The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, June 25, 1914, Page SIX, Image 6
An Episode
Of Mexico
Ey ESTHER VANDERVEER
A girl sat sewing in her room in the
City of Mexico. Hearing a footstep on
the stairs, she started. A woman entered
out of breath.
"Inez!" she gasped.
"Oh. Pepita! What is it?"
"If you have anything to compromise
you with the Constitutionalists get rid
of it at once. This man Manuel Coral,
whom you have trusted, is a spy of the
dictator. He has informed upon you."
"Then what use to get rid of evidence?
The dictator does not need evidence
to get rid of his victims."
"Coral's brother. Enrique, came to
me and said to me: *1 have just learned
that Manuel is In the secret service
of the dictator and has informed the
tyrant that by searching Inez's room
be will find papers revealing the plan
of the revolutionists.' Enrique assurer!
me that If no such papers are found
you will not be troubled. If they are
found it will go hard with you. even
though you are a woman."
Inez burst Into tears. The man she j
loved had turned traitor to her. But
her friend urged her to waste uo time .
In getting rid of any compromising |
documents she might possess. She did
possess several Important ones, for her |
brother was one of the revolutionary
chiefs, aLd he was using her to lay
plans for a rising against the dictator j
In the Ci :y of Mexico. But Inez had (
received too terrible a blow in the
treachery of her lover to keep her mind
on what she was doing. After she had
destroyed every document, as she supposed,
she remembered one she bad
not destroyed that gave a list of per
eons in the city who could be relied
tn Aocart tho rtlotstor and loin the I
revolutionIsts as soon as fighting commenced.
But this did not occur to
her till the sound of heavy footsteps
was beard on the staircase. She had
only time to unlock a drawer, take out
the paper and slip it under her dress
at the neck when the door was thrown
open and Manuel Coral with a man
and a woman entered.
"I am sorry to disturb you, senorita."
be said to Inez, "but the government
bas receh ed news that you are in possession
of plans of the revolutionists,
and I have been sent here to get them."
"You mean," said Inez, whose indignation
by this time had got the better
of ber grief, "that yon have accused
me."
"What matters It7" Peplta broke in,
"since you are innocent of the charge?
Let them search the room."
"I shall also be obliged to bare you
searched," said CoraL "I have brought
a woman for tbe purpose."
rv?r*i *r?rt thA man he had brought
with him began to search the room.
Peplta asked permission to leave, and
It was granted. Before doing so she
embraced Inez and, slipping her
thnmb and forefinger In under the neck
of her dress, drew the paper hidden
there Into the palm of her hand. Then
she disengaged herself, but before doing
so transferred the paper Into her
sleeve. Then, with a few words of encouragement
for her friend, she took
ber departure.
As soon as Peplta had gone Coral
ordered the woman to take Inez into
another room and make a thorough
search of her person, promising the
former a handsome reward if she
found what they were looking for.
Inez left with a mingled glance of defiance
and contempt for the man she
bad loved. She felt perfectly safe,
Peplta having taken away the compromising
document Coral showed
no feeling whatever at her treatment
In due time the two women returned,
the searcher announcing that though
she had made a careful Investigation
of the senorlta's clothing and her hair,
not a scrap of Information bad been
found. Then Coral, making a ceremonious
how to Inez, left her alone.
Inez was moved by two conflicting
emotions. She had saTed her brother
and the cause be was engaged in from
a serious setback, and, far more Important
than that, many a man who
would have been implicated and lost
his life had not Pepita carried away a
list of their names that had been saved.
On the other hand, she had received
a bitter tarust in the treatment of her
lover.
Her usefulness to the cause bad ended
and she determined to slip away
from the city of Mexico and rejoin her
brother. She was engaged in getting
together the things she would take
with her when the door opened, and
Manuel Coral entered. Placing his finger
to his lips, he looked about him
to satisfy himself that no one else was
present. Inez looked at him wondering
what he would do next Then he
spoke hurriedly:
"I found it necessary to deceive the
dictator, whose confidence I have. He
had received indirect information that
you were here in the Interests of the
revolutionists. I at once sent my
brother to inform you that you were
suspected and persuaded the dictator
to permit me to make the search I
knew you would be subjected to. I
eaw Pepi'la take a paper from the neck
of your dress. You think I have betrayed
you. I have saved you. Heaven
knows what would have become of
you had I not warned you or had another
conducted the search."
Inez listened to these hurried words
till the end, then, toppling, fell into her
lover's arms.
When she came to herself Manuel
Ooral wap bending over her anxiously.
"Go," he said, "while there is time
I have more to do here or 1 would go
with you.''
wSSSSSM
The Millennium, No. 2.
: Editor County Record:?
The doctrine of the judgment is
I no new doctrine; it was revealed to
! the prophets from the beginning.
, Man was made accountable for his
actions and capable of rendering acI
count. The sentence of death being
denounced against him in the Carden
of Eden implied a judgment, so
this is the first thing and no hint of
a Millennium?not the slightest?
from Genesis to Revelation. Enoch,
the seventh from Adam, prophesied:
"Behold theSLord cometh with ten
thnncnnd His saints." Enoch.
Jude and[John were some 5,550 or
9,000Iyears apart,but compare their
words inJ.Jude 14-15, Rev i,7: "Behold
He cometh with clouds and every
eye shall see Him." St Paul
calls it a revelation of the righteous
judgment^ of God?Rom ii,5?the
judgments of God are always righteous
but willfnot be fully revealed
or made manifest against sin until
the final day. Thus is fixed the purpose
of God and none know it but
God.^not even the angels know.
Matt xxiv,30, Mark xiii,32, makes it
very probable,at least,that in Christ,
humiliation on the human side, although
Himself Judge, it was hid,
but as God He did or does know now.
The just and faithful God has revealed
to us the order of resurrection
and judgment, if not the day.
IsaiahJ saw it?xxv,28: "He will
swallow up death in victory." Hosea
saw it?xiii,14: "1 will ransom
them from the power of the grave;
I will redeem them from death. 0,
death,I will be thy plagues,O.grav^,
I will be thy destruction. Repentance
shall be hid from my eyes." St
Paul had his eye on these Old Testament
Scriptures when he wrote the
15th chapter of 1st Corinthians, [
verses|55, 56, 57 and 58.
Some conjecture and worry about
the end of time; it is right at hand;
God says so: "Be ye also ready, for
at such an hour as ye think not your
Lord cometh." When we die the
world will be at an end to us and we
will be done with the world. No
doubt of that fact. What a mercy
it is that God has hid this day from
us, as well as the day of our death.
Let us work till Jesus comes. To
serve Him here will please Him just
as well as praising Him around the
throne.
I will close this by trying to write
from memory Dr Adam Clark's
words written in a lady's album
thirty days before his death, if I am
not mistaken:
I have enjoyed the beauties of spring,
I have passed through toils of summer,
1 have culled the fruit6 of autumn, [ter
I am passing through the rigors of winI
am neither forsaken of God nor abandoned
by man.
I see at no distant day an eternal spring
coming to meet me.
I haste to embrace it. Welcome, welcome,
eternal spring! Hallelujah!
Adam Clark.
T E James.
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