The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-31

IeuCHSu NHSie i]upi'a ZINES required
that she should snatch "A dagger from,
her girdle and rush upon the maestro
who was impersonating the villain Inst
AS this scene was coming saw her spd
denly stop and clasp her hand to ber
heart, while pallor overspread her
face, which instantly assumed an ex
preston of horror and aversion Her
eyes, fixed III look of intense surprise
were gazing past me and, glancing
slightly around. l saw that the furtive
visitor at the tent entrance, in his dcsire
to see Carmen more fully had thrust
his head into full view within the ten.
flap 1t was on him that Lupita's ewes
were fastened
The voice of the maestro declaimino
his lines ceased, His waiting attitude
recalled her to her part, and she faltered
her denunciation of him like one recall
ing words long forgotten Mechanically
she plucked the dagger from her girdle
Once she felt il in her hand, her fingers
frightened suddenly about the handle.
and again her eyes turned 10 the face at
the entrance. and this time they met
rage, successfully imprinted their ex
preston with lightninglike rapidity in
her countcnance Instead Of advancing
or the maestro, who, with arms folded
in a heroic attitude and one foot adj
vanced, stood confronting her. she with
an lnarticulate cry as fierce as the growl
of a wounded tigress, rushed like a
AZ bi,ix foxVor6 rho Gown, tt,o
trance She saw nothing regarded uoth
ing that stood in the way. The rope
that fenced the amphitheater waist high
yielded before her, and two of the stakes
that supported il few into the air like
jackstraws The other stakes remained
fast and Lupita, caught and held in the
loop of the rope, shrieking and striking
madly forward with the dagger strug.
gled against the obstacle. then tripped
and fell across it.
Every man in the audience had sprung
to his feet il CONSERVATION. not know
ing for whom the attack was intended,
or. except myself, suspecting the mean.
ing of this terrible outburst of wrath.
AS Lupita fell the two nearest men,
Felix and another, sprang to raise her.
AS they lifted her to her feet Felix, with
one hand, firmly but not urgently wrest
cd from her the dagger. Then, with the
aid of the maestro, they half led, half
carried, the stormy senorita back TO the
rear Of the tent, where, flinging herself
upon the ground, she lay pale, trem-
ling and exhausted. but unsubdued.
/ Her breast heaved with emotion and &C.
iasionally she gave sob, but III her
eyes, hard and glittering, there was no
vestigc of a tear Leaving her IN the
care Of the maestro and his wife, who
had appeared on the scene, the two men
came back 10 the front of the tent,
where eager inquiries greeted them as
| to the cause of the senorta's violent be-
havior
What set her on the RAMPAGE"
Who was she after? I'm mighty
| glad it WASH t me, were questions and
! remarks TO which Felix and the other
man could return no satisfactory replies
| Lupita had said nothing that could en-
| tighten them as to the object against
which her outburst had been directed
| Apparently was the only spectator VINO
| had seen the Mexican 5 face at the en-
| trance, and did not care to coniide 10
any one but Felix such knowledge OF
surmiscs as | might have
Lupitas impromptu tragedy scene
| broke up the show, and 1t was 10 van
ishing audience already nearly dlS'p.
| pcared, that The maestro anhoGhceu
that, i'll consequence of the sudden III
disposition of the scnorita, the perform
ance must be regarded as closed. Inc
men camped about the station went out
! TO look after their Individual outfits ana
to prepare for the night. Carmen ana
her maid, who throughout the whole
outbreak had looked on with "a com
posture and interest, unmingled WIN
fear, that would have astonished most
people of northern blood, soon retired 10
their apartment in the station Then
got chance to speak to Felix about lhe
things that had noticed in connection
with the scene Lupita had made.
He listened attentively and seriously
to what l had to say.
$50 the man you saw at the entrance
was no one of the crowd that was herg
when the show began?" he SAID wheh
had told him all knew or surmlsed III
! the matter DOCS anybody ut the s'a'
tion know of the coming of such man
and who he is?''
II asked the herdcrs and the STATION
keeper if there had been any arrivals
since the performance began, ana po'n
said they hadn't known of any was
my answer
Felix meditated few moments,
while his brows bent down III way
that had learned to interpret as mean
ing that a situation had arisen tha' Nv
manded serious attention.
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