The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-10-31
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THE LEGEND OF AMSANCTHS. =
1CONCLunEn

and chung all the more closely to her
because his family treated her with
such marked contempt It is true
that she had many qualities which
might readily have attracted a young
and impuisive man. She was besuti-
full to an extraordinary degree, and
there was charm in her childish, in
nocent ways, that was almost irresist-
5ible; yet she lacked depth and strength
of character, and was probably in
capable of a strong and enduringsat-
tachment. Even toward her husband
her conduct was not always responsive
to the passionate intensity of his
love for her She was easily pleased
and fiattered blythe attentions of other
men, and it was. frequently whispered
in the regiment that Da Francia
would yet learn that he had thrown
away his heart to woman who could
not prize it. = -
They had been married about
year and a half, when young French
officer who had-been wounded in AL
geria and was absent from his regi-
ment on sick leave, came to Naples.
He soon became acquainted with Da
Francia, and warm friendship sprang
up between the two men, who were
by no means unlike each other, ex-
cept in the important particular that
the Frenchman was totally destitute
of principle In his conduct toward
women, while the italian was a man
of the strictest honor. As matter
Of course Captain Cassinot-became a
frequent visitor at his friends lodg-
ipgs, and soon was the chief favorite
among Teresa smany admirers.
Totally unsuspicious. both of his
wife and of his friend, Da Francia
was not-in the least troubled att the
intimacy which was soon a subject of
nOtorietyin the regiment. 1t was not
until he was warned by one of his
oldest friends Sof the disgrace that
! impended over-him, that his suspic
| ions were awakened. Even then. so
| firm was. his faith in Teresa. that he
would probably have dismissed his
| half awakened fears. had he not dis
covered. in his wife's zroom.-a minia-
ture of her lover, together with a let
ter that could leave no doubt of the
black depth of her guilt
! He acquainted no one with the dis
covery he had made. The French
HAL AUC duQ. WGAI HlS Will. ana
Teresa never doubted that She had
successfully deceived hers husband.
For two. days he preserved the same
smiling face that he had worn in the
/ days of his happinesssand if his man
ner toward his wife was In the least
! degree changed. she5 was too much
engrossed with her lover to notice it.
Meanwhile he was maturing a scheme
of revenge sufficiently cruef to satisfy
the tiger that had awakened within
| him. He had decided at-once That
the Frenchman must die, bit be
wished his wife to be the agent. and
the witness 10 the punishment of her
partners guilt $ .
On the evening of the second day,
| Da Franeia apprised his wife that he
| had obtained a weeks leave of alb
seuce, and that be proposed to take
her for a brief visit to her old home
At Grotta Miuarda. To her surprise
and delight, he insisted that Cassfnot,
| who was present, should accompany
1 them, aud as Teresa sjoined her en-
treaties TO her husband request, her
| lover wlllinglyeonsented 70 go with
And here at. this dull, quaint old
town, where he had. met and loved
this woman, "a sadness : new and
strangescame upon Da Francia.s On
the evening ofxtheir arrival, hewent
to the once familiar 'cbfe, and seating
himselfsat his former place in the
/ corner, asked Teresa to bring him his
j coffee, as in the old days. The Guilty
1 woman wondered at his unusual still
4 ness and1reserve. She was half afraid
of the passionate, regretful, longing
gaze with which he read her eyes as
they sat together side by side, To
| please him, as she thought, she re-
1 called the hours they had once spent
together so happilyssin the cafe, at
church@er among the waiying corn
1 fields outside the walls.
| And you love me just as dearly
nowr she asked him, with a sweet
| imploring look just as dearly" he
answered quietly. '9ThenA am per-
\ Lake Amsanctus Is a small pool of wa
| Ger in the province of Principato Ultra,
| (South Italy, which exhales carbonic acid
In such constant quantities that men and
animals coming within range of the gas
are Instantly suffocated.