HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JAN. 22, 1929.
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ILlUSTRXrU) BY IRWKBJDRLEN
Palermo is like a night blossom
which opens only with the flrst
breath of evening. By day, it is
parched and sleepy and stupid; by
night, it is alive and joyous the
place itself becomes an al fresco
paradise.-
By day, those who can, sleep; by
night, they awake and don their
daintiest clothing, and Palermo is
gay.
The terrace of the Hotel de
l'Europe extends to the very verge
of the promenade, and, night by
night, is crowded with men of all
conditions and nations, who sit be
fore little marble tables facing the
sea. At one of these, so close to the
promenade that the dresses of the
passers-by almost touched them,
two men were seated.
One was of an order and race
easily to be distinguished in any
quarter of the globe an English
country gentleman. He was tall
and handsome, and young enough
not to have outlived enthusiasm, for
he was looking' out upon the gay
scene with keen Interest His fea
tures were well cut, his eyes were
blue, and his bronze face was
smooth, save for a slight, well-formed
moustache. He wore a brown
tweed coat and waistcoat, flannel
trousers, a straw hat tilted over his
eyes, and he was smoking a briar
pipe.
His companion was of a different
type. He was of medium height
only, and thin; his complexion was
sallow, and his eyes and hair were
black. His features, though not al
together pleasing, were regular,
and almost classical in outline. His
clothes displayed him to the worst
posslblo advantage. He wore black
trousers and a dark frock coat,
tightly fitting, which accentuated
the narrowness of his shoulders.
The only relief to the somberness of
his attire consisted in a white flow
er carefully fastened in his button
hole. They were only acquaintances,
these two men; chance had brought
them together for some evil purpose
of her own. They had become for
a while companions, albeit silent
ones.
The Englishman was in far too
good a humor with himself, the
tened light, or was there Indeed
something spiritual, something more
than humanly beautiful in the deli
cate oval face perfect in its out
line, perfect in its faint coloring
and stately poise? She was walk
ing Blowly, her every movement full
of a distinctive and deliberate grace
and her head a little upturned, as
though her thoughts were far away
among the softly burning stars,
rather than concerned' with the
fashionable and picturesque crowd
which thronged around her. A re
mark from her companion, a girl of
somewhat slighter stature and dark
er complexion, caused her to lower
her eyes, and In doing so they fell
upon the eager, impassioned gaze of
the young Englishman.
Afterwards he was never asham
ed to confess that that moment
brought with it a peculiar lingering
sweetness which never altogther
died away. It was the birth of a
new sensation, the most poignant
of all sensations, although philo
sophers deny and materialists scoff
at it After all, there is something
more than refined sensuality In love
which has so sudden a dawning;
there is a certain Innate spiritual
ity which sublimates and purifies it,
so that the flame burns softly but
brightly still through joy and grief,
mocking at satiety, surviving the
sorrow of gray hairs, triumphing
over the desolation of old age, and
sweetening the passage to the
grave. He was a headstrong, chiv
alrous young man, passionate, loy
al, and faithful, among all his faults.
That flrst love of his never grew
cold, never lessened. It lasted for
ever. For some men it is not pos
sible to give the better part of
themselves up to the worship of a
pure woman; selfishness forbids it
But this young Englishman who sat
there spellbound, absorbed in the
consciousness of this new and sweet
emotion, was not one of these.
Suddenly she withdrew her eyes
with a faint, conscious blush, and
as she did so she saw for the first
time the Sicilian. Her whole aspect
swiftly changed. A terrified shud
der swept across her features, and
her lips parted with fear.
"Who is she?" the Englishman
asked abruptly.
The Englishman threw a piece of
gold into the brown, greedy palm.
"The Signor Is noble. The beau
tiful lady's name is Signorina Adrl
enne Cartucclo."
"The singer?"
"The same, Signor. The divine
singer."
"Ah!"
The Englishman turned toward
the wide, open window, and gazed
stead-fastly at the place in the
crowd where she had vanished.
On the brow of the Hill Flolesse,
at a sharp angle in the white dusty
road, a man and a woman stood
talking. On one side of them was
a grove of flowering magnolias, and
on the other a high, closely-trimmed
hedge skirted the grounds of the
Villa Flolesse. There was not an
other bouI In sight, but, as though
the place were not secure enough
from interruption, the girl, every
now and then, glanced half fear
fully around her, and more than
once paused in the midde of a sen
tence to listen. At last he fears
escaped from her lips.
'Leonardo, I wish that you had
not come!" she cried. "What is the
good of it? I shall have no rest till
I know that you are beyond the
sea again."
"Beyond the seas, while my heart
is chained forever here, Marghar
ita!" he answered. "Ah! I have
tried, and I know the bitterness of
It You cannot tell what exile has
been like to me. I could bear it no
longer. Tell me, child! I watched
you climb this hill together. You
looked back and saw me, and wait
ed. Did she see me, too? Quick!
answer me! 1 will know! She saw
me on the Marina. Did she know
that I was following her?"
"I think she saw you. She said
nothing when I lingered behind. It
was as though she knew."
The Sicilian clasped his hands,
and looked away over the sea. The
moonlight fell upon his weary pallid
face, and glistened in his dark sad
eyes. He spoke more to himself
than her.
"She knew! And yet she would
not wait to speak a single word to
me! Ah! it is cruel! If only she
could know how night by night in
those far-distant countries, I have
lain on the mountain tops, and wan
dered through the valleys, thinking
and dreaming of her always of
her! It has been an evil time with
me, my sister, a time of dreary days
and sleepless nights. And this is
the end of it! My heart is faint
and sick with longing, and I has
tened here before it should break.
