Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-22

mop-lne tally-no or the hunt of mur
der. In a moment they had. collect
ed in the Jail from which there wa
access to the street BY coyere,
stairway. Loud threats, oathss an,
terrible msledictions told of the sud
den fury Of the crowd. The forme
quiet tones were replaced by veil
and execrations 1t was a new moot
of that changeful, cowardly monste
IA mob-new clamoring for its prev
swaying to and fro in its devilisb
unsightly greed.
! Hang him, hang him !" Ihos.
brief, terrible words, mechanical,
repeated like the refrain of fiends
and with the quickness of an electri,
shock, they slammed the Jail doc,
violently in the face of Maitland. ant
a devillsh laugh rand is his ears.
He answered with q shrek of apo
ny. He beat his fist upon the clos
ed door; he tried with the assistance
of his superior officer to break the
door, but it was secure, and he could
hear nothing beyond but hoarse
and lessening murmur.
Suddenly q thought struck him.
He rushed past the sheriff, he mount,
ed the stairs with long, quick leaps,
and ran out On the balcony hanging
over the street. He had only time
to see the mob running in a confus-
ed, scattered way, and an express
wagon driven at the top of its speed
in the direction of a field, going out
side the town. There were several
men in it and they appeared to be
struggling.
"Why don't he come?'' And the
woman who had so prayed IN the
morning for the freedom of her hus-
band, and an hour ago received such
a message of happiness, looked visit
fully out on the long road. She
reasoned with herself that he had de-
layed to receive the congratulations
of friends; but she thought her love
and anxiety should have been first
considered, and she framed in her
mind a reproof for the truant. and
daliied with the thought of the pre-
tense of anger with which she sbonld
receive him. =
-Four hours, five hours, passed
since the happy news of the messen-
ger, and the sun was sinking to the
verge of the horizon. Her solicitude
deepened, and yet she thought she
conia nave no reason to disquiet and
distress herself, since the crisis she
had dreaded had passed, and God
had been 80 good to her. But love
is more vIgilant than patient: and as
again and again she turned from the
windows that looked out on the long
road, it was to pace the floor with
dlsordered steps, and murmured fam
cies or resentment against the man
who kept her passionate affection so
ong in waiting.
The sun was nearly down. bnt on
he long road =. last appears the fig
arc OF 2 ,, l,ors4. .aa<.,-s s, single ka=ss-t,
=" Watching anxreusly 7,
lng figure. Why should
% slowly? Presently =
aol, ot SAINT recognition lighted
~, her rsrl. succeeded instantly by
.b.a,N - g. alarm and anxiety. IL
7t," To,,n aaitland-and alone, rid
~. slgw.v and thoughtfuly toward
n.s ..b-
ii, ~e she'd to him, almost breath
Les, g..a questions: "Where IS Har-
- mg nusband--why is he not with
~, NV Godl what means TINS
VIA. Is 5lis solemnity-this heslta-
t;3uy Iread scme,l!rr dreaa'ui la
~ yse tnrned 70 her the ioi expression
= - fsat lace. lie gazcd Into her
.ves As If unwilling 70 speak, M n'
...a.,>f % the fading sky above 2Aa'
she te!i Aessa.y =.
without aheiek, O. uaoan. lac 0n
happy woman had tainted. Happy
sar bud L bcan ne unconsci0Usneas
of : ash, gor ~ fae Wealth Of life ha3
,ss roahed from her in those Ie~
wa..,. FOX lie broken-hearted ~
.a.s gorlI i've olly IN lhe torture OF
/, r.. p jsc brief course OF one sun
measured on one human life from aT'
tremest happiness to extfene"s Iis'ss'
nv, and in one summer day a hest'
and been broken forever.