Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1891-11-28

from that city OF feverish loves and hates,
ambitious, intrigses and gallRntries Shs
was more learned than most men In those
days of careless ignorance, yet skilled In all
womaniy knowlsslge The nuns Of a con-
vent, where Juan de Nava was confeSsor, had
taught her the cunning Of their broideries
and all manner Of hnndi~ork and the simple
fare and the ascetic care taking Of Juan de .
Nava's household was all the work OF the
maiden.
withal, she was dsvout and pious Her
guardian had taught her that, while good
works are Of greater import than all tho
forms OF observance, somewhat Of the daily
doing Of offices Is needful, II 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 unsesmly drunken brawls had
been brewed at the very door OF the temple.
Therefore, Juan de Nava babe his ward go
rather 10 San Hipolito, somewhat farther
within the city.
And there IL was that Beatriz was first
seen OF Domingo Sarraza, 1.-THE religious
rake 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 taraphernalia OF the annual festi.
walls Of FL Pendon. and to say this implies,
indsesi, much On these occnsions on the
18th Of August every year, the day of San
Hipolito, Ell Pendon-the standard Of Cortez
was carried in triumph, escorted by a
great cavalcade OF Spaniar,is, 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 Spsniard in Mexico, and each triad TO
outlive all others in the sumptnousness Of his
/ appointments. But, year after year, not
withstanding the efforts Of his competitors,
/ the palm for elegance and costumes fell to
/ the share OF Domingo Sarraza.
But not all his lavish expenditure nor his
affectations of joyial good-fellowship could
make the young man popular IL was not
alone that he scoundrel Of gross vice.
That might have been overlooked, for the
tastes of the day were not squeamish, and a
/ reputation for gallantries and rakishness was
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 was not of them. There
was u malignancy in his vices that repealed
the Others, happy-go-lucky young fellows that
they were, and they shrank from his com
partnership. He got good many disdainful
names, too, from them-''the friar," ''the
y a "A. n. a.
consequence of his hypocritical zeal in church
matters. In former days his blasphemies
had been No rank and blatant that IL had
been threatened that he should expatiat,
them in the hoguera, the burning place Of
the inquisition, in front Of San Diego, wher,
now run the leafy walks OF the pleasant Ala
meda Such menace from the holy offic
might well intimidate the bravest maj
In those days, and Domingo SarrJ q
was no hero He FASTENED to feign "a seriou
frame Of mind, 10 pretend conversion an
! repentance, and Ia perform all the church,
Offices, to avert the realization Of the siniste
prophecy. BY day and by night he wore
cross ON his bosom, and as regularly rs th
day rolled around, he attended mass like an
devot.e. Ii wns this spurious piety, perhaps
that was most distasteful To those who shoul
. have been the associates of Sarraza, but
was not altogether cOwartlice that kept hi
in the path he followed, although this ha
!, been the original impelling motive, II was
: church that the DANES and damsels of MexiC
: assembled most freely, and in church or O
. the way thence or thjther that they wei
most easy OF access for the utterance OF a
initiative gallantry or the rendering of
!, tentative missive. BY NO means the fewc
! Of Domingo Sarraza's adventures had b
- Call k.
!. life, and he grew, II such thing were pos
: :. bile, daily more corrupt and evil, in view
!, the immunity he enjoyed. protected by b
:, cloak Of pious seeming.
:. Thus IL was that when he saw Beatriz
= MILAN first at San Hipollto, his fayori
: field OF prey, he lost no time ia following Il
! beautiful girl, i'm whose garb he recogniz,
a the stamp of obscurity and poverty.
!, was, indeed. somewhat ahashed or startl,
a when his quarry entered the aboie of Jui
!, lie Nava But his dismay only nome
i tary, and he found extra zest in d
1 thought OF despoiling and deiiling the hear
OF tho saintliest man in Mexico. From tn
\. day, Sarraza lived only for the conquest
4 Beatriz de MILAN. IL seemed To him, in {
! first instance, that the undertaking would
"A an easy one, in view of the youth OF the ri
= her extreme beauty, that argued vanity al
! faeile inclination, beside the advanced age
Z, her only protector, and her exposed situati
"a in general
NJ But he had reasoned in ignorance Of {
Ia char lcter of the maiden Coed blood a
n noble coursed in the veins Of Beatriz do NJ
lie Ian, and blood will tell, pirate how we will
n the equality of man. Moreover, she had 4
ia grown up under the fostering care Of Ju
be de Nava without absorbing much OF |
al stern and lofty integrity that characters
rh the ran. Domingo Sarraza tried, IN tui
he each Of the spacious arts by which the soc
all bird of prey seeks To possess himself Of
hit victim, and he found each line OF procesiI
81 equally ineffective. Ii BeatriE had rag
no protested, shown Indignation even, her j
"a secutor would have found in such demonst
MI ton satisfaction, as indicative of posi-
m. alteration Of sentiment in the future. |
10 no hope OF delusion was to be derived fr
al her serene indifference, slightly tinged "
re- repulsion, like the impersonai distaste felt
some loathsome creature, quite apart fr'
ies her sphere Of being But this was the al
he tude, above all others, most calculated
rfz sting Sarraza 10 frenzy, and stir in his be-
nv a scure OF latent evil passions, that seetl
an AMI strained like knot OF intercoiled, wri
". ing reptiles
III. Recognizing in BeatriE the strength Of
rs adopted fathers teachings, he grew to incls
Is the lriest in the rancor he felt against
III, maiden-a rancor that grew TO deadly v
~, on.ons hatred But Juan de Nava. when
al learHed Of the young debauchees perse
al ton, had taken care To surround Beatriz "
IN nlona adequate safeguards than those
al s.t..