The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1897-01-21

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better 60. Ines may get angry IL you
stiy, and you like her more than you do
me-" tilN
Carlos denied this in words that were
neither kind nor just to Ines; but Bet
ty damned her with faint praise.
She was not clever conversational
ist, nor was Carlos Franquelo, but they
kept each other interested until very
late, and when Carlos went home Betty
| and put her hand in his, with the least
bit of n pressure.
"Can KEGS you?" Carlos asked, bald
ly.
81 suppose so-because we're cousins,
you know" Betty assured him, as she
, raised her innocent face to his hand
some Mexican one.
He whispered: "I lofe you, oh! I
lofe you. You are beautiful, beeuti-
full" 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
attractiveness, it was natural that she
should have great deal of attention
from the bachelors. but Carlos devotion
was so marked that they drew off one
by one, leaving the field pretty much to
him. They resented Bettys permit
ting the young Mexican to follow her
about necessarily, even though he were
q second cousin. AS for the girl, un-
TIL 1t was too late she did not see the
harm she was doing. Then all the Off
GERS had deserted her and there was
only Carlos. Well, Carlos was hand
some and good enough game. SO she
led him on.
4 1t was not her fault, surely, that she
didn't know the 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" as she was swinging
lazily 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
you? Please do" She clung to his
arm.
"Why shall l send them away? Are
they going to murder the poor little
girl?"
mo, no. no. But | think they're go
ing to ask you to let me marry them!"
IAN of them?"
Betty lost her temper and few into
a white rage. stop your fool joking.
and do what say! You tell them I'm
sick. and tell that = Carlos that 1
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 Oh
parent. He wished to ask the hand
of his beautiful niece. knowing that she
herself was willing to bestow it.
"How do you know that?' the cap
tain asked
"She tell me So"
"When?"
LAS night. She tell me dat she loted
me, SO to-day come for to ask her from
you"
"Are you sure she said she loved you,
Franquelo?"
"Oh! 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?"
"The old fool!'
"Did you?"
"Supposing did? He made me. He's
an idiot to think mean every little
tbipo saw"