San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-03-23

But this day in particular a marty Of
tourists was wandering about Dar;eer.
ling, and they at length came into the
plantation, where one of them q Young
Englishman named Mainwaring sn;ed her
out.
Good looking young Niger that - he
said, jerking his thumb in the direction of
T-Rhada.
Perhaps" remarked his comnanion.
''bat beautyin woman is always relative
quantity. They are or are not good'Iook.
ing, according to your taste and condition
of susceptibility. The divine Blanche now
might not agree with you"
"The divine Blanche, fortunately. is
5000 miles away so don't see what she
has o,lo with it"
Try not to he impatient, Mainwaring,
but the eyes of ive-and-forty do not see
all things as do the orbs of five-and-twenty.
am an older man than You are. and"--
And what?"
Nothing, perhaps, and perhaps great
deal. But the others are hurrying on
toward supper and we must not detain
them. Come on"
The sightseers passed out of the planta-
ton without being seen by Ii Rhada.
Mainwaring came back to the tea fields
for another look at the young niger"
the following morning; and he came alone.
1i-Rhada was bit startled at finding
him suddenly close beside her, with that in
his gaze which she had never seen in man
eyes before.
Not wishing to alarm her, Mainwaring
turned away.
His friend, Colonel Fritch, was on the
hotel portico when he came in.
been hunting up more niggerss" he in
quired
Mainwaring bowed stiffly and entered
the hotel without answering. He was not
only annoyed but indignant. Fritch was
an ass. He was Identifying the merest
nothing in the world. Whom could it
harm if he had gone back for second
glance at the little Nepaleses What was
she or any other Hindoo woman to him?
They were interesting to look at, and he
should continue looking at them all he
pleased, and if 'Fritch had anything more
to say about it he would cut the Fritch
party, stay at Darjeerling as long as he
wished and go away when he got ready.
The next morning he made IA third trip
to the the fields.
This time, after persistent exertions, he
managed to engage Ii Rhada in CONVERSE
ton That is. he prevailed upon her to
listen to his questions and remarks and to
make occasional little monosyllable an
swers thereunto. This was not very ed-
flying and had the girl been less pretty
Mainwaring would have voted it all a
bore; but it was very pleasant to see her
red lips shape themselves into varying
al Nts.t,
of music about the words themselves.
Manwaring's pilgrimages to the planta-
tion were numerous, but not another word
did Fritch say about Ti-Rhada.
81 thought you people were only going
to stay here a week." said Mainwaring to
Fritch one afternoon when Ti-Rhada had
been particularly interesting, and her
white admirer in consequence was particu-
larry amiable.
ave find Darjeerling very pleasant and
refreshing" was Fritch's reply, "and so
none of us are in hurry to get away; but
if your young blood is gathering impa-
thence for an immediate hegira, III call
the clan together and we will HE US
hence"
'Oh, ! am in no hurry about going-or
that is, it doesn't concern me in the least
whether we go or stay. But it had oc-
CURED to me that your original plan was
being varied"
The next day Mainwaring suspected
that Ti-Rhada was glad to see him, and by
the third day thereafter he was sure of it.
He was pleased nightly. Surely he must
have some strength of character when
both heather and civilized women were
attracted by himl
In a little time change came over Ii
Rhada. She not only listened and assented
when Mainwaring talked, but talked her
self, and for an uneducated little heather
she talked well.
Mainwaring was more than ever fasci-
mated; but somehow he felt constrained
to delay demonstrations of affection.
Down in the dark depths of Ti-Rhada's
eyes there was that which showed that
love, to her, would be no light thing.
Three weeks from the day he first saw
her, by which time it was her wont to
greet him with a beaming face, she met
him almost sullenly one morning.
After dint of much coaXing he worrned
ont of her that her dearest friend, girl of
about her own age, had lost her lover.
Still worse. in absconding he had taken
her future with him, for she was now an
object of contempt and derision to her en-
tire tribe.
"What will she do nowS' asked Main
warning, endeavoring to muffie the stab the
disclosure was to his own purposes.
Kill herself" said Ti-Rhada stolidly.
"What else is left for her to dor"
why, in my country she you'd kill her
lover
"Yes! It is unlike India then. should
like to live in your country"
IL am glad you don't live there" re-