San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-01-15

before; 10 was . parting snos; hatred oefnl
no longer checked by policy. And for an
other thing, the nature of that insuls, and the
conduct of Mrs. Henry, pointed 70 one con
cluson: which | have never verified, and
can now never verify until the great aseize,
the conclusion that he had at last forgotten
himself, had gone too far in his advances,
and had been rebuffed. Ii can never be YER
itied, as | say; but, rs thought Of it that
morning among his baggage, the thought was
sweet to me like honey.
Into the open portmanteau dipped little
ere closed it. The most beautiful lace aud
linen, many suits of those fine plain clothes
in which he loved to appear; book or two,
and those of the best, Cssar's Common
taries," volume Of Mr. Hobbies the Hen
riade' Of u. lie Voltaire, a book upon the
Indies, one on the mathematics, far beyond
where | have studied; these were what | OBJ
served with very mingled feelings. But in
the open portmanteau, no papers of any de-
scriptiOn. Thus set me musing. 1t was pos
sible the man was dead; butt since the trad
ers had carried him away not likely. 1t was
possible lie might still die of his wound but
it was also possible he might not. And in
means of some defense.
One after another carried his portman-
Ueaus to a loft in the top of the house
which we kept locked: went to my
own room for my keys, and, returning
to the loft, had the qualification to
find two that fitted pretty well In one of
the portmanteaus there was a shagreen letter
case, which | cut open with my knife, and
a. fa, tha
man was at my mercy. Here was a vast deal
of gallant correspondence, chiefly OF his
Paris days; and, what was more to the pur-
pose, here were the copies of his own reports
to the English secretary, and the originals of
the secretarys answers-a most damning
series-such as to publish would be to wreck
the masters honor and to set price upon
his life
chuckled to myself as ran through the
documents; rubbed my hands, | sung aloud
in my glee. Day found me at the pleasing
task; nor did then remit my diligence, ex-
cept in so far as went to the window-looked
out for a moment, to see the frost quite gone,
the world turned black again, and the rain
and the wind driving in the bay-and to
assure myself that the lugger was gone from
its anchorage, and the master whether dead
or alive now tumbling on the Irish Sea-
1t is proper should add in this place the
very little | have subsequently angled out
upon the doings of that night 1t took me a
long while to gather it; for we dared not
openly ask, and the free traders regarded me
with ermity, if not with scorn. 1t was near
six months before we even knew for certainty
that the man survived, and it was years De-
fore learned from one of Crail's men, turned
publican on his i'll gotten gain, some particu-
lars which smack to me of truth. 1t seems
the traders found the master struggled on one
elbow, and now staring round him. and now
gazing at the candle or at his hand which was
all bloodied, like man stupid Upon their
coming, he would seem to have found his
mind, babe them carry him aboard and hold
their tongues and on the captain asking how
he had come in such pickle, replied with a
burst of passionate swearing, and inconti-
nently tainted.
They held some debate, but they were mo-
mently looking for a wind, they were highly
paid TO smuggle him to France, and did not
care to delay Besides which, he was well
enough liked by these abominable wretches:
they supposed him under capital sentence,
knew not in what mischief he might have got
his wound, and judged it piece Of good ma
ture to remove him out of the way of danger
So he was taken aboard, recovered on the
passage over, and was set ashore GONZALES
cent at the Hayre de Grace What is truly
notable: he said not word to any one of the
duel, and not trader knows to this day in
what quarrel, or by the hand Of what adver-
sary he fell. With any other man should
have set this down to natural decency; with
him to pride He could not hear To avov
perhaps even to himself, that he had been
vanquished by one whom he had SO much in.
suited and whom he so cruelty despised.