Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1881-08-18
A Romantic Story.

Colonel Albert 6. Pelton, whose
beautiful 10000 acre ranch is ont
toward the Rio Grande, near Lare.
do, has been the Peter the Hermit
OF the Texans for many years He
came to Texas in 1874, a common
soldier. By talent and courage he
rose to the rank Of Colonel, and f.
nally i'll 1856, commanded Fort
Macre. That year he fell in love
with a beautiful Spanish girl at
Albequin, New Mexico. The ad-
niration of the young people was
mutual, and parental objection on
ly intensified the affections OF the
lovers. Finally after two years of
entreaty and devotion, Colonel Pei
ton won the consent of the parents
of the beautiful Spanish girl and
they were married.
One day the two, accompanied
by the Young wife's mother and
twenty soldiers, rode out to the hot
springs, six miles from the fort, to
take a bath. While in the bath,
which is near the Rio Grande, an
/ Indian arrow passed over their
/ heads. Then a shower OF arrows
fell around them, and band OF
Apache indians rushed down upon
them. whooping and yelling like a
band of demons. Several of the
soldiers fell dead, pierced with poi
soned arrows, and the beautiful
bride and her mother dropped into
the water. pierced by the cluel
weapons of the Apaches. With
his wife dyingsbefore his eyes, Col.
Pelton dashed up the banks, grasp
ed lis rife and killed the leader OF
the savages tends. But the Apachs
were too much for the Colonel.
Pierced with two poisoned arrows
he swan the river and hld under
an overhanging rock. After tho
savases had left the Colonel swan
the iver and made his way back
to Fort Macre. Here his wound:
were dressed, and he finally recov-
cred, but only to live BLASTED
: without love, without hope
! with vision of his beautiful witc
, pierced with poisoned arrows, iy,
ing peroetually before his eyes.
After the loss ofhis wife Il change
, came over Colonel Pe.ton. II,
seemed to think that he had sa-
crei M ssion from heaven to aveng,
her death lie secured the mos
unerring rifles, surrounded himsel
with brave companions, and con
! secratod himself to the work # re
venge. lie was always anx;on
, ;, to lead any and all expedition
against the Apaches. Wheneve
any of the other Indians were a
! war with Apaches Col. Peltol
would soon be at the head Of tn
former. One day he would be a
5 the head of his own soldiers, an
5 the next he would be at the hea'
\ of band OF Mexicans. lie detic
, Indian arrows and courted death
, Once, with a band of the wildes
t despesadoes, he penetrated hun
j dred miles in the Apache country
i, The Apaches never dreamed thu
anything but an entire regimen
, would dare to follow them to thci
. camp in the mountains. So whe
! Col. Pelton swooped down int
:. their camp with ,his truSy follow
: ers, firing their Henry rifles at til
rate OF twenty times a minute til
{ Apaches fled in CONSERVATION
leaving their women and childre
e behind 1t was then that ther
) darted out of lodge a white wo
i man.
" Spare the women. she cried, an
then she tainted and fell to til
n ground. When the Colonel iuml
ed from. the saddle to lift up til
< woman he found she was blind.
: How came yon here with thes
t, Apaches? he asked
:. [ was wounded and captured
.e she said ten years ago. Take! c
Il take me back again!
is Have You any relatives in Texa
ST. asked the Colonel.
!, No. My father lives in Albe
: quin. My husband, Col. Pelto1
> and my mother were killed by Il
Indians.
Great God, Bella, IS it you-m
wife!
u Oh, Albert! I knew you woul
u come, exclaimed the Door wit
le blindly reaching her hands to elias
: her husband.
% When | saw the Colonel he WI
e reading newspaper to his blir
'es wife while in her hands she held
"a bouquet of fragrant jessamine
,e which he had gathered.-Er.
:. a minister breaches on the que