I must see her, Margharita! Let us
hasten on to the villa!"
She laid her hand upon his arm.
Her eyes were soft with coming
tears.
"Leonardo, listen," she cried. "It
is best to tell you. She will not see
you. She is quite firm. She is angry
with you for coming."
"Angry with me! Angry because
I love her, so that I risk my life
just to see her, to hear her speak!
Ah! but that Is cruel! Let me go
in and speak to her! Let me plead
with her In my own fashion!"
She shook her head.
"Leonardo, the truth Is best," she
said softly. "Adrienne does not love
you. She is quite determined not
to see you again. Even I, pleading
with tears in my eyes, could not
persuade her. She has locked her
self in her room while she prepares
for the concert You could not see
her unless you forced yourself upon
her, and that would not do."
"No, I would not do that," he
answered wearily. "Margharita,
there is a question; I must ask it,
though the answer kill me. Is there
any one else?"
"There is no one else, Leonardo,
yet But what matter is that, since
it cannot be you? Some day it will
come. All that a sister could do I
have done. She pities you, Leon
ardo, but she does not love you.
She never will!"
He moved from the open space,
where the moonlight fell upon his
marble face, to the shadow of the
magnolia grove. He stood there
quite silent for a moment Then he
spoke in a strained, hard voice,
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The Englishman looked Into the eyes of the most beautiful woman he
hnd ever seen. . . .
place, and his surroundings, to hold
his place for long. He exchanged
his pipe for a Havana, and com
menced to talk.
"It's very stupid of me, but, do
you know, I've quite forgotten your
name for the moment I remember
my cousin, Cis Davenport, Intro
ducing us at Rome, and I knew you
again directly I saw you. But I'm
hanged if I can think of your name!
I always had a precious bad mem
ory." The Sicilian looked none too well
pleased at the Implied request
"I do not object to telling you my
name," he said In a low tone, sunk
almost to a whisper, "but you will
pardon me if I make a request
which may appear somewhat sing
ular to you. I do not wish you to
address me by it here, or mention
it To be frank, there are reasons
for wishing my presence in this
neighborhood not to be known. You
are a gentleman, and you will un
derstand." "Oh, perfectly." the Englishman
answered him, In a tone of blank
bowlldermont
"My name is Lenoardo dl Marl
on! !"
"By Jove! of course It Is!" the
Englishman exclaimed. "I should
have thought of It in a moment."
"You will not forget my request,
and if you have occasion to address
me, perhaps you will be so good as
to do so by the name 01 '(jortegi
It Is the name by which I am known
here, and to which I have some
right"
The Englishman nodded.
"All right. I'll remember. By the
bve," he went on. "I had the pleas
ure of meeting yo-ur sister In Na
ples, I believe. She is engaged to
marry Martin Briscoe, isn't she?"
The Sicilian's face darkened into
a scowl; the thin lips were tightly
compressed, and his eyes flashed
with angry light.
"I was not aware of it," he an
swered haughtily.
There was a brief lull In the
stream of promenaders.
The Englishman looked Into the
eyes of the most beautiful woman
he had ever seen. A flood of silver
moonlight lay upon the Marina,
dancing awav across the dark blue
waters of the bay, and tho soft
dazzling light gently touched her
hair, and gleamed in ner aarK,
sweet eyes. She was tall, and clad
In white flowing draperies clinging
softly around her slim, girlish fig
ure, and giving to her appearance
an InexDresslble daintiness, as
thouirh thev were Indeed emblem
atic of the spotless purity of that
fair young bolng. Was" It the chas-
I fear that I do not quite under
stand you," he said quietly, although
his voice and limbs were tremming
with passion; "to whom do you
allude?"
"The girl In white who passed
just now. You knew her! Tell me
her name!"
"Why should I?"
"I wish to know It"
"Possibly. But that is no reason
why I should tell It to you. That
lady is a friend of mine, certainly,
but it is not the custom In my coun
try, however it may be In yours, to
bandy a lady's name about in a
public place."
At the door of the hotel tne eng
lishman paused for a moment, and
then, instead of Joining the stream
of promenaders, he entered and
slowly ascended the broad marble
staircase toward his room. Just as
he reached the flrst landing, how
ever, he felt a light touch on his
rm, and a guttural voice in, his
ear. He turned sharply round, and
found before him one of the waiters
the one who had served him with
his coffee outside.
"Well! what do you want?" he
asked.
The man answered in a low tone,
with his eyes glancing suspiciously
around all the time.
'The Signor was Inquiring the
name of the lady who passed by,"
he said apologetically.
"Well?"
"I can tell It to the Signor."
"Look sharp then!"
"The Signor is generous," he re
marked, with a cunning look. "I
have risked my place by leaving the
terrace without permission to bring
him this news, and I am poor
very, very poor!" he added, with a
sudden drop in his voice which re
sembled a whine.
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which she scarcely recognized.
'Margharita, you have done your
best for me. You do not know what
a man's love Is, or you would not
wonder that I suffer so much. Yet,
if it must be, It must I will give
her up. I will go back to my exile
and forget her. Yet since I am
here, grant me a last favor. Let
me see her to say farewell."
She looked up at him in distress.
"Leonardo, how can I? She has
given orders that under no circum
stances whatever are you to be ad
mitted." "But to say farewell!"
"She would not believe It It has
been so before, Leonardo, and then
you have been passionate, and
pleaded your cause all over again.
I have promised that I will never
ask her to see you again."
"Then let me see her without ask
ing. You can And an opportunity,
if you will. For my sake, Marghar
ita!" (Continued Next Week)
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