The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-04-01

we ar. nearer our stTongho'ds a.
once set Carmen safe AWAY r.
station, we shall be i'm tbn eN .Ae
where no pursuers can follow ne y
1t is well. senior. Shall br;,.
men and horses up at once?" ae
stay a moment. / wish TO thin. f.,
Miguel, with instructive
crouched as he waited a littlo NI Iaut
his leader, who, shielded from 'V a!
from the station, stood erect ana Az, .
ferent to observation in the ncc,,i iaui'
His clear ""t, handsome face hsh
III profile osueath his broad sombroups
was dark and sinister. His rigbt ,' ta;,
rested upon the butt of tho pistol - I ~
hip as If it were grasping a sword Sf r.'
with his naughty attitude and tho ~
turesqueness Of his "charro" cost, p"'
ne might well have served as the moao,
OF Spanish cavalier of the sivtoon.l
century as he stood about TO embayt ~
an adventure SO desperate and So nv
scrupulous in purpose that il wo~i,
have been deemed not unworthy Of V tha
800 = VI AiAAi tlJONN
his meditations were brief He t,u
ed to his follower, who at once roso u :
his feet and stood in an attitude Of a.
tention: a.
We will bring the horses nm 70 tbo
edges of the mesquites, - he said
Then you will go to the station ard
give Dolores the signal to come TO Won '
Get her away from the house so far that
she can give no alarm. Don't no for
away from the horses. Twill leave them
III charge of Colombo. The other two
men will keep near me to help if necec
sary. Then l will enter the room and
persuade the senorita to come willinolv
with me or will carry her out wrapped
In a blanket. as she may elect. Then 10
our horses and westward across the
plain to our camp in the Chiricabuas
Take Dolores with you when we ride
or stab or throttle her, as you choose
But her mistress shall come with me
or will leave her body, with my knife
through her heart, as token of my re-
membrance to her father.
They passed onward along the vista
at the end of which we had seen the
men and horses. They did not travel
directly i'll the path of the light, but
Kept to one side among the shadows.
Behind them, almost where they had
been standing, figure rose from behind
a bunch of tall sand grass. IT was the
form OF woman, clad in dun mantle
that came TO her feet. Above the tons
OF the high grass her head was lifted
as she gasCd after the men retreating
from view. Her attitude was that of
panther raising his head above a bush
at water hole TO scan the movements
OF an antelope too far away to be within
of his spring. Motionlcss as a
statue, save for the slight movement Of
the head as it bent to left or right so as
to keep i'll sight the disappearing figures,
she stood until they must have passed
from view. Slowly she raised her right
arm above ner head and then brought it
pointing in the direction they
had taken with gesture Of menace,
dramatic and terrible. For several Sec
)nds she stood thus, motionless, q threat
ening shade, then turned and glided
into the long shadow of the tent, with
which her form instantly merged indis-
,inguishably,
In the instant that she turned and
passed us we caught full view Of her
ACE. The rounded contours of cheek
md chin and the handsome features
'ould not be mistaken. But the look Of
liked resolve and deadly hate, the still
sleam OF eyes sombor black and venge-
III, had transformed her usual gay, dew
i may care expression to one infinitely
more menacing and dangerous even than
hat she had exhibited in her frantic
'utburst Of passion in the amphitheater
hree hours before.
Whether one of us said il, or whether
t was thought that came simultane-
'usly to Felix and me, could not tell
hen, nor can ] today. But it seemed
hat the whisper passed between us:
1T is Lupita-or the devil walking
n her form. And she has overheard
Jon Gaspar Sangrado's plot {"
A new element had entered into the
and its effect neither Felix
or 1 could compute. Would the discov-
ry Lupita had made intensity her re-
eminent against her recreant lover, or
you'd it turn the volume of her wrath
pom the innocent head of Carmen,
7hom she might now regard as her rival
nd supplanter? She was Mexican
'oman, wounded in her affections, and
here was no foreseeing the direction in
'hich her jealous passion might lead
er.
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