The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-01-16
Why | Came to
America
By JOSE HEoRARA

"HotiieI. is luat ! uiISHt Stt iIu u
friends who were liable to involve me
in anarchical plots that are honeycOmb-
,ing the social condition of III. coun-
L,., Whether those wOrkin" for some
thing better than the present social
status are right or whether they are
wrong | don't pretend to sly. What
| do say is that | had no mind to be
mixed mp in their plans. One episode
that came very near to me decided me
to leave Spain.
"A friend Of mine-we will call him
Manuel. for ! shall not give yru real
names of persons in the story | am
about to teli-asked me to visit his
unlmer home in the mountains lying
directly south Of Mndrid. ! accepted
the invitation and found n colony Of
summer homes. | met IA number of
charming persons. but | will mention
only two, both Of whom are connected
with my story. | will call one Concii
and the other lnez. Manuel. it seemed
to me. was on the verge Of forming
Il union. but with whom ! could not
tell. CODcia was a gentle little thing
with so far as | could disrover-no
other desire but to love and be loved.
and if married would devote herself
to husband and children. InpZ. on the
contrary. was full of grand theories. a
radical nv nature. | understood from
Manuel that she was n di srin,e Of one
who was attempting to found a new
{. hh11 nf p,orolc did MT hni,Avn
that she WAS sincere. 1t seemed to me
thit in everything she id she had a
! sinister motive. Perhaps. | said to my
$rf.'>lp * attracted by the novelty
Of this mans ideas and de"pives her
SELF into the belief that it is sympathy
with humanity that moves her.
II was MT long in discovering that
these tWo girls were Manners good and
evil gcniuses. His heart when in n
normal condition was with Concia. but
be was influenced by Inez'S views
coming through IneZ herself-that is.
it was rather IneZ than the views that
moved him.
"tOncia did not evince any concern
as to this influence that IneZ was eX-
tltiIS ottl .hltiltti- A>ot tIc icISI
jealousy did she show when she saw
the two together. but at times L
thought | could detect the glimmer of
a hidden fire. One day ! made a re-
mark TO Manuel which would lead
him. if he chose to do so. to coniide to
me the situation. He old me that he
loved Concia. but that IneZ. who was
intellectually very much Concia's su-
periGr, inspired him to do great things
for humanity. This gave me the cue.
COncin was influencing him in one
way, Inez in another.
1--WE all went back to Madrid to-
gether in the autumn. and one day
Manuel stated that he vas an active
member Of an anarchical society
whose object was the elevation of the
lower orders of humanity. He expect
ed that III time poverty would be
eliminated. His idea in cOHtiding in
nue. was to induce me to join his so
ciety. | told him that | preferred to
live in an imperfect world rather
than die to establish Il perfect one.
knew that lnez had triumphed and
Concia had been defeated.
81 kept away from him after that,
for | feared he would become involved
in some Of those radical measures
which thus far had been condemned
by all but a small portion OF the
worlds people. and | preferred to keep
myself SO free from him that | would
not suffer in case he got into trouble.
1t was lucky for me that ! did. for
one morning. looking ont through Il
window. ! could SEQ excited crowds
moving in the street and. leaning out.
asked one passing what had happened.
He told me that a prominent govern
ment official had been killed by an an
archist. When a special issue of the
newspapers came ont what was my
horror to see the name Of my friend
Manuel given as the assassin.
Emanuel was tried and executed. 1t
was not long after his execution that
lnez began TO spend money in a way
that she had never spent it before.
She was also seen frequently ut court.
and q general in the army became ut,
tentive to her. Nevertheless she was
not popular with persons Of high de,
gree with whom she was asSociatin"
/ formed my own theory with regard
to her, which was this: She had be
trayed Manuel for money n in
f1uence.
Il wondered how Concia had taken
her lovers death, but ! was not one
of her personal friends and did not
feel justified in calling upon her at the
time of her bereavement. heard.
! ekSWever. that 40 one, knew how she
was affected by the tragedy.
'Another shock besides the assasslna
ton and Manuei's death awaited me.
Taking up a newspaper II morning
while at breakfast. ! saw under large
headlines a statement that Inez had
been stabbed in her carriage while
returning to her home from the opera
She had been escorted to the carriage
by an official high in favor at court
who had closed the door. On arriving