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The Exeter Advocate, 1892-6-2, Page 2et'ke Smitten, of Showers. Dareinotea been se1* up the street Qr eeurry melee shelteriug sheltie ; Atta, setiool-girl faces pole and swet Gleam from the ehawls about their heads, 1/oore baua ; and mother voices errata alien honleskand.rusty.gates Am, stemmed; higlx above le all• The thunder gam reverberates. And. thou abrupt, the rainathe rein I The earth, llea gimping; end the eyes Debind the streenueg wnidow penes Smile at ehe trouble of tee skies, The highway smoleos, sharp °oboes ring ; The cattle bawl awl. cow bolls clank; And to town comes galloping WeThe fiermeds horse with eteimung Meek. The ewellow dips beneath the eaves, And Mae his plumes and foldhis wings; ,And under the catiewba loaves The caterpillar curls and clings. The bumblebee is Pelted dewe The wet stem of the hollyhock ; .Aid sullenly in spattered brown The orioket leaps the garden welk, Within, the baby ohms liat hands And crews with rapture strauge and vague Without. belie:Mil the rose bush stands A dripping rooster on one leg. -James TIrlitteomb A BARITONE'S DEVOTION OR A TALE OP SUNNY ITALY. The place had been strangely still for some minutee. Niaolo had left his caldron, and now lay on the floor smoking; the card -players had fiuished their game, and seemed to think it was not worth while th begin another before the event of the evening came off ; one ewarthy, black - bearded fellow shuttled the cards the other* lounged at ease, watching the prisoner indifferently. When at length a voice in the distance spoke the password, everyone present Reamed slightly. Cello drew himself up to his full height and looked steadily toward the dark archway ; Brancaleone rose, and, with one hand on his victim and the knife in the other, glanced over his shoulder, ready either to strike or to forbear; Lionbruno dropped his cross, and glanced ingreat agitation from the archway to the prisoner, and back again to the archway. The footsteps drew nearer ; the messenger suddenly turned the corner and emerged into sight ; the torch -light, fell on the token in his hani-was it white or red? With a gasp of relief, Lioubruao sprung forward and sea el the handkerchief, waving it joyfully in the air ; while the messenger advanced and Imelde . a sealed packet to the chief, wile) et once sheathed his knife and turned to eho prisoner. "You are free, signor," he said, gravely. " Nita is ruined ! I have failed !" thought Carlo. The sharpest pang he had ever had to bear shot through him ; and, without a word, he fell to the grouni. " Diavolo 1" excleimed the chief. "1 have aten seen a prisoner overcome on hearing his deathmeatence, but never yet on ge :ring his reprieve !" CHAPTER XXXVIL AT l'ALAzZO FORTI. Ou iht Monday evening, after Carlo had merted for Cese Belle., Nita, dined alone; (Mgt hovering round, and always ready to accept promiscuous mouthfuls off her ;Atte like a pet dog. When the child had g •ns to bed she sat down to the piano, her lingers roaming over the keys, and play- ing a sort of subdued accompaniment to her ream ie. " e n going to turn over a new leaf," she e'right to herself ; " it is, after all, rather pleasant to be good, and not so herd as I retought. I have enjoyed these days on tho y icht with the Bri Mons ; it was not half eo dull as I expected. There was soineehing so peaceful and quiet about it. I thiak I'm tired of being eaughty. Now ni be like Cern) ; that will be a novelty." She was iaternapted by the entrance of the servant with a visitor's card. Holdiug out her hand for it carelessly, she glanced clown at the name and saw that it was Corneae's. A terrible fear seized on her. "Say I do not receive to -night. I am engaged.. -nob well 1" she exclaimed breath• lesel v. Te servant retired, but in another minute came beck still bearing the card, on which Commie had penciled a few words: 'You must see me on a matter of life and death !" Nimes color came and went, but to refuse now seemed to her impossible, and the next minute she was alone with her lover. Yet, after all, did she love him or hate him ? Of one thing only she was conscious -that with all her heart she feared him, and that over her he had some strange deadly influence. " How can you dare to come here?" he cried passionately. "Did I not tell you I would never speak to yen again" Comerio smiled. "1 come because I love you' " he replied; "because I knew you wouldnot keep to your threat; because, happen what may, I will never give you up. I have waited for you all these years, Nita, but now you will be mine." "Never !" she cried vehemently; and, with a glowing sense of terror, she tried to pass him and reach the door. "Do not speak too hastily," he said, in- tercepting her; "you are altogether in ray power. Your brother has thwarted me for long; now it is my turn. If you wish him to die, to be murdered for your sake, you will refuse to come with me. If you wish to save him you will leave Naples with me to-nighb ; we will fly to Australia and begin our new life there !" " Oh, it isn't true !" sobbed Nita ; " it can't be true! Carlo could