Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1899-04-05
4 Willy VENGEANCE.

business, and particularly In Pinos AL
tos. where, not counting the soldados Of
tbe limited States, there are no more than
nine white people. All these, equally as a
/ matter of course, are familiar with one
/ another's affairs. Only one matter has
syer baffed them, that being the true
cause of the broken engagement between
lieutenant Teddy Dupont of the garrison
and Miss Warren, daughter of the inspect
or general. 1t was the only real, genuine
love affair in the place, and naturally ev-
arv one took the greatest interest In "
The wedding day had been set and Il
rnngcments made for honeymoon trip.
The women were hunting up things that
might perhaps be made decent to wear
The lovers themselves seemed happy as
the day was long, and things were run
ming as merri1y as the proyerbal marriage
hell. Then, rs Mrs. James expressed it
before you could say Jack Robinson"
the engagement WAS declared broken.
MI, Warren departed n day after for New
Yrrk, md Lieutenant Dupont started on
his downward race to the devil 1t was
al g.ry strange; no one understood, and
M ono understands now, unless it be En-
rigucta.
After leaving West Point Teddy Du-
r6Ht tad, as Is often the case with young
and uutried officers, started out on "a pref
tvIlrd pacc At that time he was sta
tn, in Il rather tough city, whore many
I.5a 30 the pace. But before he had the
tif TO do very much harm to himself his
re- ncut had been ordered out to Pinos
AIt.-, New Mexican sand adobe, mos
quito. Groascr, border town, " hero Unit
a. stlie~ iroups were needed several times
pr r..Dfe TO qUell Disturbances that were
caa- arising between tho few min
inv ~, and the Cruiser Mexican pop
ulat.Hu
y i.o Of the officers W ives went Mt first,
SIR 1t was n more than usually rough
town later when things had Quicted
down they would come. And SO it happen
ed that for several months there was 10
wHiir Woman in the town of Piuos Altos.
Had tt,re been, perhaps this story would
neeur have been written
At first things had been rather exciting
for the Greascrs and Me1icans and Indi-
ans, resenting the entry of the soldados,
had raised Cain" to some extent. And,
as in the making of trouble and worry
they preferred the methods OF sticking
knives in tho back after dark, burning
houses and hurriedly equipped barracks
etc Lieutenant Dupont and his men had
some little work In the quoting Of the
turbulent spirits. So long Us the rows
were on Dupont was in his glory When
they were off and there was nothing on
earth to occupy him but few hours duty
each day. he became desperately bored and
i'll tempered, He thought longingly of
the big cities, with their glittering streets
the music, parks, clubs and other places
Then he would stare angrily from the bar
racks window down at the sandy town OF
Pinos Altos, with its one solitary mission
church and the low adobe houses that
seemed populated equally by burros, pigs
and fat, brown babies. There were even
no flowers to be seon-nothing but prick
ly cactus and miserable, dried up mes
quitc-not Il pleasant outlook for young
ard improved officer who had yet to learn
that duty Is duty whether ut West Point
or Pinos Altos. 1t was too much FOR
young Dupont, and he cast about him
without further delay for something to
amuse him-anything to amuse him.
Not that you could call Enriqueta anus
ing-far from it But she was pretty-so
prottyl A woman OF the sierras half
Mexican and half Indian, with some sprin
king of half forgotten Spanish blood, she
was typical Of her dusky, passionate race,
and for n long while two months) Dupont
was wildly in love with her and had seri-
Gus thoughts Of presenting her to his peo-
pie at home as Mrs. Teddy Dupont. But
common sense stepped in and made him
realize that the seraped and blanketed
girl, even with her beautiful eyes and face
and figure, would look odd at the head Of
the breakfast table at home. She might
look still stranger receiving his mothers
guests in the stately old drawing room
and at the dinners that were given week
ly by the old fashioned folk in his county
he shudiered as he thought Of the latter,
even though at that Same moment Enri-
quota was swinging in his hammock and
taking sly puffs now and then from his
own cigarette, for she could not DO made
to see that forks and knives should be used
instead OF fingers when eating
The other men in the camp of course
knew about "Dupont's Irritation with that
good looking Greaser girl" but it was
none Of their business to say anything
about the doings OF their superior officer
Besides, many Of them had flrtations OF
their own from Sublieutenant Jackson
down to the boots boy, and people who
live in glass houses should net throw
stones.
Pinos Altos had become so regenerated
at last that the married men began to talk
Of the coming of their wives and the fix
ing up OF quarters. There were great stir
and hustle and hammering and securing
and mending begun on all sides in the
married quarters. Even the unregenerate
unmarried men sheepishly did what they
could to aid the laboring Bonedicts-''it
would be so good to see white woman
again" they all agreed. Dupont didn
care-he knew all the married women of
the Seventh, and they We're according to
his ideas, slower than most; no fun in
them-no go! And as for some harmless
hirtations! He smiled as he thought Of lit
tie Mrs. James and the time that he had
dared to squeeze her hand at dance!
How ''hopping angry" she had been! No,
1t didn't matter to him whether they
came or not, Enriqueta, savage as she
was, had more life and go in her than the
entire outfit. BY the way, he must take
care that thew didn't Fl "a ont abniit her