El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-27

girl.
a few days before the soldier lover
was to receive an honorable discharge
from the army a pretty young girl
arrived at o Sill. who made no at
tempt to conceal the fact that she was
TO become the bride of the bugler at an
early day. Eager rivals wer not lack
ing to carry the news quickly to Zalia.
She lost little time in consummating a
horrible revenge. The u~nsuspecting
and unfaithful lover was lured to a
former trysting place in a grove of
trees not far from the Indian girls
house. There the half-frenzied girl
met him with a stilleto in her bosom
n after rebuking him and abusing
him with the singing tongue of an ed
ucated savage. she threw her left arm
about his neck and drove a keen little
blade into his heart. kissing the
blood and foam from his dying lips
as h gently let the limp form sink
upon the grass. she muttered, Now the
white face woman can have you"
Escaped in Masculine Garb.
She knew we'll that she would be ac-
| cused of the murder. and she lost no
time in making her escape from the
territory. Dressed in a suit of her
brothers clothes. and mounted on the
famous black horse. she at once set
out in the direction Of old Mexico. 3
"A SIldIl DOQN VI SolultTS SlIuCk UeT
trail On the mex day and they came in
sight of her just at sunset when she
was in the act of plunging her horse
into ed river. Several whiskey ped
dlers were encampeG in a grove near
the crossing. and when they saw the
soldiers they supposed that they We're
about to be attacked and sprang to
their arms and poured a shower of RI
f1e balls into the advancing Dragons.
Zalio nuinE1v pnmnrahandQ6 the CIT
uation. and drawing her revolver. she
eagerly Joined her newly discovered
allies. The soldiers were surprised and
repulsed. Zalia. while firing with rap
idity and precision. ang an ndian
war song. Galloping from n STRAIT
egic point to another. she laughed
and sang and shouted as if she were in
toxicated with the joy of battle The
peddlers thought that she was insane.
She told them that the blood of forty
generations of warriors was boiling in
her veins.
Fearing pursuit in Texas. she rode
| across the state and crossed the Rio
Grande at Del Rio. Stopping at the
, pretty little town of Sabinas, h went
straight to a Catholic padre and. it is
presumed. threw herself pom the mer-
cy of the priest of the religion of her
father. Before the day had passed she
found a home with Mamma Grande
Martinez, an estimable old woman, and
she resumed her proper apparel.
New Conquests in Mexico.
1t was not Ions before she began to
ride bout town on her black horse, and
| the fame of her great beauty oon oc-
cupied the attention of the young men
| of the vicinity to the exclusion of all
other subjects. In less than a month
she had n of the wealthiest Amer
leans in Mexico at her feet. Ton San
| some. the owner OF the Los Flores
the roses made her the mistress of his
p~alatial home without asking any
questions about her past. He was a
widower. more han so years old. and
she was a young girl.
Everything that the most eXacting
spirit could wish for was placed at hir
| disposal. Carriages. servants, must
| clans and gold were at her command.
She visited the City of Mexico and Chi
huahua, and when the devil as she
| says, began to possess her. an indul-
| gent husband was planning to let her
enjoy the Genes pleasures and won
ders of the old world.
When his adored wife cody told
him thar she did not love him. and
that, longing for an excitement, she
had determined to abandon him and go
away with one who pleased her better.
Sansome fell in the dust at her feet
and implored her to kill him. Finding
that she was determined to go, he fol-
lowed after her. clinging to her skirts,
hanging diamonds about her neck and
stuffing ner pockets with gold.
Come Jack to me-" he cried. when
you are tired, You will always find a
home here"
The priest who had befriended her
remained her confessor until she was
about to quit Sansome's hacienda and
then he became a raving maniac. and
was carried away in chains. s%hrieking.
"Zalia is an angel"
Shrouded in Mystery.
For several years after she disap-
peared from the Los Flores hacienda
her career was s%hrouded in mystery.
1t was known that she lived in a pala-
tial residence on the border of the zona
libre. which was believed to be the
rendezvous of a desperate ban of out
laws N smugglers of whom she was
the ruling spirit.
Two years & she was captured
while conducting a of burros
packed with struggled goods of great
value. and lodged in Jail at Carrie, in
Texas. In less than a week she be-
witched the wife Of one of the officials
and induced the infatuated woman to
steal the keys from the jailer and open
her prison door. She afterward said
that she promised TO meet the woman
who liberated her and make her a low
ing husband, but other affairs occu-
pied my attention. and l forgot the lit
tie incident" she added with a wicked
smile.
She was a restless creature. always
longing for excitement. Il am only
happy" she said. when IN the pres
ence of danger, and happier when the