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The. Voice ol the$luggard.
gave. you brought my boots, -,Ternirna .7 ;mave
them. at my ehamber door.,
pees the waterJ
.boil, einiina ? Place- it also on
theflOor. "
•7 Eight' ,oldiook already, is ft ? How's: the
wisatherpretty : __ • .
Eight is tolerably early, I tan got away by nine.
. lintel feel a little steepn though .1,1 came to bed
at 1.. : . -
Put the 'bacon on, Jernitha; see the eggs are
.nioely done 1 _
:111 -be down in twenty Minutes -70;1f posiible, in
le68
: I shall not be long, Jemima, when onoe begin
• • to dress.-._ .
r She is gone; the brisk Jemlnia; ehe isgone, and little thinks • - • • - -
How the alliggard yearns to capture yet another
forty winks..
Since the bard is human ' an early
- vinege.coce-
Why abOuid hesalute the-inorning-at the. hour
of 8 o'c__
lock:-
Stifled be the voice c!Du1PrOdelyie,-,t•rythee,
•
cease to chide; . - - • • -
• While I tura me softly,7gently,--.ronnd- upon- Foy
• Other side. •
-Sleep,..resume thy. .downy• emPire ;-teassert thy
- sable reigu ' =
Morpheus. Why- desert a fellow ? Bring ;those
• poppieeliere again 1-
What 'is the wetter now, Jemima? Nine ottilook.1
• It cannot be 1 1-
: gest: prepared the eggs, the lbac;On: and the
thatUtinal tea 'I
-. Takeaway the jug, Jemima..: Go, rep1entsia4:-it
SineeatgOliarta of Its- ealario Must be :very
nearly gone.
She has tat me. -lot me linger till she reappears
. -•again,- • -
, TJet.lay' iazy thOughts meander id a free and easy.
vein. - • ' - ••
After slettp!sprotounder. 89:acie, zaugbt refteihee
- - like the doze.
tuMble off, no -matter ; she' will wake
'Bless nztJ. suppose, . • - -
akeeek-i- - - - - , -
taw it ee-1 can't believe it...Actually 10 oleloolE ?
X willout of bed and ehave me. -Fetch me
-__ • warmer water Up 1 ' 7 • -
Let the tea be strcnia, snalj 024Y
Stop ;.7itrtittr 11?1 remember some appointment
• b -y. the way, :
'Twould have brought me mints of -money.;
- 'twits for la o'olook to -day, •• , .
Let -tae drown thy dliappointinent, -slumber; - in
. 'thy seventh heaveu.
Youmay go away, Jemima., Come and.eall me
• -
atercury,
•
PAULI
Otineri•was leahhig back iir hie ohair with
- a kind of dreantylciiik on histface, stoking
elowly and placidly, taking, as it were,
everything he could. :Out of the luxury of a
good cigar. 1 'asked' him' to drink some
More wine. He - shook • hie . head, . then-
, tinned and looked- at me. • • • - : • :.
".Mr,•Vaughan," he said ;yes' _ it is Mr.
Veaghan. But who and what - am it
Wbere are :we ?:Is it London, G.eneva,•or
° elsewhere? Shall I Wake and find 1- have
dreamed of What.1 have suffered ?"
"lam afraid it is no dream, We are 16
• Siberia." • • •
" And_you are not come to beite-me geed
-
•
newel Yea are not olio of, us-a‘friend
-
trying at the peril -of yOur tag to set me
e • tree?"- . .•
I Shook my head.: "I would do all -I
• Pould_to make your 'lot easier, but I clime
:With a selfish- motive to ask. -you son2e.
ques-
- :donswhioh yotitalonecan' answer."• - - •
"Ask them, Yea have, given Ine Pith
hour's relief from • misery;1 ani grateful."
" You will answer truly ?"
