Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-07-02


enough, but she knew of the radian
beauty and intellectually OF Adelaide
and It maddened her with jealousy
Ordering closed carossa, she was driver
TO the little nest Of quintn Alfonso mad
provided for his love at an hour when
she knew the king would be with her.
chastity alighting,s she attempted to en-.
ter, but was met by the Duke Sesto,
whose eminence had been attained as a
procurador rather than as statesman.
"'Permit me to enter' trembingly de-
manded the queen.
'It Is impossible. i beg you to re-
turn to the palace replied Sesto.
Make way for the queen--the queen
will passp Indignantly commanded the
daughter OF Francis Joseph, emperor of
the Austras.
"'Even the queen cannot pass!' i'm
perturbably and doggedly answered the
duke.
"Wlth a cry of rage Christina sprang
10 the carossa, slatched from IL a heavy
purse Of gold, flung 1t full in Sesto's face
which sent him crashing through win
dow of the villa, aud shrieking, Dog, IL
your master, the king, pays you one price
for your hellish occupation the queen
will always double i'll few into the
quinta like tigress, discovering the
king and Adelaide in each Others arms
"Itis said Alfonso did not recognize
the identity of the half-crezed intruder.
At all events, sprlngiug to his feet, he
struck the queen TO the floor with his
heavy walkiog. stick, and then fed with
Espronceda's daughter, while tbe cdlm
Sesto bore the helpless and unfortunate
woman 60 the carossa and saw her safely
In the hands OF her maids at the royal
palace.
1.-TWO days later the queen OF Spain
was with her father ut the Austrian court,
determined on eternal separation from
Alfonso, while the Spanish royal house
hold and the high dignltaries of Spain
trembled Tor the result. The affair even
| penetrated the vatican Itself, and for
time was source of grave disquiet 10
all the courts Of Europe But ina little
time Alfonso was prevailed upon TO pre-
sent himself at Vienna, penitent and
! promising In sending Chris.ina and AL
tonso back to Madrid together, the
! queens fathers wisdom made it possible
tor oil Spain to rejoice the other day MT
the birth Of our dead kings son to sue
coed him on the Spanish throne.
"But no man ever lived with greater
/ genius than Espronceda. He starved and
sung, and Spain crowned him with riches
and honor. But these to him were but
instruments for the most hldeous en-
phasls Of his own deadly hatred OF all
mankind. Stung To madness by the burn
ing consciousness OF his own unfortunate
origin, he swept the universe Of inspira-
ton and language for flaming brands of |
imagery with which to annihilate virtue |
and debauch all mankind. His tremendous
intellectual power and supreme genius,
allied to his awful lnvective and the sub |
tile poison of his divine verse, for time
corrupted oil Spain But an hour came
when this wave ofruin swept back in indig- |
nation upon himself He struggled against
1t with Infinite power and daring until, |
realizing the enormi,y Of his crime |
against The hope of all mankind, or the |
completeness Of his own falI,h went mad |
entirely. Breaking from his keepers, he |
rushed to the Campo Santo, where his |
mother lay buried, and there upon her |
grave composed the most dreadful and |
devilish poem ever conceived by human |
mlnd--"La Desper0cion"--in which |
his own mother, even the Holy Virgin, |
and all semblance of virtue, maidenhood, |
motherhood, maternity, are more loath. |
somely reviled than elsewhere In all |
tongues Of men. With this masterpiece |
OF the infamy OF genius he appeared be- |
fore his friends, blasphemous maniac |
aud died uttering the words we lust
heard In the coralles INN:
Let the next one deal'n