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DAILY ENQUIRER - SUN, COLUMBl’S, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 20. IS8fi.
THE MASKED BALL
In oue of the broadest streets of the City
,,f Mexico stood, many years ago, a line
large old bouse. Over the portal was the
coat of arms of the noble family of Voro-
Through the delicate iron scroll work
of the gates might he seen a large patio
or courtyard, with a fountain playing in
the middle, and beautiful flowers growing
all around. For many years but few visi
tors were allowed to enter, for the master
of the house was old and feeble, and saw
hardly any one but the priest and the doc
tor.
There was one bright thing in that drea
ry house, and that was the old count’s
granddaughter. She was sixteen years
old and as pretty and sweet a little fairy
as ever was seen in the City of Mexico.
She was the life of the house, and there
was not a creature in it, from the solemn
old major domo to the groom in the stable
but would would \t illingly have died for
the little countess Teresita de Verano. She
was small, slight, and agile, with tiny feet
and hands. Her head was beautifully set
upon her shoulders, and her great black
eyes made a curious contrast to the masses
of rich brown hair coiled round and round
the small head. Her mother had been a
beauty and had died when she was born.
Her father lived with the old count in the
dreary old palace. But nothing could sad
den Teresita’s spirits. Her laugh was like
a peal of bells, and she had sweet, coaxing
ways. Her father was a man of refine
ment, and adored by his little daughter,
all file more that she resembled in many
ways the mother whom he had loved so
dearly.
At last the old Count Verano died, and
his son lived quietly with his daughter in
the dreary old palace. The term of mourn
ing having expired, the whole city was
excited by the news that the Count de Ve
rano was going to give a masked ball, to
introduce Teresita into society.
Many years had passed since his old
friends had crossed the threshold, and
great was the curiosity of those who were
so fortunate os to be invited. The house
was said to be haunted, and all were anx
ious to see what tlie old palace looked like
inside. The evening camel and the old
palace was brilliant with a thousand
lights. The rooms were hung with choice
old tapestries and the silver and gold
chandeliers sparkled with lights and re-
flected a thousand different colors. The
walls were hung with old armor and the
broad marble staircases were thronged
with people dressed in dominoes and
masks, 'ine guests were therefore more
or less startled, therefore, at meeting a
man dressed entirely in armor, with visor
down, who wore neither domino or mask.
He seemed to know no one and was al
ways uione. The clanking of his armor
and sword could be heard a long way off;
and as he came near people stepped aside,
so chilly did the air become as lie strode
pest.
It hait been arranged between the count
i\:id his daughter that they themselves
should not wear dominoes and ni i-fi.s.
Teresita' looked very lovely in her white
g.oizy draperies, and had no lack of part
ners for the dances. Her simplicity and
gaiety charmed all hearts, and her lather’s
heart swelled when lie heard his darling
praised.
The only thing that marred the general
enjoyment was tne entrance from time to
time of the man in armor. He walked
st .light through the rooms, and I be con
versation and merriment - died away as he
passed. lVogle wondered in whispers
who the strange knight might he. Some
suggested that the house was haunted, and
that perhaps this was the ghost. In short,
ali sorts of suggestions were made. Teresi
ta was at first"too full of pleasure to be dis
turbed by the knight, but she could not
help noticing the disturbed looks of the
people as the knight passed through the
rooms, and the dead silence which fell up
on them all.
“Mi padre,” she said “who istlie strange
eabellero dressed in armor, who walks
about alone?”
“What eabellero?” asked Don Jayme,
turning pale. “I have seen no one in ar
mor.”
•Where are your eyes, papa?” cried Ter
esita. “We have all seen him, and you
could hear his sword and armor clatter a
mile away. Why here he comes now!
Don’t you see him? Cun’t you hear him?”
Don Jayme turned white to the lips. He
saw and heard nothing himself, but lie
knew that the appearance of the ghost of
the house portended disaster.
At last came the time to unmask. It was
like a transformation scene; every one
bloomed out in gay costume, and lent ad
ditional brilliance’to the already beautiful
rooms. The servants handed round wine
and cuke, chocolate and ices, and the air
was filled with the hum of voices. But
after the first one guest and then another
set down his glass with a look of disgust.
The wine looked like a rich, heavy Bur
gundy, hut it tasted like blood. At that
moment the knight in tiie armor entered
the room. The voices were hashed, and
all gazed at the figure which strode hur
riedly across the floor. But Teresita quiet
ly left her seat and approaching the figure
said:
“Sir knight, will you not join us at sup
per?”
There was no answer and the guests
shuddered and covered their eyes. When
they looked again the knight had gone,and
Teresita lay on the floor in a dead faint.
She soon recovered her senses, however,
made light of the matter, and was among
the gayest of the company for the rest of
the evening.
“So much for trying to be polite to
strangers,” she said laughing. Perhaps
he is mad, poor tiling!”