• 174 Why not? I have nothing to fear,
nothing to gain nothing to
. . o:hope. Flse-
boodle forced on people by circumstances ;
a man in my state has no need of it." . •
"The first question 1 have to tisk _hi-,
• who and whathiethat man Maoari?" • -
-Ceuert sprang to his feet.. Tite name of tp
t Blamed seemed to bring him: back the
world. He looked *..nO• longer -decrepit
-mete His voioe was fierce ance-stern.
ei_treitor 1 a traitor 1" he cried. "But
• for .him 1 should: have Eiuoceeded.: and
:escaped. If he were only stendinetin.yout
plaoe! 'Weak ite ain,.I eJuld .find 'Strength
enough to ding to his throat till thetile
breath •was out ofthie.acoursed-bedy-
t. He walked op and down the roomeolinob-
intend' udelhiching his Waldo.- . •
"Try. and be- vein], Oenerit" said.
tt I havenothingte do with his plotteand.
politieal treasons,. Who_ *is he? Weat is
bieparentage ? is Alaoari his mune 2t•.
-'.ehd'Only name I ever -krietv him .by.
His father. WW1 a renegade Italian who sent
his &in to lite in England for fear his pret
• oions.blood should be epilb in .freeing his
country. , I foundelien young man and
made him one of us. perfecithnowledge
- of your tongue was of great sertrioe ; and be,
fought like - men, Why did - he -turn-
traitor hOwl Why do you ask these -ques-
tions ? , - • •
wile has been to me and asserts Olathe
is ,Pauline's brethent . . . .
Cenerfe., face, tut he -heard this intent-
geece, was enough - to .banish lie number
pne from My -mind; My -heart leaped as I
guessed that rnumber two *mild be dis-
posed -of .as eiteily; But there WAS a terrible'
• revelation to be -made When I °ante to :ask
about that. •
si Pauline's brother !" staremeted:Deneri.
"Her. brothee ! She has hone." •
Ateicklylook orepttoVer ;his, 'features as
t he spokeet-.ii look the •pleanipg of twhich,I
could not:read.- ••.
"He says is . Anthony Mardi, her
brother:" . • . • t
• " Anthony Meech!" --• gasped •Ceneri;
"There is no such person. :What -did he
wapt-hieobjecit?" he continued feverishly.
- `fr• Thai I should _join bine in a meinotiel
to the Italian Government, askingtfor a
• return of some portion • pf the fortune you
spent." -• _ -
. Centel laughed . atlitter laugh. "All
grows clear,'? he Said. " betrayed a
_ plot which Might have changed- a.gOverno
Mont for thesakeot.. getting me out of the
and 004 hie ? Why have -made Oth.ers
way. Coward I- Why net have. killed Mel
Suffer with me?- Anthony March- t My
God! that maii a villain, lt .
. "You are sure. that. Maci4i betrayed'
. you?" ..." t- • -,
• "Sure .yes. • I *assure When the man
in the bell next to _mine..rapped it on the
well. He had mean* of knowing." -
" rdon't understand you," •.
. :48 Prisoners oan. soroeitinces talk to 'eaoh,
other by taps on the Wall. illicit' divides
their cells. . Th.e man- next. me was pile cif
us.. Long before he went raving mad from
the months: of solitary confinement, he
. rapped.out,over and over again, 'Betrayed
_ by Matsui.' I- believed him. .'He wee too
- true A -man to Make the 'accusation Without
proof.. Bat:until:how ; could.not see the
object of the treason." - . •• •
. The eaelestt pert ofraytisk was over.
Maori's assumed: relationship. to Pauline
. was disposed of.. Now, if •Ceneri would
tell Me, I intuit learn who was the Victim of
•. that crime tioniniiited years age . and what Thou
teette
tvaa he ream for the foul -deed. I must
'sena that 111aoari's explanation wager'.
utter falsehood, prcatipted by malioed or
else my journey would have -benefited me
nothing; Is it any -wander that my lipt
trembled as I endeavored to approach the
. - -
subject?- - • •• - • •
"•Now, Di. Oeneri,"- I- said, "I
question Of weightier-inoport to ask.
Paulihe Eielover bcifore.I married her
He railed .his eyebreWis. ••
• have not 001120 here to ask that qua
to bate ii j.ealoutyoureit-?"
NO,"1:said ; .0 you will hear my_
ihg later on. :Meanwhile answer- me
"She had :a lover, for. r Meioari3Oi0
to love her, and • Owe._ she shOiald
wife. :But I can.. most certainly sa
never returned his love.'