never be in your power !" "Not true ?" said Corneae, with a mock- ing laugh. "It is as:true as thh gospel. Do you think the Pozzuoli road is so much frequented that I couldn't have him way- laid ? I tell you his fate rests in your hands. Now choose !" " You must be a fiend !" Bobbed Nita. Only a fiend could make such a plan !" "A fiend or a lover," said Comerio. "AU is fair in love and war, Nita, and I love you -1 love you -and I will have you. You shall not deny me 1" Again the old subtle influence crept over poor Nita's tempest -tossed heart; it needed only half an hour of Cornerio's impassioned pleading to break down all her resolutions. After all, her life was hard and weary, and husband rough and overbearing, and good- ness was dull, and this scheine was excit- ing ; besides, it would save Carlo -Carlo, whom she really loved. Yes, she would save him at till costs ; she, too, would be self -sacrificing -she wouldgive up every- thing to save him. /min death. It was all over very tmickly--the dispute, the seruggle, the pronuse-thett once more she watt alone, with but a few hours to make all her arrangements for her flight, for Cotnerio had prevailed that a carriage ehould: be iti waiting for her at 12 o'clock, end had hastened of to see that all his plane were in working orier. He had elisolute conficlenee in his own power over enc, which was indeed great; but there was another Power which he had foegotten to take into account -a Powor which could no mote be laid hold tW, and slent up with Carlo in the brigands' retreat,. than the winch " He shall not die foe my Sake I" gobbed Nita to herself • "X Will save hirn by' Yielding. And Yet -yet ib is wh4b he Would say was Wrong ; he wetild tall it doing evil that good might Qom, Ohl what arn1 to the bed an though he had 'been an India, dot Why did 1 ever sea Qoulerior • rubber ball, and leaped Ant on the balweeet She Was like a poor* terrified bird in a whet° the zest rushed downoetairs o oat o one, flying now to this aide, now to that, the retreat heloW, but meeting elwaye with hard, impassable But bheir teiforts Were useless; Cornea bars, The temptation to eampe ft= bLor bad got the etart of them, and, With dark distenteful life into a life that was now and neas to favor him, found little diffieulty i untried was terrible. And yet, es in sick xnaleillg 4aPecalee from, Naples, recoil she looked at her lease, there shone While the Nimpoliean polioe were stel out in it alevitys ene bright light Ahundred searching high and low or him, he wa, little details of Carlo's care for her flashed steaming, down the Kedithrrienean, back into her mind; scenes rose up before that never again could he dare to set foo her in the greemroom, at reheareals, in in Italy, and bellied both in his love and in desolate lodgings, on, tedious journeys ; and his revenge, always he was there as her helper, the one If only I had heel dine to go again t perfectly reliable man in her world. Brancaleone's agent, and change the whit In wild excitement she sprung to her token for the red, I could beer all else 1" h feet, Corneae, in the heat of the mement, reflected - had let something fall about the Pozzaoli But the white bauclkerchief remained road? Why ehould she not rush to Casa just as he had left it with the sealed pe.olte Belle and prevent her brother's return, and of uotes, and the true love had triumpned save him froin the attack team had beeu over the false. pleamed ? What gave her strength for this At Onso. Bella all was confusion, and desperate resolution she hardly knew bite afterward, those fearful hours seemed to the thought itself seemed to led her Fraaceeme like a long, hideous nightmare. wings. She rushed to her bedroom, She had vague recollections of returning snatched up a cloak and. bonnet, drew a veil from the telegraph office, and seeing Clare over her face, and, without even pausing to and Kate bending over Nita's prostrate close the door of the house behind her, crepe figure; of a discussion with her father and down the long stone staircase. The con- Uncle George as to whether she should drive cierge was readiug Iiz Campana as she in to Naples with them or nob; of reaching glided past his little office; he was so much Palazzo Forti in the dead of night, and find - absorbed that he never even saw her. ing poor little Gigi sobbing and shivering; And now she was actually in the street, of dewing home with him on her knee, and and, for the first time since her resolution feeling a sort of comfort in folding her arms had been made, a feeling of fear and round him and letting him talk on in his perplexity overwhelmed her, her hada happy ignorance; then, of two fearful nights ermined to reel. "Holy Virgin protect and dams, while all Naples was searched, me 1" she sobbed, and walked on blindly, and not the, slightest clew as to Carlo's too much terrified to form any clear plea of whereabouts could be discovered. In the action. All at once she caught sight of a meantime Nita lay in the guest -chamber, disengaged carriage, and signed to the and many times each day both priest and driver to stop, Ile looked at her sus. clooter