The sun., 1900-12-16
LOVE AND FIRE AT PONCE.
BouByROs no BRArE DEsDs WHILE
avERTSiNS HtKf BETS'
AIsrminth tn. Town--y yoiuntser firemen Make
Read, srbasttaoos Jealousy Stirred
III. Firs turning white Many Things
Happened sebastiano Dies Heros
meath MARIA Mourn. and Bets Are Paid.

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noor,, ,ro,asded IN ,he paro,,e mat they
MICH, 500 tho bombcros. a much greater
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~, l,. too, gollon,d S.hestiano and
- ,,,,,,d ,,,,il no ,,r,a tn tho last housa
u..a e., -,,d r., irtn tho country which
lac. ili.,ari,, o,d yasring in tho uooud,v
-, po,,r, ,is Iast hons. ba .tonped
,,,,, h,oyr ,hr.. Ioud hlas,- a notification 10
,ho soS,,i,, Maria Tint her ,ruc love va
,,o ,,,,,, ., ri.l his lifs far her for her and
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l ~, na,,iry nc no r-nitad for a SIGN
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,,or'. u,,aa MIN ra,,ert and no idly watched
49, -. o.,ordiny from, tho stree, Of tho
arLat rlacs baIs mile avay Ne knew
,ha, ,ho ers ua. sin burniur
The citizens were all in the streets now.
and merchants three blocks from the scene
Of the fire were busily engaged in removing
,heir goods To places OF greater safety There
Urn. omen excitement Wild g.sticulat on-
,ud much fiery talk.
rha v,Ii.rts. bo,pberrs we're making
their toilets in the parGue but Sebostiano
.ii,i ,,rrisd under the halcony OF the gent 10
Nnrio, bo,re
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III; ,,,.orad povp,..t and dis
- oahas,io,o ,ur,ed nm tb. street
,t la,,,,s ,.o,,,o a., .,.bhiug uusts from
,aa ,rr,,nst Tb. s.norits was a. tickle
,s tho we.t wind and black .ealousy surged
nm i'm sebastiano's heart He had heard
only the night before that a tail americana
had been having court TO the fair Maria,
bu, no bod not believed il. aIthou gh he knew
that the Amcricanu~ were turning the whole
island into a winter resort and were bccon-
ing too plentiful and 10" forward he NI-"'n
10 look back TO see n Maria wa i""hing
hut pride forbade lie never knew that tn'
Senorita Maria was eating her heart "u'
with anguish behind the shutter, "heTe size
stood with her hair half conheI ana hei
mouth full of hair pins. When sebastian
arrived AT the Parque de Bombero- he wa
brooding over 4 plan of revenge.
Tho dams. crowd rted 10 make way for
Soho.,iaro md bc wa. cheered he entered
,i,a nar,,,s where hi. companions we're nearly
raadr Tho Measure which hc felt in the
o,,,louse of tho ,iiiyens WAS lnarred by the
,oering looks Of two Amcrlcanos, one tan
ard one short who stood curously IN the
very from, Of tho crowd. In the very pres
ence and hearing Of the h"mhero the van
Americana bot the snort American" twenty
peso, that tho fire would burn it-eN out h'-
fore the b"mhero- had pumped plni o' water
aud the short Americana took thr pct say
ing gthat he would have declined II the quantity
had been a quart
rbo s,rae,s aud the crowd presented 4
roo.t day ar,earauce by this time. The
hons Nero all closed and men appeared in
,iear uIitc clothes. while the women were
-, ,h, n.rcn fro 10 I'm