FRIDAY, AUGUST 7
.6
THE MORNING ASTOMAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
A Daughter
of Vesuvius.
By Pierct Vinctnt.
Copyrighted, 1908, by Aisoclated
Literary Pre.
racy tot ttoseotrase. His 6Uva trees
were tho best In the place, ami did not
the choicest Lnehrynm Chrlstl come
from h! rrflnn rri-iwn nn tha anrlnfl '
of Vesuvius? Caesnr was dark and
It was a small two edged stiletto
that Zabetta Ueuiella bought at An
tonio Mordo's shop In Naples, a rerj
tiny plaything of a stiletto; but, ai
tTery Italian knows,' the heart He
barely two inches below the surface
and a blade that will reach that dis
tance Is long enough for all practical
purposes.
On the crucifix handle of this par
tlcular stiletto Zabetta bad sworn that
tt should drink the blood of either
Caesar Pino or of bis betrothed, Maria
Tlncente.
They were a very ancient family, the
Oemellas. ' One ancestor had escaped
from the eruption that overwhelmed
Pompeii and another had been mum
mified at Hercnlaneum. The race had
certain fierce sturdiness Inherited
from some lava born forefather befoit
Bomnlus.
They also had an unpleasant mediae
Tal habit of keeping their oaths re
gardless of consequences, as family
traditions and court records bore wit
Bess. They took life seriously, as
any bad found to their cost
Bo when people heard that Caesai
Pino had thrown over Zabetta Gemel
la for Maria Tlncente they shook theii
heads. Zabetta herself went home,
dry lipped and fiery eyed, and at mid
night swore the sibylline blood oath,
t strange and terrible curse Intrusted
to ber by the muttering old crone, bet
grandmother.
Zabetta dwelt in the outskirts of
Boecotra on the slopes nearest Vesu
vius, v Her first view at dawn from her
little attic was of the purple plume and
mighty shoulders of the great volcano
heaved against the sky, and her last
glimpse at night was of the same
plume streaming wildly across the sun
set She knew the mountain In all its
moods and from its nature shaped ber
e-wn. Its heart of fire was no wilder
than that within ber breast
Caesar Pino belonged to the aristoc-
UrUM. 1 Tl, ln'i'i'.'nfanl 'i i'i'h, I" Till i iipyji
BABRTA URIO TITB IKSBN8IBU OASSAR 1
l HER ABMS.
handsome, a fine singer and dancer, a
bard worker, a good fellow all round.
All the girls in the village were In love
with him.
Handsome Caesar fell In love with
handsomer Zabetta, True, ber family
was poor. Bat what difference did
that make? Caesar had enough for
both. Their betrothal soon followed.
Nobody could deny that they made a
fine looking pair. To be sure, some
families whose daughters would not
And everybody" wttlted (b ' see wttnt
would happen.
It was the next day after Uio break
that Zabetta bought the dagger. The
Oemellas always acted promptly. Uut
she found It difficult to decitio whose
blood tho sharp point should drink,
Sometimes she felt it would be
Caesar's, sometimes Maria's, and on
one black day when the two passed
her arm In arm she determined that
II should be both and she had hard
work to restrain herself from putting
tho sentence into Immediate execution,
Then came the great eruption.
For generations Vesuvius, muttering
and grumbling, had looked down on
tho presumptuous vineyards and olive
groves, boldly pressing nearer the ra
tion whore It had decreed no living
i thlnir should grow. Unheeded it had
given warning after warning, like c
cross old man who U continually mat
ing threats, but whom no one takes at
his word. ' , '
At last the giant that dwelt in .the
mountain's fiery heart decided that it
was time to teach the forgetful race
of men one lesson more. So poufl He
blew off the cone and dencended la
itrcams of lava and sheets )f ashes.
Boscotrase was one of He worst
sufferers. For a time Its cltlxeua hopsd
they might escape with a shower of
stoues and cinders. But one night the
scarlet ribbon that had been trickling
like rivers of blood down the rough
slopes turned toward the village and
flight was the only resource.
Iu a few hours Caesar had seen his
vineyard and olive grove damaged 1
yond hope of reparation In his own
lifetime. From a wealthy mnu he had
become poor. Although he did not
notice It, Maria's affection bad cooled
have objected to occupying Zabetta's; perceptibly from the moment when she
place hinted privately at the record of
the Gemellus But none spoke openly,
remembering that same record.
AH went well until Maria Viucente
came to Boscotrase. Then Caesars
affectiou for Zabetta cooled. Not that
Maria deliberately' did anything to
tempt the young man away. But It
soon became known through We town
that Caesar aud his sweetheart had
quarreled; next, that he was betrothed
to Maria.
Then, indeed, people shook their
heads and some said. "Poor Zabetta!"
But others, who knew her family's
record better, mid. ."Poojr Caesar!"
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t
realized that her over was now no
richer than his fellows. ,
Zabetta was gloomily preparing to
flee from her home at the coming of
the lava. To her whether she escaped
or not mattered very little. The cata
clysm without found a responsive echo
in her heart, fiery, scorched ami
Masted.
With a small bundle of her belong
ings she was hurrying along the street
amid the ashes and falling stones
when a pnle faced, shrieking figure
rushed past her.
Zabetta's hand Involuntarily sought
ber bosom, whence lurked the stiletto.
She was alone with her bated rival
In that fearful semlmlduight who
I would know if she slew Maria?
i The other shrank back, seeing her
stern face and guessing the Import of
! her bosomed hand.
I "Where Is Caesar?" grimly question
1 ed Zabetta. Maria cowered away.
I "I left him at his house a little while
; ago. The lava was coming. As he en
t tered to get a bundle the walls fell
; and buried him. I dared not go In.
He is dead."
"Coward!" hissed Zabetta. Drop
ping ber load, she gave the shrinking
girl a push that hastened her flight
: then flew back through the lurid gloom
along the well known way that led to
Caesar's house. Why she went she
did not know. Caesar was dead to
her, so her heart whispered. Yet In
stinct told her to hasten back.
: Soon she saw the ruined bouse.
Only a few rods away a red stream
was rolling slowly down the street
She entered the tottering walls and
beheld a prone figure partly burled
nnder the fallen stones.
It was Caesar!
The peril of her former lover made
Zabetta forgetful of her own danger
and of the fact that be was the be
trothed of another woman. Madly slie
tore with bleeding fingers at the debris
that covered him. His heart was beat
lug; he was alive. With strength in
creased tenfold she tugged at the
wreckage until she had cleared away
everything but a heavy block thn'
pressed down the lUtle flnjrer of his
right hand. This block resisted Za
betta's utmost efforts.
It was prowlne hotter and hotter.
A few minutes more and the lava
. would engulf the house. Death would
I be the portion of any living thing
' therein. Zabetta drew her tiny dag-
iger.
i At that instant Caesar returned to
I consciousness. Seeing her bending
I over hlni, knife in hand, he gave a
I t ry of terror and appeal and swooned
again Just as the blade descended. It
severed his cruHhed finger at the see
; ond Joint and he was free,
j There was not a second to lose. AI
' ready the air was scorching. With a
'man's strength Zabetta lifted the in
sensible Caesar in ber arms and car
I rled him out into the street Through
the showers of ashes she staggered
j with her burden. She had not got
; flfty feet from the door when the lava
! boiled against the walls and tho whole
house fell In ruins,
j But Caesar was saved!
I So Zabetta kept tier vow, sworn on
the crucifix of the little dagger, that it
! should drink the blood of either Cae
jsar or Maria. And It was probably
! the first instance on record whore the
j fulfillment of a Cornelia's blood oath
resulted in a marriage.
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