Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-09-29

she was modest and retiring as any mountain
violet as il she had lived in a world apare
| from that city of feverish loves and hates,
! ambitious, intriguos and galantries. She
/ was more learned than most men in those
! d4ys of careless ignorance, yet skilled In all
| wononly knowledge. The nuns of con-
vent, where Juan de Nava was confessor, had
taught her the cunning Of their broideries
| and all manner of handiwork; and the simple
| fare and the ascetic care taking of Juan de
Navas household was all the. work OF the
| maiden
WithaI, she was devout and pous. Her
| guardian had taught her that, while good
| works are of greater import than all the
| forms Of observance, somewhat OF the daily
doing of offices is needful, il but for the sake
Of example. Therefore, she rose betimes,
and went to hear early mass She had long
knelt at the altar Of one of the minor
churches, near the dwelling Of her guardian;
but the suburb grew disorderly, and more
than once unseemly drunken brawls had
been brewed at the very door of the temple.
Therefore, Juan de Nava babe his ward go
rather to San Hipolito, somewhat farther
within the city.
And there it was that Beatriz was first
seen Of Domingo Sarraza, 'the religious
rake,n as his viceroy called him. In converse
with the oidor Amasa. He was of noble
birth, this calaveron, this young prohigate
of the first water, and wealthy as he was
handsome. He spent his money in torrents,
on every caprice, on every extravaganza of
luxury and ostentation. His was the most
gorgeous parapbernalia of the annual festi-
walls Of III Pendon. and to say this implies,
indeed, much On these occasions, On the
18Th OF August every year, the day of San
Hipolito, El Pendon--the standard of Cortez
-~was carried In triumph, escorted by
great cavalcade of Spaninrds, from the Pala-
clio Municipal TO the church of San Hipolito,
in commemoration Of the fact that on this
date Cortez achieved the final capture of the
Aztec city. And TO shine pre-eminent in
these professions was the ambition of every
young Spanard in Mexico, and each tried TO
outliye all Others in the sumptuousness of his
appointments. But, year after year, not
withstanding the efforts of his competitors,
the palm for elegance and costliness fell to
the share of Domingo Sarraza.
But not all his lavish expenditure nor his
Alterations Of joyal good-fellowship could
make the young man popular. 1t was not
alone that he was n scoundrel of gross vice
That might have been overlooked, for tho
tastes of the day were not squeamish, and a
i'PNth'ich ipi b"'h'ht' ''S ss''s ihhiohhNHo vas
then as now deemed feather in the cap of a
man, rather than otherwise. There was
Diego de Fajardo, and Luis del Rio, Antonio
Mendez Torres, and a score of others, the
idols Of the city, notwithstanding perhaps,
indeed, because of-their wild bouts and ex-
cesses But Sarraza not of them There
was malignancy in his vices that repealed
the others, happy-go-luckyy young fellows that
they were, and they shrank from his com
panlonsliip lie got good many disdainful
names, too, from them-"the friar," "the
pious one" and divers such pseudonyms, in
consequence OF his hypocritlcal zeal In church
matters. In former days his blasphemies
had been so rank and blatant that it had
been threatened that he should expatiate
then III the hoguefa, the burning place OF
the inquisltion, III front OF san Diego, where
now run the ieaty walks OF the pleasant Ala
nieoa oueh hiehace from ohe hoiy ONCE
might wen iho'ih'o'ite .he praVest man
III those Gays, ana domingo Safr "a
was no nero lie hastehed 10 reign a serious
frame OF n'hd' TO pretend conversion and
| repentance, ana 10 perform all the churchly
Offices TO avert the realilation OF the sinister
| prophecy ny day ana ny night he wore
cross on ms BOSOM, ana as regularly as the
Jay tolIeu around, no attended mass ike any
ueVotee III was TINS spurious piety, perhaps,
that was most distasoelui 10 those VINO should
nave been the associates OF Sarfaza, but 1t
was not altogether cowardice that kept him
IN the path no followed, although this had
been inc original hnpelllilg motive. III was at
'u"'Vn U''V Vpo 'sa'ieS anu ''''''Seis vi meAico
as'e'i"'eu h'oSe iroe'y, uuu III chuleh OF on
en0 way 'hea'ce vi 'ni'nur ent'o Vhey were
nioso easy y, aocesS ior 'he u1'erance OF an
ih'tN''iVe saihfhtfy OF tne tehuerlhg Oh
eoh.a'Ne "nssiNe' ny no ''ie'ls Ihe ieWeSo
oi poni'nso 9eilaN,s adventures nad Do
,ahen ','oe NC ''''0 au'pleu nis new nioue oi
ato' UNI no crew. II SUI" 'h'ns were posi-
u'e' "''iy ",o'o .o'f upo anu evil III we" OF
','e immunity NO ehJoSeo' pro'ecoeu ny MS
e'olN vi pio"s See'iiiiiS
| Ihus IL was that when he saw Beatriz do
MILAN hrst at san hipolito, his favorite
tield OF prey, he lost no time in following the
beautliul glr', IN whose garb he recognized
Tho stamp OF obscurity and poverty. He
was, indeed, somewhat abashed or startled
when his quarry entered the abode of Juan
de Nava. But his dismay was only momen-
tary, and he found an extra zest in the
Thought OF despolling and deflling the hearth
OF the saintliest man III Mexico. From that
day, Sarraza hved only for the conquest of
Beatri1 de MILAN 1t seemed to him, in the
llrst Instance, that the undertaking would be
an easy one, in view of the youth of the girl,
her extreme beauty, that argued vanity and
iaclie inclination, beside the advanced age of
her only protector, and her exposed situation
IN general
nu' no nau REASONED IN ignorance OF the
iU''V' VI '.o n''ioe"' uooo oioou anu