St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-04-26

He stared. Her eve was steady a,
Drown. He blatantly denounced Il
: acheme; he would waylay Anseln
and pummel him with immedia1
Irankness. She withered this ide
with her hooking ridicule. ST
proved every other scheme imposs
pie won his faith at last, and mad
him consent. The Waterman VIII
went around the governors hous
was hidden to be careless,
| Soledad, all a-tremble, and seemin
To melt away because of the blaz
Ill her, liked the new maid. For Beat
rice let her have her willful way, an
stay awake at night, and run to tn
oalcony in her white night-robe in tn
small hours to gaze at the fade
moon and dream with clasped hands
soledad's little palpitating heart wa
D1ad with love.
At length one night hearing a gen
tie whistle under her balcony, sh
crept there, let down string. an,
drew up this note:
Tuesday at midnight shall have horses
s~aoy IN the rear court of my rentet
house. Exactly as the cathedral bel
strikes II, take the longest board from un
der the mattress of your bed, thrust it ou
or your balcony across the street to m,
WINDOW. Creep out on it, cross the street
and have no fear. Come to my window
and tap. You will have seen no one-but
have faith.
She could hardly control her fingers
to write:
MY soul! I shall fly to you. I feel that
l hardly need the board. Oh, Anselmo.
when I creep out en- it, I shall have to
SHUT the wooden leaf of my window
Quickly lest the maid run in and see me
o1er the street. And when you shut the
leaf, 1t has lock which snaps and can
not be opened from the outside. Alas!
thus shall I be shut away and with no
retreat, and must commit myself to you!
The string brought this scrubbed
answer:
So much the better! The window-leaf
will shut away the past 1 am the future!
She kissed and Rugged these notes,
and curled up in bed with them. She
hid them in tiny hole in the mat
tress, where, with much more diff
Guilty than she had anticipated. Beat
rice found them.
Anselmo had moved no furniture in
to the rented house and came there
seldom. One day at dusk Sedano and
the maid, using the duplicate keys, en-
tered. ''This door is nearest these
rings in the garden wall to which
ne will tie his horses" said Beatrice.
The same door is nearest the stair
Ease up which he expects to bound.
Hence, through this door will he
come. The Waterman will be ready to
seize him when he descends with |
'oledad. Leave these plans to me. I Il
hall instruct the Waterman. l shall |
place him and Dona Fatiga,
wife of the treasurer, who shall be
informed of the need of witnesses.
IS for you, lest we make a mistake
a the door, and he choose the far
her staircase instead, you shall en-.
er this second door at half-past II
nd wait within, near it, to act if he
ONES there carrying Soledad."
The plan met Sedano's approval.
tho rehearsed it with bitter satisfac-
ion.
"Anselmo will hardly dare to strike
light" continued she. "And If there
delay above we shall all run I'D.
i've me the key to this first door;
eep for yourself that of the second,
here you are to enter and wait"
She received the key. On Monday
ght she brought the Waterman.
See here" she said, when they
ere alone in Anselmo's rented house,
hat young villain, Rejano, is going
elope with Soledad at half-past II
'-mcrrow night. You have orders
ON Senior Sedano to obey me?"
EYES,"
listen. AS yet no keys have
ZEN delivered to Anselmo save to I
is one door, therefore through this t
'or will he come She pointed out
him the second entrance which
ledad's father would use. Before L
If-past II I shall station you in t
is room by this door. A man will d
ere enter. That man will be Ansel- v
Rejano, the enemy of your mas q
:. You are therefore to spring 3
on him. Taking him by surprise, d
u can throw him down, perhaps "
IN, but not otherwise injure him,
these irons on him, and gag him. n
en-, barring the doors which COM a
lnicate with the rest of the house,
will leave him a prisoner. Your
ster's orders are that YOU then tt
ckly retire to your own house, and tt
to bed, leaving the villain to him.
anime all these doors now that N
l may know their bolts in the dark. nj
are powerful man; Anselmo is
light one; do you fear?" az
Leave the young cock to me. But W
at am I to get out of it?" is
This paid him; "and twice II
much more on Wednesday"
he Waterman went away and she s.
down in the lonely court on Sc
&c. ha
am cynic," she said. II would tn
her devise less cheap plan. But lct
ill not chew husks.'' tn
uesday night was dark. In the lu
'et the only lamp was smoky one IN!
block away. At II o'clock into tn
deserted court of Anselmo's rent we
house, came Beatrice and the
Gilman in stealth. He had won at
I'd at the silken rustling of her De
IS. She let him in through the ro'
door, nearest the rings in the Ing
|. She brought him in the dark to
inner side of that second door.
re she stationed him, put more N;
ley into his hand, laughed some
jest into his ear, and went away, ha'
ling into the darkness Of distant lea