passed in and out. piciously, but she was far too miserable to "Why do those men come so dreffiy resent that. often ?" asked Gigi, one day, turning to his "Drive to Pozzuoli," she said ; "to Cana friend and playfellow, Sibyl, and forgetting ella." for a minute the sham-tiglat which was The mai, however, grumbled. It was going on between his two boxes of tin late, a long drive, his horse was tired. Nita soldiers. thruse two gold coins iuto his hand, " Why, Dino says your mother is dying," "Go ! go !" she cried. "Another, if you said Sibyl, her eyes dilating "Bat, oh, will drive fast !" Gigi, perhaps I oughtu't to have said any - Then she leaned back in the carriage and thing ! Don't tell the others I told you ! " covered her face with her hauda, trembling ".Bat she can't," said Gigi, emphatically; in every limb, expecting each minute that "nob until Uncle Carlo comes back." Comerio would find out all and pursue her. And so, while the elders of the household The drive seemed endless, but at last Casa lived through their terrible agony of sus - Bella was reached ; she sprung out and pense, the two children, who were much asked eagerly for Signor Donati. thrown together, and left to their own "Ke is not here, signora," said old Dino, devices in those days, kept their own coun- looking at her curiously. "Ile has not sel as children do, and waited gravely for been here at all." Carlo's return. Nita gave a cry that broughb all the household flocking into the hall. They took, her into the Rose room, and there gradtially drew from her the whole piteous story. Francesca, as she listened, turned pale as death, but to endure a momeut's discussion or delay was to her irnpossihle. Before the captain or Mr. Britton could even recover enough from the shock to frame a clear idea, she had left the room, had run bareheaded out into the summer night, and was flying to the telegraph office. Panting, breathless, with a weight of torturing fear at her heart, she yet ran like the wind. Carlo was in terrible danger, but she might yet save him. The office was still open ; she wrote without a moment's delay the following words to the chief of the police "Signor Carlo Donteti was waylaid on the road to Pozzuoli this after- tnoon, and has not been heard of since. The plot was arranged by the singer Giovanni Cornelia. Arrest him immediately." In the meth:tame'Comerio, little thinking of the turn affairs had taken, was making his arrangements with the utmost calmness and deliberation. First of all, he went to Branceleone's agent, who lived in one of the worst quarters of Naples. Here he de- posited the. white handkerchief, which had been the token deoided on, and the little packet of note e for the payment of the brigand chief. Then he gave his fined orders about the carriage which was to take thein out of Naples ; and afterward, fiading that he had yes some time to spire on his hands, he went into a cafe, where, to fortify hbn- self for the excitement of the evening, he called for a bottle of champagne. - i his gentle, soothing voice, "b� comforted. , Oer payers ere heard. Try to take this ft' iv calmly, and as a pledge of your tole gormless.' o Then he quietly drew hack, and looking - with hiving reverence at his old pupil, is signed- to than to take his place. One glance et Anita's worm weary face 1 showed Cerlo that she was dying. Jae took s both her outatretchecl hands iu his, and g beuding down, kissed her Vie and again, t She was dying, but yet it was the sense that she was eale wheel). outweighed all else, 'or a long time perfect oilenoo reigned in o the room, then Nita spoke faintly, " Why I liked the yacht," ehe said, half - e dreamily, " was because yoa were all so good -there WU no temptation. I wanted to be good -only it was always too hard." t Worn out, exhausted and fearful, she bad none °Mat natural clinging to life which Carlo had to lately felt. "1 never understood that till now," she said, glancing at the (muffin which Father Cristoforo held on the other side of the bed, But now I see it alt; it is you that heave made me see it, Carlino.": Ilia eyes filled with glad tears, and again he kissed her reverently. "You will keep to the stage still," she said, after a time. "Lb me at least feel that I have done that much for the profes- sion. I've been no credit to it myself, but you, Carlin°, you went into it for my sake, and they will respect you. You will not leave the stage 1" "No," he said, turning his thoughts to -the future with en effort ; " I shall. not leave it." "1 should have liked to sing with you once more," shemurmured, dreamily. " When you hold me like that, it melees me feel like Glide. I tried to put you out the last time we sang that ecene-it was at New York, don't you remember ; the night of Sardoni's benefit, and I was cross be- cause my white satin had got some paint on it." "My daughter," said Father Cristoforo, gently, "you will wear yourself out with talking." "No matter 1" she said, with a little impatient motion of the hand. "1 am de ing-I shall die as I please. Whore is Gigi? Let me say good-bye to Gigi." Fraucesca slipped out of the room and went