The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-03-29

ERR SNH had seen an agitated priest enter carry k1AEA ing the consecrated wafer, and the plain. H@THA# unattended coffin emerge upon the shou- S@ H Rg ders of the bearers, who carried it lightly
 hRugh sde the 70 town Sf had % nssed, too, the white haired figure with the pale face and the black, glearnng eyes, ever at the upper window staring & out over the sgiars E1 been received in a spirit of reproachfuI surprise
 Does not the senhor know that it is the second
 That all that could learn from few Portu. usse aeq4aPanees % the little little ne East tad % city of
 See, the commandant is coming" cried the inn
 They lined the stoop and looked up the passage toward the square, from which figure approached, up each of them, and they glanced surrepdtousy woman sat- deserted for the first time in their
 It is his habit; he cannot break himself" the inn
 file has. walked by for forty years" rnurmured his ated glanced up rresogte % A and the spell br9E he ..f. fell and nd. helped him to table a.d
 Still knew nothing more.
 'Yes. he. will tell you" said the innkeeper. Why hir dstncton He tells all strangersLbut we, who live M here snd have f SEa s 0Tn M we ha b t eo e mandant will be happy to tell you
 where the military band played under veilless moon and the air heavy with the fragrance of tangerine
 ..The. senhor asks mt. to tel the story of Maria Savs he n oe bstef although %e e 9oe is old one forgets many things which once seemed last last ts spoke to her on the day of her death
 And ys aEa5dsd hf M Eas & buried S5 fs his breast and he staring unseeingy in front of
 Maria was the only child of General Dom Pedro GNaz Tdqwer the goEeFngpr yer p of the ProydcG sp of for several years and anxious to return home. For one thing, he was growing old and missed the in Africa his daughter must remain unmarried There indeed, Portuguese officers the garrison .yvho b1es slady unbroker line from Kings Dom Henry the Navigator had been their ancestor. So Maria still unnaT- rieds cd, although approaching thirty.
 beauty is looked with suspcion it creates @ t see thin 1 M iag a soswEat 1 ri in deanor and very devout. There altar to the Virgin
 sTe s I ot a5 Rpd e m candles there The senhor knows that room? Then he has noticed that candles were always burning there
 NHer eyes were of the deepest black her hair, and her skin the color of ripe olive ready fall Her hands were tiny, and her foot as small Andalusians and as arched so that water would have the little foot and the black sparkling eyes which which covered her throat.
 "Of course she stirred from the house alone;
 might be said that she never set foot to the ground outside for her maid escorted her in closed carriage swarming life of Delgado and all it's wickedness she
 Sso she lived secluded until the new captain of the port sent from Portugal His name-well never
 d M Tis 5e eng TS 3nd ss M vess no5 ths winter senhor and have been here for fveand- ernoGs heart when he arrived for he was young man unmarried, and of a family equal to the DVaz in inc governors daughter having her years before in Lisbon he fell desperately in love with her. when the governor offered him her hand of course he thrown into turmoil of joy. And when she ihere was no happier man in all the Portuguese do ninions I think too she not wholly averse to guitar at nightfan under her barred window the upper storythe with the candles, senhor And Ii pretended room underneath, perhaps he winked upward through the banana trees For he had been young once also, senior ,.,- ..: 1s t:..,. .; xo ,o making, account of his duties His predecessor come infrrn with age and was in no condition of body or mind to put d4n certain a1to ugly a anifts sse of the discontent was partly the taxes, but mainly ernment It is not here as in the rest of Africa as you know, senhor There you keep down the negro; rights of the white settlers.
 'The leader of the ralcontents was one Nicobar, so called because his father had hther from the Nicobar coast. A Portuguese, he called himself al though his skin was the color of chocolate and his hair like black sheeps wool Nevertheless, he had acquired considerable reputation by reason of his prowess in against the native tribes so that he had to be made keeper of the arsenal lie was
 man of gigantic @ stature 4f Prodg.ous m s 3ors StFfRgh I gorilla than a The retiring governor had not ventured to remove him from the post he held, on played toward him. But he had warned the young captain upon his arrival in Degado, and the young man had determined to arrest Nicobar and thus to end the tension at single stroke:
 "However he had not the choosing of his own out and suddenly assumed formidable proportions the old governor had taken the field in person; and could be trusted, he was compelled to W1thdraW the greater part of the Portuguese garrison Then fine captain into some act of rashness.
 aIrritated beyond endurance at the blaeks lnso5