Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-03-20

| M6F SnOulueIsi tHeH you ndu Detter 90.
Ines may get angry if you stay, and yaal
like her more than you do me. -
Carlos denied this in words that were
neither kind nor just to Ines, but Betty
damned her with faint praise.
She was not q clever conversationalist,
nor was Carlos Franquelo, but they kept
each other interested until very late, and
when Carlos went home Betty stepped out
to the front porch with him and put her
| hand in his with the least bit OF Il pres
| sure.
''Can KEGS youy'' Carlos asked badly,
II suppose so, because we re cousins, you
| know Betty assured him as she raised
| her innocent face to his handsome Mexican
one.
He whispered: 81 lofe you, oh, l lofe
you! You are beautiful, beautiful" And
Betty laughed a little and told him he
was silly when they had only known each
other for two days.
Now, with Betty's beauty and other at
Effectiveness, it was natural that she should
have a greaS deal of attention from tho
bachelors; but Carlos devotion was so
marked that they drew off one by one,
leaving the field pretty much to him.
They resented Betty's permitting the
young Mexican to follow her about inces-
sanity, even though he were second cous-
in AS for the girl, until it was too late
she did not see the harm she was doing
Then all the officers had deserted her, and
there was only Carlos. Well, Carlos was
handsome and good enough game, 90 she
led him on.
1t was not her fault surely that she
didn't know tho ways Of Mexican lovers
She had told plenty Of other men that she
loved them, and nothing had happened
But one night she told this to Carlos at
his urgent request, and the next day, at
about stables, y as she was swinging la
lilly in the hammock on the porch, she saw
three buggies, containing two men each,
coming up the line. In the first sat Carlos
and his brother; in the others remoter
male relatives.
Betty guessed the truth at once, and her
pink cheeks turned white. She ran into
the house and screamed loudly for her
uncle.
"Oh, Uncle Nat, she begged, when she
found him in his ROOM "Carlos and Jose
and all his nasty old relatives are coming
here. Send them away, won't your Please
do" She chung to his arm.
l.
going to murder the poor little grip.
No, no, no. But think they're going
to ask you to let me marry them
GAN of them?'
Betty lost her temper and flew into a
white rage. "Stop your fool joking and
do what say. You tell them I'm sick,
and tell that --- Carlos that hate him -
She ran and hid just as the bell changed.
Carlos found the captain and made his
demand in due form. The young lady's
father not being there, he felt that her
uncle could take the place of parent He
wished to ask the hand of his beautiful
niece, knowing that she herself was will
ing to bestow it.
''How do you know thatS' the captain
asked.
''She tell me so. "
"When?" !
LAS night. She tell me dat she lofed
me, SO today come for to ask her from
you"
Are you sure she said she loved you,
Franquelos''
ooh, yiss, sairtinly. She KEGS me also "
The captain left the room and went to |
find his niece. Elizabeth, that fellow
says that You told him you loved him. Did
you!''
1.-The old fool!"
Ibid you?'
Surprising did? He made me. He's |
an idiot to think mean every little thing
say!"
did you kiss hims''
The captains face cleared; then he be- |
thought him of the ways OF women. "Did |
you let him kiss your"
Perhaps. don't know
He caught her hand. Come in here to !
Franquelo and explain yourself. You'd
better say you'll marry him after that pro-
ceeding."
Betty was frightened Her defiance
changed to pleading "Please don't make
me see him, Uncle Nat, dear. Please. u
Come on
But, Uncle Nat, can't say l III marry
him. was only fooling. I'm engaged to
another man.
Captain Locke dropped her hand and re-
turned to the sitting room.
"Franquelo," he said coldly, for he dis
liked his nephew sincerely II regret that
this unpleasant thing should have happen
ed to you under my roof. My niece tells
LILO OAine DAC was AOU III ouIIlobb, hllll UIut
she Is soon to marry another man. How
ever, she shall not stay another day with
me to trouble you or any one else. I shall
send her home tonight
Carlos face as he silently left the room
was an ugly sight.
Betty was sitting sulkily in the waiting
room at the Tucson station about half past
2 O'Clock the same night Her uncle was
seeing to the checking of her trunk out
SIDE When he came back, man whom
he recognized even in the late twilight as
Carlos Franquelo ran past him toward
horse that stood in the street few yards
away and going hurriedly to where he
had left his niece he found her lying full
length on the floor and dead. Her yellow
curls were wet and dark with blood. and
her face was quite disagured because the
pistol had been held close to it.
When the news was broken to the second
lieutenant, he called Providence great
many hard names, which is frequently all
jhe thanks Providence gets for doing us
good turn. -Gwendolen Overton in San
francisco Argonaut
Tit For Tat.
A young lawyer entered a nonsmoking
in railway train the other