to find the child, bringing him in just as he was, in his little night-shirt, and with his hair all rough and disordered. She had told him that his mother was very ill, and that he must be quiet; but in the glad sur- prise of seeing Carlo he forgot all else, and with a rapturous shout of " zio caro 1" sprung toward the bed. Carlo took him in his arms, trying to quiet him with kisses, and Nita watched them sadly. " Well, it is natural enough he should care for you and not for me," she said, wist- fully. "1 never liked to be troubled with him." "No, no," said Carlo, quickly; "he ves you, it is only that he does not under - tend illness." And putting the child on the bed, he laid the little, fat, brown hands iu between the cold, white ones. Gigi looked at his mother with wandering eyes. " Do you think he will have a voice ?" she asked. "He surely will sing --I hope he will. But don't let Merlin° be unkind to him, promise to care for him always." , "Always," said Carlo. "For your sake." And Francesca bent down and kissed her, while the child, aware now that something was wrong, listened wistfully. . "1 have been a bad wife," moaned Nita, "and a bad sister, and a bad mother. Oh, Gigi-my Gigi-you must not grow like me ! Be good, carino-he good I" " Yes, mamma," said Gigi, simply. With a sob she raised herself and caught him in her arms, but once more deadly fenehtnese crept over her, and she fell back eRconacious. Francesca took Gigi away to Sibyl, and by the time she was able to return Anita had revived. Father Cristoforo had thrown the window wide open; Francesca stole quietly across the room and stood beside it, listen- ing now to the old priest's hushed voice, now to the birds in the garden below; the sun had risen, and sea and trees, andhouses glowed in the roseate light, contrasting strangely with the scene within. When the last officce were ended there was a long pause, broken at length by Anita's faint voice. IP "Why are the footlights out ?'' she asked, impatiently. "Because the sun has risen," replied Carlo, smoothing back the fringe of dark hair from her cold forehead. " I can't see," she said, with a little shudder. Then after a minute, losing consciousness of the present, she sang ;hid above her breath a little snatch from " Faust:" "0 del ciel angeli immortal! Deh ini guidate con voi lassu." There was sotnething inexpressibly touch- ing in the faint yet still beautiful voice; Carlo a breast heaved and hiseyes grew dim. Evidently she was wandering -fancying herself back once more in the old life. " Well! it is over," she murmured, "and I'm tired -its a long opera! How cold it is lying op this draughty stage! But Carlo will be waiting with my cloak, he always thinks of me, though lain so cross to him." Then, her voice rising to a cry, "Carlino! Carlin° I come back 0 God! I have killed him -my sin has killed him." "1 am here, Nita, close to you," he re- plied, bending over her, while Father Cris- toforo held the crucifixto her lips. She came back to the present, and. grew calmer. "You see I never understood till you showed me," she whispered. "Oh, Carlo, bow much you have borne for me?" He held her more closely. " Don't you understand that I love you ?" he said. "Yet 1 wish that -1 too -had loved I" she gasped, in a voice so sad that Fran - °cam's heart ached for her. After that she never spoke clearly again, only, as Carlo listened intently to the last long -drawn sighs, he caught one more faint whisper. "(esu !" Then he laid hor down tenderly on the pillow, and closed her eyes, and folded her hands over the crucifix on her breast. The sun had fully risen, and golden rays played about him as he moved. Francesca noticed it, and would not draw down the blind. CHAPTER XXXIX. Sauntering out of the cafe, and still mus- ing over his good fortune, he was a little startled when a passer-by thrnst a note into his hand and welkect rapidly on. He panaed to read it under a street -lamp. It ran as follows: "Signor Comerio, be warned by a friend, and fly from Naples at once. You are in danger of being arrested." Though capable, in order to gratify him- self, of a certain amount of rash daring, Cornea° was at heart a coward. He had a friend connected with the police force, and did not doubt for a moment that the warn- ing came from him. He knew that he had not a moment to lose. Still the mere hatred of being baffled in his plans induced him to risk a call at Palazzo .e'orti. There was yet a chance thahthey might be able to fly together; and now that all was known, he risked little more by making his final attempt. Breathlessly he made his way through the dusky courtyard and up the long stone staircase. To his surprise the door at the top was open, He stole in and openeci the door to the antemoorm calling Anita in a low voice. He went into the sala, but that, too was empty and deserted. He knocked at the door of the bedroom ; that, also, was tenantless. Then, with a faint suspicion dawning in his rabid that Nita had played him false, he ground his teeth • together, and flung open the two remaining doors in the suite. Possibly she was with the child. Snatching up