon him irksome, and
had taken his galleon and, stocking it
with strange merchandise, had sailed
northward past the peninsula and the
Farallone Isles, a rover, who found h
piness and delight in the wild life of tue
sea. Pedrillo saw Salvador Benito and
his pretty daughter, Staquita, at the
wharf. Such face and form he had
never seen. No royal Mexican dame,
who, dwelling in the halls Of the Monte
zumas, had illumined them with the splen-
dor Of her tropical beauty, TO the mind
of Pedrillo could compare with this wild
flower that he had found ON this strange
shore. Pedrillo was easily persuaded to
90 to the home of Salvador and there
display his wares. He charmed Staquita
with the stories he told of the strange
lands he had seen, and the people he had
met in his wanderings, His stay was
heightened from day to day. Salvador
liked him at first, for in the veins of
Pedrilo, too, ran Castilian blood. Sta
quita adored him.
She wove for him gay scarfs and sasheS
and twisted him RATA that would hold
the stoutest horse. She sang to him rich
ballads that she had arranged from the
songs that had been taught her from in
fancy. Far into the night would she
and Pedrillo sit in the trellised porch,
and while she sang and played upon her
guitar he would accompany her with his
rich bass voice or teach her himself songs
to which she listened in rapture. By the
day well mounted, they would scour the
hills, or sail upon the blue waters, on his
sea horse. A month passed, and Pedrillo
and staquita were plighted lovers. She
worshiped him; he adored her. But Sal
vader, her father, as he saw this, grew
silent and gloomy. Was it for this stran-
ger to rob him Of the jewel of his life,
his fairest and best passession3 Jealousy
and rage filed his breast as he thought
of Peeafille and saw that his daughter
lGsed him. At last the tempest came. Pc.
drillo discovered, too, that it was not
Salvador alone who hated him, when
Salvador drove him from his house and
forbade Staquita to see him, keeping
close watch upon her There were others
who hated the handsome stranger be-
cause of the fair Staquita. 1t was with
heavy heart that Pedrillo fled to his
boat, and hoisting his sails, left, as he
feared, forever, the only being he had
ever loved.
Staquita saw from the little room in
which she was kept close prisoner the
galleon sail away, and as the white can
vas faded into the sky, she threw herself
upon the floor and wept tears of bitter
ness for many hours. Six months, a
year, passed. No one had heard of Pc
drillo, or seen him. Salyadorhoped that
his coming had been forgotten. Staquita
still bloomed and blossomed, though her
eyes were often wet with tears and
strained with watching. Had Pedrillo
deserted her? Had he fed? Was he a
coward that he had become timid and
forgotten his love through fear? Alas !
she almost feared it was so. She found
comfort oli1y N, Mnsi' sne SANG " neiseii
hAs l"N'ai'e o'i'"u
ride from land TO land,
sos ss'a daT aton, more s" knS 10 Sep fate NAV find
Some night kiss thee.
Ono ovanipo after dart more than a
t,roI, Ure I,,on,onth % sftor poJriijo nod asJ tbo
aood ool Pldra Jnninorro was aroused from
! lis % usual evening deyotions to receive a a
Padre who had come overland from Mex
leo with orders from the Vicerov as to
fine copduct of the mission. The ambas-
sador was welcomed as became his rank
and DIGNITY. and piyeu such entertain
ment as was suitable. Far into the night
he talked with ,Juniperro as to the condi.
t;on of tbeir cause and religion, and the
number of converts, and the success Of
liz Iohors Eor q month bo wac +o 70.
u,o;, ~" tii5; ~ Corn,ol and than ;nurnny nortb.
ward to San Francisco The youno padre
entereJ m",~ heartily into the lshors Of the
o n;ss;on and md soon M I hocame Ioved and rey. m
hii''ion' an" 1ou'i "Ne''io " ~