St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-31

come not this way again. Marines
men are muy bravo and they are poor. p"
That night made Chilli, and as my
saddle was taken off the tired brute a
small scrap or rag was found sewed to
the lining 1t was folded over, and IN 1t
lay delicate bit of foreign letter paper.
on which was scribbled in French, II
am prisoner"
The following day three of us went
up the trail. but the "chossa" was emp
tV. and the next heard of Leyba was
in March, when I.ackey, rich sheep
owner on the plains, was found shot
dead in his own cabin with two OF his
herders beside him. Leyba was hunted
as wild beast from that time till May,
when he was trailed 10 the mining
camp of Golden, and from there
into the hills, where he was met
one morning by the men-hunterS and
fell with bullet through his heart and
his right hand in the clasp of that of
one OF the officers, who was giving him
the kindly greeting of one old cOmrade
to another, while from ambush another,
with the license of the law to protect
him, took deliberate aim at the betrayed
wretch.
OF the woman nothing was heard. and
she seemed to have passed out OF his
history. A few weeks ago an old MeXl'
can woman called upon me and told me
that poor senorita lay seriously III at
her house In the old town, and begged
that would come to her. "She wants
to see you. She is triste and dying
pauvrecita." l went with the madre
through the narrow, nOisOme streets OF
the ancient plaza to the bedside of a girl
not out of her teens, and whose story
repeat as she gave it.
Less than six years ago New York
was given a weeks racy, delightful
scandal when young Dambmann, one OF
its gilded youth, fell fell madly in love
with Nine. NiXau, singer OF the opera
bouffe, bought her release, spent for
tune for diamonds and gewgaWs, and
disappeared with his prize. They were
heard of occasionally, darling first
through the West. then Europe, then
South. but were never located. and
when at last the youth reappeared in
his old haunts New York had ceased to
care for or remember the pet of the foot
lights. From the seabOard they came
West and stopped at the famous Hot
Springs of Las Vegas, where the nights
in the halls of MOnteZuma were filled
with the music of the prima dOnna's
voice and the popping OF cOrks. The
venerable pussy eats slipping through
the corridors and lingering Oh the gal
leries were scandaliZed by the wild rev.
elries in Ma'mselle's quarters, and one
morning, after a particularly wild orgy,
the young man was handed bill, as
tonishing for his magnitude. and asked
that Ma 'mselle's suite be vacated.
They went to Old Mexico, where they
launched forth upon sea of license
and extravaganza that eliminated in
the Lorlei leaving her lover and disap-
pearing with Spaniard. Her fortunes
varied and tluctuated after that and she
decided to return to the United States.
Before doing so, however, she Joined a
party of free lanceS bent on camping
saturnalia in the mountains. They
were held up by MdrluO's banditti. and
poor Lorlei fell into the hands OF the
chief.
She had begged my life of Leyba and
thought his suspicious were unarOused.
But Immediately upon my departure
down the trail he had set out for the
South and established his lair over the
border. After months of suffering she
succeeded in escaping. to find herself
without money. her beauty vanishing
and her health broken.
The end was not long coming. She
leil inCO Oau HdnuS at every Iufil. que
sgng and danced throughout the mining
camps of the territory, and then drifted
to the old town to die.
She had sinned much, but she had
suffered much, and when the end came
she lay as peaceful and beautiful in her
coffin as if the storms of passion and
misfortune had never beaten her down.
l had no reason to doubt her story, but
yet wonder if the frail. faded little
dead woman. whose thin, wan. mourn
full hand lay folded with white lily in
the slender fingers, was the beautiful
sprlte of the opera, who bad sold her
self for diamond necklace and the
fancy OF a young prince of Gotham.