San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-07-13

| turned SOds above Guido FerrarI'S grave.
| No stone marked the spot as yet, but il
! was close to the ROmani vault,
| more than a couple of yards away from
| the iron grating that barred the en-
| trance to that dim and fatal Charnel-
| house. had drear fascination for the
| place, and more than once | went to the
! opening of that secret passage made by
| the brigands to ascertain il all was sale
and undiSturbed. Everything was as |
had left it, save that the tangle of brush
wood had become thicker, and weeds and
brambleS had sprung up, making it less
visible than before, and probably render
ing it more impossible. BY q fortunate
accident l had secured the key of the
vault. knew that for family burial
places of this kind there are always two
Keystone left in charge of the keeper
of the cemetery, the other possessed
by the person or persons to whom the
mausoCum belongs, and this other |
managed TO obtain.
On one occasion, being left for some
time alone in my own library Mt the Villa,
! remembered that in an upper drawer
of an old Uaken esCritoire that stood
there, had always been few keys be-
longing to the doors of cellars and rooms
in the house. | looked, and found them
lying there as usual; they all had labels
attached to them Signifying their use,
and turned them over impatiently, not
finding what ! sought. l was about to
give up the search when l perceived
large rusty iron key that had slipped to
the back of the drawer; | pulled it out,
and to my satisfaction it was labelled
''MausOleum." | Immediately took pos
session of it, glad to have obtained so
useful and necessary an implement; |
knew that | should soon need it. The
cemetery was quite deserted at this fes-
tive season, no one visited it to lay
wTeaths of flowers or sacred mGmGntOeS
on the last resting places of their friends.
In the joys of the Carnival who thinks
of the dead? In my frequent walks
there | was always alone; | might have
opened my own vault and gone down
into it without being observed, but did
not; l contented myself with oCca-
Sionally trying the key in the lock and
assuring myself that it worked without
difficulty.
Returning from one of these eXcur-
sions late on mild afternoon toward
the end Of the week preceding my mar
riage, bent my steps toward the MOlO,
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1t was such a scene as the EngIsh
painter Luke FIideS might love to depict
on his canVaSs,-the one man or today
who, though born or the land OF Opaque
mlSts ana taIh-Ouioeheu cIouuS' mas
NOTWITHSTANDING IhCSe u!sdu'@u U"SeS'
manage 10 purity chuo" MS DIuSh WIN
the eAhauSi.eSS wealth. ana gov Oh IHe
radl"hI lIa''an coiour' ""CcHeu Ii!e
dance WI,h IaInJ sense oI pIeaSuIe-lI
was luIi Of 50 much narnioiy ana ucIcaG!
OF rhythm Inc iau VINO Jhruin'heu Jhe
guitar broke OUT now ana Jheh mo
SOng'-a song IN ulaIecJ Uh"J HJleu IhIo
the music OF the oance as accurately as
rosebud INTO us caIyA' cOuIu not as
tlnguish all the words ne sang, out the
refrain was always Jhe same ana he