The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-05-10
lnstinctively the two poor women rose to-
gether, and, approaching Velleius, sat down

| oiSnJ iuhS 'aSt AWAY. Listen 10 buCu d iotte
as your kinsman at Circello might write te
you" And be drew forth from a fold in hi
tunic the draft of letter. and read as follows
| M. Lep. Emlius to his sister Aglais, greet
! ing: rejoice that yoa see the force of NJ!
! reasoning, and that you will adopt the advice
| conveyed TO you in my last communication
/ The vessel which have hired to take you I,
Spain, where you can live in tranquility, vii
hover On the coast near CaietG in about
fortnight l will, on the seventh day from
this, send you 4 person who shall Conduct you
by iondi 10 Gazette, and take you to the ship
IL small boat, when all shall be ready 10
receive You on board. Farewell"
Having read this, Paterculns paused. The
ladies remained silent in sheer astouishmcnt.
But" said Aglais, at last, there is no time
left, if we are not safe here, to get my kins-
man to write this letter"
% He need not write any letter." said Pater-
culus. " You observe in what i have inst read
an allusion to a supposed previous letter,
which, nevertheless, he has not written. If
you will merely consent to be guided by me, l
will cause such q letter as the one of which
you have now heard the draft to be int excepted
on the way from the farmer-triumvir to you
parsonage. That parsonage will see, or mag
inc he sees, that the triumvir is not only re-
luctant to receive you, but has succeeded in
persuading you to change, for an early 1ight
to Spain, your plan of retreat or refuge in
bis castle. The parsonage to whom the letter
will be carried will moreover notice that your
change of measures has been produced by a
| former letter of Lepidus's not intercepted and
therefore that the present seizure of commun-
cations has been made too late to prevent the
REIMBURSEMENT of your original design. He
VIII, therefore, neither lay any ambush for GU
on the way to Circello, nor suspect that You
have gone thither. If at the same time you
disappear hence, he will await you at Caieta,
watching the coast and the vessel, while you
ill be safe in the triumvir's castle.n
" But the person of whom you speak will
find that there is no vessel lowering ON the
coast" replied the lady, and will again ques-
tion whittier wo have gone"
Pardon me for contradictinp you,n said
Velleius. "He uiH find vessel has been how
ering on the coast, and, after receiving a skiff
and its passengers on board (tto women and
one oarsman), that the vessel has vanished
seward. have myself hired the vessel, dis
trlbuted the parts, rehearsed the performers
and arranged all the scenes of the little COM
edy. Rut you must not go to. morrow, as you
had intended, for the way you would be
sefzed. Give me to morrow to have the letter
intercepted, give me the next day to combine
means for your journey. Tonight meanwhile.
Crlspus, and none other, must carry YOUR lug
gage himself, parcel by parcel, into a thicket
IN tho wood which skirts the western or sea-
ward road On the night of the day after to-
morrow, yon must leave the inn on foot after
people have retired to bed, and you must walk
for mile or moro to the large sycamore tree
near the place where Cicero was murdered:
Crispna will go with you to the SPOT through n
the garden, and then through the fields. Tn
der the tree you will find biga with twoswift
horses and trusty driver; on the roof of the
Riga your luggage shall have been already
strapped.
1t would he needless to describe the graft
tude OF the mother and daughter. The former
alluded deprecatingly to the expense which
must have been incurred, especially in hiring
such vessel as would appear qualified to ira
verse the sea; but Paterculus checked all
further reference to that matter with n ner.
emptory gesture, and rising, added, in the
same low voice in which the conversation had
all along been carried on:
have alluded to tho hiding resources of
the Circello Castle. l will not describe the
wonderful contrivauces of the architect He
was your countrymau-an Athenian even,
think.
"Well, bnt," said Aglais; eff You know 80
much of these lurking places others doubtless
know them too"
Not so,' answered Veleus with n smiI.
'' am preparing the history of these times,
note and remember much which every one else
"'Nmisacs from his mind, if remarked at ALI
There is one point very important to Won
s"rp"S'nE YOU could have evaded any ambush
iaId for You to morrow, and have reached Cir
cello, yet so reached it that it would remain
certain you had taken refuge there, then Won
would not be safe, because, although phvsi.
caIy and materially all search of the place for
" fugitive would be vain, moral pressure nnor
Marcus Lcpidus might, Iapprehend, compel
the surrender of his refugees by his own act y
understand" said Aglais, and simultane.
oueiy Agatha exclaimed "Ohr
Fair damsel," said Velleius, che isnot, liz.