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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1929. PAGE THREE HIE MW$$ KMR w r ' llll IllUSfRAfED BY fRANKdJDRLEN ' WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE! Palmero Is the scene. There an exile, Leonardo di Marionl, has come for love of Adrienne Cartuccio, who Bpurns him. He meets an Englishman, Lord St. Mau rice, who falls in love with Adrienne on sight. Leonardo sees Ills sister Mar gharlta, 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 Slgnorlna Cartuccio and Margharlta, who are walking, by brigands employed by a rejected suitor, on a lonely road. He rushes to the scene, and proves able to rescue the ladles. Inflamed by the failure of his scheme, Leonardo sees Margharlta, 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 dagger at his feet. Looking up .lie 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. Margharlta 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 he had loved, whom he shoos out of his sight. Then there comes to him the daughter of his sister, whom he greets in great surprise. He learns that his sister is dead. Count Leonardo tells his niece the story of his love for Margharlta. She is sympathetic NOW 00 ON WITH THE BTOKY "I, too, had a great surprise, Mar gharlta. You will not wonder what I mean by that when I tell you that In the light which streamed from the uncurtained window every thing in the room was distinctly visible to me. Was I dreaming, child, or were you Indeed assenting to the embrace of the man whose arms were surely around you? Him, I could not see, for his back was turned to the window; but will you laugh at me, I wonder, if I tell you that I felt strangely jealous of him. I am a foolish old man, Margharlta, but all the love of my heart is yours, and I had begun almost to look upon you in my thoughts as my own child. I cannot bear the thought of giving you up to any one. You will not thnlk me very, very selfish. I have only a few more months to live, and I know that you will not grudge that much out of your future, that you will stay by me to the end. After wards, I have no wish save for your happiness; and although I must confess that I had hoped you might have married one of the sons of our own country, still It is you who must choose, and I owe you, or shall owe you soon, too great a debt to press upon you any desire of mine which is not at one with your wishes. But tell me this Is he an Englishman? Alas! I fear so. Send me a word by the bearer, and tell me; tell me, too, of what family he Is, and whether he is noble. But of that I feel already assured, if he be Indeed the man to whom your love is given. "You must surely have sustained a shock at my sudden and rash ap pearance. Doubtless you wonder at seeing me here at all. I could not keep away. I must have news day by day, almost hour by hour. It is all that keeps me alive. I must be near to feel that I am breathing the same air as the woman on whom a long-delayed vengeance Is about to fall. "I have taken a furnished cot tage on the outskirts of this village, and a little more than a mile from Mallory Grange. But do not come to me. Dearly as I would love to have you talk to me, and hear from your own Hps that all goes well, yet at present It were better not I will devise some means of communica tion, and let you know of it shortly. I am living here as Mr. Angus. Yours ever, "L. M." "My dear Uncle, I am a culprit a miserable, pleading culprit It Is true that I love an Englishman the man who was standing by my side last night; and It is true that he has asked me to marry him. But I have not told him so, and I have not promised to marry him. That Is not all of my confession. Not only is he an Englishman, but his name Is Lord Lumley St Mau rice, and he is her son. "Now you know the terrible trou ble I am In. Last night he was tell ing me of his love, and assuring me of his mother's sanction and ap proval, when your face appeared at the window. Can you wonder at my start, and that I fainted? Can you ' wonder that I sit here, after a sleep less night, with eyes that are dim and a heart that has become as a stone? I dread to stir from the room. My position is horrible. I have tried my utmost to avoid him, to treat him with disdain, to send him away from me. I have steeled my heart and clothed my face with frowns In vain! The bald fact re mains that I love him. Do you de spise me, uncle? Sometimes I feel that I deserve it; but I have suffer ed, I am suffering now. I am pun- , lshed. Do not add your anger to my load! "Immediately you get this, sit down and write to me. Write to me Just what Is In your heart Your