a lamp from a table in the passage, he went into the room to make quite sure that she was not there -looked with a sort of dumb rage at Do/lea's vari- ous possessions which were strewn about - then walked up to the bed where Gigi lay sleeping, with both arms flung up on the pillow above his head, and his ruddy -brown little face the picture of sturdy peacefulness. Cornea° shook him by the shoulder. "Where is your mother, child?" he said, in a voice that terrified Gigi. "Can't you speak ?" he reiterated. " Where is your mother ? " "1 don'e know I" sobbed the child. " Accidente 1 she has played me false 1." cried Comerio, . Do you thank us for what we have Then, suddenly holding hie breath,he done ?" he exclaimed, with a chocking sen - paused to lieten. Undoubtedly men's voices sation in his throat, anti foroetting alto - and footsteps were approaching. Darting gether to fear what people would say, for - to the door he drew the bolt, then rushed getting even to regret the connection with across to the Window, flung it open, leaped the stage. "1 wish it could have been out on the balcony, and disappeared in the mere. I wish I had stood by you in the darkness. e past, Carlo." Gigi's first impulse was to draw the bed- As he thought of the insults he had clothed over his head and sob for very ter- heaped on the Italian years ago, the color ror, but some recollection of Carlo checked tnounted to his temples, and he would have him, and summoning up all his courage, he given all in his power to have had over scrambled out of bed, unbolted the door, again the opportunity which he had wasted, and ran out into the passage, calling now But before anything had passed between Lor Carlo, now for his mothet. them Franeesca canoe to summon Carle to Strange men whom he had never omen be- the siek-room, and not sorry' to be free froni fore were marching in and out of the rooms; the captain's questions and congratulations, whether to run to them or froin them he he followed her upstairs into a bed -room hardly knew. which he knew must be her own. It "Here is a child I" exclaimed one of the Oohed him to think that Nita should be in deteetivem picking him up in hie arms. this place, of all obbers, with its induce/bit- " Tell us, little One, who is in the house ?" ble air' of purity and peace and safety, with "Signor Cornea() 1" sobbed Gigi. its English comforts, with its girlish orna. "Santo Novato / where I" exclaimed the meats and piceuree. The bed stood facing man. the Window, with its white moweeito- Gigi pointed in the direetion of the room. Miens drawtt beak, hub he tould not tiee "Through the Window," he [mid, with a Anita, for Father Oriseofer° was bending rush of teals over her. For all anewert the man tossed him teet to " itj daughter" the old Man Wearily/rig, i CHAPTER XXXVIIL AT CASA. nELLA. Early on the Thursday morning Captain Britton was roused from a short aud uueamy sleep on the sofa in his study by the sound of voices on the staircase. He rose quickly, remembering that Francesca had token Miss Claremont's place in the sick- room, and that he had promised to be aa hand in case anything was needed. "How is Madame Merlin° ?" he asked, going out into the hall, whore Franzoni, the doctor, was hid taking up his hat and cloak. " Better for the time," replied the doc- tor, "bub I doubt if she will last much longer ,• the shock has been too much for her, and this suspense is the very worst thing. She has inherited her mother's con- atitution, you see, and when the heare is in question such a strain is killing work." Francesco moved away from the speakers that she might hide her tears. A lamp which. had burned for many hours stood on the table, gleaming faintly in the early morning light. She turned it out, glad to have some little trivial household matter to attend to, and findingit, as most women do, a relief in trouble. Ceptain Britton went out with the doctor, not sorry to escape for a few minutes from the burdened atmosphere of his own house; and Francesca, knowing that Father Cristo- foro was with Nita, lingered beside the open door, glad for a few minutes to be alone with her grief. The sun had not asen, but rosy clouds floated in the soft, sheeny sky, and a delicious fragrance came from the garden, which was all wet with dew. Everything was still and peaceful, with the restful calmness of dawn ; per- haps it unconsciously influenced Francesca, or perhaps it was mere exhaustion which quieted her throbbing pulses. Certainly the sound of footsteps on the road from Naples, which yesterday would have made her heart leap into her mouth, scarcely roused her now. She just looked up wearily, too heavy-hearted to hope any longer. But suddenly the blood surged through her veins, and with a low cry, she rushed forward. " Carlo ! Carlo 1" she sobbed; yon have come at last 1" Clinging to him, in that first minute of rapture she forgot all else ; but a second glance at his face reminded her of Nita, for he bore the look of a man who has passed through terrible aufferhm, and how much he knew of Comerio's plot she could not tell. "Cerium," she said, tenderly, "try and prepare