Show lorna the speaker was waa a man of about 0 ears of age ills ilia face was pale and an whale his hia hair was snowy write in a new york hotel one cold night in may alay he be lay py dying there were three of va us in the room the doctor the nurse and 1 I when henle ie told his hia story and thus it ran just one year ago this month I 1 was wa 8 down by the rio grande river and it was there that we met she was wag a spanish dancing girl of about nineteen I 1 was the son of a millionaire dark hair nair and brown c ces es was called I 1 handsome and a good eatch for u one n e who was I 1 lucky she was handsome wit with if black hair and dark laughing e byca r well as I 1 said we met in texas kind I 1 went to it a dance the night afeei I 1 got 3 settled in my hotel she was there the queen ot ct tile the dance liall hall and the queen luef n of mens hearts I 1 had danced with a number of the other girls and it was A as now the fifth time I 1 was to dance with lorna we were standing by the door laughing and talking arid and she had bad just taken my arm when ahen up came a snapping big S spaniard who spoke to her in Sp spanish anih and her pretty red lips curled scornful lelnd y and she turned her heir back on him never once speaking this seemed to fill the man with ur governable fury and he hissed a few words and then leaching for his to 0 o sprang toward mo me me who bo had never dono done hirn him uny harm lorna see ing his intent intentions iong sprang between asp us and received a wound in the side the blow for me A aa she fell she cried out and it a dozea or more mn men and N women omen got there in time to see senor armendez run out of the door with his bloody digges held tight in his hand two men sprang after him at once arid and catching him they simply tore hm him limb from limb the sight of more blood seemed to make the men A orse and a number of them started fighting at once after tile the light there eight men lying dead and as many more wounded wound d meanwhile I 1 had cai ried ned lorna to another room and some other spanish ladies were nere attending 9 her for the Alex mexican ican women would not touch her at all in about an hour lorna came back to life moaned and slowly opened her eyes and looked vacantly around her at last art her eieg fell upon me and another low moan mean escaped her lips and she turned whiter than before then she closed her eyes and went into a sort t of trance for three das dabs m 0 corked over her for she had bad not come to nor spoken a word in all that time she had bad sank very low and vry near the pearly gates as I 1 had acison to believe e and I 1 had made up my mind that if she died I 1 would lead a better life and ana meet her in heaven where I 1 expected her to be waiting for me with inith out stretched arins anna near morning she awoke out of her trance and looking around asked what had happened and iceie she v mas as she was waa told all about it and closed her eyes and slept three months after this lorna was able to sit bit lp and one lovely evenna lit in tl ti e latter part of Au auguest guist I 1 found her on tile the piazza reclining in an easy chair and catching sight of me her face lit up with a great light the light of ion love e and it was I 1 asked her to be my bride she with her daik head pillowed billowed pill owed ul up on oil my breast looked up shyly and whispered ye in the latter pait of november we were married lit in aus tin the capital of texas in march my wife began to droop and in apal I 1 started with my irly dusky baide for europe we sailed on board the steamer columbia and on oil the second day lorla lora took down clown zeal teal sick and the next day fella wad borc amo worse norse ohl oh god how bow my heal heair t ached and when hen the next day she closed her e ees es foi ever lying in my arms which enfold ed hei form so gently my heart was broken reaching spain I 1 took her to her old home in palos pales there wo we laid her to rest in the oli old churchyard church yard where she had played ai as a bd the ne fc steamer that left spam spain bound for aliz th 3 united states carried me ine with it when I 1 reached santa ro the place I 1 had left but a short time ago gay and happy my hair was white and iwasan I 1 was an old bent man with bowed lead at the age of thirty te Iha I 1 have not been here a month tt et and now I 1 am dying while my darling is sleeping in spain I 1 am u waiting for my Ilea heavenly enly fattier father to for me and take me LQ lg my home with lorril and him this is my last request will ill you take me to spain and la me beside 10 lorna rna these thes e w were c re his hia last words as his eyes closed in death for the angel of death had come and claimed him for his 0 jovn n the old man waa A as carried to slain sain and laid beside lorm both their graves are kept green by lorna s lov ing brothers and eister s aubry RY WILLIAMS delta colorado 10 |