The Red Cloud chief., 1906-08-17

cony fluttered Il handkerchief, while
the young man was making signs with
the cup. His back was toward De San
doval, so that he could not be rccog
niZcd.
The husband watched this pantomimc
in a sort of stupOr. He could not have
been more thunderstruck had lie seen
an angel from heaven alight on the
fountain and pour mud upon the wa.
ters. That the being he had worshipcd
could thus dishonor him filed him with
agony. While he looked he saw Il fan
waved frantically from within the win
dow and the man drinking ut the foun-
tain dropped the cup and walked rap
idly away. Don Roderigo, awakening
from his stupor, followed, but the
stranger had only n short distance TO
go to turn Il corner, and by the time
Sandoval reached it the man he sought
was nowhere to be seen.
Don Roderigo went to his house.
kissed his wife (shc noticed that his
lips were cold us ice), and went to bed.
lie did not accuse her nor ask the
name Of the young man who had been
making signs at her window. From
that time his manner toward her vas
changed, though no one except herself
noticed it. She was allowed the same
privileges, enjoyed the same comforts,
but somehow she felt that she lived in
the shadow of death.
4 few weeks after the episode that
had such a marked effect upon Iio-
dcrigo he was coming home late at
night when ne saw Il man drinking at
the fountain. Advancing. he knocked
the cup from the strangers hand. The
man turned, hot at the insult, and see
ing one worthy of his steel drew his
rapler and attacked the insulter. San
doval drew and defended himself, cast
ing from time to time an eye on his
wife's window. All was dark there,
and in time he called Il halt in the
fight, apologizcd for the insult, reflled
the cup and offered it to the stranger.
The latter, puzzled, drank ana went
away.
After that OF numerous occasions
always at the dead of night-some
stranger stopping to quench his thirst
at the fountain would report in the
morning that the cup had been knocked
from his hand and, sometimes after Il
fight, the insulter had apologizcd and
proffered Il full cup. The police seemed
singularly apathetic about the matter,
not even taking pains to watch the
fountain. Thus it became the belief
that the person who gave these insults
was high In favor Of the government.
One night Il man entered the square
and, seeing another at the fountain,
withdrew under the shadow of Il flight
of steps. While the man at the foun-
tain was drinking Il third figure APP
preached and knocked the cup out
Of the drinkers hand.
what means this insult?" asked the
man attacked.
At that moment a glimmer of white
appeared on the balcony Of Don Ro-
derigo's house. Roderigo saw it in an
instant.
1T means that l have at last found
the man l have been so long looking
for" said Roderigo.
His rapier flashed, but before the
man for whom it was intended had
turned TO draw his own weapon a third
man shot from n shadow and stood,
sword in hand, between the two.
"You are mistaken, signor," he said.
II am the man you have been looking
for. | was u lover of your wife's be-
fore you married her. Thrice | have
passed n few words, or rather signals,
with her from this fountain, but !
have never been nearer. She is pure
as marble. Go and continue the wor-
ship which till you found me here you
bestowed upon her, for she is worthy
of It,"
The reply to this was a lunge on the
part of Don ROderigo and a shrek
from the balcony. The stranger
caught the blade on his own steel and
replied in kind. In a few minutes
Don ROderilO de SandOyal Law