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THE DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN, JULY 28, 1497

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CHAPTER VI.

Foremost in the procession that en- ter the tent carne the Pike county | man and his household. He carried W him his rifie and also the splint- bot ned rocking chair, that I had Seen accompanying his travels, strap- | » the back of his waggon. Be- ind him came his wife, and after her

; ‘ession of children, eight in num- ber hose tow-tinted heads, all of a colour, ranged like the descending not of the musical scale, from the eldest, a comely girl of 16, downward to 1@ toddler of two years, that broucht up the rear of the line. Be- hir them the rest of us fell in, giv- ne precedence to Don Ramon and his pa . and so we all got into the tent.

\ thin we found that on the side op-

pos the entrance a stage or amphi- | the > had been laid off by means of

a re supported by wooden stakes. It

Was square in shape, and at the rear | the blanket hung up as a dressing- | roc for Lupita now served as a com-

mon retiring-room for the troop be-

tween acts. In this amphitheatre was

a ] forming bar, the sole piece of

Stace furniture in the outfit. About

the space without the rope the aud-

ience dispersed itself. There were no

Beats provided by the management for

Speciators, so, while the Pike county

Jady rocked herself serenely in the

splint-bottomed chair that her husband

had brought along, the rest of the aud-

ience sat or reclined in attitudes they

found most comfortable on the dry,

hard turf of the prairie.

It was pleasure-seeking extraordin-

ary and picturesque. Every man pre- Sent carried his weapons in full view, and almost everyone added to his en- joyment of the performance by smok- ing a pipe or cigarette. The faces were the faces of men accustomed to

danger and hardship, and the most of them bore the hard expression that is so often found on the frontier, and be- tokens recklessness of life and readi- ness to meet every emergency with quick and determined resolve. In the midst of the wild scene Carmen, seat- ed on a gaudy Mexican blanket spread On the ground, was as royal and re- splendent in her beauty as a youthful and innocent Cleopatra on an Egyptian divan. To complete the strange ele- ments of this impromptu gathering, Billy the Kid and his two companions Sauntered in and threw themselves on the ground a little apart from the other spectators. Felix approached them and politely asked if they would like to contribute some money to the welfare of the admirable Senor Trin- bajo’s troop, whereupon Billy smiled rather peculiarly, réached into his pocket and carelessly handed him two Mexican dollars, thanks, placed with the funds already contributed for the maestro’s benefit.

It is scarcely worth while to give the details of the performance, except so far as they were associated with other scenes yet to come. There were sim- ple tricks of juggling performed by the worthy maestro with an air of great impressiveness and mystery, some feat of strength, and a variety of exervises with a sword, illustrating the manner in which he professed to have over- come furious wild bulls in the arena in his experience as a matadore. Af- tes ‘''s came an acrobatic perform- anee, ia Which he acted in conjunction

which Felix, with |

With the young Mexican kKrown as Rose somo, who varied his clownins by f. ts of ground and lofty tumbling. The incomparablé Lupita next took her i> cings, first rendering a Spanish melee. to her own accompaniment with the guitar, in which the singer and her song were pretty and piquant enouch to satisfy the most exacting. Sad to say, she responded to an en- core With an American popular song of tl variety hall sort, the only re- deemiug feature of which was her crisp, pretty Spanish enunciation of the Eng- lish ‘vords. This was followed by a Spanish dance with castanets, into Which she threw so much grace and tire and enthusiasm that it was with difficulty that the audience, after re- peatcd encores, punctuated by silver coin thrown at her feet, permitted her to retire, panting and laughing with £ d vanity, to prepare for her I Ct,

d his point I was summoned out- . the tent to take my turn at guard duty and give the other man a chance é tl show. I was not sorry to get < to the clear night air, under the bright stars. The whole scene was oi |] ce and beauty, and it earried no | t of the dangers that lurked within and without our little encamp- ment

