Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-04-01

eager to hear the result Of the tete-a-toto,
Dandy was as stony rs flint and vouoh-
safed no Information. He rang the bell.
''Would you mind telling Roberts when
he comes up that want Faust saddled,
sir?" he said to Colonel Give "Ill go
and dress"
General Verrinder looked at Colonel
Give. Colonel Give looked at General
Verrinder. They sighed simultaneously.
"Rejected!" groaned the general. ''She
wouldn't have my boy"
II did my best, old chum," said the
colonel, with tears in his eyes. "Dandy's
trump, and I told her so, but when n
mettlesome 1lly gets the bit between her
teeth
The general took up the parable.
--"tbere's nothing to be DONE
Dandy, generally the sweetest tempered
Of men, was in bad humor. He sashed
Faust in manner which astonished that
in fine STYLE which would have raised him
several inches In the estimation of Miss
Mary Give had she been there to see
He galloped some miles and then turned
to the coast and travelled homeward at a
slower pace along the cliffs.
Presently he came to cleft in the cliffs
which ran inward from the sea and barred
his farther progress in that direction.
The Jump was too ugly for man in his
senses to attempt. He forthwith proceed
ed to skirt it,
On sudden he pulled Faust up with an
abruptness which sent him on to his hind
legs, for woman shrek had pierced the
air.
Across the gap a few hundred yards
away, in hollow previously hidden from
his view, he saw Mary menacing rough
looking man in sailors dress with the
walking stick which always accompanied
her upon her solitary rambles.
But she was only a girl, and before
Dandy had time to fully grasp the situa-
ton the stick was flying from her hand,
and she was completely at the mercy of
her prosecutor.
The blood flew to Dandy's face.
"Don't be frightened, Mary" he shout
ed. "I'm coming to you"
1t was a terrible jump, and in case Of
failure horrible death awaited both horse
and rider Oh the rocks over 100 feet below
She looked up and saw him for the first
time. AT the same instant she recognized
the danger of what he was about to do,
and her face went whittier, if possible, than
before.
For Gods sake, stay where you are!'
she shrieked. "You'll kill yourself"
And then she shut her eyes and prayed
as she had never prayed in her life, for the
man she had called effeminate had dug
his spurs into the horses sides, and Faust
had sprung like an arrow from bow at
the yawning gulf between them.
The agony of month seemed conoen-
trated in the moment of suspense that fol-
lowed A heavy thud on the turf told her
he was safe, and for once in her life she
must have tainted, for when she opened
her eyes again, her late assailant was hob
bling lamely away in the distance and
Dandy was on his knees beside her, with
the splintered fragment Of u riding whip
In his hand, and his lips so close to hers
that she almost fancied that it was their
touch which had awakened hor.
"Thank Godp' he said in voice that
trembled with emotion. 'I--you fright
ened me awfullyr'
"Not SO much as you frightened me
uWluAIy
"Not so much as you frightened me, {"
she murmured. "You risked your life for
my sake. Oh, it was terrible, terrible! 1T
made me ill"
"Did you faint because you feared for
my safety?"
The blue eyes gazed into the brown
ones the brown ones dropped.
"Mary, believe we've both been play
ing fast and loose with our happiness
through idiotic pride. know I've taken
pains to appear more Of an ass than nature
intended. l was brute to propose to you
like that. could have bitten my tongue
out all the while.
"And / cried afterward," she owned,
''becauso thought you didn't care"
just six weeks later they took each 9TH
er for better, for worse. Answers.