Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1902-07-17
WHY DORSEY REMAINED.
BY dwendolen Overton.

i Dorsey. He had horrible warn
ings under his very eyes. He had,
time and again, said what he thought
about any American who would mar
ry a Mexican girl. He knew quite
well enough that it was sin against
common sense, which carried it's own
sure punishment. But he married
Mexican; and the best that can be
said for him after that is that when
the punishment came he took it like
man, and no one, not even his wife
herself, ever heard him complain.
He had shaken the dice himself, and
he abode by the throw.
She was pretty; he was lonely
at least he thought, then, that he
was, but later on he discovered what
real loneliness is, the loneliness
deux. To be sure, there were Amer
lean girls in the town, but they were
totally impossible, and, whatever else
was to be said of Candalaria Soubieta,
at least she was uncommonly we'll
born. Race was in every feature of
her pretty little face.
Dorsey had always cherished un-
mitigated contempt for the Mexican
way of making love. Candalaria had
not. So Dorsey made love in the
Mexican way-and to the uttermost.
In his time he had scoffed at youths
who would 60 to the opera and never
look once at the stage, in order that
they might nearly cut their necks
off on their high collars, twisting
their heads around to gaze at novia
seated in her parents box. He did
not now. It was fechando, tribute
to his lady, which was expected of
him. He had to practice it every
where, in the plaza, in the cathe
dral, in the portales. He had to
stand on the sidewalk and talk to her
through the gratings of window,
or, worse yet, up to her balcony.
All the world might both see and
hear, but she broke him to the ac-
sceptance Of that. It was hacienda
purso, and a custom of the land. Dor
sey opined at first that it was fool
costumbre, but Candalaria did not
understand. She explained that he
must see her that waysor not at all.
'But !. called at your house," he
objected, "before we were engaged"
ut is because we are engaged"
said Candalaria, shat you may not
call now.''
A wit has observed that when the
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the immovable be woman, the ire
sistible retircth from business. But
only one who has observed Mexican
woman and her ways can get the full
force of that Dorsey relinquished his
Anglo-Saxon prejudices against adj
vertising sentiments and affections
to an unfeeling world. He made love
through the gratings and by twine-
graph for the passers-by to see.
Candalaria went upon the principle
that experience has taught the wo-
man Of her people, and, believing
that it was well to get quite all she
could in the way of devotion out of
man while he was yet her novio,
since none would be Forthcoming
from husband, she put Dorsey
through the PAGES very thoroughly.
She quarreled with him for no other
purpose than to make him sue for
her favor and eat humble pie. She
was sweetness itself one moment,
and abominable the next. She broke
the engagement half dozen times.
Dorsey was not a simpleton. He had
more than ordinary ability and good
sense. With an American girl for
o sweetheart he would have put up
with no nonsense at all. But he was
putty in Candidates. little hands.
e you doubt the consistency of that,
Just go to Mexico and watch similar
Ease for while.
It was, however, after the Senorita
Soubieta had condescended from the
glory Of her high estate to wed
mere Gringo, and had become the
Sonora Dorsey, that Dorsey's real
pleasures began. To start with, he
found that he had family made to
his hand The sisters and the cous-
ms and the aunts Of ''Pinafore" were