Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1849-10-12

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| leaves of the chestnut tree; the pheasant
| jumped from branch to branch, answering bv
| his cackling to the advances made by Orlan-
| DIM. At last he appeared at the top of the
tree, perfectly visible, standing out in bold
| relief IN the dull white of the heaven.
! Orlandini hushed up, and the pheasant stood
motionless
At the same moment. Lucien brought down
his gun, and having taken aim for a second
( fred.
= Go seek! said Lucien to Diamante, who
jumped into the makis, and FIVE minutes after
returned with the pheasant in his mouth.
The ball had passed through his body.
- fair shot, said | congratulate you,
particularly with double barrel gun.
- Oh, said Lucien, there is less merit in
it, than you think; one of the barrels is a
rifle, and carries ball like a carbine.
- Nevertheless, even with carbine. the
shot deserves an honorable mention.
- Bah, said Orlandini, with a carbine Mr..
I.ucien hits, at three hundred yards, five
frank piece.
= And do you shoot with the pistol as W ell
as with the gunl
= Well, said Lucien, just about. At %
PAGES am sure to split six balls out of IL ON
the blade of knife.
took my hat off and saluted Lucien.
= And your brother, asked |, is he of equal
strength
- My brother; resumed he, poor Louis
He has never touched gun nor pistol. There
fore | have always been afraid that he might
get himself into some bad affair in Paris. and
that, brave as he is, to sustain the honor Of
his country he would suffer himself to be kill
ed
And Lucien pushed the pheasant into the
pocket of his large velvet vest.
- Now, said he, my dear Orlandini, for
tomorrow then, know your exactitude. at
ten O'Clock, you, your friends and relations
viii be at the end of the street, wont YOU -
Towards the mountain on the opposite side,
at the same hour, Colonna will be with his
relations and his friends. We, we shall be
upon the steps Of the church.
- Enough said, Mr.. Lucien, and thank
you for the trouble. And you sir, continued
Orlandinl, turning round and saluting me,
thank YOU for the honor
And after the exchange of these compIi-
ments, we separated, Orlandini burying him
self in the makis, and we returning the road
to the village.
As for Diamante, he staid moment unde-
cided between Orlandini and US, looking al
ternately TO the right and left. After five min
utes of hesitation he did US the honor to give
US the preference.
| acknowledge that was not without some
aPprehensionS when | climbed up the double
wall of rocks, of which | have spoken, as to
how | would descend; the descending being
as you know, as general thing, much more
difficult than the climbing. | perceived there
fore with a certain pleasure that Lucien, guess
ing my thoughts, took a different route from
the one we had come by.
This route offered another advantage, that
of conversation, necessarily broken off on
steep passages. Now the slope being easy,
had not gone over fifty yards, before | be-
gun my habItual lnteTrogations again.
- So, said l, peace is made
= Yes, as YOU saw, not without pains. |
succeeded finally to make him understand that
the Colonna had made all the advances. First.
they had FIVE men killed, when the Orlandini
only lost four. The Colonna consented to a
reconciliation yesterday, whilst the Orlando
nj consented thereto only to-day. Lastly, the
Colonna engaged to render publicly living
hen TO the Orlandini, concession which proves
that they were in the wrong. This last con-
sideration determined him.
- And this affecting reconciliation will
take place tomorrow
- Tomorrow, at ten o'clock. You see
that you are in luck vet. You expected to see
vendetta7 BAH great thing, vendetta!
resumed the young man, with his bitter laugh;
for the last four centuries nothing is spoken
of in Corsica, but vendettas. You shall see
a reconciliation; and that is altogether of 4
stranger scarcity than vendetta.
/ laughed.
- You laugh at us, said he, and you are
right. We are indeed such singular people.
= No, said |, | laugh about something
strange, and that is to see you mad with your
self for having so well succeeded.
= Is it not SO! Ali II you could but
have understood me, you would have admired
mr eloquence. But come again in ten years,
and be sure, and every body will thea talk
French.
= You are an excellent lawyer,
= No, no; let US be understood. / am ar
bitter. The duty of an arbiter in reconcilia-
zion. II / WIS made araiter between G cd and
the Devil, I ouId try TO reconcile them, al
though in the depth Of my heart ] vas con-
WINGED that in folIo,virg my advice, God
" ould commit foolish thing.
Seeing that this kind of conversation only
irritated my travelling companion, broke off,
and he on his part, UNIV illing TO resume it, We
arrived atthe house without having pronounced
another ord.
TO BE CONTINUED.