words I shall see before me as my law. Do not delay, and, If you . blame, do not fall to pity me, Yours ever unchanged, "Margharlta." "Margharlta, I have received your letter, and I have pondered over it. You are young to have such a sorrow, yet I do not doubt but that you will act as becomes your race. You can never think of marriage with this man; you a Mar ionl, he a St. Maurice! Yet I grieve that you have 1ct such a feeling steal Into your heart. Pluck it out Margharita, I charge you; pluck it out by the roots! Think not of the wrong done to me, or, If you do, think of me not as a man and your uncle, but as Count di Marionl, the head of my family, the head of your family. We have been the victims but the day of our vengeance is at hand. There Is no life without its sorrows, child ! In the days to come happiness will teach you to forget this one. "Farewell, my child. I Bhall send you no more notes. Write or come to me the moment the deed is done! Come to me, if you can; I would hear your own lips tell me the news. Yet do as seems best to you. In sympathy and love, L. diM. "One more word, child. Do not for a moment imagine that I blame you for what has happened. Old man though I am, I too know some thing of the mavels and the vagar ies of this same love. Will can have little to do with its course. I, who have suffered so deeply, Margharita, can and do sympathize and feel for you." PART IV "Margharita! You have come at last It Is done, then. Say that it is done!" She stood quite still in the hum ble red-tiled sitting-room, and look ed at him with a great compassion shining out of her dark, clear eyes. He was worn almost to a shadow, and his limbs were shaking with weakness, as he half rose to greet her. Only his eyes were still alight and burning. Save for them he might have been a corpse. Something of the old passionate pity swept through her as she stood there, but its fierceness had died away. Her heart leaped no longer In quick response to the fire In those still undlmmed eyes. She had been a girl then, a girl with all the fierce untrained nature of her mother's race; she was a woman now, a sad faced, sorrowful woman. He was quick to see the change. "Margharita, my child, you have been 111." Still she did not answer. Silent ly she knelt down by the side of his armchair and took his withered hand in hers. A great bowl of white hyacinths stood on a table by the window, and the air was faint with their perfume. "I am not ill," she said gently. "I was frightened on my way here, and had to run. There was a fire last night at the lunatic asylum at Frit ton, and some of the mad people have escaped. I saw one of them in the distance, and the keepers after him. They wanted me to go back, but I would come." He stooped down and kissed her forehead, with cold, dry lips. "I knew that you would be here soon," he said. "My letters reach ed you safely?" "Yes." She shuddered at the gathering ntrength In his tone, and the fierce light which had swept into his face. "It is done, child. Say that it is done!" "No." Something in her sad tone and subdued manner seemed to strike a note of fear in his heart He leaned forward, grnsplng the sides of his chair with nervous, quivering fin gers, and looked hurriedly into her face. "No; you have had no chance, then? But you will have soon? Is it not so? Soon, very soon?" She threw her arms around his neck. He made no response, nor did he thrust her away. He re mained quite passive. 'It is not that, uncle. Oh, listen to me. Do not thrust me away. I cannot do this thing." He sat still as marble. There was no change, no emotion, in his face. Yet her heart sank within expected blow. He seemed dazed. She wondered, even, whether he had heard her. "Uncle, shall it not be so?" she whispered. "Let us go away from here and leave her. I am not think ing about him. I will not see him again. I will never dream of mar rying him. Let us go this very day, this very hour!" Then he turned slowly toward her, thrust her hand from around his neck, and stood up. "You have been false to me, Mar gharita," he said, in a slow, quiet, tone. "After all, it is only natural. When you first came to me, I thought I saw your mother's spirit blazing in your dark eyes, and I trusted you. I forgot the trades man's blood. I do not curse you. You do not understand, that is all. Learn now that the oath of a Mar ionl is as deathless and unchange able as the hills of his native land. Will you go away at once, please? I do not wish to see you again." His speech so quiet, so self-contained, bewildered her. There was not a single trace of passion or bit terness in it. She stretched out her hands toward him, but she