"Nor loved any one else ?" - •
"Not IQ My rknowledge. But your
nereyclir, word -Care strange. - Why d
ask? may have °wronged = you
•Vaguehaic, but save: for the •one thin
mind, Pauline WAS -fi b.to-be year Wife.
ts You did Mewrongt7yOu. know it,
right bad you to ...let _ime marry e
*whose -.Reuses were .disarranged? .- I
oruel.to both:" -
I felt stern and apoke sternly, . 0
shifted in his _abide uneeSilY.' If
Withed revenge it was herd." Gazing .°
-steetohed, rigged, brokentdOwnt Men
knowing what awaited him . when. h
me,- would have filled the measure de
by the most vengeful heart. : .•
amertolcrrae.e • speke;' tile:truth
he denied that -Peutine !had atter be
love. - AcieWhen last I gees& on ;he
face, I tlinel it would, Maoari'S bla
had been Scented. Pauline was tinn
as an anget. But • I 'must' know:Who
the man whose: -death had - for a
deprived her of reason. • •
Caned: was glancing at me nerVo
Did he r guess what I had to ' ask h
"Tell me," I Said, ".they name of the y
man. Murdered - by Nettled in :Undo
the:presence of Pauline; telt - 'wit
Was killed ?" • . - ,
His face grew ashen. -.seethe
oollapse-to back into his -chair a h
lesteheap, Without the poevotrof tepee°
Movement, without the power of -tut
his eyes from my face: . •
" me,". I repeated.. "Stay, I
recall the seem, to y'ou, and. you. Will k
I am well informed., Here he the tit
bete is Maceri standing Over the ma
has atebbbedo here are you, and beh
you is another. man - with a soar on
cheek. in the back -teem, at the piano
Pauline. -She is staging, but het song 8;
as the murdered niap - fells* dead,, D
,deSoribe the scene truly ?" • • t
have a
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had spoken etioiteditte I had _used
geetures. and words. Cenerre - ear's bad
detnik in every syllable; his eyee had fol-
lowed event gesture. As I pointed to the
supposed position Of Pauline,- he had looked
there -with a quick, etareled:glance, as 'if
expecting to see her opts; the door. Be
Made no attempt to deny -tlie-leocuraoy Of
my representation. -
I waited- for :him i to :recover. He was
looking ghastly. - breath came in spas,
midi() gasps:- Por :a moment. I feared, he
Wite about to die thenandthere.. I poured,.
out a glass:of wine ; took it in his -trem-
bling hand and gulped it down,
"Tell me his name?" .repeated. "Tell
me what he had to do with Pauline '
. -Then he found his Voice. "- Why do you
come here -to ask me? Pauline could -have
Id you. She must- be well, or you could
not ave learned this. =
"She bee told me nothing." -
"You are - wrong: She must have told
you. No One else saw the orime--the•aitire
dere for e murder it was."
“I'llere was another present . beside .the
aotors-I have named:" _
Ceded. Started•andlooked at me. .
"Yea, there Was another; _there by an
accident. A man whe opuld hear ball not
see. :A Mart-,whoselife I pleaded for as for
my Own," . • ' •
"1 tbank you for having saved it."
"You thank Me. Wlay. sheeild you thank
nee?" .. • . : • ••
"11 you saved any 012.61 life it was mihe.
I was that ma." - •
"You that maul') He looked at me more
attentivaly=" Yes; now the featifrei °eine
back to me.' I always Wondered, that your
face seemed so familiar. Yea.: I oen under-
stand -I am 'a dpotOr-your eyes.. Were
pperated. upon 7" -
"Yes -inose stiecessfully." .
"_You.. can see well now -but then! 1
oduld not be ittittaken, you were blind -
you save nothing." " " -.•
"I saw nothing, but I heard: everything:"
"And now Pauline has tpld You whet hap.'
pined t" • .. •• -
"Pauline has not spoken." . - •
-Oeheri rose, and in great agitation Walked
up sed down t the room, his chains rattling
as he: moved. "1 kebew it," • hemuttered,
in Italian, "I knew it -4110h a oriole cannot
.be:hidden." •- . ; . ' •
•
Then he turned to nie. "Tell Me how
you have -keened this? Teresa would die
before ehe,spoke.- 'Petroff ie dead -died, as
I. told you, raving mad."
• _ From his last word's 'I _presumed that
retroff Was the third Man I had seen, and
also iliesfelloW-prisoner who had denotintied
Ma,cari.- - • • -
Was it Maoari-that double -dyed
traitor? Nobe Was the murderee-suoh-
tfto*al would defeat his ends. Tell Me
how you know?" • • . • -
"1 would tell you, but .1 Suspect you
would not believe .me." "
"Believe you !"he:oried exoiteilly.yt I•
would'believe anything coitheoted with that
night -it has never left iny thoughtee-Xr.