yourself for what I have to te you.,' " I am prepared," he said, in the voice of one whose work is over -one who knows that he has failed. "Who can have met you so early? Oh, Carlo, we have tried to take care of her, but she is dying. She has been ill ever since that Monday night." "Do you mean that Nita is here with you? that she is safe?" he cried, eager hope dawning in his eyes. Then as she told him all, a light, such as she had never before seen, shone in his face. "God has been very good to us," he said simply. In a very few words he told her what had happened to him; and then, while she went to prepare Nita for his corning, he stayed below, receiving the warm-hearted greetings of the captain, giving him a brief account of hie imprisonment and release, and thanking him with tears in his eyes for having sheltered his sister. Somehow the old patronizing, tone disappeared altogether from the captain's voice as he struggled to reVy. A MERV/AIM. For the need two or three reeks tbc story of Ceado and Anita was in every one's mouth; he account of Comerio's vengeance, and the alarming news of brigandage in the very environe of Naples, created something like a panic, while, as to Deautti's share in the matter, Opinions were divided. Some called him a hero, some a fool, others remarked eynically thet, in any nate the affair would be a good advertisement for him, and that now, at any rate, he might be expeeted to draw large houses. 1VIerlitio, when he earned all, Made scarcely any comment on what had hap- pened. He merely wound up the affairs of hia compaby, and announced his retirement from the position of impresairo. Only in re- gard to Gigi did he tihowany sigh of feeling. "You'll be kind to the child, Val?" he said, as he bade his bkother-intlaw geode bye. "1 Shall day in America, for a few ears till this scandal has had time to facia n people's inhzda. Bat you'll go to Wheel wed see that Gigi in all right, 110W end then; won't your " He obeli be like my own Wendt" said Carlo, warmly. His holidays shall always be spent with us." People Were surprised that the new bare' tone fulfilled leis engagement at the San Carlo their summer. Some called him cold- bleeded, others called him breve awl honor- able, and both those who praised and those who blamed flecked to hear him. Ile went his way,as ever, with seraightforward sim- plicity, thinking of the past with thaeltfel- nese and of the future with eager hope. "Carina," he said, one afternoon, as he sat beside Fraticeeca, in the familiar old belvedere which had sweet memories for them both-" Carina, here is work enough for me for months to come -offers of engage- ments all over Europe. Plate wishes to know which of them we are pleased to accept" " We ?" she said, smiling and blushing. "You do not think I could go without you ?" he exclaimed. "You will not send me away alone ?" " No, ' she said, with deepening color; "1 don't think you would take enough care of yourself." "Darling I" he said, drawing her toward him " whyshoulcl we wait any longer? Let us be married quietly while Mr. Britton and Clare are stillhere." "Bab they are only here for another week," odd. Francesca. " Ebbene?" said. Carlo, with a world of O preaaion in his tone. "How could I be ready ?" she faltered. "A wedding takes a great deal of prepera. tion -certainly Flora's did. I must at least have a dress that is at for your eyes to look "11 you want to dress to please me, I will tell you what to wear," he said, smil- ing. "Wear that white dress like a baby's -the one you wore oa the night of oar betrothal." "That old nainsook 1" she cried. "Why, Carlo, it is more fit for the rag -bag than for a wedding 1" Ile mcie one of his expressive Neapolitan gestures. "1 should like nothing else so well, and you will see it will wash and get up in ewe dome' time, and look as good as new.Oh, I arn very learned in such matters now, I assure you." She smiled and nestled close to him. "1 will wear anything to please you, rat° euro! And, after all, we douet want to be thinking of new dresses just now. All I want is to go away from everything else for a little while -away with you. Let us go sotnewhere among the mountains, where there are no people and no news- papers -nothing but Just we two by our- selves 1" He kissed her white forehead. " Carina," he said, thoughtfully, "if one did not believe success to be a sort of sacra- ment it would frighten one." • ahe mused over the old definiti.en in the prayer -book, and caught his meaning. "They said at Merlebank it was useless knight-errantry," she replied ; "bat I think they changed their minds when they saw the smile on Nita's face after all was over. Do you remember what she said about those days on the yacht? It made me cry, for I never saw till then how fearful temptation must be." "She conquered and is at rest 1" said Carlo, steadying his voice with an effort. "Father Cristoforo told me he never knew one so young who has so little clinging to life. It is as she would have wished." For some time he was grave and silent; his mind was full of Nita's sad story. "Does it not seem to you more than three years," he