The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-25

Yet God be thanked. can make them
serve me. If a dog barks at you. give
him a bone; and death Is the only sick
ness for which there is no remedy. But
what keeps my husband? He has had
time TO have been there and back
score Of times What is your name,
young lad?"
Philip I said, without adding any
surname.
@-Ahr' she meditated. ''once I kennel
a Philip-but he did not favor you, Tar
otherwise. indeedr' She looked me on er
a little disdainfully, and 1 blushed q
fear somewhat foolishly), knowing OF
whom she spoke. II was not vanity,
God wet. Fer know we'll l was never
so tall or 50 Weli-fayored as my father.
But SO long as Anna though otherwise
cared naught for the opinion Of any
other.
Now. Philip, go and find my hus-
band" she said TO me. Tell him 10
make haste. for 1 am instant to see
those who came from the pirate isle
with you"
I started up and was at the door in a
moment. but VIII was before me-
But this the lady would in no wise
permit. She thought more of Wits
bodily presence than of mine. being old
glad, and I resolved TO veX VIII after
ward by casting up to him the lady's
preference.
"Bide, Englishman," she said, 'Iet
young Abercairn goI'
At which VIII had perforce TO return
against his will and I departed well
content. But l was none 80 well pleas
ed with the sight that met me outside
Of the town. For, mounted on mules
and cantering ponies, 1 met whole
cavalcdde. First came my mother on
steady pacing beast of a gray color.
She had on a kind of nuns dress with
a white band across the forehead, IN
which 1 hated 10 see her. A brown ros-
airy was about her neck, and she looked
as If she had spent all her life within
convent walls, this owing not so much
10 piety as to the delicate purity Of her
complexion, Of which she always took
the greatest care.
Next came the old witch woman, car
ried in a sort of rude litter by two stall
wart negroes. while EbOrra ran beside
her, ready to render any assistance
which might be necessary.
But the last pair caused me the great
est astonishment Of all. For Anna rode
boy fashion on a fiery little steed with
1he cOmmandante beside her on his
black. She was still dressed in the
manner which some Of the Spantards
nave learned from the Indians; that is
to say, in a youths suit Of dressed deer
skin, fringed and beaded. A short tan
aed skirt of fine dOeskin came a little
below her knee. CrOSs-gartered hOSen,
little peaked Indian shoes and a feath-
cred cap completed an attire pretty in
deed to look upon, but one which, ap-
gearing in MOreham Kirk on a Sab
oath morn, would have raised a reV0lu-
lion in all the parochin-
All the time the cOmmandante was
1evouring Anna with his eyes, while as
for the mink herself, as usual, she was
e.1ing out her broken Spanish with her
e-elashes.
No puedo, senorr' she was saying.
mo mas aqua
What it was that the senior could not
do, or why Anna wanted more water, 1
cannot tell. Most likely the whole was
but an excuse to make play with her
darkly rOguish eyes. For it was about
Ghis time that Anna began 10 show a
consciousness Of her beauty wholly new
and 1 will admit that, though I dislik-
ed it at the time, afterwards ii was
pleasing to recall her little successes,
and how she served this one and that
other, knowing all the time that her
| heart was altogether mine.
Presently they all came within the in
closure of the castle. l helped my moth
err down from the saddle as from cas-
! tie wall, who, when she had disentan-
gled herself. fell into my arms and wept
over me. The first question she asked
was whether Umphray Spurway had
yet arrived. And when 1 told her no
| All. then" she murmured, he is sure
iy on his way"
Over my mothers shoulder could see
the red-faced cOmmandante. who had
dismounted in putting haste, holding
ont his arms to eaten Anna IN the Iree
island manner.
But of this Anna would have nothing,
for with a merry laugh the little witch
leaped nimbly down, resting only the
| tips Of her fingers lightly on Don Mich
Olas' outStTetched arm. WhereupOn the
gallant soldier Of the most Catholic
king bent him on one knee in the dust
of the exercising yard, and kissed the
small brown hand which Anna permit
ted him to retain.
why, what harm? thought 1 was
doing the best for all Of us" said my
lass afterward, and gave not a tig for
any doctrine or proof Of mine. But all
the same it had been better if she had
chosen another spot for her ill-set
tricks than Immediately beneath the
window of Mistress Juanita Silveda-
VIII Bowman told me of it afterWard.
y was standing by the window, sulhy
as a dog that you have kicked" said
Master Will, and I wished had been
one. too. For the woman came and
leaned upon me-faugh-and paved my
hair and breathed upon my neck, till 1
thought l would have burst, or il may
be, clouted her on the ear. Had 1 not
remembered that she was our only hope
indeed, but for your mothers sake
and Annals would let drive at the
bosom with my foot"
said something here.
20, that be hanged for a tale. (Will
did not often sWear) 1 knew as soon
as 1 cIapped eyes on her that the trOIlOp
was no more Of a lady than Tip, our
cat, that rakes the roofs in the mid
night! And as say, if II had not been
for your mother, 1 would have knitted
her and thrown her over the window
to the dogs. like that other bosom in
the Bible-Jezebel, was that not her
name? I heard Mess John read about
her in the kirk once. And a rare tale it
was, too"
Then all suddenly I had ease in
deed Will went on, for il CHANGED
that Jezebel looked out OF the window
over my shoulder, and there upon the
plaza she saw King Ahab kneeling, if
you please, on the hard mud 10 our
Anna, decked out like a STRIPPING from
a play-acting booth, all fine with beads
and tags and gauds. And she, we'll
looking down at him like the little viz
en- she is.
'Well-then I tell you, she was in
rare taking. My lady thought no more
of breathing down my neck. BY the
head Of Noll, will a cat lick her paws
when she can lick cream? Jezebel
stamped her foot and clenched her
hands, looking as if she would have
Ieaped down from the window upon the
pair Of them. She STROBE up and down
like one Of Lays troopers in a coven-
aufirer hoIrSe and when a last rba dor