4 first duty, I made the rounds of a nsiderable space about the sta- | tion, and noted that the Missourian’s | an the prospectors’ outfits appeared | quiet and undisturbed. All being well t! * I turned toward ths station. Seen from a distance, it was indeed a strange, weird scene in the wide, lonely spaces of the plain—the low. adol station, with its right angled outli: and look of massiveness, the Waggons here and there, and the showman’s tent, locking very larg by contrast with its surroundings, se illuminated warmly by the lights with- in. From it came the sounds of ap- plaus the strummirg of the primi- tive orchestra, and the calls of the performers, whose shadows faithfully repeated their movements as they swaggered and tumbled on the ground or swung from the horizontal bar.

As I approached the station and cor-

ral from the rear, I noted that in the shadow of the angle between the house and corral walls the horses of our three inauspicious visitors, who had come at sundown, were standing saddied and bridled, as if in readiness

for a start at a moment’s notice. The

steel grey horse of the leader, a beauti- ful, spirited animal, L paused to admire

as ne stood, WItn nena Erect. alta stnm@mi ears moving, as if listening for his master’s tread.

At the house door I paused to pass a few remarks with the herder who was my fellow-sentinel. I remarked to him :

‘No word from the eastward or wesiward, I suppose

“ Nothing whatever,” he replied. “1 reckon the buckbourd won't get along to-night. It’s overdue an hour now, and I have put it up all alone either to arrive on time or not get in at al] to-night. I'd give something to know what's happened to-day between here and Silver City. We may get news of another killing on the stage treil with the coming of morning.”

We stood and chatted a few minutes longer until our relief came. and we were free to return to the show, which /| was still going on at a lively rate. We

could not know what eyes besides ours were watching the tent from the waste spaces about, or what schemes were on foot whose realization would mean good or ill to the various members of eur little community clustered for a night about this halting place in the desert.

We talked a minute or two with the prospector, and the second herder, who came out to take our places as sen- tinels, and then strolled over to the tent to see the rest of the perform- ance. AS we came to the entrance I saw aman _ standing motionless, partly corcealed by a bunch of cactus close at hand. He was dressed in civilized clothes and wore a sombrero. So much I could As he clearly Was not an Indian, I did not deem it necessary to accost him, out remark followed the herder into the tent.

There the performers were all con- genially engaged in acting a melodra- matic play. It evidently was their star production of the evening, and a favourite with every one who part in it. It gave the maestro a chance to air to the full the theatrical expression which was a strong fea- ture of his character, and of which he was extremely proud. Rosconomo found in the play a chance for un- limited clowning and tumbling, while Lupita, intensely dramatic by nature, thoroughly enjoyed the sentimental and tragic part assigned to her, in which she called down the plaudite of the house.

Resting on my elbow, I lay on the ground, watching with much enjoy- ment, I confess, the storming, ranting, languishments, and broad comedy of the play. rendered with the tremend-

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ous fervour and impassionment that belong to the Southern race of which the actors came. Elsewhere, amid more civilized surroundings, it might all have appealed to me as absurd to the point of comedy, but in our savage environment, amid the grim realities of savage perils, I, as all the others seemed to do, took it seriously, as be- ing not at all too highly strung for the occasion.

From where I lay I could see the entrance of the tent at which, the house having already paid its admis-

She rushed like a whirlwind toward the form in the entrance.

sa ih ‘ sion by contract, no doorkeeper was stationed. Chancing to glance that way, I became aware that some one, concealed in the flap of the canvas, was peering through the aperture, as

if desirous of inspecting all that went

on inside the tent without being him- self discovered. My first thought was that one of the sentineis was neglect- ng his duty in his desire to get @ peep at the show. Without appear- ! o tal notice of him, I kept my eye on th lace, and secon perceived that the person was no one that I ever had seen before. The face was that ef a Mexican, a young man seeming-

ly, with a scowling brow and gleaming

black eyes. Beyond that I could dis- cern little. His gaze, while alert to everything about the interior of the tent, was resting not on the show or the audience in general, but on Car- men, who, absorbed in the perform- ance, was plainly unconscious of his

presence.

