Ainslee's Magazine, February 1913 — page 132: what you’re looking at

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7 N Ahly pom ANNG ACC AL WiZatay HE devil had come on several short visits to Terassa, but never openly or in his own likeness, and no one would have supposed that he would venture into so good a town showing his own face or even a faithful picture of it. But news is sometimes surpris- ing. Once he had come in a very pleas- ant-looking gentleman from America, who gave five cents apiece to all the padre’s thirty little boys for luck money, while in the same hour with this benev- olence he was secretly inspiring the pro- prietor of the fonda to learn, and sell, American drinks. This was the more astonishing, because Satan had done the same thing to the former proprietor, years before, with the result that a man had met his death at the hands of Mi- guel, whose devout parents had named him after the statue in the poppy fields, and who was altogether too fine a youth to have recorded Terassa’s only murder. Through reminiscences of this, the padre successfully awed and reformed the new proprietor, but not in time to avoid a fresh calamity, and that to a lady marked for her years and her timidity. This was Amarillis, a widow so abnormally meek that she almost never spoke. She said so little even at confession that the padre would have been disturbed save for his great faith in her honesty. She did not speak when her husband died—it was found out later without her having mentioned it; and she had scarcely spoken while he was alive, although he was kind and en- couraging. Old Rosa, who had a great many mean thoughts about people, said she did not believe they had ever been married, for Amarillis could never have brought herself to make the responses; and all Amarillis replied to this wicked suggestion was, ‘I did, Rose,’ even avoiding the ‘“‘a” at the end of Rosa's pretty name. She was so exceedingly small that she had to be very cautious in drinking her wine; but diminutive stature is quite usually a sign of latent inquisitiveness, and, having seen. the American gentleman enjoying | his strange drink at the fonda, and having saved a little money, she bought one, and she talked all the way home, and to nearly all the people she met, whether she was acquainted with them or not, saying things, moreover, that no one would have supposed she knew. She afterward denied it to the padre, not with many words, it is true, but weep- ing very sorrowfully at her lost reputa- tion, and shaking her head repeatedly, with a most convincing expression, so that the padre concluded she must have taken something extremely dangerous, and was thus led to investigate the fonda, and to stop the devil’s work in it for the second time. Again, the devil must have come to the first Wine Festival, and in several forms, for love spells were sold by an old magician who set up in town, and the padre had to buy him off with money earned by the little boys in the poppy fields; and before that manifesta- tion, the padre discovered ancient Inés, Terassa’s best lace maker, finishing a 0)(0)(6) =) (C@ (C@