Vaughan, the truth has collate to me in My
captivity. am- net Condemned . to this
life fora .pohtioal orime. My Bentenceis
God's indirect Vengeance for the deed you
Witnessed," .•
It was °leer that Ceneit Was not snob a
-herdened ruffian aa Maeari. • He, at least,
had a honsoience. Moreover, as he -appeared
to be - superstitious, be 'would perhaps
believe Die when I told hint hOW niy aeon -
:rate knowledge had been Obtained.
" I:Will tell pin," I said, "provided yam
'pledge your honor tO:give me • the full
history of that -fearful eritne-and answer
my questions fully 'and truthfully."
- He bitterly. "You forget nit,
position, Mr. Vaughan, when, you speak of
!honor.' Tot I :promise ytiii1 all You ask?
So I told him, as .shortly and limply as
gould, all that had ocottried all I had seen.
He shuddered as I Again :deso.rthed he ter? I
rible.vieion. • - . • .
Spare ale:" :he -a_aid,_ / know it all I
ands of Moles I have seen -it or -have p
:-
dreamed it -it will neYer leave me But
, • ; , . .
why come - to me t ..Pauline, you. _say, is
recoverhig her sensesshe would have told
you all.' --• • • - i
- • "1 Would I not ask her untill saw you.
She is hersellegain, but I am a iitratiger to
her -and outwits' your answer is the one I
hive for, We shall never meet agate.'
"11 anything I Can- do to atone- he
began, .eagerly. - .. • . . 4 - • I - .
I taxed the•murderer, your acoomplice, with
- -" You can only eili,kthelruth. Listen.
•
the Like ',pit, he. could net _deny- it,
but he justified it.". ... • t ,:- -
• ." "How -tell me tt panted Ceneri. ' ' - -
• For moment 1 paused. I fixed my eyes
upon him to oitoh every ohangeof feature
to read' the truth in more than words. •
. it He vowed to me thet the young man
was killed by your inetrhotioni-e•that be
was--eoh -God, how 'Can I repeat it! -the
laver of Penline, who having thee o aored her,
refused to -repair .iiis fault. The truth I.
Tell me the truth 1" • . t ' • •
, I . all:nest. shouted : the telt words -my
calmness : vanished .its I thought of the
-villein who had, with • a mocking smile,
ooupled Pauline's haute with- shapie. • -
1 Cenerieop• the othe.' hind, .grew oithher
i
as -he grasped the •pu port of my question.
Bed as the • man mig I he, eve ti eteined
with'innooint -blood, I could have clasped/
Win in- 'my arnis as I read n his wonder.hig eyes the • baeelesen as of that oul e,00u,
'ie
-Elation: ---'' , - - -
-- "
That young man -the boy struok down
ItetaSaggeetetedegitae_t wee Peulieetirbrother
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- .-A TERAISIiii -130/4FESSIONT. . .
Caner' -having ramie this astounding
announcement, threw i his wasted arms
&wogs the rough table and laid et i bead
upon them with a gesture of despair. I sat
like one stupifie-d, repeating mechanically,
" Pauline's • brother -Anthony March r-'
'Every vestige of the black lie was swept
.away from • my . mind; I, but the 'oriole in
which Canal had 'Concerned asetuited
more ..feerful proportions. It was more
dreadful than I had suspected. The -victim
a near blood relation.. ---his own • sister's
child{ - Nothing, fel could be urged to
elouse.or palliate the oritne. Even had he
not ordered and plaiMeil it, he had been
present; had - -assisted in hiding all
trace! of it; had-. been, until reoently,
on berms of friendship with the man
who • _ had struck the blow. „I could
scarcely control the loathing and contempt I
felt for the abieot weep* before me.. My
burning indignation - would .sceroely allow
me- to ask him, speeoll, the
objeet of the cruel deed.- But for eine and
all I must have eVerything _made blear to
was spared the neo salty of asking. the
-
question I WAS trying to force to my lips.
