The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23

ourlng the month of July was greeted always with the same answer: | The prisoner will be glad to see vou op his return to his hotel Until tben ba IS 100 busy to receive callers" Iast night, thirty-one days having elanseS slnce l first read of his arrival. I again called and was delighted to find that the Knight had returned and would be pleased | to receive me F-e0Seu ne mas not changed in appearance with the passing of the years since that i'm mortal scribe Cervantes wrote the history oi ms prowess ,and I should have recoe- ns Neu nm mn instantly in crowd, because ro,a ms .. Hheness nS 10 Sir Henry Irving in the role Of Malvolio. Moreover, there was jn HIS welcome that race grace and genial warmth or manner which was always tbe 1isunSushlng characteristic of this vener- aole knlght errant in his former days even toward his enemies. ''
 It slVes me the most exalted pleasure e so receive you," he saids- in quaint. old SPanlsh' as l entered which, I, having oeen one of Rooseveft's Rough Riders i'm Cuba during the war, was bv no maans llngua incognita to me.
 hatzla' said l, an archaic idiom for thanks. which l learned while running down San Juan hill after the battle Wnereupon he asked me to sit down and Joln him in a glass of wine.
 fou have been away from town for some little time" said I, after we had orained few bumpers of Riscal and eaten a couple of huevos passada par agua on the side to renew our thirst for future emergency.
 yes said he; "all my days save one '"
 Might inquire, Mir. Quixote." said T. 'how you came to get thirty days on the island?"
 Certainly you might" returned the Don' courteously. T have no objection to your knowing the whole story. You see, it was just thirty-one days ago that with my valet, Sancho, and my horse Rosinante. arrived in New York I had heard great tales about the vast sums Of money that are to be made at your race tracks, and finding myself rather short of pocket. decided to bring Posin ante over and enter her in the Suburban. or perhaps arrange a private contest for her with McChesney or Gunfire, or any other meritorious steed in the lists, in the nope of establishing again my fallen fortunes"
 most interesting proposition" said l. "Rosinante has a record at running?" D Rosinante is steed of all gaits." said Don tuixote. proudly. She can trot. pace. lope. run, amble or slide III back her against the world for sliding. and l am willing to entertain any reasonable oIIer fora race in any other gait that may De made. On the La Mancha track sne loped a mile in twenty-three minutes when only twenty-one years old. and in pFlvate practice, ridden by my valet and Jockey sancho Panza, who weighs $50 pounds she has dashed a hundred yards in forty-five seconds
 mats great business" said l. ''I ad- vlse you to take her down to Sheepshead Bay and give an exhibition run"
 hope to arrange it." said he, but I ma great difficulty in keeping my free dom In your city. as my thirty days in- carceratlon on your beautiful but too popnlous island will prove. The evening or my arrival here, after supper, 1t oc- cured to me that Rosinante would be the better for little exercise, and We sal lied forth for the Central Park. Tn some way or another We soon found ourselves