Don Jayme could neither see nor hear
the knight in armor, but he had heard
enough of the ghost in his boyhood to re
member that those whose attention the
ghost wished to attract were the very
Persons who were both blind and deaf to
him. As soon as he could leave his guests
unnoticed he made his way to the room of
Juan, the old major-domo of tlie house.
He had been in the family since Don
Jayme was a baby, and to him the ghost
was an old acquaintance.
For the first time in his life poor Juan
appeared frightened. His lips were white
and trembling, and his eyes were starting
out of their sockets. When his master en
tered the room lie held up both hands,
and said in a freightoned whisper:
“Why, what is the ghost walking for ?
i on have doubtless seen him.”
“N’o, Juan, I can neither seeorhear him;
out the senorita has done so, and all the
guests.”
Old Juan fell back in his chair with a
groan.
“You must have heard him, senorcount.
He is coming along the passage now.
Can't you hear his armor clashing and his
sv ortl clanking over the stones? He is in
the doorway. Can’t you see him?” Juan
Sa " that he was making a great effort and
groaned again. .
“No,” said Don Jayme, after a few min
utes’pause; “I can hear and see nothing!”
. “Oh, Dios!” cried poor Juan. “Come
into the hall and see if all the armor is
there."*’
They went together. Almost ,t the end
°‘ the hull one complete suit of ii-mor
"'..i missing. Tlu-v looked at «;.eh otner.
Donjjames face was as white as Juan’s
and he whispered:
“What docs it mean?”
“It means misfortune,” replied Juan.
“There he is coming toward us again.
Surely you toe him now, senor,”
“No,” replied Don Jayme; “1 gee noth
ing.”
‘'Heia makirtg noise enough to Wake
the dead,” muttered Juan to himself.”
Meanwhile the guests were beginning to
(eel uncomfortable. The small hours nad
begun, and who could tell how many more
ghosts might be seen that night? They
moved about uneasily, and made enqui
ries for the host. Teresita did her best to
amuse them, and begged them to stay for
a few more dunces. Her efforts were
unavailing, however, and sent a servant to
find her father.
Don Jayme, the moment that he hud
seen the last of his guests, returned to
Juan, with whom he remained in consulta
tion.
Teresita sat alone in the drawing room,
where Jshe had thut evening had so much
enjoyment.She wondered where her father
was, and why he had turned so pale and i
had not answered when she pointed out to
him the knight coming into the room. She
was not at all tired, and could joyfully
have kept on dancing two hours longer.
She saw herself reflected in a long pier-
glass and roBe and stood admiring herself
for some time. Site looked almost as fresh
as when the evening begun. At Inst she
began humming a gay air while her (eit ’
kept time to the music. She danced to her j
own reflection in the glass till she was
tired and then sank down on a sofa. She
wondered why no one hud come to put out
the lights and shut up the house. She
listened, but could hear no sound of any
one Stirl ing except the tramp and clutter
of the knight in armor as he made his
rounds.
The servants were too frightened to
move from the kitchen, and Don Jayme
and Juan were talking together in the ma
jor doom's mom. Juan confessed to feel
ing alarm. He said he had been told by
his late master that the ghost had walked
when Don Jayme’s grandfather was away
lighting in the wars. The ghost appeared
for two days and three nights in that same
suit of mail. At the end of three days the
! niw» c::ne that Don Anar ‘s had heeiislain
; in battle, and the ghost had disappeared as
| suddenly as he had come,
i Just then Teresita, who had been hunt
i ing all over the house for her father, open-
| ed the door, and seeing him, she imme-
I diately began talking of the ball and the
i guests and finally about the man in armor,
j “I think he must be tired bv this time,” 1
: she said, “for he has been walking for four i
j whole hours. But I do not hear him now,
and although 1 have been all over the
; house to find you, I have neither seen nor
heard him.”
I All this excitement has tired Don Jayme
very much.
“Let us have a glass of wine,” he said,
j “and refresh ourselves before we go to
1 bed;” and he led the way to the dining
j room. Juan poured his mater a glass of
I wine and then retired.
Teresita joined her father in the dining
room almost immediately after Juan had
I left him. He was sitting in his usual chair
at the head of the table, holding Ins half
j empty glass in his hand, whit !i was resting
on the table. Behind his eliair, erect and
immovable, stood the knight in armor.
“Why, papa, there is our friend, the
knight,” she said, “standing directly be
hind you. If you turn your head you can
not help seeing him.”
Bui her father taking no notice of Iter
remark, she touched him, and a shriek re-
{ sounded through the house which brought
the servants hurrying to the room. Don |
Jayme was dead.
1 For weeks Teresita’s life hung by a
' thread. When she recovered her gay
spirits were gone, and her hair was pur-
IVi tly white. It is said that one of the
sweetest of the mins, in the days when the
church of Sta Maria la Blanca had a con-
] vent attached to it. was Teresita do Vera-
1 no. The old house is empty, and is sup
posed to be haunted still by the knight in
' armor.
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