The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1886-04-13
MANETTA'S REVENGE.

MANEITA'S REVENGE.
Two men were seated some few years
ago on u fallen oak in the woods near
where the flourlshlng city of Puebla,
Mexico, now stands. One. Emanuel
Blanco, was young, handsome and In
telligent. The other, Pedro, as he was
called, was far advanced in. years,
though Of q very observing nature and
possessed Of considerable practical COM
mon sense. Emanuel had been sent to
this locality by company to survey the
place with avlew OF subsequently build
ing o town on the site. Pedro was an
old axeman, thoroughly acquainted with
the country, and Of great value to
Emanuel in his present enterprise.
"1f you marry that girl you'll repent
1t the longest day you live," earnestly
remarked Pedro, during lull In the
conversation.
"Why should I repent my mar
riageP" asked Emanuel, somewhat net
tied at his companions remark.
''Don't consider it prejudice on my
part when I,explain the reason to you.
Now you don't intend to live here
always in this unclvilized region, and
you would be ashamed to cake her back
home: 1t wouldn't do at all. You
probably haven't thought of that.
Better leave the girl alone. She
doesn't know any better aud is happy
here. You couldn't civilize her any
more than you could wolf or wild
cat. =, : AZ ~ -
Deprlvedof all home associations and
society, Emanuel naturally enough
sought and enjoyed such as could be
found; the accidental falling Of a tree
upon one of his legs had rendered him
for time unable to perform his
arduous duties, and he had found shell
ter In the home Of a red-man--not one
Of the normal savages who live in mis-
cradle wigwams and carry their house.
hold goods around with them In their
wanderlngs-but In the log-cabin of a
semi.civilized and Chrlstianized Indian.
There he had been kindly treated, net
only by the parents, but by their daugh-
ter, young, black-eyed and raven
haired girl of eighteen. In her society,
while the elders were hunting, fishing
or cultivating their little patch Of
ground, he had spent his time, and
before he was aware of the fact his.
heart had been touched by her artlessI
manner and tenderness for his suffer-,
ings.
In every respect the girl was pure In
dian-one Of unmlxed blood, though
freedom from the usual tolls Of her race
In a great measure had softened her
features. and the little education she
had received lighted up her nature.
Still she was emphatically Indian in
pride, love and dress, and passions.
She would, when once loving, love to
the end--lf injured, seek revenge to the
death. Amid tho unpleasant sur
~oundings Of ordinary Indian life,
scanuel would not have noticed her.
soN her neat home and picturesque at
E.'...eStes'teaasiiQned after the models Of her
Il White sisters, though exhibiting the
high colors that ever crafty the savage,
1t was otherwise. She was tall, 1.-the,
more than ordinarily handsome--.was
even more than attentive to his wants,
and 1t was pleasant to listen to her bro
kenEnglish during the long, lonelyhours
OF his confinement Thus he became
interested in her--thus, without reAec-
tion, he won her love and gave her his
own. ..4..
For o time after his conversation
with old Pedro he sat in deep thought.
The truth of the timely warning he had
received staggered him In his resolution
to make the girl his wife. But ne was
young, ardent, impulsiye, and when, a
few moments later. ne saw the girl
coming from the woods with a basket
filed with berries, with her atop light
and proud as a fawn, with her black
eyes dancing with health and happiness,
with her olive cheeks flushed, and her
long, black hair woven with and
lighted up by crimson flowers, and her
full lips parted as she sang, SO as to re-
veal the white line Of pearl within, all
his strong resolutions vanished like
mist in the supshine.
That night when wood and stream
were; ripping In silver shadows. Eman-
Ael wandered through the fragrant
pines and Whispering hemlocks. with
the Indian girl Manetta by his side. BY
o little brook, where the crimson
spotted trout leaped in the moonlight,
they seated themselves, and talked
long, low and earnestly.
ltwas not In the nature Of the child
ne tha red men to deny her lover: but