The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-06-20

where he hau hppcu to nave Sanu3-
laria 10 himself. cronchcd upon low
cowhidc-and-wicker chairs. wrapped
in black shawls, chattcring. giggling,
gossiping.
Dorsey had an unhealthy feeling
that il was very like harem. But
they had to be treated with respect.
They were Of his wifs's family, and
it was family that was little less
than sacred in the land. Her male
relatives came too. Dorsey loathed
them--worse, even. than he did the
females of the tribe. lIie called
them that to his inmost SELF They |
were as irrcproachablc and i'm
maculate in appearance as the fe-
males were slovenly. But IL they |
were good for any practical thing,
Dorsey had yet TO discover it. 1t
annoyed him to know that they were
disporting themselves in elegant
leisure about his house, drinking
copas Of his brandy and good wine,
while he was at the Office toiling for
; modest livelihood. And the worst
Of Il was that he might not even in
for them. They were much better
educated than he was, and not one OF
them but had two or three languages
and accomplishments. Dorsey him
self had been developed along other
G lines, and he was perfectly well
aware that they thought him ma
terial aud crude.
Now. just as Dorsey was in danger
\ Of doing some hing rash and assert
ing himself, the way was opened to
him. 1t was the chance OF his life.
He knew il was, the one knocking OF
fortune at his door. Dorsey was in
the railroad and the railroad was,
of course, an American affair. lie
had taken the place of a native youth
who had no notion of letting business
y interfere with the serious matter OF
/ pelando pavo-otherwisc. parading
L. beneath his sweetheart's balcony.
y The place was a good enough one
but it offered no prospects. That
. which he now saw afar on did
= There was Great Man at the heao
(" of things in the railway, who had nae
his eve on Dorsey for some time. lie
'e wrote M this juncture, that he was
/" going down to the town where DOT
- sey was to have look at things
'e and he limited at promotion an'
=" change. and at a billet in the CITY o
." Mexico. Dorsey knew, very wei
what the billet would probably DC
II required other qualities beside
NC business ability--social qualities,
a. the advertisements say. AZ mean
making ones self universally agree
able. and entertaining good dea
re And it was very desirable thing.
- The heart of Dorsey was filled VII
"a ioy. So far as he knew there wer
~ not more than dozen or so men
OF hers of his wife's family in the Git
Of Mexico. And the city was iare
~ and cosmopolitan and alive. u
an dreamed rosy dreams and tol
40 them to Candalaria. She was NJ
ny so pleased as he had expected her
ST. he. She would have to have par
~ and mama, the primos and prima
'eI and all the rest. But Dorsey dive
'a' tactfully upon the shops of the Cal
ms de San Francisco, the drives in u
ng paseo. and the theatre and opera, a
VIC she was chcered.
~" Then the Great Man came. /
brought with him his young vii
u Dorsey looked at her. He had
=. sickening sense. as he did so, that
own birthright had been somethir
such as she. and he began to have
proper understanding of what he hi
ow' done. He told the Great Man tn
ny. he had a wife himself-that he M
'nu married a Mexican. There passed
az. shadow across the august brow. Dt
NV saw saw it, That night, however,
,of took Candalari to call at the hot
There was trouble about 1T. Cane
LARA did not want to go. why Shot
ny she bother about Gringa who
az. nothing TO her. She wished to 60
-. the plaza instead. and to hear I
80. ~. band. They would go to the pla
''' afterward. Dorsey compromis
"o' .With the Gringa? Pues no." WI
:, would her family say to her
IN. pickipp IN any excursionista u
: came alongc which-knowing Can
lnria--was not promising IRA
- of mind Dorsey foresaw trout
s.u And ii duly came.
80 Candalaria took one look at
Great Mans wife, and decided, out
80 hand. that Dorsey was in love "
-, her She did not make a scene u
80. and there, but she took what was
nearly as unpleasant a course.
I'LL. could speak English very passa
- but she shut her little crimson
wing no" ano ~. IL. ,y;s. smoke
:. her. she smiled sweetly and sh
a.;a her pretty head. NO speek
-. -. pleesh," was the uttcrmost she We
,..o consent to say. Dorsey's rage
ghly. -ha'u'a"y -. mt Il did
! 49, blind him to many things, TO
cha contrast for instance, between
is-..SbaJ locks of the u