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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1897)
THE COURIER. 9 On the Old Wall. Miss Parker ran her hand over her hair and looked out of the window over the sea rolling and glistening beneath the moon until it was hidden in the shadow of the old city wall. She was satisfied with herself, and so naturally with everything else. Ofi in the old part of the city, some one was playing a guitar and singing a low Spanish 6ong. It seemed to her as if St. Augustine was for a moment transformed into the old city of a hun dred years ago. The music and perfume of the Mowers and the water, all set her dreaming of the time when the helmeted guard paced the wall singing perhaps that very song. Her maid touched her upon the arm and whispered that it was time to go. Already the uncertain notes of the musicians tuning their iustrunients came through the hills to her. The dining rconi of the Ponce de Lion had been transformed into a ball room for it was the evening of St. Valentine's day and the best and largest dance of the winter season. Just before entering the room Howard Stafford met Miss Parker and her mother and they went in together. The engagrment of the young man and the girl had been announced some months before. Her mother liked him very much, and his family was excellent, and Miss Parker herself liked him even more than any other man she had known, but beyond that there was nothing for or against the arrangement made by the mothers, and she would settle no definite data for the wedding day. She was satisfied, she said.at least.with the pres ent. The future was to be considered hen it became present. This night every thing was so pleasant, and Howard was so considerati and thoughtful thatshc took more pleasureia his company than she ever had before. And when be was dancing with otbeis she watched him, for he was a splendid dancer, and the girls who knew him were always pleased to waltz with him. When at last her mother told her they must go it was with regret she went awaj. It was still early but her mother was very strict in stopping before it grew late; and when she reached her room she threw open the wide French window and drew a little chair to it and sat and watched and thought. Suddenly, the train of her thoughts was broken by men ta king below her. She could sea two forms standing on the broad walk and their words came up to ber clear and distinct. "Sir, you. will havo to go. after what has been said!" reached her e?rs in angry tones, and she recognized the voice of Harry Stafford. '"I am only too willing" was the reply equally as passionate, but she did n;t recognize the speaker. "Where and when?'' said Stafford haughtily, "At onco and on tho old wall down there. It is as light as day." ..Henry," went on the speaker, apparently to another person, "bring down my case and then leave ub." The two speakers walked slowly down towards tho sea lino not a hundred yards away, and a third man whom sho hail not seen before, made his way to the rjotel entrance. A I this- filled the mind of the girl w'tb wonder and sho watched tho two men walking slowly through tho moon 'Sht. sido by side. Inderd, all she could do was to watch and wonder. She saw tho third man hurrying after them with something under his arms, and ho reached tho wall at almost the Ban - time as the other two. The three E- d to be talking and arguing over son,, thing for sho could see them mov.ng their arms and hands, and point inS this way and that. Then the third an left thein and returned slowly to the hotel. The others seemed to be watching him for when he had dis appeared, the two separated and stcod a little distance apart. She saw them raise their arms and saw something glistening in the moonlight, and then there came two sharp reports almost as one. One of the men threw up his arms and staggered and fell on his face; the other remained motionless with his arm still out stretched. The terrible thing which had happened came to her mind all in an instant. She clutched the curtains of the window and fell on her knees still watching the figure standing motionless, and the moonlight glistening on the weapon out stretched in his hand. Then slowly the arm fell, and the man Eeemed to give way. He sank little by little upon the stone wall and lay as tho other. The girl's head fell upon the window sill and she th light many new thoughts and knew many things tint she had never known before. Off in the old town came floating again the sweet low notes of the guitar and the singing of the soft old Spanish song; and with it the lapping of tho sea waves around the old stone wall. GEO. C. SHEDD. Van Daub What does the public know or care about art? If the Venus de Milo appeared on Broadway she'd be promptly arrested! 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