_Tile convict ra;ised his. head and looked at
me with miserable.eyes.' • ..
"You shrink from me. No wonder. Yet
I am not so guilty as you 'think."
"Tell me all, first; the excuses_may come
afterward, 'if anything oan be urge d in
.,8X011130 of -the °Hine." • -
- I spoke as I feltsternly and iontempitu-
pusly. - ,
"
".None can be urged for the murderer.
•For me, God knows I would willingly have
let that bright boy live. He forsook.and
forgot his country, but that I forgave."
" Hisocuntryl hisfather's eotintty was
-England 1" - °
"His mother's was Italy," • 'replied
Ceneri, almost fiercely. "He had our blood
in his *eine.. His meteor was a true
Italian. She would . have given fortune,
liter-tty eV.= honor, for Italy." •
I "No matter. Tell me he whole tern
story." • • „ •
He told me. In justi
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s- My bendy bad. painted., him. gre
ault was that iti• the eetiee of liberty a
eepons were allowable,- any crimes. we
ardonable. E ogtisbecient whose id
tyranny and oppreseion is beiog debate
om the exercise Of the franchise, ea11
either underetand nor. sympathize with
an of his type. We may Call the Gover
eat righteous or octerupt as we. are ttithi.
reeled, and one sidetieppens to bolo o
t.; - but, . at. least, we are ruled by ou
untrymeh, elected by some of us for the
epose. Let us he for years and yeare a
e mercy of _a .foreigner, and we ma,
derstanci What patriotism in Caned
n:se. means. - ' 1 • '.
He and his sister were the children o
speotable middle -elute people -not noble
Hamel asserted. He had been giVeit
erel edueatien, and adopted the 'pritfes
n of a dootere Hia. sister; from *ham
Wine inherited •her : great beauty, livecI
e life of an ordinary Relish giel-adhlte
e, perhaps, than any of theta Jed, as
lowing her brother's example, she refuse
abate in gayetiee.whilit the white-Cu:late
ruled the land. No &tat she would
ve beenlaithful to her MOUrnibg for he
nit)? had not love come upon the scene
Englieliman named March saw- the.tair
lien girl, won her,heart, Wedded her and
ri-ed :her away111triun2ph to his native
d. Coned never quite forgave his sister
her deified= „And "defection e but the
spots opened before -her by the marriage
e eO greet that he made but little -oppo-
on to it. March was a very rich man.
was the only 8011 of snooty son, which
adoomits for Pauline hating, so far as
ert knew, no -; near: relatives On her
ex's side. -For several years the young
band'and his- beautiful dark -eyed _wite.
din great happiness. Two - obildrent a
and a. datightereWere born to them.
en the eon was twelve and the daughter
yeses Old the father died.. The Widow,
'had made few olciee friends in England,
only. loved the country for her lat*
d's• sake, flew back to her native land.'
was Cordially- welcomed by her old
ds. She was considered faltulotielte
oil. -11er huibend, in the first flush of
!wahine had made a will•bequesthing
ything he poisessed to herabeolutely.
Ough ohildren . had since come, so per.
didle tenet her that no change had
made as to thedisposition of his pro -
y.:.. So, . with such a fortune . at her
bland; MC- Munk wu honored and
ted by all.: , • . - 7
had; until she •met her future -him,
loved her brother above every one in
world: She had hatted his patriotiim,
atbized with -him in hie "(themes, and
ed to . the wild -plote he was always
ing. He was some years ,olderthan-
•
-
• -1
•
SL;7a8, and upon her return to she
to him,'ontwardly, nothing more than
a ct#!at, hard-working, ill -paid donor.: She
natereIled at the change from the Itead-
steqtvieionary, daring young mane she
ha4 tat. It was not until he was deetain
her !bead • had not- forsaken her doun-
tr Canon allowed her to sae ,that
nil "Iris Pros.aio exterior lurked pee of
th • tlest and ablest minds of all those
en e ed in ' working out the liberation of
It ' Then all his old sway came back.
toolteette ready to make any eacrifice when
Sh *ince almost worshipped him. She,
timetehould. come. 0.
