Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-10-15
AN EIOPEMENT.

tociety IN san Diego Tor eotne year. pass
Dolores is in the flower Of her youth. just
10, tall, graceful and d charming manner.
Her oval face Ia pensiye, except when her
glorious dark eyes fash with mirth CT
passion. She has plenty Of spunk and has
lately snapped herfngers At four big broth
ers and eloped with scion Of an ancient
enemy Of her housc.
Dolores had lived on Tenth street with
her mother and brotbens-Joss Gabriel.
Salvador and Manuel Her father is dead,
bat the boys have wntehed her with jealous
care. Dolores has had plsnty Of chances 70
marry, but she has been very circumspect
In receiving alterations from young men
Her brothers have helped her By chasing
away every young fellow who came around
hnd By spreading the alarming intelligence
that death awaited the man who presumed
70 court their sister
This ms.hod worked well With faint
hearts. hut IL had no tsrrors for Young Tomas
Garcia, Tomas i fee: 2, % years old.
good looking and as quick a. the mountain
Hons be has 50 often hunted he lrst saw
Dolores two jean ago At a fiesta At Ia
Juzna, on the M6xicza line He Wa
then working On his fathers rancho a.
Cerro Colorado, seven Iniles below the Inc
He quilted work and came " san DIEGO
and ever since has carried on eourtship
With Dolores For year she turned deaf
ear 70 him. and be rsrtly saw her. He E4W
Jose SieocheA o1ce, however. but mutual
fr1snds separated tasm Elnost before the
knives were drawn
After that Dolores did not seem 70 cold.
and less than q year ago Tomas was SURE
be could VIII her II only the chance Of
elopament Ciered. When u. four big
brother learned tbs. Dolores loved Tomas.
there vas a mighty row. They related %
her all the old eats!e wars betEssn The NJ
eochsas and GArciAs and tris1 70 arouse
her family PRIDE She told them with gree
spirit that shs didnit ezrs how mAny tends
existed between the camille. that she loys-i
Tomas AID some day would marry hir7
Then the boz sent word 70 Tomas that .
b. va ever sesn with Dolores b. would
surely die.
20 matters have stood for the pat SIX
nonthL Dolores and Tomas have con-
uunlca.ed 81 come way. but nob0dy knor-s
low. The Cd sonora her mother. las
watched her Ike a hawk, and the boz,
have been % her tide Whenever she Dip
peartd Ia pablo at bale or fiesta Il j.
strange, therefore, that Tomas should have
run away with her 20 easily, but II l. true
that be hs1
Last Sunday evening the old seuora dozed.
J1se. Gabriel. Manuel and Salvador were
all down town Dolores looked mighty
pretty leaning her cheek on her hand Il
the open EiaaoW, appearing hall hsleep
Once n awhile che glanced At Der moth,
End the glance was ~ quick and full % fire
- a lightning fash. Shs kept glancing
down the street, too. sit expecting some
thing, and o1uld hardly ut ain a. a Light
buggy and two hne horses swept around
Roe conner
Tie team cane quietly enough. but with
oat lDsing hry time. Tomas SAID only one
wofd. ''Ysui That means Conner but
81 means more IN Spanish. Dolores statf,ed
pa, The doing SONORA rs lightly a. n dane
ing tbs iafabe and In a second more was In
Tia blZgy.
TIE time Consumed IN reaching the cor
ner ond gctt 9 cut Of the old lady'a range
a. vision wa probably one minute. II you
haFs ager rlp ed, however you can imAgii G
how long Il ,med 10 Dolores and Tom.
When the conner was turned sAsl-the
whip descended. and the spirited horses
lcsped down National avenue toward ,e
Mexican line People along the road heard
buggy hustle through ths night. but they
thought il was somsbody going for doc.
Tor or something.
The Feeling lovers went through National
City Ike hurricane IL sounded exactly
Ike runaway, everybody a, Chula Vista
said. Al Tia JuanA IS nile from here, tue
hoses were blowing IKEA bellova, and the
custom house men say that the young lady
IA the buggy hold a shotgun or rife while
the young man Piled the whip. The cor.
plAndante Wa not around when the horses
dashed By, but two Or three OF the gen
hArmea made a feeble attempt to stop II
Invaders. They didn't like ths looks Of the
woman with the gun, however, and 10
romAs and Dolores got with their team
into Mexico without paying duty-the only
talSe on record IN thess parts. They drove
right 70 Caro- Colorado and were married.
DID Dom Pedro, Tomas father, was tic.
Killed. 70 death at securing the pearl Of his
sneiay's trbc, and he viii give Tomas a
good ranch.
When the big brothers got home and the
did sonora haid she didn't know what had
become Of Dolores, there uaS-Well, YOU can
Imagine what there wa. Each Of the four,
With uusrring instinct, headed for the cor.
ral, TANNED big silver bit into bis horses
mouth. cinohod the animal W tightly tha,
l. stood on tiptoe, and all swung into the
Btrcet
They reached Tia Juhna lers than an houl
Iehlud AouN ana DoloreAs Ihoy asked
the 6rst man they met. who happened q
be Mexican custom house man, II he had
seen a young couple. No, ho had not
Others gathered around. Yea, they had
sesn a young couple In a buggy, driving
like crazy people,
Jose. Salvador. Gabriel aud MAnue
looked ht each other aud prepared 70 pub
on. Hold on. hold onn said the custom
house mani you can't enter Mexico in thai
fashion"
The brothers knew then that all was lost
However, they tried 10 explain and argue
No, no; they must walt I'LL manana ant
pay the duties on their horses or 70 back
But" said they, this IL an eNtraordinarl
case-Rn elopenent, an Abduction" "Bu
eno, said the custom house man, mannI
St could be all arranged. BY this time tn
boys were surroundsd by a swarm OF gen
uarnea, all wrapped in serapeA aud smok
Ing cigarettes
10 the four brothers came home, The,
swear by all the demonios that Tomas Gar
ella i aiready dead, but people say that be
fore Tomas Tics there Is lisble to he a ~
neral among ais brothers.in.law. They SAL
that Dolores has more spunk than all tn
other Nicochens put together, aud that ~
sld SONORA ard the four brothers will hav
70 rus for p, zee II they ever expect to 81
Dolores again. Meantime the war Is on
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