The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-09-01
HE WAS HIS FIANCEE ONCE,
r. OFFER is REJECTED.
Once Released the San Salvadoran
Leader Will Hasten to
Mexico.

General Antonio Ezeta has received a
telegram from Miss Ida Dent Wright. his
bride that was to be, stating that she was
ready and willing at moments notice to
come to San Francisco to testify in his
behalf. The general has decided that he
does not need her services, but has not re-
piled.
Miss Wright is at present in the City of
Mexico with her mother, and the story of
her refusal to keep her promise tc marry
Ezeta is still fresh in the minds of all. It
was made when the general was ar the
height of his power.
There is not a doubt that Miss Wright's
message breaking off the engagement was
cruel blow to the soldier. That he loved
her passionately is sufficiently attested by
the valuable presents he lavished upon
her. That her recaniation was the cause
OF the widest grief to the ardent lover
was evident In his utter recklessness in
the battles that afterward followed. Death
was the only haven to his distracted vision
which promised surcease Of sorrows and
heartburnings. and he sought it in the
thickest of the fray. He was tired
OF life; as he then felt, it was
useless burden, and he sought its end
in agonies as violent as had been his love.
He sought it where the leaden hail fell
thlckest al Santa Ana and was borne down
by the charge of the men Of Guitterez, his
skull shattered by a bullet. But death
came not; only days of uncon sciousness,
of painful awakenings, of cherries convs-
lescence, of hurried flight Days when the
pulses beat so low that the mind refused
to know the SORROWS of the heart; when
release from wars and intrigue and the
plottings of the assassin was imminent
and the dark angel lowered nigh. After
these came others of hurried preparation,
of devious flight, of revenge and disaster.
Then La LlbeTtad and the refuge, destined
to become prison. on the Bennington.
These days so fruitful of events made up
the time that softens even the strongest
grief; and at their end and after the land
ing and the arrest in San Francisco Gen
eral EZeta has been able TO view this
one of the most m omentous episodes of his
life in calmer mood. What his concu-
sions are he does not state. His friends
for him, however, are of the opinion that
he has discovered that Miss Wright's de-
yotiOn was not altogether one of unmixed
motive; that he has been happily released
from a marriage that could have brought
him no happiness, and that any attempts
on the part of Miss Wright to heal the
breach by snch advances as made in the
telegram will be politely but firmly re-
pulsed.
Aside, however, from the loss of posi-.
ton which would have been hers should
Ezeta recover his lost ground Miss Wright
has not done so badly out of the affair."
Neither has her very worldly mamma
When the generals suit had been ae-
cepted he very generously placed in the
hands of his prospective mother-in-law
$4,000. to be used in furnishing house for
his fancee and her mother pending their
marriage. This was followed shortly aft
erward by $4,000 more for the purchase
of q trousseau in Paris, and ere'many days
had passed $4,000 additional found its way
from the hands OF the generous lover to
the Golfers of the Wrigbts. 1t was sup
posed to be used for necessary expenses.
Then to adorn the lovely neck of his
loved one the general purchased diamond
necklace at a cost of $4,000 and accentu-
ated his devotion by presenting her with a
solitaire ring, the valuation of the stone at
Tiffany's being $500.
By cold-blOoded calculation which has
nothing TO do with love affairs, and which
was never made by General Ezsta, these
several items amount to the sum of $751;
500. But that is not all Mrs. Marie
Robinson Wright, the mother-in-law in
the case. was made richer through her
daughters capture of the general by the
sum of $1,000. She was somewhat of a
writer, and having completed a work on
San Salvador it was purchased for free
distribution by that Government, through
the good offices of Ezeta, for the SUN
named.
Another and shorter calculation this
time swells the sum the Wrights received
to have been S43 500.
All of which has set the friends of Ezata,
who are not in love and who are given to
calculation, to figuring the money in con-
nection with Miss Wrights latest message.
The result is that they all agree upon
several things. The first is that Miss
Wright and her mother went to the City
of Mexico for purpose. That has been
accomplished, and now they know what
they before only half suspected that
President Diaz is warm and steadfast
friend of the exiled San Salvadoran. They
presage. too. that the Wrights have dis
covered that upon Ezeta' release he will be
gladly welcomed by tn g ruler of the Mexi-
can repu bile.
If the Wrights have discovered this they
are on the right track President Diaz is
friend, warm one. and an earnest ad-
mirer of the imprisoned general, and be
does stand ready to welcome him the mo-
ment he is released from custody. He
stood ready to welcome him when the
Bennington was in the harbor at Acapulco
on the way north. He had triumphal
arches erected on the roads leading from
that port TO the City of Mexico, and his
troops were drawn up on parade to greet
the distinguished refugee the moment he
landed from the Bennington. to escort him
TO the capital But the wires had been
busy beforehand and the commander of
the man-of-war received his instructions
10 proceed northward without delay. Ezeta
only saw the shores Of what may some
day prove to him TO be a country of refuge,
whers his funds may be replenished and
his arms strengthened once more to en-
able him to contest. may be to regain, the
position to which be claims to have
been uDiawful.y deprived.
These are the hopes of the exilss, and
they confidently chat among themselves
that they will be fulfilled. The moment
that the order is given for the release, that