- Wet kat shelvoilid have done had she teen
oalkettion -it is imposeible tci say e but
ihetette little doubt but her fortune andler
ohilettetes fortune would have been freely
FsPetit in the good. oause. As it _watt she
dieei'Aing before the pear. was ripe, and
whetatette died, such :was her faith in her
be**, everything was left in his lb 'ands
eettiterustee for herobildren. In her.list
inoettetits the thought. of her- husband's-
deo0,10 E oglish proclivities made lier exact-
a piAise that both the: boy and the gir:1
shoettet: be given an English eduoation.
Thette:0aq closed her eyes, and the orphans
wer#10t entirely to the trustee's mercy.
H- eyed her spoken commends to the
lettelitt'Anthciny and. Fatigue were Eient to
Euggeh schools; but -laming no friends in
theiPtather's -native land, or all old friend
hafttt" been lost sight of during he
motreete widowhood, the holidays vele
speato-. Italy. They grew up altnoit at
r-----4uvevioinaematiEnglagwThisah..pierer..„....;1 bus birlethd,
oarec-04 in. a business -like. way. I heve no
douttl Rto far as it . we'nt, his honesty wee
tenitpteeSobable. • • • ••
.
TOSI( the longed -for -moment tame !
The tieetet blow was struck.: .0eneri, who
bad litteitgj himself out of little. -.abortive
plotetettit that now �r -never he muse do all
he °Old for his country. He bailed he
oomiOdimatr. fle knew that Garibaldi
waste* tee.saviot of his oppressed land.
Tne tttleet rash step had been •tagen
and to SIMON. • The time and
the al' were at' hand. • Reoruits
were oohing by . thousands to the
mine- war, but :the ory was "mone
motietee, money !" Money for arms and
ammrA0ion-Lmoney for stores, food zid
(1 ,thitsrtmone.y for bribes--rnoney for
eierytOtg ! These who fUrnielted 'the
sinewScilwar would be the liberatexe
of thetiteountay- •
• WhOeitciuldihe hesitate Had his Meter
lived :,*;').57oul'd have given all the fortuhe
-aleeepotettesedttact freely as shewoulcithive
given 00110 Were not her children
Italiate. Liberty laughed at such a ei41.1
thing feelbreaoh of true t; • •
Exce0 e few thousand pounds, he ruth-
lessly 'fr:Alized and saorificed the whole of
the obbleen's inheritatioe. He pouted their
theus4tede and thousands into the hands
held_ etetet for thane. The large Rune was
spent -ere it was -moot wanted; and
Cenert‘tterred that he,freed Italy by the
.toepipaorefil,4 e,e:: Perhapit he did-wh.! 04n
• Titleptend htmors were afterward offered
him fottlis great though secret service. litt
makesccrittethink better.Of the man that Ile
refusekell reward. • His conscience they
hive tett biin be had notrobbed
Any w, 'he. remained plain Dr. Carmel,
and beetle with his old leaders and friends
when ki,lpund that Italy was to be a kind-
domt atielnot a republic. - • •
He kept, I said, a few thousand
-poundettt The boy and the girl were grow-
ing upttt:.•,bd their uncle thought that even
ehniso•upgakteti;tidtisixt permitted- him to keep hack
wart t
to be s
-about
set eve
-who
complete their education and
..)o in lite. Pauline was promising
autiful that he. treubled Iie
uture. A rich- husband would
ing right fo her. But Anthony
becoming a wild, headstrong
fellow-etwas another affair. e
As Welt tte the youth should reach men's
estate, •;tttneri - had resolved to Make
()leen bttiapt of his defalcate:me-to telt
hirn.botiethd Money had been spent -to
beghisiteeeiveness, and, if nedessary, beaffii
the pentilt7 of his fraudulent act. -• But so
motley • remained he delayed*
;The young man, if evinoing pei
with his udole's regeneratidi
led piirsuit of liberty
tong est -
doing s
aYn3Patk
sohenied
believeett his integrity.- Feeling assueee
that *Wills CAMS of age .he.would succeed
to a splettdtd inlieritance,'swelled by ante
mulateeettevings, he threw away money
a thousilt4'end• one extravagant ways, till
Ceneri aih saw that the end -of the reseeve
fond we ;awing near. • .
