Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-05-01

H@S H@H unattended coffin emerge upon the shou-
kM EBE derS of the bearers, who carried it lightly
AeAA8E enough to the little lonely cemetery out
n SaEH& \ side the town. | had missed too the
white-hared figure with the pale face
&1uusxun.& and the black cleaning eyes, ever at the
upper window, staring out over the square
in the direction of the arsenal But my inquiries had
oesn rece,veq IN Spit OF a tbe Second
burial of Maria dNaz" asked my host, dubiously
That all that eqqd s9n ro ny e RqF
| Degado What everybody knew none told OF.
"Sce the commandant is coming' cried the inn
y They lined the stoop and looked up the passage
toward the square from which figure approached,
that OF an old man Then an Involuntary sigh went
up from each of them and they glanced surreptousy
toward the window of the upper room where the
woman sat, deserted for the first time in their
1T is his habit; he cannot break himself" the inn
wife crossing herself furtively.
Stll the figure came on It moved more slowly
1t was the nnkeeper caught the commandment before
he fell and helped him to a table.
Give His Hghness some wine he commanded.
Still knew nothing more.
Yes he will tell YOU said the nnkceper. why
not? He is proud Of this romance of his; it gives
him distinction He tells all strangcrs--but We who
live here and have always known it, have not the
air, the that makes it effective. The COM
mandant will be happy To tell volt
lie told me the evening in The great square,
where the military band played under veiless
and the air was heavy with the fragrance OF tangerne
flowers.
The senior asks me to tell the story of Maria
d'Naz?' he inquired. houahtiuly. He, could not
is old forgets many things which once seemed
important and it is almost dye-and-thrty years since
last spoke to her. on the day ol her DEATH
And yet hazarded she buried yesterday"
He nodded abstractedly His chin had fallen upon
his breast and he was staring unsecingy in front OF
Maria was the only child Of General Dom Pedro
dNaz, widower. the governor of the province of
Deeado," he began. Iic had been in command here
for CoNra-D1 lrI
For thing, he was growing old and missed the
society of Lisbon: for another, long as. he was
in Africa his daughter remain unmarried. There
indeed, Portuguese officers among the garrison
with whom many noble lady would have been proud
,nbroken line from Kings Dom Henry the Navigator
had been their ancestor. So Maria still unmar
ried, although approaching thirty.
"Shc was beautiful In those OF royal stock
beatty is looked upon with suspicion; it
dal see her. now on that day when we met for the
and very devout. There an altar to the Virgin
in an oricl Of that upper room in the DVaz ma" son
candies there. The senior knows that rooms Thcn he
has noticed that candles were always burning there
until yesterday
and her skin the color of ripe olive ready to all
Her hands were tiny and her foot was as small as an
flowed under it. But that all one of her
the little foot and the black, sparkling eyes, which
shone brightly than the great rope OF diamonds
"Of course size never stirred from the house alone
it might be said that she never foot to the ground
outside for her maid escorted her in closed carriage
when she went take the air And OF the world the
swarming life OF Degado and all its wickcdncss she
knew nothing at all
80 she lived secluded until the new captain OF the
port sent from Portugal. His name-wel, never
mind 1t was so long 2So 2n s afirF ALL 1t docs net
this winter, senior and have been here for hve-and
thirty years There great rejoicing in the old gov
ernors heart when he arrived for he young man,
unmarried, and of Il family equal to the DNaz in
grandeur The captain was already acquainted with
in Lisbon; now he fell desperately in love with her
when the governor offered him her hand q course he
was thrown into tgrmo Gf oy h.r1 "f %Gn she f en-
there was no happier in all the Portuguese do
minions. think, too she was not wholly ave7'c to
him. nor from the hearing Of certain strumming on
guitar at nightal under her barred window on the
upper stoy-the with the candles, senior And il
the old governor heard he pretended to snore in his
room underneath perhaps he Wnked upward through
the banana For he had been young once a'so
senior ,.
| making on account of his duties. His predecessor
had been recalled to Portugal because he had be-
body or mind to put down certain ugly manifesto
tions threatening military revolution me cause
the halfbreeds who we're dissatisfied with the gov.
eminent 1t is not here as in the rest OF Africa a
you know, senior. There you keep down the negro
but here We call him Dom and accord him all thc
rights of the white settlers,
THE leader of the, malcGntens was one Nieo'ar
so called because hsNfather had come hithcr IRON M
Nicobar coast Portuguese, he called himself, a.
though his skin was the color OF chocolate and hi
hair like black sleeps wool. Nevertheless, he la'
acquired considerable reputation by reason Of hi
nrowess in war against the native tribes, that h
lad come to be made keeper Of the arsenal He wa
man of gigantic stature, Of prodigious strength
and very horrible to look on, for he was more like
rorilla than a man. The retiring governor bad no
| sentured to remove him from the post he held, o.
sccount Of the devotion which the native soldiers dis
nlayed toward him. But he had warned the youn
captain upon his arrival in Degadoi and the ~, you1
man had determined to arrest NicoDar ana u'uS
end the tension at a single stroke. =.
"However, he had not the choosing Of his 9w
time One of constant native wars having broke
o,t and suddenly assumed Formidable proportions, IN
old governor had taken the field in person; an
since by reason of their affiliations the native troop
roud not be trusted, he compelled to wlthdra'
the greater part Of the Portuguese garrison Then
was Ncobar laid bare his, guns, seeking TO pFoVoN
the captain into Some act of rashnoss, 49,, -.
ence the captain ordered him from the paradegroun