Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-05

came vending home from dancing at the
| .fieStd of pretty pe0Acitd over at San
/ PasquaI. The harder he rode, the more
! determined and ferOciOus in retrospect
appeared these foreign faces. Rogers
himself was hardly more insauelv excited
| than was Celso When he dashed into the
/ pldzitG among group 81 his mates-her-
| ders, poems, husbAndlnen-scar less
/ ignorant than their beasts OF the field.
| Now, Don EulaliO Cordoba the hdcieaQd-
| do, Officiated as bis own nlajor-dOmo, and
| he had been absent over night on an er-
rand TO one OF his outlying sheep-camps.
I Hence, in the same spirit that had moved
/ Ces0 nfeld, gala-making, Donata and
! Rudecinda and Ventura, kitchpn-wOmen,
| had stretched their young mistress Ii
/ cense to attend the wake of Donata's cOu-
! sims husbands aunts baby. In coDse-
| quence, it WAS now two hours past the
time at which that young mistress usu-
! ally took her morning chocolate; and her
! maid, dispatched 10 fetch il from the
! kitchen, passed through the pt0vitd, car
| rying the lacquered tray, at the precise
moment when Celso callOd upon his GRO
MES TO assist themselves like MeXicans
/ of yalOr, cOmpatriOts of the gallant cara
! GOA, and eXtermnate these pestlent
| grjngOS who came bringing the dem0n30
railroad to Santa Catarina, to tear up the
D
and peThaps-Quien Sdbef-burst out
right and destroy the houses every one.
! WhereupOn arose chorus Of '-huere1l
| los qfjRGOSi Ay, brothers, we will 90
and wipe them outl VQmQHOS!' and
Rita fled, shrieking nasmuch as the tray
forbade clappmg hand to her ears.
GeTtrudes Cordoba sat upright on a
great green wooden bedstead, massive as
an Eastlake table, and took her chOcO-
late.
Glow now, Rita? Thou hast been cry
ing again, VUal That thou shouldst
pine for Vaquero like CelsO--a great
animal who can get drunk on even chicba!
PAM Thou, my maid, and drawing wa
yes, jealous of n p6OaG-and she pudgy,
too, sayest thou nOtY Come, Rita, have
some spiritW
''But, SeH0ritd mia, you mistake"
care not these tears for CelsOY de-
manded the Young girl, a peremptOry
frown on her brow, but twinkle Of hui
NOR in her eye.
"Sj-pueS-Qae -yes-but-'
E5''It is enough Master Celso goes TO
the mines at Magistral tomorrow.
warrant be rides not hence to San Pas
quail. Now, Rita, no more tears-thOu
hast revenge!"
"But that's not it at aliu' cried Rita.
stung to desperation, but still approach
ing her climax OBVIOUSLY, a5 BELTS her
race and sex. "CelsO has not been ilirt-
ing again-Or maybe he has-I don't know
he was at San Pasqual last night. But
when ! was Just now bringing your chOc-
olate-l had to make IL myself, too, for
DOnata and Ventura and kudecinda are
not come home from the rei0ri0, and
burned my finger with the stufi-why, then
the men were almost II ady in the ptdajtG,
nh, to HuT tI,t4f
Celso'l 20 and get killed.
But, pOT bios, what is this thy black
birds chattering tongue is saying? Al
most ready, indeed, and for what? And
who is 10 Kill thy precious CelsOP'
Rita started AT this outburst of petu-
lance from her gentle mistress. '"Fhe
Dldldjd0S griHgOS. then, to be sure, that
are camped down in the dcequiG under
the dj0mOS. Such impudence. To come
and lie down in the patrons ditchl But
our men VIII serve them out. Lucky may
they feel with one single little bone left
wh0leW
".Stien-1l-r-ciOW tTiled the mistress;
and in the time that stupetied Rita would
have taken to cover her charges little
high arched feet, the girl had invested
herself with all her daily raiment. She
even paused to cover her black satiny
hair, with the inevitable embroidered
towel; for no scarf nor shawl was at hand.
aud it was not to be expected that any
woman OF her nation would venture with
bare head into the SUMS direct rays, hold
the occasion what it would OF urgency.
The men in the ptGgltd had hastily
gathered arms, their ignorance and preJu-
dice wrought up to blazing point by
CelsO's incendiary apOstrOphes. If acts
of their own cOuntrymen had been in
YOlyed they would have gesuculated and
vOcitOrated, and they would have dropped
the matter, secure in the national inertia.
But the peril here was Imminent-these
D1GtUGdOS AmeTtcGROS are so energetic, SO
unresting. My, pOr DiOSi they might
run their sOrcerer OF a machine here into
the very house at any moment. Hark!
Ave Maria What was that?-is it true
that these engines have a whistle that
speaksg But this that made them start
was only the familiar note OF bugle that
Don EulahO was won't to use for a call
to work. And the bugler was the patrons
pretty daughter, whom they saw never.
save when she rode over his territory with
her father, Vouchsatng them about as
much plying, half fearful notice as she
gave TO the vicious, lOng-hOrned Spanish
cattle among which she passed. And, in
deed, at the present moment Tulita in her
heart felt much as if she had beens set
down in the midst Of a trampling, below
ing herd of beasts. The novelty of the
situation gave it double importance to
the rioters. TO lay their grievance before
the pdtrORcitd, to manifest TO her their
vaiOr and patriOtism-what luck! Better
than if the patrons self were here; he
might resent this arrogati0n Of his SUI
premacy. So they pressed toward and
around her, ard at her shouted and
bawled their fears and their designs. But
Tula, pale and trembling as she was, set
her soft lips firmly and blew a command
ing blast upon the horn.
"DO you know what that means2 To
work You have lost two hours. My
father will keep back a half days wage, l
have no doubt, and there will be no
function on san Juan's day 10 pay for this
The Americans come to Santa Catarinay
And, pray, what As that to you? Does not
Don EulaliO Cordoba own the hacienda
Shall his work people dictate whom the
master shall receiver But no such luck"
the girl continued, sadly, more sOliloquiZ-
Ing than addressing tho men; ''they
would not buy my tather's land. The
Americans are not here. They went to
Sausal Nero"
"But CelsO says it, cried the men,
"and CelsO saw themW
"Cel-l-so-O-ow the feminine circumheN
OF scOrn was whitening. "CeisO saw
theml Celso sees centipedes i'm his glass,
/ have no doubt. Thou, Marcos, knOwest
my fathers Will for the man who comes
drunk 20 the pideltd. Why, then, didst
not thy dutyy Away with him 10 the
cdldb0zd"