• So hott , he had.money in hand to meet
Anthont ederoands, he postponed the veil:
day of ottxt seamen. -.The idea, Which Maceri
had trietttetwork out with my aid, of appeal-
ing to teteltalisi Government for a rata= •
of Emmett; Mee amounts ex•pended, suggested
itself tofetteit but to parry this out it would
be .neceetetty to Jet his nephew know wbab
had takezqpiace-the appeal must be made
in.his
As the:.
dreaded 04.,
Anthon•
•
pavitable exposure diew near he
,ttkOte and more. He had studied
teharaoter, and felt sure that
going; sotlong as his wants had been sup- •
pliedhe had accepted, until now, the excuse -
made for deferring the pettlement of his
affairs. Whether his snspioione had at
last been awakene&or not oannothe said; ,
but recently he had taken another tone,
arid was insisting that his fortune should
be at, once plachd in his' bands. , Ceneri, -
Whose schemes called iliM for a tithe to
Eoglahd, pacified him by assuring hitt
that he would, during hie. stay in London1
explain eyerything. •
The explanation mint indeed be glyen•
now, as Anthony's het draft i3 had reduced
the remnant of his father's wealth almost
to nothiog
Now, as to Maoari's part in the affair,
he had been for years a 'useful and trusted -
agent of Canerrs bnt most, probably with-
out the tatter's lofty and unselfish aims.
ile appears to have followed conspiraoy as
A trade by which money might be ma e.
The fiat, which seems beyond
that he fought . bravely and distingui
himself on the battle -field, may be
acipouited for by the natural ferocity -of the
men's nature, which bade him :Apt for the
sake of fighting. •
Being mixed up tin all his plots be was
often at Canon's house, wherever for the
time being it might be, and on many coca -
8i0118 saw Pauline. He fell in love .with
her when she was but a young girl, and
tried everything he knew to win her heart.
To her he was and kind. She had 110
reason to mistrust him, but she utterly
refused to give him the love he asked for,
oTbalp3:iri.staueiltr. wentsol ati,ituniteagevaalienfoptaYrte:
-the man, to give him his duel was con-
asiured him of the hopleesness or eta*,
but after .eaoh -rebuff he returned to the
attack. 7
Ceneri gave him no enootragement. Ile
did not wish toe offend him, and seeingAet,
the girl was proof. tagainst his blue:Tie&
ment, let things alone, hoping that Maestri
would grow weary of ',urging those requests
whieb were always met by -refusals. He
.bajieved that lie was not seeking Pauline
for the sake of the _money which ehould
have been hers; Miami knew what large
autos Cimeri. had !poured into the patriot's
treasury, and, no - doubt, guessed *hence
they came. • • •
- Pauline remained at Halloo' until she was t
nearly eighteen; then she spent two tears .1
with her unole in Italy..=. It was a dull life
for the girl,' and she sighed audibly for
England. Although meeting eeldom,
she. Wail- passionately ' attached to her
brother, and was greatly delighted when
Caned told her that ebusiness would take
him tor a while t� London, and that she
might acoompany him. • She was growing
tired of Meoexi'e pertinacity, and, 'more-
over, hinged to see her .brother again. t
Cohere for the sake of receiving hie many :
poltitioal friends' at what hours of day or
night be chose, took a furnished house for
a short term. • PalliinesS diegust was greet
When she found that one Of her 'first visit-
ors. was Matted. His presence Was io
indispeneable to Ceneri that he took up his
abode with them in Horace street. As old
Teresa the dootoiti servant,- accompanied .
the party and waited upon them, the .change
to Paulinewas a very slight one. -
Maoari still persecuted the girl without .
.success. At last,. aintost .desperate, he
formed the wild plan -of trying to -enlist
her brother on his side. His idea was that
Pauline's love for 'Anthony would indium
her to yieldto an wish be expressed. He
was •no particohte friend of the young
mante but, having once rendered him a
signet servioee felt himself entitled to ask a
laver at his kande.* Knowing that both
brother and sister were penniless he had
lees' hesitation in AO doing. •
He called on ;Anthony and madethis
request. Anthony, .who seems to have
been ti • proudt arrogant; and not a very
pleasant young man, simply laughed at his
impertinence and bade him begone. Poor
by, he little knew what that laugh would
'cost him -1 • , G'
It may have been the retort made by
.Maitari, as he -departed in a Whirlwind of
Any way he wrote at once to his uncle,
insisting
that Opened .Anthonrs eyes as to the
jeopard'y whith his fortune was placed.
sting upon an immediate settlemen*.