She certainly was worth looking at as She sat on the red carpet, with its strange figured design, an incarnation of voluptuous southern beauty amid the grim surroundings of men and wea-

| pons. She was vastly enjoying the

show, laughing, with dazzling gleams of her white teeth, at the fun, and eyes scintillating sympathy and interest at the tragic parts of the'drama. It was nothing to her, the fumes of pipes and cigarettes that curled about her. A Mexican girl expects all that sort of thing and doesn’t mind it in the least. Perhaps she was half conscious of her own loveliness, and felt the power of her attractiaugx seeing them ratiacted

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her. The macstro and Rusconemo were playing their parts openly to her, and Lupita, after her bursts of tra- gedyv, laughed and tossed her head de- flantly toward her compatriot of su-

perior social station, as a challenge to

her charms, hich action was perhaps a sincerer compliment than the con- @uct of her fellow performers.

In the melodrama the peint was now reached where Lupita’s lin required that she sheuld snatch a dagger from her girdle and rush uron the maestro, who was impersonating the villain. Just as this scene wes coming | saw her suddenly step and eclasn her hand to her heart, whiie pallor overspread her face, which instantly assumed an expression of horrer and aversion, Her eves, fixed in a lovuk of intense sur- prise, were gazing past me, and, glanc- inc slightly around, I saw that the furtive visitor at the tent entrance, in his desir to see Carmen + fully. had thrust 1 head inte “full view Within the tent flap. It was on him that Lupita’s “yes were fastened.

The voice of the maestro declaiming his lines ased. Elis waiting attitude recalled her to her tart, and she fal- tered her denunciation of him like one recalling words lone forgotten. Ne- chant ally she plucked the dagger from ‘ sirdle nee she felt 1 in her

and, her fingers tisghtened suddenly about the handle, and again her eycs turned to the face at the entrance, and this time they met his. Pain, resent- ment, ungovernable rage successively imprinted thcir expression with light- ning-like rapidity in her countenance

ndvancing on the maestro, who, with arnis folded in a heroic titude and one foot advanced, stocd confronting her, she, with an inarticu- late cry ticrce as the growl of a wounded tigress, rushed like a whirl- wind toward the form in the entrance. She saw nothing, regarded nothing that stood in the way. The rope that fenced the amphitheatre waist high yielded before her, and two of the stakes that supported it flew into the air like jackstraws. The other stakes remained fast, and Lupita caught and held in the loop of the rope, shriek- ing and striking madly forward with the dagger, struggled against the ob stacle, then tripped and fell across it.

Every man in the audience had sprung to his feet in consternation, not knowing for whom the attack was in- tended, or, except myself, suspecting the meaning of this terrible outburst of wrath. As Lupita fell the two nearest men, Felix and another, sprang to raise her. As they lifted her to her feet Felix, with one hand, firmly but not ungently wrested from her the dagger. Then, with the aid of the maestro, they half led, half carried, the stormy senorita back to the rear of the tent, where, flinging herself upon the ground, she lay pale, trembling and exhausted, but unsubdued. Her breast heaved with emotion. and occasionally fhe gave a sob, but in her eyes, hard and glittering, there was no vestige of a tear. Leaving her in the care of the maestro and his wife, who had appeared on the scene, the two men came back to the front of the tent, where eager enquiries greeted them as to the cause of the senorita’s violent behaviour.

