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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1929. PAGE THREE THE DESKpi 1QYER IllUSJRATED 3 fRANK&DRllEN WHAT HAPPENED BTiFOBEl Palmero Is the scene. There an exile, Leonardo di Marioni, has come for love of Adrienne Cartucclo, who spurns him. He meets an Englishman, Lord St. Mau rice, who falls in love with Adrienne on sight. Leonardo sees his Bister Mar Kharlta, who tells him his love for Ad rienne is hopeless. But he pleads with her to arrange an accidental meeting, to say farewell, between Adrienne and him. She consents. That night the English man Is informed of an attempt being made to carry off Signorina Cartuccio and Margharita, who are walking, by brigands employed by a rejected Bultor, on a lonely road. He rushes to the scene, and proves able to rescue the ladies. Inflamed by the failure of his scheme, Leonardo sees Margharita, who shows him she knows that he was Instigator of the attempted attack. The English man now sees Adrienne often. The Englishman, sitting in the hotel, finds a (lugger at his feet. Looking up ,he sees the Sicilian, and scents trouble. "We sat here a week ago," recalls Leonardo. Lord St. Maurice nods. Leonardo and the Englishman quar rel. The Englishman at first refused to accept a chellenge to duel, then when the Italian slaps him consents. The two men face each other ready to fight to the death. Margharita stops the duel by coming Just In the nick of time to save the Englishman from his fate, with two officers who arrest the exile Leonardo. Leonardo vows vengeance. After 25 years In jail he Is again at his hotel, an old, broken man with only memories left to him. At his hotel the proprietor, worried about him, advertises for his friends and Leonardo is first visited by the wo man lie had loved, whom he shoos out of his sight. Then there comes to him the daughter of his sister, whom he f:reets in great surprise. He learns that lis sister is dead. Count Leonardo tells his niece the story of his love for Margharita. She is sympathetic. NOW 00 08 WITH THE STORY Letter from Margharita Briscoe to the Count Leonardl dl Marioni, core of the Princess dl Carlotti, Palazzo Carlotti, Rome. "My dear, dear Uncle: I am In clined to scold you for your letter, for it made me very sad. Why should you be so sure of dying just as the vengeance which is your due becomes yours? You are not very old, and I can nurse you even as I did before. Think how lonely I should be without you. No, you must not think of leaving me. I forbid it! It is morbid. Banish that fancy for my sake, and try and think of a quiet happy life together away in some southern city, where the sea and the sky are blue, and the sun Is warm, and the breezes are Boft and laden with the per fume of sweet flowers. We would never live In this country, would we? I do not like It. It is cold and damp, and It chills me, chills even my heart Oh! I know just the life we could live together, and be very, very happy. Write to me no more of death. "I am quite settled down here, waiting. My duties are light, and I do not find them irksome. Every day I realize that I did well in coming here as a governess, and not as one seeking a home. They think that It is because of my pride that I have willed It so. They do not know. "Lady St. Maurice tries to be kind to me in her way; but when the honeyed words are upon her lips, I think of you and my heart is steel. She must have been a very beautiful woman nay, she is beautiful now! You asked me in your first letter to watch and to tell you whether they were happy together. You asked me ana i ten vou the truth. "Yes! I think that or an me women whom I have ever seen, her life seems to have flown along the most calmly and peacefully. I have never seen a cloud upon her brow; I hate her for it. She has no right to be hoppy; she who by such treachery condemned you to a liv ing death. Once my anger rose up so fiercely that I nearly struck her, and I had to hurry from the room lest I should betray myself before the time. Truly she deserves pun ishment, and my hand shall not shrink from inflicting it. "Yet, after all, Is death the most complete form of punishment Sometimes I doubt It I would mar the beauty of her face for ever, and laugh. I would strike her blind gladly; I would make her a cripple for life, without remorse, without hesitation. To see her suffer would please me. I should have no pity! "But death, uncle! If anything of our religion be true, would death be so terrible a thing? Against my will I see that her life is good. She has made her home what it should be, and her husband happy. She is a devoted Christian, and, wet or line, every Sunday morning before breakfast, she goes to the little church in the village and kneels be fore the altar. She visits the sick and the poor, and they love her. For me, religion has become some thing of a dream. I was brought up a Roman Catholic. What I am now I do not know! When I vowed my life to Its present purpose I fill ed It with new thoughts; I put my religion away from me. I could not kneel with hate in my heart; I could not confess, with the de Biro to kill in my bosom. "Yet let that