The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-17

some finding. even in ouch a miniature
village as Pinheiro After we had
looked ia three or rour aavk d. elHngs
aid offered apologies 10 eontented and
Indifferent cattle for iBarHdinS. 3 STATE
Is. dignified dame came 10 our res2Ee-
She knew what was wanted By in
stinct. Hundreds Of persons had come
our way before. Was she willing 20
SHOW Us the house Of Antonio The an
eiear2 Quite 50. Who vas better quail
HE'D to conduct the sannores to the 0id
man? Was she rot Antonio's own
daughter Josepha2
he IVES not without interest herself
When asked her age she replied with d
touch CT true fenlainlty that she vas
A.. Mors than that she would not ad-
nit, bat in reality She WAS in her S0th
year. Twenty years had she been a
widow. Now she, as a Gutiful daugh-
ter. was her fathers nurse ard guar.
dun.
JoseDha w5s old. undeniably CID Her
face was heavy with the ridsed fur
/ rows OF age. She looked il, reality
considerably older than her father. The
si2teliness Of her bearing was the re-
suit 81 NE IN the open and the peas
ant practice Of carrying all burdens on
the head Her Gigaifled manner was
{ due accompaniment OF an unspoiIed
I peeple-Nature' most royal race.
Taking brazen lamp of ancient
make in her hand she babe US follow
! Antonio's house stood before us. the
door wide open Up six steps we clam
I bersd turned, and stood inside N black
/ darkness. Away 5tin further TO the Jeff.
/ IL & recess. was a white glimn1er. ana
+ from the gifmmer came the low moan
! ing echo Of a voice. Holding high the
lamp with its naked. swaying fame,
Josepha moved toward the voice. Be
fore her the darkness disappeared in
I huCe slices dosing again in her wake
The lamp fiicSered and hared, light
/ ing UP in dim uncertain wise q little
walled niche six feet long, three feet
wide, ard perhaps six feet in height
I ere on MS bed. coyeTes With single
sheet. lay Antonio.
( He noaned out some unintelligi-
I bic words. one of those who stood by
bidding Josepha raise the lamp still
4 higher. took him under the shoulders
and lifted him into a sitting posture
More than one of those who stood in
the doorway of the richie protested. To
handle such a fragile casl1et seemed
fraugat with certain danger. Every
moment we feared that the trembling
] spirit sbIined in the worn body would
I pass under. such contact into the great
er shades, and gloonas It SO much feared.
And no one would wish 10 have any
share in the death of a man who had
defied the shadow for such length Of
time.
at il all right, said Sosepha. He
I wants TO look al YOU
Antonio passed his hands before his
eyes and looked at each of Us with a
/ piercing, eager glance. as though he
! were anxious to convince himself that
he were still in the land of the living.
/ Then he sank back on his bed. Eight
/ wears he had lain iE that darkness.
Eight years ago they raised him from
his he'd and set HIN in the sunlight at
his doorway. The CID mar stayed there
q few minutes, pouring out his soul in
torrents Of tears. It was an evil thing
to do. ne declared. Why had they set
him there for death to see il he chaneed
TO PASS? Weeping. he was borne back
to bed, and there sin the gloom be has
rem aimed thinking that perchance the
darkness may make il more difficult for
the King Of TerrOrs to recognize and
claim him.
We did not stay there long. Once we
were outside again in the open An
tonio's voice could be heard, petUlant
" scolding his aged daughter. In in
/ distinct mutterings, explained TO US a
moment later. he expostulated with her
because she had net allowed the us
itors to stay a little longer. Why?
The answer given was significant, and
may be taken as an indication Of the
surviving dominant passion in old An
tonic Neava's wfthered mind and
wasted frame Why2
Because. having gone SO quickly, the
visitors would not leave anything in
the form Of money for the old man they
had seen. Josepha at once explained
that they had already left something
for him. HOY much?" he asked trem-
uIOusly. Five hun ired reis" she said
That represents bank note for about