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keY din as a man well experienced in Law
d1d began TO hope thst my life might yet be
spa Two long days passed in the anxiety
q spense. On the third day Valetty ap-
peafed.
.Ibring consolation" said he "though a
melancholy consolation. Your life will be
spartd aHd you will have your liberty, but
with the loss Of vour right hand"
He then proceeded TO tell me that, notWith-
standing the influence which his father pos
sessed, the Governor had obstinately refused
TO allow fresh inquiry to be made. But he
had consented, in order not to appear unjust,
to regulate my punishment by that which had
been inflicted on any criminal in a similar
case. Very Fortunately, by the united exer-
tione Of himself aud his father, case similar to
mine was found recorded in the annals Of
Florrntinecrime; aud the punishment award.
ed was the cutting off the right hand Of the
criminal, confiscation Of his property and
banishmenf Therefore, had nov nothing
to do but to prepare for the hour in which
was 10 be deprived Of one Of my most useful
laealbsIs. But will spare you the picture
81 that hour. 1t is sufficentto to tell you that
IN hepublic market this fearful amputation
was accomplished.
VaIetty took me to his home till my wound
was healed, and provided me with money to
leave Florence. | returned to Constantine
pie without my money or my hand. was de-
batting upon which course should pursue in
order to gain livelihood, when an old friend
OF my father came to me and asked why
did not 20 to my own house, | inquired his
meaning, and he told me that stranger, du-
ring my absence had purchased house sitna-
ted In the Greek quarter, in my name, and an
noUnced 10 the neighbors that should soon
arrive myself. | was directed to the spot,
found out the house, aud also a letter from
the man who had bought it. 1t ran thus;
1.-TWO hands are in activity for you, that you
may not miss the one you have lost. This
house and all it contains belong to you, and
every year you will receive sufficient to take
yeuF rank amopg the.rieh men Of your nation
hag lag ioTgite him Who is more unhappy
o. airing who had LEFT the letter foi
nc, ! ~ told that it was a man wearing
| red closk. - ga Et o.,
Teuyears have passed since that time. Ev.
cry year receive one thousand pieces Of gold
and II Is from inclination, and not from Reces-
sity, that make my commercial journey each
year through the desert in caravans as | nos
do. But have never returned to Florence.
Zalencos wasa man Of faBous forty years, aud
possessing noble appearance. Having been
asked on his Journey when the caravan halt
ed, how he had lost his hand, he had fecounied
his history as above. When he had ceased to
speak his companions expressed for him the
greatest sympathy. Among them was a
Ffehehman VITO had Travelled with the cara
van through the whole desert, and il was nat
ural that Zalencos who had spent some time in
France should seek his acquaintance. When
thetime had come for them to separate, Zalen-
cos Insisted that the FrenChmau should pay a
visit % Constantinople, and become his guest.
a menth afterwards, as Zalencos was sit
ting ii his shop, stranger entered. He was
about 10 return the friendl salntation, when
he reeeiled horror struck, on beholding be-
fore him the unknown, with the same red
mantle on his shoulders, and the same mask
on his face.
@Whydo you come here, terrible man?"
he exclaimed, as the figure stood motiORless
on his threshold ''Depart, that l may not
curse you."
"Zaiencos!" said the we'll remembered voice
els itthus you welcome the guest you inyi-
ted2"
The stranger moved his mask, and Zaleneos
beheld before him the Frenchmen who bad
been his companion in the desert. ZalencOs
still experienced feeling Of repugnanee to.
wards the unknown Of Ponte Vecchio; but the
right Of hospitality prevailed, and he invited
the stranger 10 enter.
Il guess your thoughts - said the French.
man, when they were both seated. 81 did
rot intend to appear anv more before you, bUi
! owe you a history, and ! therefore ran the
- Of coming with the same APPEARANCE
aAengou first saw me at Florence" !"
lien proceeded e. follows;
' s born IN AIexandria, where my father
& Z high aristocratic family, was French con.
sui. By eldest brother, who had beer
bfoBghtup in Paris, and possessed talents Of
the first order, was secretary 10 my father
and married the daughter Of Florentihe mo-
blesnan, who had become our neighbor. This
was { short time before the French revolution
broke out. My brother had been married a
few months, and had passed the time in the
greatest happiness, when his wife disappeareai
and IA ithef onr family nor hers could diseoy-
CT the least trace OF her. At last they came
to to the conclusion that she had walked
alone some distance from the town, and fallen
into The hands Of robbers. The belief was .
consolation ii comparison to the awful truth
which was soon revealed. The pertedlons
woman had eloped to Florence with young
Essp9litan, whose aequaintence she had made
RACED 10 the extreme, made every exerhon to
p6nish his hithless wife. It happened that
Ter father left Alexandria, at this time, for
Floeenee, his native country, and pretended
F.. tl he would taks every step IN order to, have
ea done 70 my brother. The French re.
- IN nov commenced. My father end
hFe.hef coon lost their appointments, and the
fiorntine nobleman availed himself OF that
eireamsiance to make them suspected BY the
French government, They were both taken
fran Alsxandria ia The most infamous manner.
carried q France and decapitated. My poor
mother went mad, and died soon after. A few
hours before her death eonscionsness return
=, and she eoniurea me ID the most solemn
mannef 10 revenge my fathar and brother 5
death mon Blanca, and her family. was
soon Is Florence, where kept myself as se-
cret Is bonaible.i Ny position was hazardous
one s lne florentine nobleman had become
Gasafhor of the t0wn, and had therefore the
power d rain me i he discovered my pres
enee.
4 airnhmhtahce occurred which favored my
pIAas 0be evening IsaW man, Weaziag 4
well-knogp LIVERY. walking ina dull part oI
The town. Il was old Petro, servant to Bian-
"a father. he was eonveraing with himself
! aa1 soon learned from his solilOquy that b