The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-06


moment, she turned on him.
They viii say In the plains that the
arm of my lord of the sierra is grown
| short, because it cannot stretch far
enough to pluck the most worthy and
brave of his men from DEATH
They will not say that replied the
brigand gently.
Why not?''
Because, my good Isabella, shall
take care to avenge RObledO-when he
is dead"
The girl looked at him in horror.
! Then she burst out
'Since l could walk she stormed
L have been-I, toO-in the service of
mountains that Don Luis was coming.
carrying poison in his hat? 1t was
l! Who did her part when my lord
came down into the city by night to
enter the palace of Don Felipe Majada?
1t was T. But why do / talk in vain?
My lord knows. They say he cannot
forget! But that is not true. He has
altered, and can forget US now Then
listen, my lord, to isabella You have
changed her from friend into a foe
She will so down the mountains, and
not smile again until she has done the
! thing that is in her mind. But she will
| laugh when she sees the lord of the
sierra garotted on the Alameda, even
as RobIedo."
AS she turned to go she flung a pack
Stop" At sound of the masterful
word the girl halted invoIuntariIy.
What is this?'
"Robledo, even in the prison. did not
forget his lord" she returned furious
ly. He babe me fetch this and send
it by a sure hand tO''-she faced him
and met his glance-"my lord! For his
sake 1 brought it. not she ended
abruptly.
so RobIedo sent me this?" said Don
| O., thoughtfully. Pardon me. Isabel
lila" He opened the packet and fin
gered and smelt the tobacco it con-
| tanned. 1T is good. Know then, girl,
that my lack of cigarettes has been a
very narrowing trial to me. You viii
take "a message from me to Robledo?"
Yes, lord"
You will say that, as RobIedo was
/ so criminal as TO waste his time under
| your window instead of coming straight
| back to me, I am determined to leave
| him to die"
| ''Ah,' she walled. striking her hands
! together in despair.
And you will add that, he had the
| good sense. even when he was lying
under sentence of death. to remember
/ the horrible privation l was undergoing
! without cigarettes. l have for that rea-
son, and that alone, changed my inten-
! ton, and resolved to forgive him and
/ take him out of prison on Saturday"
/ Isabella sprang to Don as side and
! covered his slender, bOny hand with
| kisses
That will do said the chief, with
/ drawing his fingers from hers. Go;
/ lose no time. or RobledO will begin to
/ fear that I intend to punish him ac-
| cOrding to his deserts"
Lord. he sent also this" she drew
/ out another packet. 1T is a plan of the
! prison of CastellenO.'
| 7 co not suppose it will be necessary
| FOR ne to consult it, the chief said
| with . strange smile of remembrance.
/ but leave it here. 1t was wise to send
! it"
And these newspapers" added the
/ girl. with a sly, pleased glance. Rob
/ edo did not forget these. either
Then she departed, radiant and full
| of joy, praying incoherent blessings
from all the saints on the head OF
Don Q.
Don Q. returned to the Boca de Lobo
and was sitting in his accustomed place
with his lamp bes de him and the papers
sent by the thoughtful RObledo hanging
! across his knee. Something he read ar
rested his attention He reperused it
! carefully, then, letting the sheet fall,
! he sat staring into the fire in his
| hunched, bird-like attitude, absently
| rolling cigarettes with deft. fragile fin
gers. LOng-sleeping memories had evil
| IDENTIFY been awakened in his brain, for
l
who half regrets a vanished decade
We have altogether failed in our por-
traiture of the great brigand if the
reader does not by this time understand
the dominant quality Of freakish hu-
NOR. compounded of lust of action, in
credible vanity and fantastic courage
which led Don @. into the chiefest o.
his exploits. Although, perhaps, hC
valued RObledO more than any othel
of his followers, he was quite capable
Ii IL
bedience, as he regarded the most tri
fling deviation from orders as a studied
insult.
THE fellow realizes rightly enough
that his life is a small matter com
pared with the Vexatious fact of my
, lack of cigarettes" he had murmured L
, himself more than once during the las
four days.
He looked down at the paragraph
: again; his sinister laughter broke on
as he struck his hand upon his kne,
, with the air of a man who had founC
what he sought.
, But Don O. never acted OH the spu
of a thought if he could spare time 70
reflection. Thus cigarette after cigar
: cite burnt itself out in a flare between
his thin liDs before he called Ramon
) Gaspar and Felipe uD from the fire
in the valley.
"Gaspar." he began, you know tn
l inn ct Colaro, on the road to Castel
, lenO?'
Yes, lord"
Proceed there, and order an excel
! lent supper for 10 O'Clock tomorrow
night"
! Yes, lord
2 Go. You, Felipe, viii proceed to tn
Castillo Negro below the mountains
and see there Valentia, who waits up
: on the maid of the Duquesa. You know
hero
= The young man Redeemed and glance,
2 up with a furtive look of fear.
Yes, lord
S The chief met his eyes with a con
t temptuOuS smile.