Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-29
R0SWELL'S WARD.

Roswell has returned from Spain and the
strangest stories are waited back about him.
He is accompanied by little girl, brown
Spanish child, ugly as Meg Merrilies, with
not more than ordinary intelligence to war
rant any ones interest in her. She is not re-
lated to him-she is not the legacy of some
inamorata; yet he has adopted her, is to edu-
cate her a Ia Anglaise, and, as the title and
Roswell hall revert to Csrmean, she will be
endowed with his own private fortune
Fathom the mystery; solve the problem.
Roswell, the adamantine soul, the most skep-
tical, unprincipied piece Of humanity that
ever breathed-severe il his Judgment of all
women-pronouncing them all treacherous
and false, leaves Granada with a promise to
pilot brown, eltish child ''along this feeting
shore.n
Perhaps he will educate, then marry her
no woman will ever elicit his commentator
unless nodded after the design MS conserva-
tive ideas prescribe.
tThereby hangs a tale" Carmean Ros-
well is converted. He left sinner, returns
q saint
Worshiped at the shrine of a brown eyed
nun, conjecture, and she intrusted a pro-
tege to his care as a slight tribute of her re-
gard, etc, etc.-drink TO my acute powers of
divination Am right, duke?
No; order moro coSnac-ice the cham
payne, and viii give you an authentic YER
sion Roswell is my friend and he prefers
London's enlightenment to architectural de-
signs upon so slight foundation as a child
The bull ring at Madrid, the Plaza de
Toros, is crowded with its L., 600 spectators;
crashing music, punG5uated by tumults from
the crowd, roaring bulls, deafening cries of
aquadores with water jars, old women with
pomegranates and oranges, now and then
glimpses of fighters in tav-dry glaring para
phernalia, relays of horses and q profusion
of tinsoi: all this perneated with excitement
and expectation. The Gaceta has devoted
columns to the praise of young torera-a
woman who rivals In skill, agility and ar
tistic strokes the muscular men who have
reigned here; and there is something novel
for the fiery southern children in having a
woman risk her life in SO daring and blood
curdling occupation The royal box is
empty, but around the forest of forms sit
nobility and the highest neUeors of the land.
In a prominent box, and with the party of a
Spanish nobleman, enters an Englishman,
and his infiexibie almost sneering counter
ance shares the gaze that is riysted on the
beauty by his side-the cynosure of ali eyes.
u.
and possessing beauty in the superlative de-
gree; he not more than a score and a half,
but his stalwart form and Atlantean Shout
ders crowned by gloomy, cynical face that
trouble, not years, have aged. He leaves the
box to speak to an English attache, who has
entered an adjacent compartments An
elderly lady turns to the lovely dona with
this mandate:
OH no sal,
with that man. Why do you wish to firt
with him7 l hear that something has dark
ened his hfe-a woman, l suppose, for his
speeches about them are desecrating / dis
like to see you smile or talk with such a
giaour. | am unacquainted with his past,
but L know he seeks to submerge memories
in dissipation of the widest kind He not
only drinks and CANDLES, but his life is I'M
hallowed in every way. He is a gentleman
by birth and his status demands that your
father should not ignore his presence in
Madrid, but he expects you to keep him at
antipodes."
money and birth covereth multitude of
sins, duchessa," and a gay, light laugh COM
plements the remark. at is requisite that
he should fall in love-it viii prove an alkah
to his acid temperament and divorce him
from this irrational life.n
Her vanity supersedes her wisdom and she
imagines him already her vassal. "a re-
beihous spirit is worth conquering I hare
flung away hearts as lightly as l would I'M
ripe olives, but TO own his would be holding
the unattainable Sappho's apple. No one can
resist my charms-he VIII be plastic in my
hands / viii reform, mold bin to NV
mood"
The entrance Of the Englshnlen terminates
bravados, and conversation gravitates to the
girl who killed bulls in a recent corida and
who appears today. Dona Inez is a FEM
mime sword of Damocles for a vulnerable
hearted mana beautiful, soulleSs coquette,
whose theology is to enSnare and vanQuish.
Her costume is studied; large mantilla-
that most dangerous of weapons-franleS her
face and is fastened in her hair and around
her perfect shoulders with costly jewels The
fan assists challenges from dark eyes, and
proves that her monitors injunctions have
fallen UNDECIDED on barren soil
TrunpetS sound as the gate under the royal
box opens, and two marshaiS enter the list,
mounted on richly eapariSoned Andalusian
steeds, whose heads are half hidden under
their names. They clear the lists, report
readiness, flag is waved, and the music
sounds a march as the chulos enter, escorting
two picadores The former, commonly
termed cheats" serve to irritate the bull
and divert his attention. The animal Iylshes
out, the chulo iiutters a bright cloak right
and left, this unsteady motion retardiny tho
progress of the beast. and the former, On
reaching the barrier, leaps over. A
picadoro is next attacked, horses are
killed and two men manned. Until now toros
has been the agCressor, and the others
on the defensive but amusement has reached I.
carnage for today. and his 4
time must come. Fragosa comes forward. 4
and If any latent interest is BETRAYED IL is dis
PEELED with her appearance. 4 typical Span
lsh girl on a large scale, strongly DEVELOPED /
muscles, symmetrical limbs, rather sinewy.
and, consistent with this, keen, sure, pene-
traJing eyes. Her costume borders on the I
Turkish style, for convenience sake and there
seems to be perfect understanding between
herself and the horse she rides. 4 thunder
Gus salutation greets her, to which she ap-
pears oblivious. She makes the banderilla
attack several times with swiftness and dex-
terity then arms herself for the final office Of
matadore. \ sword is handed her. which she
ronceals in the folds Of red banner. Twice
she advances. evading her combator's aims
and diagnosing her target well The third,
the sword disappears, is entered full length in
the shoulder Of the victim and the cross at
the hilt alone shows. The creature rushes at
the nlatadore, dying agony stimulating its
fury, but each time the blows are received
On deceptive buckler. 1t is over. and by
vociferous chorus of laudation, extolling her
name, tumuituous applause, the Spaniaris
manifest their appreciation OF her art
"What do you think of il, Lord RoSwell?"
queries Dona Inez. as seated in the carriage