Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1849-09-28

kind of square yard. The moon threw large
streaks OF Ugh! through the openings which
time had made in the walls. upon the floor.
| which was strewed with fragments and ruins.
All the other portions of the ground were
hidden in the shade which was projected by
the still standing walls.
Lucien pulled out his watch.
- OH said he, we are twenty minutes in
advance: Let US sit down; you must be IA
tigued.
We sat down, or rather lay down upon a
grassy slope right opposite TO large breach.
- But 1t appears to me that this is not the
whole story! resumed /.
= No, continued Lucien; for every morn
ing, and every evening, Savilia would descend
into the dungeon adjoining the one where
Guidice was shut up, and separated only by
an iron grating, and there undressing herself
before the captive, would say: s. Gudice,
how could man as ugly you, ever expect
to possess all these charms2'' This torment
lasted three months. renewed twice every day.
But at the end Of three months thanks to one
of her chamber-maids, whom he had brbed,
Guldlce succeeded In escaping. He then re-
turned with all his vassals, far more numerous
than those of Savilia, took the castle by storm.
and having in his turn taken Savilia, exposed
her naked in large iron cage, in a cross-way
in the forrest, called Bocca di Cilaccia. him
self offering the key of the cage to all those
whom her beauty tempted In passing by. AT
ter three days of this public prostitution, Sa-
villa was dead.
- Well but, said /, it appears to me that
your ancestors understood vengeance tolera-
bly, well, and that their descendants in simp-
ly killing their enemies by shooting, or by a
thrust of the poniard, have somewhat degen-
Grated.
- And without counting that they soon
any ut all ,,aAt he
young man. But in our family, at least, mat
tiers were not carried on thus. The two sons
OF Savllia, who were at Ajaccio, under the
guardianship of their uncle, were brought up
like true Corsicans. and continued to make
war against the sons of Guidice. That war
lasted four centuries, and ended only, as you
could have seen II upon the carbines Of nv
father and my mother, the twenty first day of
September, 1879, at eleven o'clock in the
morning.
- Indeed, ] recollect the inscription, Of
which had not time to ask you an expIana-
ton, for the moment | had read it, we de-
seconded to dinner.
= Here it is: Of the family Of the Gui-
dice, there were left in 1919, two brothers
only; of the family of the de Franchi, my
father alone was left, who had married his
cousin. Three months after this marriage, the
Guldlce resolved on destroying Us at one
cade on the road of Olmeto to wait the COM
ing of my father, who was returning home
from Sartene, whilst the other, taking advan-
tate of this absence, was to assault our house
This plan was executed but turned altogeth-
er different from what the aggressors expect
ed. My father, apprised of it, was on his
guard; and my mother, also informed, assem-
bled our shepherds, so that each one was
ready for the defence at the moment Of the
double attack; my father in the mountains,
my mother In my own room: and now after
combat of five minutes the two brothers Gut
dice fell, one struck by my father, the other
killed by my mother. Seeing his enemy fall,
my father pulled out his watch: IT ,cas e!erer
o'clock! Seeing her adversary fall, my moth
or turned round towards the clock IL ,ras
eleCen O'Clock So all was over the same min
ute; there were no Guidice left, the race was
destroyed. The family Franch, victorious,
was since left tranquil and having nobly ac-
compllshed It's work during four centuries, it
did not NEEDLE any more in other quarrels
My father had the date and the hour Of this
singular event engraved upon the but of each
of the carbnes with which the deed was ac-
complished, and had them hung on each side
of the clock, In the same place where you
saw them.-
Seven months after, my mother gave birth
to two twins, one of whom is your servant,
Lucien the Corsican; and the other, the phi
lanthropist, Louis, his brother.
At this moment saw the shadow of man
and Of dog project itself upon one Of those
spots of ground Illuminated by the moon. 1t
the shadow of the bandit Orlandini, and
that of our friend Diamante.
At the same time we heard the sound of
the clock of Sullacaro, which was slowly
striking nine.
Master Orlandini, it appears, was of the
opinion of Louis XIV, whose we'll known
maxim 1t was, that exactness was the polite
ness of Kings.
1t was impossible to be more exact than
this King of the mountains, to whom Lucien
had given rendezvous at nine o'clock, strik-
ing.
As soon as We perceived him, we both arose
To BE CONTINUED.