pass. Supposing there be a heaven, If we kill her for her treachery to. you will not that sin be wined out? May she not iraln heavtn? And If so, what of our vengeance? Death Is swift! What will she suffer? It will be those who are left behind who will feel the pain; for her, there will be a happiness beyond even the hap piness of earth. She will be shriven of her sin by our vengennce. "Think of this, my dear uncle! Do not Imagine that I am growlnR faint-hearted; do not imagine that I am drawing back from the task which I now claim as my right. ishment, shall surely fall upon her; she shall not escape! Only think what is best "Write to me all that is in your heart. Fear not to speak out! I would know all. Farewell! Your loving 'Margharita. Letter from the Count Leonardo dl Marioni, the Palazza Carlotti, Rome, to Miss Margharita Bris coe, Mallory Grange, Lincolnshire. "Beloved Margharita: I will con fess that your letter troubles me. If there be heaven for this woman who wrecked my life, there is no heaven for me, no religion, no God. You say that she Is a good woman. She is then a good woman through fear. She seeks to atone, but she can never atone. She won a boy s passionate love; she wore his heart upon her sleeve; she cast it away at the moment of her pleasure. She broke the vows of an order, which should have been as sacred to her as the face of God to the angels; and she sent a Marioni to rot through a useless life in a miserable prison, xne boy wnose neart sne broke, and the man whose unchang ing and unchangeable hate for her. Away with all other thoughts, my vengeance knows but one end, ami that is death! Not sudden death, mind! but death slow, lingering, and painful. I would see the strug gle against some mysterious sick ness, with my own eyes; I would stand by the bedside and mock. I would watch the cheeks grow thin and pale, and the eyes grow dim. She should know me in those lost moments. She should see me, the wasted shadow of a man, myself on the threshold of the grave, stand ing by her bedside, cold and un- pitying, and holding out toward her a white hyacinth. "That is how I would have it, though thus is may not be. Yet speak to me not of any other ven geance save death. Let none other dwell for a moment in your thoughts, I solemnly charge you, Margharita. "As to my search, it has not yet, alas, been successful. Think not that I have lost heart, or that I am discouraged. Never fear but that I shall find the man whom I seek if not, there are others. I give my self one month longer; at the end of that time, if Paschuli be not found, another must serve my pur pose. "The Princess Is much Interested in you. and sends her love. She is impatient to take you under her care. I have told her that it will not be long nor will it "Farewell, my child. Soon I shall send you the good news. Yours, "Leonardo di Marioni, "Palezzo Carlotti, Rome." "Margharita, Beloved. Success! success! My search is over, my purpose is accomplished. I have found Paschuli. Enclosed in tills letter you will find a smaller en velope. It contains the powder. "Can you wonder that my hand is shaking, and that there is a mist before my eyes! I am an old man. and great joy is hard to bear; hard er still after a weary, wretched life such as mine. You will under stand, though-t-you will be able to decipher this faint, uncertain hand writing, and you will forgive me if it tires you. Ay, you will do that, Margharita, I know! "Let me tell you how I found him. It was by the purest accident. I turned aside into an old curio shop to buy some trifle for you which took my fancy, and It was Paschuli himself who served me. Thus you see how indirectly even your star always shines over mine and leads me aright. If it had not been for you I should never have dreamed of entering the place, but I thought of you and your taste for Roman jewelry, and behold, I found myself In the presence of the man for whom I was making vain search. My Margharita! my good angel! I have you to thank even for the successful accomplishment of my part In that edict of our Or der which you and I are banded to gether to carry out "At first Paschuli did not recog nize me, and it was long before I could make him believe that I was indeed that most unfortunate of men, Leonardo di Marioni. But when he was convinced, he prom ised me what I sought. That same evening he gave it to me. "Margharita, there is no poison in the world like that which I send you in this letter. The merest grain of it is sufficient, In wine or water, or in food of any sort. There Is no rat of medicine which could detect it no means by which the death, which will surely follbw, can be averted; so you run no risk, my child! Bide your time, and then then! "Margharita, I am coming to you. Nay, do not be alarmed, I run no risk. I shall come disguised, and no one will know me, but I must see something of the end with my own eyes, or half its sweetness would be untasted. I would see her face and die! I would trace day by day, the workings of the poison; and in the last moments of her agony, I would reveal myself, and would point to my withered frame and the hand of death upon my forehead, and cry out to