HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1929.
PAGE THREE
THE DESKpi 1QYER
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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.
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