San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-06-23

| his labOrs We're over he dropped half
| dead with fatigue, and somehow nothing
was ready for statement; the time had
not yet arrived. She reproached him
afterwards for the lack of fullness in his
intelligence, saying:
You might Just as well have been in
New York, for all | really know of you"
| He stole ont in disguise. made his trip
TO Las Dehcias, and returned almost like
man walking in his sleep, so little did
| he seem now to belong in the upper
| world and 50 engrOSsed was he with
| what he left behind. He could hardly
have told it was not dream, except for
| one awakening shock of alarm he had in
coming face to face with his former ser
| want, Pablo. 1t was near the village Of
La Madalena, west of the hacienda, in
the morning, and the eyes of this stupid
man, who was driving some young stock
marked with the brand of the Jefe Poll
tiCo, opened wider and wider at him in
growing recognition. Don Walter STUN
bled and fell as by accident, gave one of
the cattle a sharp thrust that threw the
troop into confusion and amid the dust
and turmoil slipped into a clOister,
whence the sing-sOng hum of urchins re-
citing their spelling lesson to the school
master was heard, and so out on the
other side, and escaped.
The account, too, he had from Amy's
letter of the hue and cry raised about
his horse was a further awakening infu-
ence. He marveled at the danger he
had narrowly escaped, and at the sweet
ness and kin lness of her who must have
been So sorcly tried for him. The con-
sequence of all this was that the risks
seemed too great, and lie missed entirely
the next date set for his venturing forth.
The subsistence problem was simple
one; his fare III the canyon was even more
than frugal. Yet som atimes a youthful
stomach would crave sustenance more
suited to maintain the vigor Of the body
III the arduouS laborS in which it was en-
gagged, and then he pat his gun on his
shoulder AMI W ut along the love- edges
of the inclosinE walls Most wild crea-
lures woul naturally have a salutary
dread Of the place and give it wide
berth; nevertheless, some game was to
be had. Once he killed deer, of which
there were plenty in the forests above.
He had no fear about the reports being
heard. for they would easily be con-
founded with the detOnations of the place
itself
One cvrntful day, dread that had long
haunted him at last came true To him,
as to Robinson C:uSor there appeared
ma9 q .thin his peculiar domain. was
uD tl'rn. rnl froL ono Of his hamUing
trips that b. So t'.;~ ~'r2nytl near the
lava basin. the man .lj at first sight
the miserable appearance of one of the
poor alHah gathcrerS; but presently Wal
ter fond III him a familiar look. He
fauCied he recognized Kaufman, the
foreman of the glass works at the lower
end of Lake tornado, a workman Of
much ability in his line, brought over
originally from famous Murano.
Walter had been told in visits paid
there that it was upon the skill of Kauf-
mann that the success of the manufac-
tory chiefly depended.
What is he doing here in such a
guise?" murmured Walter. He has the
air rather of searching for some outlet
than Of making discoveries; yet there is
no surprise or treaChery that | ought not
to be prepared for; there is no telling
what he may stumble upon by accident,
if not by design. must not let him get
out Of my sight for a moment"
He stole along at distance, keeping
parallel course to that Of the visitor,
while screening himself behind interven-
ing Obstacles
His heart throbbe1 faster and faster,
and began to be fairly in his mouth as
the invader moved on, and it was evident
that the arrangemonts-though to be
sire, expressly made to throw dust in the
eyes of the public-were about for the
first time to receive inspection. Instead
of keeping straight on, however, the fore
man, whose coarse was meandering
one, and who might really have had no
more intcntion in entering the valley
than to get ont OF it. bore to the left.
This line, converging upon that fur
lively pursued by Walter, crowded the
latter into yet more secure hiding Crawl
ing over a slope of debris between two
parallel rocks, near the side wall of the
gorge, hisseyes still cast about for the
enemy/ne did not at once perceive an
even more formidable danger that await
ed him. He looked up to discover large,
powerful w''d beast, reddish brown, with
white thro It, poised before him, ready to
spriH@.
The lion! the lion" was his startled
exclamation mentally. His faculties were