The Green Forest tribune., 1912-06-21

"f'o a iNSlouS ana l1S services and those or ms brother were in considerable request all over the south. So some months and even wears went py during which many hundreds of animals passed through the hands of the Brunels and they became the owners of comparatiyelv large troop or horses. Ascensio though a savage and merclless rider, never during all this time gave glimpse of the ferocity which underlay his character
 At length the two brothers happened in the natural course of their nomadic profession to come to the estaneia-this fine word may mean anything from large residence to mud hovel with roof of tin-of farmer who had recently, settled in the country and who was the husband Of very pretty wife dark beauty of it was rumored, a rather uncertain temper.
 The farmer gave the brothers horse-breakng contract and for some weeks all went we'll
 One evening when the farmer, tired from a long day in the saddle, had just come home Ascenso Brunei entered and having, it is said put him off his guard by making some simple little request, murdered him in cold blood.
 The actual details of this Ascenso's first mur- der are hard to come by. Henri, whom l met near Ultima Casa, never told the same story twice running, and the only other witness, the wife of the murdered man, passed through some terrible experiences and never heard her authentic story. The main fact remains:
 Ascensio murdered the farmer in order that he might carry off his wife, which he did, besides driving the whole stock, the cattle sheep and HUI oeo Ol tue uedu ludL, HUG lue uedTI or tue wilderness.
 Here for time, the two brothers dwelt with the unhappy woman, until at last Ascensio quar- reled with Henri. It was not for the first time and Henri went to sleep thinking it would have all passed over in the morning. He was wakened at dawn by voice shouting to him, and saw at once that during the night Ascenso had driven away all the horses and had also removed the woman
 Ascensio then said he had decided to part pany with his brother for good and all; that at first 1t had been in his mind to kill him in his sleep, but for their mothers sake he had tented. He added that he had shifted the horses and stock to safe distance and that if Henri fol lowed he would unhesitatingly shoot him down. He then rode away without more words.
 As Henri had neither horse weapons he did not follow Indeed all his efforts were directed toward getting out of the wilderness alive Living chiefly upon berries, he wandered for many days, finally to arrive, an emaciated wreck, at the estancia of Argentine herdsman. The latter tended him and, when he recovered. gave him sufficient provision to take him to the settlement where he duly arrived
 Proved innocent of the murder his brother had committed he went back to the life of peon and shepherd. and so he passes out of this history for good
 The next act In the drama opens with the rival in the settlement at Punta of the woman whom Ascensio had forced to accompany him into the wilderness. She had frightful tale of cruelty to relate, eliminating in fortunate escape
 It appears that Ascensio had become subject to fits of passion so frightful that they were akin to madness, and indeed madness of kind had al- ready declared itself in him.
 The Tehuelches of Patagonia hold the well-known belief common to many branches of the Indian race, that when they die they pass to the Happy Hunting Grounds On the grave of warrior they slay his dogs and horses; within 1t they place saddle knife and food and for nine nights they kinde great fires, by the light of which the