Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-03-12
opposite direction. .

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 Raymer turned to the lady, who was still buried in the depths of her blankets
 'Senora," he said, ''I regret to tell you that both your attendants have left tho valley and have taken your animals with them. You will be obliged to re- main alone n short time unless you will accept the service of one of the laun- dress daughters. You shall have the attendance of my servant also, and 1 will send you to Jemez with an escort the first pleasant day."
 No reply was made to this, only silent effort to rise, to which the lieu tenant lent his aid, and the Sonora Vie ja moved slowly and feebly into her cabin, and her luggage was passed ill after her. Later in the day she address ed a note to ''El Senor Teniente. Fl Comandante de Los Valles Grandos. ' Translated it read as follows:
 DEAR SIR-Pardon me for not ex- pressing in person my thanks for the con- tinued kindness you have shown me dur ing the past few days. assure you that appreciate it and am grateful. I hoped to have succeeded in leaving today and thus relieve you of further care on my account. 1 accept your offer of attend ance, but request that neither the laun- dress nor her daughters shall visit me. If your servant will leave at my door | food and such other articles as l may need, it will be all that 1 require. Should 1 need anything more I will write to you think my attendants | will reach Jemez tomorrow, and my relative, Fl Padre Gutierrez of that place, will come for me immediately "
 There was no signature Raymer was puzzled by the writer's persistency in refusing all aid except what was barely necessary to enable her to live, and also at her anxiety to conceal her face. All was so different from what he would have expected from m American wom- an that he attributed it to Spanish edu- l cation and home training. As she was an old woman he thought her unneces- sarily squeamish ill holding herself so carefully secluded. Writing her short I note, in which he assured her that her l wishes should be respected, he resumed l the usual routine of duty and amuse- l ment.
 The following day, the wind having somewhat subsidcd, tho mules were at tached to the bob, and Raymer accom- panied the fatiguod party to the forest to show tho men how to load logs in nearly a week hc continued this super vision, filling tho woodward with dry pitch pine logs. to be sawed and split into fuel, i'll preparation for the block ado expected in February and March. During this time no one arrived from Jemez or elsewhere except the weekly military couriers from Santa Fe.
 At tho end of the week and for sev- eral days succeeding Raymer noticed ! whenever he returned from the forest to his cabin that it appeared to be in better order than usual. Thero was a heater arrangement of rugs and furs, and the articles on the mantol were more tastefully disposed. His center ta- bio was ill order. His letters and papers were gathered into bundles and tied with tape.
 It became interesting to watch these gradual improvements, and ho wondered that his old soldier servant had not earlier developed this taSto for order. When Cain camc in to prepare dinner one day, Raynrer said:
 You are improving in the care of my quarters, Cain They look very neat. "
 Its not me, sor, that's improvin 'em. It's the Saynyora Vayher. "
 "What!'
 "The ould teddy, sor. Sho comes in and radcs the liftinint's books ev'ry marnin when he goes to tho woods. "
 "Then you have seen her face, Cain?''
 ''Not a glimpse of it, sUr. She comes over after get through me work and lave. came back onct for somethin, but she got sight uv mo through the windy and wint ava before I rached the dure. 7"
 "Does she come every day?"
 'Since foivc days back, sor. She sits by the windy and laves whin she say: the hftinint Fcturnin.
 Raymer asked a few moro questions, and after Cain had gono took moro comprehensive view of the rOOm Yes of course, no one but woman could have made such a bachelors den as thi. look so tidy. La sonora might be old
 but she was evidently woman of taste
 What could she be reading? In Span
 ish there was literally nothing but th'
 Reader, Don QuiXote" and Dona Tere sa's prayer book. Of course she could not read anything ill English. She mus have confined her reading to tho adven lures of the Knight of the Sorrowfu
 Countenance" or tho devotional pages O tho missal. Well, poor old girl, she
 welcome to any amusement sho can finC
 here. I'll not interfere with her, wa | the concluding reflection of tho liUutCn ant.
 Tho weather continued cold, and tn wind continued to blow and pile tn snow in drifts, but the camp and tn wood road being somewhat sheltered b, ' the pine clad point the work of drawin, logs went on, and the young office I found his usual recreation and exercis ? ill going out few hours every forenoon .. .. He looked ill daily upon the wounde' boy, who seemed to be on the road t z recovery.
 On the third day after making tn . discovery of h senora's invasion of hi quarters, while assisting i'll the work O
 binding load of logs, Raymer injure his hand and returned to camp muci earlier than usual for the purpose O t t dressing the wound. When he arrive at the end of the line of cabins farthes . from his own, instead of walking alon the front directly to his door, as he ha
 hitherto done, he turned to the rear an
 ascended the ridge to the guardhouse . stopping there a few moments to mak U an inspection. Then he walked slowl to his cabin from the rear.
 On entering his quarters female fig
 ure sprang quickly from a camp chai
 by the window and stood facing him U an open book in her hand. A dark blu !: 5zaHs j. .l5asI8L