felt chilled. "Uncle, you " "Will you go away, please?" he interrupted coldly. She turned toward the door, weeping. She had not meant to go far only out on to the garden-seat, where she might sit and think. But he saw another purpose in her de parture, and a sudden passion fired him. She heard his step as he rose hastily, and she felt his cold fingers upon her wrist. "You would go to warn her!" he cried, his voice trembling with an ger; "I read it in your face. You are as false as sin, but you shall not rob me of the crown of my life! No one shall rob me of It! Vengeance belongs to me, and by this symbol of my oath I will have it!" He snatched a handful of white blossoms from the bowl, and crush ed them In his fingers. Then he threw them upon the ground and tramped upon them. "Thus did she betray the sacred bonds of our Order when, for her lover's sake, she added treachery to cunning, and wrecked my life, made Leonardo, Count of the Marionis, the lonely inmate of prison walls, the scorn and pity of all men. Thus did she write her own fate upon a far future page of the tablets of time. Talk to me not of forgiveness or mercy, girl! My hate lives in me as the breath of my body, and with my body alone will It die." (Concluded next week) ST. PATRICK'S CHURCH. Rev. Thomas J. Brady, Pastor. , Next Sunday, April 7, will be the first Sunday after Easter, and It is commonly known as Low Sunday. There will be mass in Heppner at 8:30, and before this mass confes sions; after this mass there will be Beautiful Baby a second mass in Lena at 10:30, in the home of John Brosnan. In the evening at 7 o'clock there will be the usual devotions In Heppner, con sisting of rosary, prayers, instruc tions and Benediction of the Bless ed Sacrament. Next Friday will be the first Fri day of the month of April, and con fessions will be heard before the 7 o'clock mass during which Holy Communion will be given. Benedic tion will also follow this mass. On Saturday morning of this week there will be mass at 7 in the morning for all those children who have made their first Holy Com munion, all children who are seven years of age, and all children who have not been confirmed. First Holy Communion will take place this year some time in June, preceded by two weeks of special preparation in Christian Doctrine. The pastor wishes to express his appreciation and thanks to all for their remembrances on Easter Sun day. Dr. Clarke, of the Clarke Optical Co., 202 and 203 Merchants Trust Bldg., Portland, Ore., EYE SIGHT SPECIALISTS, will be in Heppner all day and evening, Sunday and Monday, April 14 and 15 at the Ho tel Heppner. SEE HIM ABOUT YOUR EYES. 3-4. TO THE PUBLIC. Those stop signs along the streets of Heppner entering the state high way, must be observed. Most people recognize them but others do not seeming to take the signs as a joke and pay no attention to them. From now on anyone passing them up will be given a tag and sent to the City Recorder to explain. The sign says STOP, not slow down, so take warning. By Order of City Officers. Young Eric Gordon Hemming! of Hanworth, Middlesex, England, ha been adjudged the most beau tiful of all England's babies at a jecent contest. SYNOPSIS OF THE ANNUAL STATEMENT OF THE WESTERN STATES LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY of San Francisco, In the State of California, on the 31st day of December. 1928, made to the Insurance Commissioner of the State of Oregon, pursuant to law; CAPITAL Amount of capital stock paid up 1,000,000.00 INCOME Total premium income for the year... Interest, dividends and rents received during; the year... Income from other sources received during- the year 4,407,554.99 1.069,663.73 530.456.66 Total Income... HISHIIRSKMENTH Paid for losses, endowments, annuities and surrender values... Coupons paid to policyholders during the year M Dividends paid on capital stock during the year Commissions and salaries paid during the year. ,, , Taxes, licenses and fees paid during the vt- Amount of all other expenditures , ..$ 0,007,675.38 i 1,451.482.98 381.826.71 100.000.00 981.840.48 144.182.95 661,429.65 Total expenditures... ASSETS Value of real estate owned (market value) Value of stocks and bonds owned (market or amortized value). Xjoans on mortgages and collateral, etc Premium notes and policy loans i aan in banks and on hand. ..$ S.720,762.77 Net uncollected and deferred premiums.. Interest and rents due and accrued Other assets (net) ... ... 2.319,615.96 . 6.611,401.66 . 6.746,171.87 .,8,477,701.09 698.693.71 203.936.66 60,768.81 Total admitted assets... Net reserves Gross claims for losses unpaid.. 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