News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1910-07-13

All, | ought to eXplain / am the
Senhora de sylvia, Dom Corria's daugh
ter"
Are you really, mum-missY ex
claimed Watts, highly interested. low
in the world did We manage to come
up from the coast? Accordin' to all
accounts
Yes, what We're you going to sayT
for the man hesitated.
"Well, some of our chaps will ave ii
that we're runnin' close hauled ON q
lee shore"
Carmela knit her brows. The Watts
idioms were not those Of her gov
erness.
1--WE had no great difficulty in pass
ing through Dom Barracks lines, if
that is what you mean," she said. Mr..
Verify and Mr.. Bulmer had obtained
special permits, but in my case'-
"Mr-'oo, did you say, miss?" de-
manded Watts, whose lower jaw actu-
ally dropped from sheer amazement.
"Mr. Verify, the owner of the An
dromeda. You are one of the crew,
suppose?"
Pm the chief officer Watts is my
name, miss. But d'you mean to tell
me that ole David Verify as come ere
to Brazil-to this rotten Sorry,
miss, but you gey' me turn, you did.
An Dickey Bulmer-is e ERE too?"
"Yes, or he soon will be here. !
rode on in advance of the Others"
"Wcll-there-if that don't beat cock
fghtin'w cried Watts. 'Wotll Coke
say?, wy, ell ave fit. An Miss
Iris! She's to marry ole Dickey. Fan
cy i'm turnin up! There'll be the
deuce an all to pay now wot between
i'm an Hozier an the dashin colonel"
"Who is Mr.. Hozier?' asked the girl
calmly.
He is, or was, our second mate, but
since the colonel an e got to logger
heads e took an raised a corps of
scouts. Some of our fellows Joined,
but not me. KILN other folks don't
agree with me little bit"
And the colonel-what is his nameY'
broke in Carmela.
San Benavides, miss, Captain 'e
was on Fernando Noronha. e took a
mighty quick jump after we KEN
ashore. But AK your pardon for ram
blin' on in this silly way. Won't you
go inside?"
The Senhora de sylvia might have
been seized with mortal illness if judg-
ed solely by the manner in which she
staggered into her fathers house,
threw her arms around the neck of an
elderly serving woman, whom she pet
rited by her appearance, and almost
fainted-not quite, but OF the verge
much nearer than such strong mind
ed young lady would have thought pos
sible an hour earlier
Maria screamed loudly. Tongue tied |
at first, she was badly scared when |
Carmela collapsed on her ample bosom. |
Restorative5 and endearments follow
ed. Carmela asked to be taken to a |
room where she might wash and shake |
the dust from her hair and clothes. |
Maria considered ways and means. /
Every room in the big house was
crowded.
''Who is in my own apartment? de-
manded Carmela.
Even before the answer was forth
coming she guessed the truth. The
Senhora> Ingleza, Of course. Those fine |
eyes of hers flashed dangerously.
"What, then? Does this woman come
here and take ALP she cried.
"Ah, peQuinina, do not be angry?"
said Maria. "Who save the good God
could tell that you would come from
Paris today? And the Senhora Ingleza
will be glad to give place to you. She
is so kind, so unselfsh, All the men
adore her."
80 | hear" murmured Carmela, try
ing to still the passion that throbbed
in her heart. since she was aware that
neither Maria nor any other among
the old domestics at Las Flores knew
of her engagement. and pride was now
coming to her aid.
"She will have no word to say to any
Of them" Sabbled Maria. There is a
young Englishman-well, it is no affair
of mine, but am told she loves him,
yet is promised to another, an old man
too. Santa Mae! That would not suit
me if were her agep'
This Homecoming of Carmela was
quite an important event in its way.
At first sight it bore the semblance of
4 mere disillusionment such as any
girl might experience under like cir
She had been taken from
Las Flores to occupy palace at Rio
lie Janeiro and was driven from the
palace to the hotel life of the CONT
1ent. During two years she had not
seen either father or lover, and lovers
# the San Benavides ilk are apt to
console themselves during these pro-
onged intervals. Yet Carmela's shat
cred romance was the pivot on which {
ested the future OF Brazil.
Had she gone straight to Iris on 1
eaving her father and made known
he astounding tidjngs that Verify and
3ulmer were riding up the Moxoto
alley barely three miles away Iris
would surely have devised some ]
means of acquainting Philip Hozier I
With the fact. In that event, assuming
hat he awaited their arrival, the first !
march of an extended reconnaissance !
which he thought desirable would nee
ssarily be postponed. And then-well,
he recent history of Brazil would i
ave fo no roxUriftau Sinca thnra can. 7