The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-04-22
THE HEART Of
/ DICTATOR
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what tenderness and nobility were I'M
I'll experiencing them at your hands;
what love was until you taught me;
what happiness was until you gave 1t
to me.
Beloved, you must fly, or be taken
by your enemies, and for my sake
you will not let that happen. l go
tomorrow to the refuge you have
named, and will await your coming.
The money is safe. Be not cast down.
beloved. LORETTA
The Oronaguan exile had not re-
sumed the uplift Of his hands after
producing the packet of letters. He
sat now with his elbows on his knees
and his face in his hands, a position
not natural to him. There was no re-
monstrance from the man with the
gun. The latter stared at the human
anomaly before him with introspec-
tive eyes, the weird nightmare of
the last month resolving itself, as do
all unhealthy dreams, into kaleidosco-
pic involution of myriad shapes and
eolors. Was there no truth, no hon
OF, no conception whatever of the
higher things, in this realm of hell
ish heat and heavenly beauty, of
slime, shine, treachery and spolia-
ton? Was it for this that he had
anointed himself a Nemesis and had
come, fast as modern miracles of To-
comotion could bring him, to rid the
earth Of this master reptile?-de-
spoiler alike of men and women, each
in the manner most meaningful to the
sex; assigning, with reputed equal
relish, manhood to the lash and wo-
manhood to slavery. He had person.
ally inspected the ashes of his broth
ler-in-law's hacienda. He had heard
from lips of men who professed to
have witnessed what they related, the
story Of young Viescas humiliatinp
death, inconceivably cruel. He had
been told how his sister was drag
ged from her burning home, chained
in cart like whimpering lamb ant
borne away to be sacrificed by liv.
ing death in the whited sepulchrt
that was Azurpan's palace. These
things, as was usual with the dicta
tors alleged atrocities, had not com,
to light until six months after thel
Occurrence. Now they had been dc
tailed to him fully and passionatel
by men Of the revolution. But wha
manner Of men were they?-ragget
Ignorant, shifty eyed; furtive an
. mails, subjugated by centuries of TOT
lrid heat and tyrannous blood-lettine
! And what manner of man was thi
who had mastered them?
"Senor, my arms ache intolerably.
1t was the voice of Edeman- Dula
ma, soft and supplicatory. Klacki
was startled into recollection Of tn
presence Of that unimportant person
,age.
Lower them,' he granted CURLY
"Azurpan, look at me-"
The ex-dictator looked UP. His fac
was suddenly drawn, cream palliC
old. There was a question in hi
rheumed eyes, which his lips did no
interpret And Klackit saw that !
was not rheum that trimmed the black
and now vacant, eyes, but wet sedt
ment where the edges of the lid
had been soiled by pressure Of mud
died palms.
Are you married to my sister, Sen
or Azurpan?"
This was the first time that Klack
it had used title with the dictator'i
name. The latter, without lifting hi;
elbows from his knees presented his
palms in the fashion of the Latin.
"Senor, chance has honored me il
making me brother-in-law to so brave
30 IesoluIe1 SO TeSourceTul a man al
yourself"
why has Loretta not written t
me of these things?"
II am uniformed On occasion
have limited to her-never MOI
4 than that-my desire to know yol
but it seemed to me that she ha
bored some unspoken reason for NJ
wishing a family affiliation. ha,
feared that possibly she comprehen
ed the odium attached to my nan
abroad, and was too considerable
! express her thoughts to me. TIL
odium have cheerfully borne f
my country, but for my country al
I would have had it removed al