“ What

Instead of

as

set her on the rampage ?” * Who was she after?” “I’m mighty glad it wasn't me,’ were questions and remarks to which Felix and the other man could return no satisfactory re plies. Lupita had said nothing that could enlighten them as to the object against which her outburst had been

directed, Appareptly I was the only Spectator whe | had s seen the Mexican’s face at the entrance, and I did not care to ecnfide to anyone but Felix such knewledge or surmises as I mizht have,

Lupita’s impromptu tragedy scene broke up the show, and it was to a vanishing audience, already nearly

disappeared, that the maestro announe- ed that, in consequence of the sudden indisposition of the senorita, the per- formance must be regarded as closed. The men camped about the = station went out to look after their individual

outfits and to prepare for the night. Carmen and her maid, who througa- Out the whole outbreak had looked on with a composure and _ interest, un- mingled with fear, that would have astonished most people of northern, blood. soon retired to their apartment in the station. Then I got a chance to speak to Felix about the things that I had noticed in connection with the scene Lupita had made. He listened attentively and seriously what I had to say.

‘Se the man ycu saw at the en- trance was no one of the crowd that Was here when the show began ?” he

to

said, when I had told him all I knew Or surmised in the matter. ** Does anybody at the station know of the

coming of such a man and who he is’”” “I asked the herders and the station-

keeper if there Fad been any arrivals j

Since the performance began, and both said they Fadn’t known of any,” was my answer.

Felix meditated for a few moments,

While his brows bent down in a way that I had learned to interpret’ as meaning that a situation had arisen that demanéed serious attention.

“There’s something about this that needs looking after,’ he said, at last. “V¥Ye must find cut about that Mexi- can. He may be merely a follower of the show, or he may have been re- cor noitring our encampment for some Purpose cf deviltry. Whatever his de- Signs are in prowling about here, one tcing is certain- 1 Lupita do esn’t Stand in with him She was dead in earnest when she went for him with the dagger, and if the rope hadn't held her she’d have come mighty near get- ting him.

“I’ve got to go ick to the tent to five the hoss es) VImMAY his me ney Set he ecntinued Perhaps I can fird cut something furt! i th matter While I’m there. He may tell me Something, and I shouldn't wondcr if, by paying a litile attention to Lupita, I might find a clue as to who the fel- lew is. Whatever information I gain of him from the girl I must get with- out her knowing what I’m after. T

suspect he’s been a false lover, and as she’s Mexican all through she would rather settle scores with him herself than give him away to me, even if I would take up her quarrel. She’s a dangerous creature to handle, but I’ll chance it. Don't keep awake for me if I should be late. I'll find you.” He entered the tent, leaving me fo await his reappearance. I went to the corral to see after our horses, and found that they were all right. The three cutlaws were leading their horses back toward the nlece where they had eaten

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their supper, fear the trafl, vid I saw them taking the saddles off the ani- reais as if they hnd decided to pass the night there. The Missourian and

is family were elreacy at the waggon

listesing themselves for the nignt. “armen and Delores had disappeared in the inrer reem of the station. Don "amon gat {th the station men on ‘he bench before the hovsee, and the «wo 'respectors, after they had gone down fe their camping nface to Icok after thines there, ceme back ta semoke their pipes with the. party about the decor, Here we all remained, talking for a half-hour, still heaping that the huekbeard weuld arrive for, if it came, { news it might bring would larve- Iv determine with all of the travellers 1t the station the question of their derarture in the morning.

Pon Rermror was as yet lacking the harness for mules. The thousht

ececnurred to me to stroll down to the ‘lisscurian’s camp ard enquire whether that perscnage might ret have a’ har- ness to gel, The mother and chil- ur kad atreacy retired to seclusion f the carves-torred waggon, but the bead of the housebeld was sitting. pipe in mouth, on the wageon tongue, keen- ing awake so as to let his mules feed ‘hile longer befcre he tied them up for the night. I broached the object cf my visit and was fortunate as to find that he had picked up a pair of new harnesses at a bargain from a breken-down team in the Alamosa val- ley, which he would sell at a price en- tirely reasonable. Much gratified by the discovery, I came hack to Don Ramon with the renort that I had se- cured him the refusal of a pair of har- nesses, so that, unless unforeseen ob- stacles intervened, we might make Our start on the morrow.

(To be Continued.)

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