said, at length, " since we last sat here together like this? To me it seems like a lifetime." "And, oh, Carlo," said Francesca, cling-. ing to him, "1 don't know how it is -but, though so many sad things have come be- tween I can't help feeling happier even than long ago 1 I thought I couldn't be happier than I was when Ten &at told me you loved me, here in this summer -house - but now, Carlo l-nost—" * * * * * * So, one day in the f011owing week, Fran- cesca put on the old white dress and her confirmation veil, and Kate twined orange blossom and myrtle into a wreath, and Sibyl and Gigi gathered the prettiest white flowers thew could find in. the garden, and XaI, aited them with Enrico Ritter at his ith infinite pains made them up into a very c. drud bridal bouquet. Then every one at Ca FL Bella drove into Naples, where Carlo aw side ; and presently., with Piale, Marioni, old Flurestano, and Sardotti and bis wife for spectators, the two lovers were quietly mamed. " After all," said Captain Britton, when the bride and bridegroonx had driven away, "though I suppose is voice like that must be used. yet I shall always think that Carlo deserved to be something better than a singer." • My dear sir," exclaimed Male, vehe- mently, "the life of a good singer is one perpetual course of self. denial! And, I as- sure ,you we, too, have had our heroes. Must a you, profession be despised because some of those engaged in it are not all they should be? When a man like Donati is sent to us, for heaven's sake let us keep him, and say, as in duty bound, 'Deo [THE HIND.] hitOWNINg• Described bir a Wonnot Who AttenilDted 145 Commit hulichle "To prevent any- person front interfering Zeitthheinift4e;nslotnalajn'reiddiseinr.te tNheolievnete laar pealed to be about at the tine. When I struck the water I immediately tiank, going down and down and yet being carried for. ward until I thought 5: would never again arise. A. sound roared through my head ; it eeemeel to me it would buret. I opened my mouth and attempted to breathe, being - unable to endure the preSSUre loeger, but the water rushed in and I closed my mouth. I was again compelled to open it. Moro water entered. The feeling WAS hor- rible. re a‘jstwhen c‘ heudthesurfaIcetho°futghhet altwwas over 5 feet from the shore and 106 feet from where I had jumped in. Near by was a steam- boat on which stood a man with is long pole with an iron hook on the end. It took only is second to see those things, and, in fact, I had just time to get one breath when I again sank with my mcuth open. My past life flashed before me, and 1 was again so child. The picture of my father and mother stood out in bold relief. 1 reached out iny hand to them. The roaring of the. 'teeter sounded like the sweetest of music. Sud- denly I saw light and thought I was Paradise. A large green field, covered with roses and other flowers, whose fragrance I could smell, came in view. I felt as if I was being borne up by some winged mes- senger whom I could not see, but whose 1\., presence I could feel. "1 remembered nothiug more until 1 felt a rough jerk. My rescuer had succeeded isa fastening the boathook in my clothing. As my body yeas being pulled from out of the water the picture changed: instead of Paradise, the place in which the devil dwells, with all its fires and swarming with hideous, red -dressed creatures and other things, presented themselves in my mind, onlyto again quickly disappear and leave i me n darkness. When I came to 1 was surprised to learn I had been unconscioue. Every muse/et ixt my body pained ine, but my brain was perfectly clear. Drdwning after the first stages are past is pleasant" - St. Louis Republic. The Popular Weinman. "Who is the popular woman 1" asks the New York Sun, and answers the question ia She following sensible way: She is the one who wears well -fitting. clothes, and never minds telling the name of her dressmaker. She is the one who sees the possibilities of the bashful young man, and cultivates him. when everybody counts him a bore. She is the one who may believe in Chris- tian science or mind cure, or a special way to remove freckles, or the Turkieh bath, or in not wearing corsets, but who doesn't give - dissertations on these subjects, and insist on converting you. She is the one who never makes you con- scious of the amount of money she ham or her lack of it. She is the one who, when you are a guest in her house, makes you feel that she has simply been waiting for this opportunity to be happy, and that you are the honored gst She is the one whose hair doesn't come down, or whose frock doesn't tear when she is in some place where it is not easy to arrange it. She is the one whose children are seen but not heard. She is the one wise doesn't tell people unpleasant things, and if she has a bad opinion of anybodysums it all up bysaying: "1 do not like her," and gives no further explanation. She is the one who is loyal to leer friends, ignores her enemies, and loves her husband and children. Mow to Talk Telephonically. It is found that not one person in ten among those who are daily using the tele- phone know how to use it