The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-24

" HE Earl OF RendeH was one of
the globe-trotting race, and
when, through his marriage
with Miss Mary Churchill. of New
York, his estate was restored, he was
enabled to crafty to a nicely every
whim in this direction. The RendelIs
went from Dan to Beersheba. and so 1t
CHANGED that they turned up at San
hernandez during those events that are
now matter of the spasmodic history
of that Central American republic.
Lady Rendell was accompanied by her
sister, Miss Louise Churchill, lately en-
gagged to Stephen Wharton, Of Balti-
more; by his man, Simpson, and Lady
Churchills maid, who fell i'll of the
lever, and whose services were supple
mented by those of a Spanish Ameri-
can girl called Gloria The English
consul at San Fernandez happened to
be at this time the Right Hon. James
forsyth, who was a warm friend of
the earl, and the party put up at the
consulate.
This building faces the cathedral,
dating from the seventeenth century,
and containing some excellent relics of
Spanish colonial times and a very good
organ. That organ woke Miss Churchill
at dawn and put her to sleep at night
The organist seemed to be always
playing and the people always at their
devotions.
San Fernandez is in every way
fine example of old New Spain-its
streets, its varied population, its queer
little soldiery, its court, that of the
president, Senior Don Jose Gonzales,
who had established himself through a
successful revolution. Lady RendelI
had met the presidents wife in Paris,
and so she called on her, and the
Sonora Gonzales was pleased to return
Inc call, and the ladies saw much Of
society in Spanish-American capital.
Then they wandered about the place
and collected things
But Louise Churchill, for reasons of
her own was not in the best Of spirits.
Inc truth of the matter was that she
had been fond of certain CHRISTOPHER
Bates, who had flirted atrociously with
certain widow, and to spite him she
mad engaged herself to Stephen Whar-
ton, as is sometimes the way with
young women. AT once she found she
had been spiting herself, and she never
1eIt this SO much as when, coming into
the consulate one day from the cool
IL
she entered some passages Of the old
comedy.
The girl Gloria was talking to a little
man IN sergeant'S uniform Miss
Churchill understood Spanish very well.
and in narrating this little drama will
make no distinction between tongues.
She heard the little sergeant:
Gloria, minei"
All, Jose Rubino, was the song I'M
der my window last night for The
resa ?''
The little coquette!" thought Miss
Churchill.
There are Theresas and Theresas." |
Rubino replied, fervently; but of Clio
riasw"
But one. I suppose" said the girl.
AT this RubinO tried to get her hand,
but she pushed him away, and seeing
Miss Churchill she became very de- |
mure, while Rubino FASTENED out of the
door
Your lover, Gloria?" Miss Churchill
He thinks he is, senorita. But who
knows? Yet he is a good fellow and |
very prominent. He has charge of the |
guard at the prison"
Miss Churchill sighed, gave the girl
some silver, and went to her room with |
a headache.
few days after, there came runnors
of an uprising of a certain Mendez
against the presidents authority, and
then with the suddenness of a tropical
storm came the events of the day of
this drama, which Miss Churchill was
never to forget.
She heard of it first at breakfast
The army Of the rebellion, led by two
English Adventures, were at the gates
Of the old walled town, and even now
she heard the roaring of cannon. She |
clapped her hands.
why, this will be jolly-a real |
siege.