The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-31

his way toz the home of the lovely
Lulslta. Hisspresence at so early an hour
took the household by surprise; he found
the trim ankles guiltless of any disguise.
and the cloud of soft ringlets, through
which he4lovely brown eyes were wont
to glance at him, screwed up into mys--
ferrous little knobs all over her head.
Notwithstandi at sight of her, his
courage almost failed him. All his hope
and planszthe past year had centered in
her brown eyes and trim little ankles 1t
was Luisita his fancy pictured opposite
MIN at his solitary meals, and Luisita
beside him on the sunny side of the
patio; it was for her he had planted his
holly-hocks and nlarigolds; and it was
Lulslta who was to have been the prop
and companion = of his failing years. for
ne. was many years her senior now,
.Luisita being only a little young thing,
But Pablo $ words SCARED high and above
All his other thoughts. Never for a mo-
ment did hisnssuperstitious little soul
doubt Pablo's poWer to call down
curse upon him: and, of all peoples. his
was most to beafeared, for his grand
mother had possessed the gift of the evil
eye. May she sasSaag a curse to whomso-
ever All, Lt1isita was very lovely.
but she, was only Lnisita all told. while
TO see Pablo overtaken by his own curse
would be vengeance absolute and perfect.
and the savage within him arose and
clamored for revenge, sitting all tender
er feelings in its intensity.
I lie was going away, he told her folks.
Tar away, perhaps ten miles beyond the
Nadley. And, knowing Luisita's chances
had never wholly turned from the hand
some figure of Pablo, he chuckled to
himself at the obvious outcome. Luisita
would be easily consoled, and when she
was married to the hated Pablo lust
when he thought himself comfortably en-
sconced in the seventh heaven. the curse
upon Whomsoever" she married would
descend Then would he, Jose, come
pack to gloat over him, mock him, peer
at him. watch the failure OF his every
Undertaking, and recall the scene of the
curslng. On, that would be a proud day,
Joses wandering covered many months.
He penetrated not only ten, but hundreds
of miles beyond the valley. Fe saw tn ngs
and did things he would have Thought
beyond belief in the shadow of his own
little patio,and returned at length with his
horlzon trihe broader, but his longing
10 gloat over his rival no whit abated.
So, promptly, the day after ne reached
nome, he betook himself to see the DESC
latlon wrought upon Pablo during his alb
sence. to taunt him with the curse where
with he had ruined himself TO repeat
the words stay there. then, till You die
and so on, for he had it all at his tongues
END, and would repeat it slowly while he
watched his victim wrfthe and cringe be-
fore him.
But as he made his way down the little
crooked street, his lips moving with the
monologue he was preparing, he stopped
suddenly and his jow dropped There sat
Pablo Varo on the sunny side Of little
patio, looking the very happiest of raen.
NndT
the subject of crops didn't bother MIN IN
the least, and Luista nesting beside him
with the nina on her lap, was incontesta-
bly, his. Not until then did Jose realize
that he had~eutwitted himself and that
he was many times a fool