The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-11
LOVE OF YSLETA.
By Emmett campbell Hall.

Copyrighted, 1907, by P. c. Eastment
 The shadow cast by the low 'dobe ranch house of Senor Don Costello y Martinez was stretched far along the yellow sand when Lord Harry" whis- ting, loped down the trail and dropped from his saddle before the closed door. He laughed softly to himself, and dust ed his Mexican boots with the heavy gauntlets slipped from his slim hands. His silver spurs tinkled musically as he moved.
 Open to Harry, sweetheart minew he called, gayly and rapped sharply upon the door.
 A light step sounded within, and the door swung back.
 And why thine. Senor Lord Harry Fairfax?" the girl who stood in the portal demanded with mock dignity. raising herself to the full height of her small stature,
 Because I take" he answered, and gathered her up lightly in his arms. She raised warm, red lips that clung to his with the passionate intensity of her Spanish blood. Then one of the small. brown hands slipped from his neck and into her bodice, which was cut so low as to show white breast rising and falling swiftly with the stress of emotion.
 "Yes--because you take. It was an- other you would have taken last week. I heard-who was she?' the girl pant ed.
 Last week-at Los Matas? Dios! have forgotten!" he laughed light ly.
 Aye. you forget some things quick Iy, do you not? Then forget thisw she cried, and wrenched herself free from his arms A small knife flashed | in her hand. and she struck straight l for the heart.
 "Kittenr' he smiled, and half turned his 1.-the body. The keen blade slit | the silk that covered his breast and then dropping tinkling upon the floor as he rapped sharply upon her wrist | The girl with 8 passionate abandon, threw herself upon a couch and buried her face among the pillows.
 Truly. Ysleta, I have forgotten her--it is only you I always remem- ber" the boy whispered. bending over her. He knelt upon the floor and slipped one arm under the convulsed little figure.
 Suddenly the girl sat up. a dazzling smile breaking through her tears. "DIos! How forget" she exclaimed and ran to a cupboard in one corner of the room. Here 1t Is late afternoon and you, my Lord Harry. are no doubt quite famished. Oh, very quickly now you shall eatr'
 Like a bird she fitted about the room, preparing his food, while he lounged lazily upon the couch, watch ing her with half-closed eyes, and smile that twitched the corner of his mouth.
 "At what time will your father re- turn?" he presently asked. He told me he would start when the moon rose" she answered, as she deftly stripped the corn husks from the tamales upon the table; therefore, he wlli not reach here before midnight. Until then we may be together Harry mine"
 "I will see to the horse" Harry said. and left the room. He led the mare back to tke stalls, removed her saddle, and supplied her literally with grain from Senor Costellos stock.
 "Truly. 1t is a good deed to rob thief" he laughed. and went back to his meal.
 When they rose from the table the girl seated herself upon the skin cover ed coucb, He dropped to the floor and rested his head against her silk- cover ed knee.
 Hand me your guitar. heart of mine" he said, and when he had re- ceived it, touched the strings with expert and loving hands. T will sing YOU A song of two lovers. Ysleta, who were true--in the songF
 The sudden darkness or the Iah9 which knows no twilight had plotted out the desert, but pearly light in inc East gave promise of rising moon He sang on and on. his voice clear and low as the chiming Of distant bells. In the darkness he could not see the sudden blanching of the glris face when she first observed the hgnt growing winter in the East
 Mother of Jesus. but l had forgot t.nI" she easped. "Harry-my Harry" sbe whispered brogenly T have heard If said that one might trust an English heart. ,,., a s4rnoL iarring note. "Perhaps-but not one that was once an Enghsh heart" y,...,o.s of his voice. but continued earnes 1sst have
 "Dearest. do you believe that nave io"s "AveWsince you have said so,' he answered carelessly. .....
 And you have said Harry, when nay arms were about your neck. that you loved me" u,
 "And vet. and yet-I have done no vrorg thing, Harry, though-Mother os Christ. I was tempted! you you asked me to go with you. Harry, but you never once spoke I1sIs. of a priest n,,t a
 light came into his eyes. The n% moon had now swung clear into the the skv, and the girls face was lined ana haggard. u.. continued .von asked no more. Yet. now-now I ask you toto take me with you
 ."rruiy, the gods are very good to me" he replied coolly. we will go. then just before your esteemed parent returns" a,,to,,v in Gods name" she begged. pulling with childish hands at his arm. .,-
 But why. Ysleta?' he asked. ms ms voice silky as the skin of mountain | lion. I,d,,v her self erect and rigid before nm, "Any moment the Rangers may be here they know that they will find you, and they will be in sufficient force