The morning times., 1895-12-29

good Gulpuzc zcoan laborer, who owned -FOUR
of five farms and orchards, whose trees
cracked under apples that made cider
you ought to have seen. I have never
tasted your French cider Of which have
heard much, but It is not so good as our
Guipuzcoa cider. 1t is not / who say II.
The Father Chegaray. lived between
Hermann and tue fort Santa Barbara, which
YOU have seen coming from Saint Sc
bastIan. OF his daughter, Pepa, old
Clregaray was as proud as an Andalouse
of her Jewels. He was very watohful
when he took her to yespers or Village
dance, and it was here oDs often became
engaged without consulting the parents
In laugh ng, in dancing, 1t is quickly dove.
The heart is struck, and the life gives
ITSELF
There was in the valley at Loyola, very
near here, a great, handsome devil, who
fiuttered around the pretty girls and had
all the qualities that please women. but
none which please parents. 1t was this
AraQuil who came TO tell his ambitions to
old Gen. Garrido. This youth was gay, al
ways ready for something foolhardy,
whether the proposal be to put hole In his
skin or TO break his neck. He was strong,
agile, first in games, wrestling and In i'm
proviscd bull fights, where he showed the
skill Of professional. Added 10 these gifts
were the air of cavalier, a freshly shaven
| chin, the figure Of Hercules and the hand
| Of woman. He hadn't SOU, but lived
| from day TO day on prizes won at tennis or
! bets made with the matadores. One day
| at St Sebastian, when the matadores could
| not overcome bulI-a great, furious, black
with Ia thor and breathing
+! foam and blood-Juan AraquiI began TO
| hiss. The entire circus, spectators and ae-
| tors, cried out: "Well then, in the arena with
you, In The arena!" Juan did nothesitate
| monsieur. He arose, leaped into the ring,
| and taking from the espada short-handled
| sword, held 1t like this and planted himself
| in front OF the bull. He looked 1t in the eye,
| laughed In it's nostrils, and then, with a
| swift forward thrust a great mass went
| boum, BAN, and the bull fell. Araquil,
| laughing, turned to the matadores and said:
You see, you others, 1t was not difficult" !"
I But this was not all. These men were
| furious with rage when they heard the
| bravos for the feat and the hisses for them
selves. They surrounded him TO demand
| an accounting for his audacity. Araquil
looked at this circle Of eDraged matadores,
the head of the man in front of him and re-
! gained tue spectators level. That even
ing he and one of these men fought behind
the circus with knives, and Juan fell with
| a weapon in his breast. He was in bed
| fifteen days and was then ready to Kill an
other bull, and a matadore with him, If
necessary. He had some remedies for
wounds, for he did little OF everything and
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pomades and drugs from mountain herbs.
He had made for himself an essence rrora
some wicked plant, aconite or know not
what, that he wore in a ring on his finger
He said that a man ought to be master OF
his life, able to finish it when he would
"a knife might be taken away from you
but a ring, no. and with the gesture oi
the hand to his Iips-"one is>free." HI
was n man, this Araquil. One day thi,
handsome youth of twenty-five, who haC
been loved without loving anybody, Ell
countcred in a village dance In Loyola
on Easter Monday, young girl, whom ht
1 invited like the others, to be his partner
1t was Pepa Chegaray.
waltz and a guitar turn the head oi
the young in my opinion. Neither Juan noi
Pepa could forget this meeting In the opel
air, the music accompanied by smiles am
the song more Intoxicating than cider.
Since this Easter Monday Juan Araquil
ordinarily so gag, had become savage
very gloomy, speaking seldom, and Fathel
| Chesaray down there smiled no longer
1t was this devil of love which was pass
ing that way.
| Yes, Ii was love, complete. absolute anc
i as rapid as n clap of thunder There Is
1 .f i'm n.
thought of No one but her. He was as sad
: as a garden without flowers; love madt
him surly.
Why? Because he hadn't q sou in BIZ
pocket and Pepa was rich, and, above all
because that cast-iron -Faisef Tiburci'
! had said his daughter should never MARI!
. a man who had no fortune except his ten
mis- racquet
Bat" said AraduiI at@last, to 'Fathe
Chegaray, "Pepa loves me; she has toi'
me So"
"she has told me so Also said tn
father.
IL adore her. / am madly in love
will kill myself If you do not give he
to me- What must l do-to have her 10
: | my wife?''
THAT which 1 have done myself" sal
= | the tarfIler. NOrk anu bEllE " Nuc hplh
something to support the children. hav
J not struggled all my life to throw my none
\ | and 10Y daughter away on an idle fellow
. | When you can say to me that you hsv
amassed q little fortune, and that you ca
/: furnish your part of the bread and salt, 20
can have Pepa, since she loves you."
n And the amount that VIII be necessary
how much?" asked Juan.
q Two thousand douros."
= This would be 10000 francs OF ou
e money.
Two thousand d0urosl" said AraQui
: very white. where can 1t be found?"
IT found it in the earth. Search r
= sponded the farmer.
4 Tiburcio was not ora, who, having sp'
n ken, goes back on his word. No; Araqu
i, had not killed himself, as he had threatene
n the old man, nor had he.dug to amass thu
sum- Pepa, brave girl, did not disObey HI
I father, but, very much in love with tt
handsome fellow, resigned herself to wa
until Juan gained the exacted dot.
:. Only In their meetings and conversation
before the old man she did not conce;
from Araquil that she had FOR him thos
, sentiments which unite two beings to Il
last sacrament. And she had sworn
him on the prayer book OF her dead moth'
that she would never belong to another
/ not to him.
Such a pledge, given by creature as bea'
tiful as a star in heaven, ought to have give
q heart to the audacious. Juan said to hiI
self: VERY well, will have the two, tho