San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-06-25
The Yellow Spring.
By WILLIAM HENRY BISHOP.

ment with themI
full of alarm at the prolonged rupture of
communications. For the rest, besides
lie collected news from New York, she
c2"c him some of the uneventful gossip
Of the hacienda.
Il told you all of it before" she said,
lin the letter l LETT for you long time.
and then had to take back, because you
did not come. Now | tell you again;
perhaps | shall have to take this back
also. There is little to say about our
quiet life; you could almost invent it all
for yourself. But it may interest you to
hear that our exemplary friend the Jefe
Poltico, Senior Don Tomas Corcovedo,
has formally proposed for the hand of
Luz, and has been rejected. You would
nave learned it from my former letter,
for it happened "A good while ago. Senior
COrcOvedO has shown himself very in
lignant iii consequence, and has tried to
be disagreeable in various ways. hear
tat he has let fall to the general grum-
bling, half threatening expressions about
people who are lul1ewarm in their de-
votion to thegovernment But this surely
could not have been intended for our
dear general; for nobody is moreStruly
patriotic than he.
But why do talk of other things?
Where are YOU? what has happened!
come to look, SO often, and find nothing.
Am | wrong to be so oppressed and anx-
ious?"
Walter replaced it with his own, as on
former occasion, adding few words to
the effect that he would not go at once,
out would fry to wait about to receive
some little further communication from
Ter. lie found the ancient corral, that
had been Trinidad JOSe's, deserted, and
nok refuge there for the night. There
would have been an excellent view of
me memorial cross, III the morning. from
behind its low rambling walls, except
,hat u number of yellow straw stacks
we're scattered over the space between,
the faces of some of them rudely sculpt-
ured, after not unusual custom, into
bas-reliefs of saints.
He saw Amy go by from a distance,
however, with q group of the family
about her. The children sported in adj
vance, and with the elders among others
WAS Sister Beatriz. How lis heart beat
Is Amy went by! He fancied, from his
rrnIoteneaS, sac looked pale. She leaned
IN the arm cf Sonora del Prado. too as
ii she were not very strong.
"C&n it be in any degree on my ac-
rDUnt" ne wondered If 50. she is soon
10 De reas1u-cu.
The company remained an hour or
mJre-itwaS a pleasant rural spot where
riey might well enough pass Il little
Inc, though it in no way compared
with the garden-and then he watched
r."n on their return. AS soon as the
coast was entirely clear he slipped out,
and, shielding himself behind one straw
stack after the other, daringly rislling
: lection, went and inspected the depos-
ItDry.
Nothing. He hid again in the corral,
hoping She might make another visit in
the afternoon; but looking once more in
the evening, and yet again in the morn
ing, he still found nothing. He thought
she had not been able to seCrete an an
swer before her companions in the first
instance, nor to return alone in the sec
Onl. What was more naturaP But now
he could wait no longer. Another day at
the corral was not to be thought of.
Just as he was about to begin his de-
tour of retreat he saw issuing from the
principal gates of Las Delicias a numer-
Gus cavalcade. There were armed serv-
ants commanded by the corporal, or prin-
cipal herdsman, a man who wore red
handkerchief about his head in bandit
fashion and was wont to claim to be the
titular cacique of some extinct tribe, and
there were poems carrying the nipple
N''nts needed to clear the road. Mules,
earring provisions for the company for
ONE days, had the name of the hacienda
embroidered on the broad crupper bands
i'll bright colOrs. A small escort of the
leather jacketed rrlrales, or country po-
lice, furnished by the Jefe Politico, was
also in attendance, whose arms and sill
yer trappings jingled as they rode.
In the midst We're seen Gen. del Prado,
Amy, Luz. DOna Beatriz, the Senoritas
Arroyo and some other persons of note
from the town.
Several of the party wore such badges
he regular steamer, more favorable
bargain having offered in this way, and
le had not written, in order to surprise
hem.
"But-this in confidence he said, Il
must soon be off again to the United
States. Ihope it will not be for long A
business connection is open to me there