In .the event of any delay he would consult
and it necessary take criminal
proceedings against!. the trustee.
The gionient .wliich Ceneri had so long
dreaded -so long postponed -had •come ;
only now, - the oolifee,..ion, inetead. of being
•Euelie intended a volottary one, would be
ng from him. • • •
Other he Would 'be amenable to the
ea or Roglish law he ,did not know,
he felt certain that Anthony would at .
take steps', to insure his arrest and
ntion. The latter, if only temporary,
d ruin the scheme upon which he was
engaged. At any -cost Anthony _March
t be silenced for .a time. -
e assured me . with the solemnity of a.
g man that ho thought of the dreadful
ns whioh.effected this was in his mind.
ad revolved many plane and Au
on one whichttalthough diffioultlitt
te and very lazardous, .seemed to
the best promise of eueoess. tfis
tion was, with the assistance of his
Is and subordinates, to carry Anthooy
d and deposit • him for eome•months
kinetic .asylum, :The confinement
nty to be temporayy ; yet, although
i did not ocinfeas, to it I hay little
doubt but the young man would havebean
asked tit buy his freedom by a:promise to
forgive' the misappropriation of the .trust
itoAnoneedYx:EliuwtiaOsn.t° .°Matiorrleirr vtobwisiPngrev°eitugeeaPnlanoe
for the words of insult, was ready to aid in
way. Peteoft, the man with the
d face, Was the doctor% body and
Teresa, the old servant e w d have *
itted any crime at her rya
librld• The necessary paperet Id be
ed. or forged. Let the •Ilon0Pirlitgra
tithony to visit them at the house in
street and he should leave' iionly
atio in :charge of doctor and his
s.. It was a vile, treacherous sobeme,
oess of which was very _doubtful,
tiding, milt must, oerrying the victim
y. How this was to be done, Ceneri
-exactly explain-Pierhspe he had'
te worked out the detaile of the plot
Eips the boy was tiebe drugged -por-
e oolinted upon his fratitio state
e diseovered the Arne position of
to give dolor to the statement that -
of unsound mind.
(Tolle 'mutinied.)
wru
W
"tali
but
oncie
dete
wohl
now
mus
dyin
Mee
He h
settle
• exeau
when he few the truth his oneiwish would give
be to take iievenge on the fraudulent tills- inten
tee‘. Ot**4 could see nothing before him frien
but a welitteserved terra of penal servitude. abroa
I he Betetieh law felled to tomtit him, that in a
of his ett441- country might be brought was o
against.W; • Cener
It seeteetto me that -until. this time hd
had conithWed: no . crime -from which he
oould hoestheolve hime,elf on the grounds
of patriotati, ; now the desire to MVO
himself itt* punishpient grew upon him;
and he (1.etermined to. avoid the mist-
:quenoes 42. acts. • • • •
He hadt`tteer felt any great affection far
the two 12":7ijuldren. No doubt they. had
latterly ati.,,Yi'ared in the light of wronged
every
soarre
soul.
innooenteeteho would one day dernarid oornm-
reokoningtetth him. They were in dispee oomm
shim toortinteh like their father for him tb ebtain
be greatly Oawn towardthero. He despised test A
Anthony fpm his gay, frivolous life -a life oracle
without ple4 or ambition -and contrasted es a tun
it with hie; own. He hohestlpjuilieved he leeper
he SUC
necessi
O Ital
did -not
not qui
h
affairs
ke was
was doing'
his plots
steps of ii
eioret oire
importance
ed work in the world; that
conspiracies quickened the
1 liberty.I h' dark,
eras - n
e was a figure of considerable
If le were ruined and
imprisoned 1.t...4o would be missed. Had he
not the riitit to weigh his own high put.
poses again*/ the butterfly existence Of his
nephew?
ete
So. b rsoned and -persuaded titoself
that, for tb4,Sake of 'mankind, he might do
ahnost anytiOng-to-eave himself.
Anthony'- prich leA as now twenty-twO.-
photmrtlating h4.41runole j• careless and easy
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