properly. The manager of an exchange says; "Why, just talk in an ordinary conversational tone, as if you were speaking to soumbody three or four feet from you. The best position is to stand with the mouth about three inches from the transmitter. Most people stand further back, but it is better to stand even nearer. It is almost impossible to get too near the instrument, provided a distinct conversational tone is maintained. If you watch the girls at the switchboard yoa will notice that -they will talk distinctly, and that most of them will put their noses againat the instrument when they speak. They don't have trouble, and nobody else would if he would adopb similar methods." The Russell Drama. A skeleton drain& of London high life: Act I. -Countess Russell tries iu vain to secure a divorce from her cruel husband. Her husband claims that her separate estate should be charged with the costa of the suit. Act IL -In despair, or for some other reason, Countess Russell becomes & fascinating skirt dancer on the public stage. Act III -Earl Russell abandons his claim for costs. The fourth ace has not yet been played; but itis rumored in London that the "feature" of it will be a reconciliation -all on account of the skirt dances. ChCars. Tnetna seems to be a wide difference be- anged tween the aims of the French Anarchists "You see that marx occupying the two end Socialists, although by many they are seats there ?" viewed as similar organizations. In France yesterday the Socialists distributed their election programme of a paternalistic but strictly coustibutional movement. Its arti- cles are substantially as follows : 1. Establishment of school canteens at which children may obtain,at reduced cost, meat lunches between morning andafternoonclasses. 2. Establishment of maternity hospitals and asylums for aged persons and invalid working- men. 3. Eight hours in public contracts. . 4. Labor exchange. 5. 8uppression of taxes on articles of food. 0. Exemption Mon' personal taxies for all citi- zens paying small house rents and heavier taxes for those paying higher rates. Proper sanitation and repairs of tenements. V. The placing of the unemployed by munici- palities. 8. Establishment of a gratuitous medical service and pharmacies witn reduced prices. 9. Free public baths and lavatories. 10. Sanitariums for children of laborers at the expense of the commune. 11. Legal edviee free of cost in the actions in which laboring men are interested. 12. Remuneration of Municipal office holders eut down to the maximum pay oflaboringmen, so that the latter May not be excluded in Adam from the administration of the commune. 13. Workingmen acting asoabitrators between employer and employed to be paid. -- 15. Peblecation of a bulletin of the decisions renderesi by the council. -We sometimes hear te great orator ex. claim • " As far as the east is from the went"' The east and the west are not far apart. In fact, they meet at every point The west is just as far east as the east is. Galveston Yews. WM Pr WAS. " Tommy," said the teacher calmly, " Courage take, your duty do ; If you know who broke the wind. ow, 'Vell-I shall not punish you." "Sure of that1" asked %%Miry sharply, Why, of course," caste the reply, "Well' --and TOmmy more!). Off eloWly Towards the doorvvay- was ' -The best platfortn speaker in England id Said to be the widow of the late Post bunker General Pawcett. " He used to ride ia the smoking ear, but he doean't any more." "Why not?" "He says the smoking cams on. this roa.dt are not fit for a hog to go into." -The Belgian Society of Gynecology and, Obstetrics has undertaken to call International Congress at Brussels from the lath to the 19th of September, 1S92, to which is to be annexed an international ekposition of instruments and lepparatus re- lating to these two branches of medicine Mrs. Clara H. Palmer, of Glenville, Minn., has died at St Paul, the result of starving. Several months ago her hueband, Rev. Frank W. Palmer, resolved not to eat, ancl in due course of time died. Mrs. Palmer also took to fasting, and sh sur- vived several weeks. COD liver oil is not a very popular article of diet, yet ib is to be found ori the bill -oft fare of many. But nauseating as it is a medicai correspondent of the New Yorlr Llerald says it can be deprived of its offen- sive smell and taste by mixing it with an. equal amount of mediciaat lime water. By this mane an odorless* syrup-like liquid of milky appearance is obt,ainecl, and' this can be rendered inoffetisiie by the addition of some aromatic essence, aa lemon, tribat or aniseed. Thus correspondent gays that c,oci liver oil thus prepared is alnaost agreeable„ acme not adhere to the walla �f the mouth, does not give rise to the rentid ansi reptig- 'nant after-taste, can be kept for it long time„ can be easily aseintiltst,ed by delicate stomachs and has, farthermene, the advan- tage of being relatively, 'kw in price. The tiutrition of malty delicate people could be Maintained by cod liVer oil Were it not so disagreeable. But With thm recipe tor its prepa;ratipo the'objection tb its Atte eau he alninat, 1. not titthrely, temoved.