The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-11-24
The Tutor
A Story Showing
the Power of Love
By RICHARD WAYNE
Association

AOSt JOuuS uieu ~ 10 COlloS9 WIFI
out any fixed life plan before them
What they will do with their educa.
tion they put off deciding until after
they get it. l was one Of these. /
was a 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. deliv.
cred the salutatory-in Latin-having
the satisfaction of being considered
a very learned young man.
l went home with the plaudits of
my admirers ringing in my ears. But
there found a contrasting quiet The
excitement had all died out. and
found myself face to face with the
problem of career Many young men
who take honors in college become
pedagogues. | had no such inclination.
nor did | care for profession Of any
kind. preferred 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 a
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.
nyI;Io oolIn.+;pr tho 1oht p,oe, N,
preached by some men who told me
that they were plotting to seize the
government They persuaded me to
join them. They were defeated. /.
with others. was captured in arms
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 be said to
me: -', '.
u understand that you are an edu-
Gated man. Am correct?"
81 consider myself good classical
Scholar replied. .r~-
very "Cll uCu, ullS w q SuO-
ordinate, he said: a@
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
ident's private Office.
What do you know about the clas-
sics?" he asked.
I told him that l was college grad
uate and had at commencement deliv-
cred an Grafton in Latin.
You're just what | want" he said.
"AIy son wishes to enter an American
college next year and needs a tutor.
If you will fit him for the entrance
examinations 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 u.s. 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 a 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 tn
her.
I was introduced into the family by
President Sanchez as 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 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 young man of
twentythree being forbidden under
young girl is terrible temptation.
Had Senior Sanchez made no such
threat l 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 a terrible fear of the garrote if I
did.
Whatever were my feelings. dared
not show them even to the young lady
herself. And here I made the same
mistake with her that her father had
made with me. Observing that I bad
unintentionally inspired her with a
sentiment that might lead to love, l
confided 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 he scientifically analysed I
think it would appear that the pre-
dominant element in it would turn out
to be a desire that / 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.
~ l.