The Springdale news., 1889-03-22

counted fer nothing. less than Hotalng for if husbands iE general are ciphers, what uas tHis wret-hei fisher of ccls? -t lout, i clown. e50d. On. that is quite apparent: convinced. no doubt. of her htgh mission tn this poor world of sorrows. Carmen every day dressed herself as if she We're going to a ball or ttHet9H. and .4t herself down at the door of the cabin, where she was seen ot the birds, the roel<-thYme, and the ekies-ana of naaeht else Sdll. she awaited traHquily the moment of her destiny.
 In the days when Garmelita Hfst look uP Ter station at tAe door thus "drossed with parsley, the castle oi Mtquineaza was still without Don Jaime. its master, and no human eys beheld her fran csasezsfauze than that of the saHds below. whence she looked like some great blossom set en the edge Of fle pree5Hlea. Her husband had forbidden her to se down 10 the village ia his absence. and she ebe3ed him implicitly, because il is the will oi God that Wiyeso5.x faeir husbaaassan because well. beeaase there was nothing pleasing to bee ia the rustic youths Of fae village. Low should they please her any moro than her husband 2= they. like him, roEgh, bad ly clad, and aifty with thorng, cal loused hands, bulaed hy the sun. tanned by wind and raia. and smeH- ing of fish from a rcd aWay2 And she so soil. s9 smooth, se dainty, dressed and petfamea like Aia5tiiena.
 | i7 trHe thatif tae poor fisherman was Addressed thiz Was to give finer. better raimem to Carmen: that fl the husband should labor less, to the end of sparing lis hands. The wife would have worked faF Haeeee. with the re- suit Of spelling hsls 8H.z- ones. true, also, that those eels. which we're iu- deed tII-sme1Iing. paid for the sweet -eeht,d soaps in which Carmen de- lighted. But who makes such ob- sereatians to | womaa2 above al. fl that Woman fs nineteen years old and pretty, a4Ef, and graceful as the rain bow with its se7.eH ealors. An. yes! gratitude nay Well be sentiment loo soher for T young woman, and justice fairness -an uncomfortable idea for q joyous imaa#aaEf9n Those virtues are born af #aE=a=#s. and Carmen was almost quito happy.
 Given these conditions. il was not at a11 iHeaa f-teat that fhe thoughts and =iaterezt= of tha fisherman wife sHoa.d turn Q B5a Jaime de Ne aainenza, from the day that the news ef his rehmn to his harouia halls came to the village at the cliffs foot And in effect when ete set eyes upon his vo ship, Gavmens butterfly brain and her unloyal heart alike sung to her that this was q lord, a fine gentle man, and t hero here Ha4 man worthy of beauty and eharm like hers
 A for the lord Of tbe manor lie was already in love with her species, and as the greater includes the lcss he was undoubtedly smitten with Carmen. It was not hong before they tod each other by the telcrraphic code of looks and signals, their mutual and respect i've sentiments, but this platonie sys- tenn became to both alike insupport- able.
 In the meantime Bcnian went on fishing.
 Now, whether it camo to pass that si}e people of the hamlet, failing to realize and appreciate their abject contemptihility, came 10 criticisc the doings of ttHir fcaaal master or whether the GsAermaa eAaneaa t6 re- member that his wife was | pretty woman and Don Jaime q hot-blaoaed gallant, and that the castle and tho cabin were moi 90 widely separatad there came a lime when this worthy husband displayed iess thaa his usual eegerness ta make Lis frequent ae8nds oH his cel-tpaps lie developed also, certain rheumatic @inaes in lis left knee flat impaired hi= agility iawalk- ing, and 50 he hired u strappine lad whom he made Lis substitute in eon- YeYing the eet=baszats among the pur- ebasers of the vicinity. This proceed ure Of the fia14eru4a was far from meeting with the approval of Carmen and Don Iaue
 One beantituI aldr evening fhe two spoases sat at the door of their cabin and watched tAesinkiag sn -thes.sne sHn ii those aaf- ef fl eeatHHy and Ha1f sinre that w see aaW above us. That evening il wa sinking as slowly  aHl a- je=tieall9 aS expected never to ri-a again | vas one of those splendid and solemn moments in-whieh it seems that the wod has reached for the first time its apoeee of beauty; q melancholy hour in which the soul appears to assist If the tragedy of tho days death as II ! aeW occurrence. which will mol Dc repeated.
 Carmen and Damian regarding that sun. whose rays dyed the horizon with a strange prophetic Lieht. felt their very souls stirred within them. tfn- cultured and rude of nature as they were, they could but feel that this was critical hour, fuIi of doom. of mys- tery Of fatality.
 When the sun had set entirely both hreathea heavily, a5 those who have completed d1oHgaaa severe t;.sk. Tho taeit compact #a4 signed between them. each 10 hss own crime. not to be renouuced, but irToYocabfe, as tho 4aaf f.f ,la.. ,,..,.