Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-11-03
THE WHITE HORSE.

radiance or the light of the myriad stars which bore her company. The air was cool and braCing. yet balmy and there was just enough breeze to lull ones spirits and cause him to forget the world and indulge ill fanciful revCr- ies such as only southern breezcS ln- spire.
 We had pitched our camp on one of the SlOping hills on the south side of the canyon. where little stream of clear, sweet water rippled from spring i'll a ravinc down into the canyon be 1 low. Above Us was the signing. odur- ouS forest of juniper and pinon. Below w:I~ :; little stretch of vclvety grass ex- trn,..ug clear 10 the floor of the canyon u;l lsuth sides of the little stream. Right aud l>tt stretched the canyon itself, its walls, precipltouS for the most part. ris- ing grandlv hundreds of feet high on l each side
 1t iS beautiful. Pablo, ' continued. It must have history of some kind or n Story-no:''
 'Si, senor. that it haS-ayc, that it has, " answered the Mexican, lighting fresh cigarette and puffing at il re- flectively moment. Would the senor hear it:''
 By all means. Pablo. Go ahead. "
 And here Is Pablo's story as nearly as I can translate it, for he spoke in spanish:
 IDov> tho S,nor see the cliff on the other side. how high il k: That is the cliff of the White Horse. It Is many hundred feet high and straight up and down. And at the top when the moon iS a little higher the SCnor will see the white horse. IL is a great white rock on the edge of the cliff. and by clear moOn- light 1t looks like white horse. IL has not alwav bean there, and now, they SIy. Un tho anniversaries of certain day the ghost nf old Don Fernando comes and rides il along the edge of the canyon
 Don Fernando? Oh. aye. May the blessed saints have mercy upon him." vjacuI.Ic,l Pablo. cr,rssin; himself
 Many yy.IrS ago Don Fernando Cor t.cz-h,. w..s g grandson IT something of tE, 4-rcIt Cortvz-livvd over above be y"ai th" canyon several miles. Don Fernando w;,S rich and lived ill grand house and had many servants and 1 slaves. He w:IS .. great entertainer, was 1 Don Fernando. amt people uSvd to como many nilC>-huuIr,,!~, thousands, yt< to hl- grand dIuu, = and balls,
 H. WAS uut a .:,~rI lIIln. No. He WAS d Cru,l ma>;,r and hard with all his | ' 4, aui Il...,.v tn, Fl all hate him. He w.I> kind to only two living Crca- tUr,>. pl:r Uf II,>, w.gS his lvIutIiul dAught,-. the Lady Y>ulyl; tine other N,..~ his great white stallion, the largest and ti,,t,>t horse ill all the country These two the old don loved as his two eyes. and we'll he might. Yes. The I-adv NSabyl w:S not only beautiful, but she was kind and good, and all the peO- Yls loved hcr .:~ much as they hated the don, which WAS q great deal. She had golden hair aud eyes like the sky. and il i< Sa.l tine birds listened when she sang And tl!n kur<g-ayC. he was won d,rfu!. He Was a> ti=; as three ordinary hnr>,>. and his tread shook the ground. He E..d d long. white rIanc and eyes that flashed fire and was almost as much feared as the u!d don, who alone dared Gn near him.
 The I.;riy I>ahvl had many suitors The weIlthiCst and most aristocratic men i'll all the country came to sue fol lyr hInd. many of them from farofi California. and some. il iS said, came even from spain. But the Lady YSabc would have none oi them. She lovei ! her pony and her dogs and birds auC her py,!s,.. but q man, no. One aftCl 2 aEUthrr ,',I.ur. but sho turned them al away. s'o after a few wears the old dCl l,CamU tlr,ri uf what la called her fool i>hue>s and swure she should marry and at once. a man wh.m he had sc lyct,-l for her.
 This gri,vt-I the Lady Isal,l v,r,
 much, f,,r Eut only did slIe not love all, If thl,>, hu had offered themselves |, her. but her heart Was already given given to one of her fathers peOns young man named Jose, whom she ha' l helped To nurSt. through a terrible i'll ! | neSS- Him she used tu meet by stealtl nearly every night unknown to an, = but themselves. But one night whcl the Lady YsabcI's wedding day Wa near at hand she and her lover wer seen together, and the story came to tn , ears ot tho old don.
 He started to find them, swearin 10 kill them both. but they had beel warned and had taken two of the fleet est horses Ill the stables and fled. Wit mad haste the don ssHilcd his whit stallion and pursued them. They ha n taken their WAY over the hills blindly e but some instinct led the don to follow d the direction they had taken. and in snort time ke had them i'll sight ridin H over the plateau beyond the canyo there.
 When the lovers saw they were pun sued. they put their jaded horses t F4,
 but soon they found it was too late, an as the old don,- with terrible curses a pressed them closely they leaped to tn 1t ground, ran to the edge of the cliff, an clasped i'll each others arms spran into eternity together.
 And the don: For days he rave like madmau and seemed to know Il one Then he became qu:eter. and the , thought F." would be himself agaiI ' But one moonlight night they misse him, and several set out to seek hin He was riding up and down the edge Q the cliff yonder, raving and blasphemin terribly, and none of those who ha come to find him dared approach. FS hours he raved Then, just as the moo B. carne from behind a cloud, they sa' him ride back from the cliff little di tance. Then he wheeled sharply an
 shouting. Now. my friend, both tc Setherr he rode full speed at the prec pice- But at the edge the white stallio
 halted suddenly, and the don went owe alone In midair he shook his fist an }, hurled curse at the friend who hn deserted him at the last minute, an then and there the great white stallio r turned to stone. There he stands, seno