Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-09-24
THE MAN OF ALMoNACID.

- Of him | took him for swindler.
-, 1 heard that Toledo bad been his Home
y, .sn whole rnonths-Toledo, which lives
~ IN moonlight, and is the mere corpse OF
IL, IN the sunshine-when l heard Of a
,sssestv so very retiring, and remembered
-, England had no extradition treaty with
800 nv only wonder was MS TO tho sum Of
n s,,ols. Was he a defaulter for thirty
Acnsand pounds, or a petty rogue of all
sork
"a 10 Donna Mercedes, my informant, and
~ alder Of the two old maids who kept the
~, de Hucspedes, In which found that
N this stranger for neighbor. Zone
light see the antiquities even Of Toledo in
4 nal time"
"1sTruly,r she answered; shut then, Don
a Iaeo Is n painter.
Gar. now underestimate replied, with a
,-..t Increase of cheerfulness- zone might
a Uni Toledo for ten years and not have done
. TOO. am painter
sArd no DOUBT said the old dame, beam
- mon me through her round trimmed spec-
~ ''Don Iago will be known to your
3 Ttook up the visitors book, in which tho
IA had not yet dried my autograph.
Fl s1ames Clont,n said, reading the name to
q ,hlch she pointed. mo, do not know him.r
n Dona Mercedes was puzzled, being scarcely
A ,Ale 70 understand that two Englishmen,
f. wen two English artists, might be strangers
4 ono another. But presently she crossed
l,rself "Don Iago Is an old Christian she
ID nId softly, and so went off with her book,
rs I.peyolent still, but conscious. fear, OF y
& rrpent in her Eden
n Eden was our boarding house. From a
,,yed alley, the Gale del Arzobispo, you
z trncd into an archway and CROPPED for
Il soor up three stcps in tho darkest corner.
" men you pulled weight which hung there
# ,nd BY and by the iron studded door opened
l, Of itself and lo tiny courtyard, in
"A which four orange trees in tubs produced an
81 ,gect OF somber gayety, Round this patio,
Al the level OF a first floor, ran a veranda,
" reached by an uncovered staircase. All the
"A MONS opened on TO this veranda. On the
~ rrht hand side were four little bedrooms.
4 on the side which faced the entrance was
n tbe common parlor and on the left tho
81 Kitchen and tho old ladies' room, at n window
n which one was always sitting ready TO
opcn the outer door with cord whenever
u the bell tangled.
Fl It was nll very plain and primitive, but
81 clean, anil looking round my bedroom, which
u III,
ard for furniture q bed, a stool, basin and
Z a braerp found no cause to regret the
dlngy hotel had left,
When passed No. l, on my way TO din
K ner. the door was ajar, and Dona Mercedes
u was inside with lamp in her hand
paused before the door, and she, looking up,
saw me. "Ahlp she said proudly, did not
q ten you that Don Iago was painter1 Sec
herelp And sho threw her light upon a
. pictue which was resting on an easel before
tho window.
Isaw at once TINT Il was not badly painted.
There was q show OF facility about it. And
yet 1t was mediocre, surprising me less by
Us execution than its subject. Here in To-
h lido, tho grand and bizarre, In the midst Of
II yuch architectural beauty and grotesqueness
~ fairly bewildered an artists eye, my
leighbor had not painted a street scene, a
Moorish gateway, or 4 leafy cloister. he had
chosen instead country landscape almost as
Commonplace as 1t was drcary; a gray house
and gray, 4lopinS olive grove, and round
+ them bleak, wind swept uplands. / was
scarccly mora astonished TO find that knew
4 lie place I had passed 1t the day before
e IN my walk from TorIijos-wulliinE 81 a
4 whim OF mine and Is was fully seven miles
from Toledo.
At the time ! said something pretty to
Dona Mercedes, and went on to the parlor,
''iiy neighbor was late. ] had nearly finished
when he entered. He was man OF 30, per-
laps, with thin, careworn face and lines be-
+ low the temples He was about my height,
wearing his hair and mustache cut short-a
Blonde and English looking. He Ind proba-
'bly heard of my arrival, yet he seemed put
but Mt sight Of me-perhnps merely because
BE- was late.
~ hayo loft tho hoad Of the table for you"
said, half rising, politely, you have BEEN
{ bore some time, l understand"
llewas breaking his bread into norsels and
eating with a worried air.
a "Ycs; the place suits me- he answered
Father CURLY,
NJ "fstSou like to hear the lark sing as well
the rousn squeak replied, smiling. His
pne was not encouraging, but wished to ID
.,,- ,r,,
. 1919, II am not iniS'Aheh' met y'O
f. ..,Sn. :, -, ~.
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e Siahce al me ana tneh usF'''u MN
'a .v - aus soup WIN renewed zes'' IN . =.
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"a ~ l iionl torTllosi ABOUT ouIoeki
~ snooH nus neal on hre in ll' s,.
= a"swereu' was not ouesiue '''e Wv"
i 'e1,., "a.
ineh SaW man very hke you 4 ~
Vhed, nettleu bY nus manner. "lhere IL