The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-11-29
The Tutor
A Story Showing
the Power of Love
BY RICHARD WAYNE
Copyright. 1870 by American Press
Association.

Copyright, 1870 by American Press
Association.
Most young men go to college with
out any fixed life plan before them.
What they will do with their educa-
ton they put of deciding until after
they get it. l was one Of these.
was good classical scholar and one of
the honor men of my class The clos
ing days of my college life were very
pleasant and very exciting 1 deliy-
cred the salutatory-in Latin-having
the satisfaction of being considered
very learned young man.
went home with the plaudits of
my admirers ringing in my ears. But
there found contrasting quiet The
excitement had all died out, and l
found myself face to face with the
problem of career Many young men
who take honors in college become
pedagogues. l had no such inclination,
nor did | care for profession of any
kind. | preferred a stirring life.
went to the city, hunted for business
position and found one with a house
doing a commission business whose
clientele was in South and Central
America.
/ stood the humdrum of business life
for about year, when some one was
needed to go to Honduras to collect
debt owing the firm. ! offered to go.
My offer was accepted, and within a
few weeks found myself in the coun-
try of the rubber tree
While collecting the debt 1 was APP
preached by some men who told me
that they were plotting to seize the
government. They persuaded me to
join them. They were defeated. 1.
and thrown into prison. The same
evening we were told that we would
all be garroted the next morning.
When at daylight an officer entered
the room where we were confined to
take us out to execution he said to
me:
Il understand that you are an edu-
Gated man. Am correct?'
Il consider myself good classical
scholar" replied.
Every WELL" Then. turning to a sub
ordinate, he said:
''Take him to his excellency."
was led to the presidents house
and told to wait till called for About
8 o'clock l was conducted to the pres
dents private office.
what do you know about the clas-
sics?" he asked.
told him that was college grad
uate and had at commencement deliv-
cred an Grafton in Latin.
you're j':st what want" he said
my son wishes to enter an American
college next year and needs a tutor
If you will fit him for the entrance
examinations l will pardon you for
your stupid completely with these ras-
Gals who have sought to put them
selves in my place. But understand
your sentence is only suspended. You
will come into my family and be one
of US. Any depression from a straight
path and you will suffer under your
sentence for treason. Say nothing to
any one of your connection with trail
tors
/ did not understand what he meant
by "any DEPRESSION" till l arrived at
his house and for the first time saw
that he had daughter at that tender
age when girls are liable TO fall in love
with any presentable man they hap
pen to be thrown in with. Donna Mar
guerita was nineteen and of course a
Spanish type. 1t was plain that had
been warned against making love to
her.
l was introduced into the family by
President Sanchez as a college gradu-
ate he had imported from the north to
tutor his son Pedro, sixteen years old
Sonora Sanchez was probably the only
person In the house that knew | was
under sentence of death.
have a theory that we only enjoy
by contrast. Another way of putting
it is. "Stolen fruit is the sweetest"
The president made a great mistake
in warning me. To a young man of
twenty-three being forbidden under
penalty of death to make love to a
young girl is terrible temptation
Had Senior Sanchez made no such
threat | might have lived in the same
house with his daughter and not trans
crossed. AS it was | was tortured
with terrible desire to win her and
with terrible fear of the garrote If l
did.
Whatever were my feelings, dared
not show them even to the young lady
herself. And here l made the same
mistake with her that her father had
made with me. Observing that / had
Internationally inspired her with a.
sentiment that might lead to love, I
confded to her the secret that love
with us meant death for me.
From that moment a passion that
might otherwise have either never
been born or at least soon have died
out famed up in Donna Inez and alb
sorbed her whole being Could this
passion be scientifically analysed l
think it would appear that the pre-
dominant element in it would turn our
to be desire that l should accept
death in preference to giving her up
There is something paradoxical about
this, but nature is full of paradoxes
There would surely come a time
when we would put not our necks in
q halter. but my neck in the garrote.
We were one day in the room where
taught Donna lnez's brother. he hav.
ing just gone out. She gave me re-
proachful look.
"For heavens sake. senorita, what is
IL? / beg of you be careful. You I'M
derstand the position in which /
stand"
"Are you not willing to take any risk
at all for my sake?"
do you wish me to suffer the gar
rote for your sake?'
She was silent for a moment, with
downcast eyes.
81 do not wish you to suffer, but
wish you to be willing to suffer on ac-
count of your love for me-"
There was something irresistible in
her face as she turned her eyes up to
meet mine. | clasped a hand that
hung loosely by her side and felt
current running from her arm into
mine. Then it was all over with me.
! drew her toward me and kissed her.
The next few weeks were the most
delightful to me of any period of my
I {v,Ao
views with Donna Inez, knowing all
the while that If caught In one of them
/ would pay for the pleasure with my
life True. there were moments when
the abyss on whose brink / stood