Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1885-06-19

=, OIL toward the ground at the back of Ii
ade house. '- u u
re Here was chance to escape; bu
ID unwilling to leave my guide in dang,
without some effort to save him. | If
match and glanced around me. and
lp- the right discovered a door. which
M judged led into a room commanding
he view of the stable-yard.
u the latch raised easily and I on
tered, and lighting another match. wha
ne was my horror to discover the forms O
ar Lnree men lying upon the floor but be
IN iieVlng them asleep was about to with
'aV uraW, When voice said quickly:
lis Great Heaven you here p
ul instantly L turned the blaze upor
r. Ihe speaker, and with amazement dis.
at covered one OF the young officers I had
met IN the inn, bound hand and foot
le Whlle by his side lay two others. the one
h l was to meet the next morning in
er deadly combat, and he that was to have
d been my second. '-'''o
# But no need had I to dread that
morroW's meeting, for both NV enemy
g ana the one that was to have acted as
= my friend were dead" 80
q dead %
4 Yes, Juanita, they had been cruellv
put to death by the very band That was
l soon to seek my life; for, like my guide
r and myself, the other party had become
lost IN the storm and had happened
upon the same house.
This was quickly told me bv the
young officer, whose life the bandits had
spared, to torture from him on the NOR
row a confession as to when the richly
laden commissary train was to cross the /
mountains.
instantly 1 severed the bonds of the |
young officer, and rising to his feet he
took the pistol I offered him. and to-
| gether we were consulting as TO our
! future movement to save the Door puide.
when, from the stable-yard, came a loud
cry for mercy, few shots, and a Rrean
Oh agony, and poor Pope, we knew, had
been cruelty murdered.
- Let us away from here, or our fate
wiz De such as his; see, there are dozen
OF them, cried the Spaniard.
~ ana ieadlng the way I dashed I
through the window opening upon the !
s 3d, Just as a cry arose among the ban !
dts to seek me. :
"Out upon the roof, off upon the =
ground, we hastily scrambled, and at 7
full speed rushed on in the darkness g
mile after mile, until my poor companion a
was broken down and could 90 no d
further; but then daylight broke, and l a
discovered small cot near by. and t.
arouslng the inmates, we asked for v
shelter, which was cheerfully given, al G
though death there met our gaze: for al
upon a snoW-white bed lay a young and "
beautiful woman, who had been thrown bI
rom her horse the evening before and al
lilled. to
cone glance, and my companion rec. tn
gnlzed her. She was the wife of fine WI
Dung officer with whom was to en- an
age in duel. ev
Her story had been told to the in tlr
hates OF the cottage ere she died. which N!
as, that her husband had gone to fioht aP
duel, and she was fastening after we
I'm to prevent it, accompanied only bv tnl
guide, when her horse had fallen and Ial
,ushed her beneath his weight. 8al
''Juanita, never did suffer as then c
ID to atone for my having been the Iue
use of all this misery. I had fine boJv anc
the beautiful woman borne bacI[ ~ pre-
r home, and from there buried in state I1e
side the grave of her beloved hus. WIZ
M, Tor the following day the young wa, ma1
soldiers and conc 20 III a. LUMBER able
a bandits and %bo,,oI, ~ .iG AOuse o. had
place deserted avco,1t ~, la. .la l0uiu gini
had bronobf bocIr III ' ~, ueau, difft
-pses of his friends orJ IL iIiLt tne Ordi
e guide. rou6
And, Juanita, to atone vet the more Gen
my SIN, took to my heart the baby " W
ia little girl of one year-of the six +
d parents, and bringing her with me this
america, reared her as my ward" until
And l am she that was that little &c
han girl p asked Juanita, in a low versa
sper. mari
Yes, Juanita; and each year, as Won well
e grown to womanhood, the tendrilg a ma
ny heart have chung more closely him
md you, until, now, my future with ence
your love must be a dreary blank: years
yet fear it must be so, for now that rank.
know the story Of your life, I feel attraC
you will remeI
Love You tenfold more, my dear. Our c
g guardian; and never, never leave I aim
ing.
Id with the passionate vehemence comp,
er nature, .Juanita sprang forward Colon
chung closely around the neck of with I
nan who had so we'll endeavored to in the
, for the past. teryie,
on will be mywife, then, Juanita ?"
Clarence Kane, after a pause.
es. Never have I known other A
than that felt for you; and NJ.
led with it, has been that I would gar
for mother, father, brother, all, SatIeI
y poor, poor parents, sleeping in a Llsel
gay Spain, I know, feel that you Al a mas as
not blame your daughter, and 1 mss 81
that from Heaven you look down t Ienlly
dness and give us your blessing. Ia L.yI /
ope God will bless us too" winch
Of Clarence Kona -1 anu 1ei'eH' Then /
one short month afterward all ne Iao
lore heard with surprise that the a, ms
ome guardian and beautiful ward Ihey w
zen quietly married, and had sped some q
o spend their honeymoon in the cH9lce II
tic valleys of Spain. WIN III. "a