The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1893-07-27
A ROMANCE OF HISTORY.
An Inoiaont Of Mexican Cruelty on
tho Toxins i3ordor.

| An incssiont OF Mexican Cruelty on
tho Toxas Border.
A little restaurant overlooking the
San Antonio river Two men with
chairs Tilted back una feet against the
projecting rail of the baieany, were
smoking their evening cigarettes
The dusk lay above them like bats
wing, ready - ailAwIstiy gand sudden
| ", ~ Il doea In southern fntitudes
Both were young and 81 Eoodly pres.
| cnce. Western suns aud winds had
tanned their eheeiss aud burned Ia tina
red 81 youth to rich tFoaie hne
| Across the brew ~ nne Ii brow
whose boyish contour moved women
with mother instincts 10 sudden long.
| Ing To carcssl lay lcost waves 81 soft
| yellow hair, Beneath looked out eyes
| Of dark gray, heavy with tho long
thoughts 81 those curly. drapern,a
| days days when a republic worked
ont Ia blood her long probation. The
other had q fnircr countenanee, more
lightsomc and full % happy promise,
No dark prophecy broodcd III the
sunny shadpws 81 The brifsht blue eycs,
and laughtcr rrang as lightly 10 the
| lip ns the blush to the check IL tnmia
Superuisicd tonight 10 lila native
rxuberanec WA some fore I'm element
| Of joyouancas, which seemed 20 master
spirit and muscles alilsc. He was full
81 movement Tossing away Il half.
finielied cigatettc, no clasped his hands
buck Of his curly head md broke the
silence with hndtien speech
med. nn TOO happy 20 snoise, am
the hnppirst ANA Ii M TITS border
land Nellie llorndsn has promised
to be my Mife. Its secret vet, bit i
couldn't keep il from Yen nny more
than lcould keep my love from hcr.
There is not another woman like her,
north. east, south 0r west Did you
ever notice the gold Of her half2 IL is
like snnsliinc spun it5 tiirrlds When
ever ! look at hcf think ~ some
quaint old words my mother used 4,
reild out of boob hong years ngs,
whom was n bgy back Ia my old
6eorgia bone. They went this. sny:
Whose shoes latchet | am not worthy
70 uniaosc suppose the pfearheis
would call that nreverent. but Gosl
Will boar me Witness there's no ifrcv-
ercnee In my hca,t when ! think Of
her.
AT Harvey Armstrong; fl,se words
the color WINS washed out ", Nod Eos.
| ter's face as Will, sponge. Ills very
eyes seemed % pale.
bringing the chair to the ground,
conccalinR his face with his bands. lie
leaned over the railing and looked
down Into the sluggish waters u the
river flowing d few feet below.
How old and wise they Looked. those
waters IN their calm. unfrctted Aow.
Good for you. old fellow" he said.
as he extended lis hand MAY you
have centuries IL happiness II any
man deserves her II ii you. Harvey Z"
This was Iii the summer Of Is4i
In the autumn Of is42, when Prcsi-
dent Houston ordered out Gen, Somer-
veil 10 The lio 0rande to organize
troops and avenge the insulting raids
of Vasqnoz and Won. Ned Foster was
among the FIRST 70 respond 70 the call
.ur volunteers
About ono hnndIed and eighty miles
south of SaItillo, on the road To the
City 81 Mckee, is an old fort, known
In history as the Hacienda Salado.
To this place, on the eGth Of Mach,
iS43. were brought tho reeaptured rem
nant ~ tlf unfortunate Mier cxpcdi.
tion, that gallant band Of three hun.
drcd and sixty men, the flower Of
western militia, who went forth to do
battle for the honor Of The young rc-'
public and were so trchchcrousiy
dealt with by the followers Of Santa
Ana. 70 whom they surrendered Us
prisoners ~ ysnr. All readers 81 Texas
history know how the terms Of tie
treaty were broken nnd the betrayed
men shown no mercy but marched into
the interior, subjected 70 incrt dibIe
hardships, and finally imprisoned miles
away from hcmc and friends
Feeling kecnly the indignity Of their
treatment, and fearing worse at tic
hands Of such perfdious foes, they
overpowcrcd the guard and escaped,
70 be rctalen ten days later and res
Turned to the same inclosnre whence
they had fcd
All this Is history: but we have no
.srittcn record of thatintcfval between
the escape and the rccaptnrc. when the
little company wandered, lost and
helpless, among the fastness Of UNI
familiar mountains; no record Of those
ten days and nights when the sun ross
and set but to mhrk another and dark
or experience ri the calendnr OF human
pain
Ned Foster and Harvey Armstrong
were among the number Stronger
than the multiplied threads Of the ca
bic had grown the bond 81 friendship
between these two men in the awful
realism y linscr and suffcring.
For four days the svcasy aud footsore
ard travelled down a deep canyon.
whose steep sides narrowed and mar
lrowed until they closed and barred