The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-07
The Globes Daily Short Story

marks with desperate slowness The hours
OF the interminable struggle
Inc night has fallen. Suddenly a daz-
a ZIns glitter of lightning flashes out
breaks over Madrid. Soledad gives "a CIV,
@IEf uIS 10 the balcony to see for her
zen II the storm viii be of Importance
70 her. The bull fighters do moi return
put the 'cOrrida' must surely he fu,
lShed. because, aside from the fact that
the usual time has passed, the tempest
IiIsI, 81 course, have put an end to IN
What indefinable bitterness is DaintGG III
me lace OF Joses wife. The rain hat
4 4iS !Qr q moment, and the street Is
1 5rhad Wlth thousand confused rumors
Ine shOpkeeper Of the corner has rel
turned talking in a loud voice with N
slQup or friends, and the carrige does
not appear.
Night! And Jose does not come, The
!tNSDOys are calling out the extra paper
lhat gives the account Of the afternoons
aporl and OF the adventures OF the
soledad hears nothing. She has.ens out
INTO the street, without needing the chill
uIen fIlat nave Just come in from Lhefr
pay, III OrGer to be in time TO help their
tather take off his costume of 'ib,ndr-
nneTo. In few minutes she is I'm th4
I[9do ana then in old Aragon high road
winch is dark, lonely ana fun Of NM
anu that acrid and penetrating, odnr ~
Always remain after a rain storm SOM
Ct Ihe lamps have been blown ont NV tGa
Ht{Eiience OIL the wind and among the Iifte
WHHIWlndS OF muddy leaves that are
DlOWh against SOledad's lace rnantiI-a H.
d VI oL yellow paper, a remnant of the
programme Of the ''corrida" which took
pace IN nearby amphitheater Tn
branches of the trees in the Retro -
dSltated by continual gusts of wind ana
seem IKE gdunt Specters. A few bIscl~
i ~ I puS Grlit across the horizon halt
eliminated by the mist-hiCden moon
w men yet not far from the Plaza SIN
secs IN the distance sad cCrtcge. sew
eTal dependents arr carrying on their
shoulders mattress covered with y dari-
cIcak. Two or three curious way+ars'rs
are taking with the men
Foor FauSas. one Of them was say
Soledqd gives a choking cry ana JAN
gee nothing more.
TIL. The papers Of the evening speak W ths
cofTlda dedlcatiag more than half ii
fGO ~ lh 70 the fall given TO the matad1r
Dy one Of the bulls; farther down Id saws
with pitilcss laconism
, W men the trumpet gave the signal for
ING DanderlIIa the afternoon was threat
enng. The rain, the thunder and the
HgHlnlng gave most singular asDect ~
the combat. The barderillo, 'Faugae.
slipped In the mud as he was pIgnfino
MS last rosette and was caught and
tossed by the bull. 1t was not pOssihla
to remain longer in the Plaza So raIvIre1
on the benelcence Of our readers. We re-
Caught and tossed! If the fear of the
storm had not made the reporfers RIM
away, they might have been able TO add
something else. The horn of the bull
struck the unhappy Jose in the left breast
ana as the beast tossed him 1t pierced his
They have buried Jose in the lonely
SSaacramental, and the matador who gave
ms friends such a fright went next morn
ing to Seville, where he wiz lead tomor-
rows "corrida"
left 1T. The candles OF the altar have
burned out and covered the candelabra
with smoke and stains; the crested can
airy Is singing sadly because there is no
one to give him his seed; the balconies
remain open; the children are being cared
for by the neighbors on the third floor:
and in the next house some one Is play
and the voluptuous waltZes Of WalteudfeI
and in the doorway the neighbors are
commenting upon the catastrophe.