her that the Order of the White Hya cinth had kept Its vow. I would have her eyes meet mine as the mists of death closed in upon her. I would have her know that the oath of a Marioni, In friendship or in hate, in protection or in ven geance, is one witn nls nonor. inis may not be, Margharita! I can not see all this! I cannot even stand by her bedside for a moment and show her my face, that she might know whose hand It is which has stricken her down. Yet, I must be near! Fear not but I shall man age It safely! I would not bring danger or the shadow of danger upon you, my beloved. "I leave Rome tonight and I leave It with joy. You cannot Im agine how inexpressibly sad it has been for me to And myself in the place where the greater part of my youth my too ambitious youth was spent All is changed and strange to me. There are new streets and many Innovations which drew me nearer against my better J puzzle me; and although my friends are kind, twenty-live years have crushed our sympathies. To them I am like a sad figure from a by gone world, a Banquo at the feast, something to pity a little no more. I am nothing to anybody beyond that I am a wearisome old man, whose mind is a blank, and who only cumbers the way. Ah, well, it is not for long. The day of my de sire is at hand, and God has given me you, Margharita, to accomplish it, and to close my eyes in peace. Bless you, my dear, dear child! You have sweetened the end of a marred and wretched life! Yours has been an angel's task, and you will have an angel's reward. "We shall meet before long, but of the manner of our meeting I can not tell you yet Till then adieu! Yours In hope, "Leonardl dl Marioni.". . "P. S. I forgot to say that the whole of the poison, or even half a teaspoonful, would produce sudden and abrupt death. Just a pinch, ad ministered twice, perhaps, in order to be quite secure, would be suffi cient" "My Beloved Margharita, Many a time have I reproached myself for my imprudence last night, and the effects which I fear it had upon you. It was thoughtless and rash of me to come near the house at all; but, indeed, I meant only to watch from a safe distance; only, as I crouched behind a shrub upon the lawn, I saw her face, and the sight Judgment. I met your eyes, and I knew that you were overcome with fright; but I feared to linger lest they might ask what It was that alarmed you, and seek for me. And although I fancy that I am altered past recognition, yet I would run no risks. (Continued next week.) Earl W. Gordon returned Sunday from a business visit of a few days in, Portland, accompanying Harry Duncan fcom Arlington Sunday eve ning on the return. Mr. Duncan was in Arlington to represent the local club at the Wheatland Base ball league meeting. PHONE or leave orders at Phelps Grocery Co. Home Phone 11 02 HEPPNER TRANS FER COMPANY Central Market for the pbest in Meats. FRESH AND CURED MEATS Fish on Fridays. Oysters, Clams, Shell Fish. 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Phones: Mill 9F25; Yard Main 1123 Heppner Hotel Building CASH AND CARRY Phone Main 1082 larch Canned Goods Sale Never before since we came to Heppner have we been able to offer Foods at the unusual Low Prices that we offer in this sale. Every item backed by a Money-Back Guarantee assures you of the unusual quality of these goods. Many items in canned goods are now becoming scarce, which means higher prices. Consequently the more you buy the more you save. PRICES EFFECTIVE FROM MARCH 22nd TO MARCH 29th. PEAS CORN I TOMATOES Standard No. 2 Tins Extra Standard No. 2 Cans Large No. 2'2 Cans, Standard 4 On:.: 47C 4 Cans 47C 4 Cans 47C 12 Cans .... 81.39 12 Cans .... 81.39 8 Cans .... 81.39 24 Cans (Case) .. 82.75 24 Cans (Case) .. 82.75 12 Cans .... 82.75 Corn, Peas and Tomatoes assorted as you wish at Case Prices, or dozen prices. Note the Saving. 3 Cans 3 Cans FLOUR Sperry Hard Wheat. GUARANTEED TO PLEASE 49 Pounds . 81.75 4 Sacks (Barrel) 86.95 CLAMS Fancy Minced, free from sand '2s Flat 49c SARDINES Booth's Large Oval Cans 35c CATSUP Large Bottles Det Monte 3 Bottles 59c SPINACH Large No. 2,2 Cans Del Monte 69c PEAS 2 Cans Del Monte, Early Garden 69c SOAP Large Bars P. & G. 37c BROOMS 5-sew, $1.00 Value 79c COFFEE Stone's Supreme 3 Pounds . 81.45 4 Cans No. 4 Cans 10 Bars Each SUGAR Pure Cane C. & H. Berry 25 Pounds .. 81.49 100 Pounds .. 85.59 Not Sold to Dealers MAMS SWIFT'S PREMIUM Half or Whole Delicious for your Easter Dinner HOMINY Large No. 2'2 Cans 3 Cans 39c SAUERKRAUT Large No. 2'2 Cans, Libbey's 4 Cans 65c CLEANSER Old Dutch Chases Dirt 19c SOUP Campbell's Tomato 25c SYRUP Stone's Cane and Maple 79c 3 Cans 3 Cans 5-Pound Tins 3 Cans T XT- 0 1 BEANS -RICE Red Mexican Beans 5 Pounds 39c RICE OfZn 5 Pounds OOX SALMON No. 1 Tall Cans Libby Red Sockeye 2 Cans 55c SHRIMP 5-oz. Cans American Beauty 49c PINEAPPLE ' Tins, Broken Slice 3 Cans 65c SWEET SPUDS Large 22 Tins, Del Monte 2 Cans 35c JAM 10-Pound Cans .. 81w25 3-Pound Jars .. 59c MATCHES 6-Box Cartons 2 Cartons .... 35c JELL WELL The Perfect Jell Powder 3 Packages .... 19c RAISINS Market Day Sunmaid 4 Pounds .... 25c Stone's Serves You Better and Saves You Most Death, or some other soro of pun
