Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1876-10-14
ROMANCE IN NAPLES.
An Heiress Abducted and shut Up in an
Asylum for Lunattcs.


mother in Salerno. She is beautiful,
clever, and accomplished, and inherits
10000 ducats, or about half & million
lire. Her mother is completely under
the power of the family physician, DIR.
Cosimati, who poses as protector of the
widow and orphan. Eligible offers of
marriage are made to Miss Vernieri, but
are skillfully STAYED off by the doctor
and his dupe, the mother, their object
being to enjoy the administration of the
young lady's means, of which the moth
er was simply the depository, and of
which the prospective son-in-law would
become absolute master. At length
Miss Vernieri attained her majority,
and her guardians anticipated her in
tentions of matrimony by proposing to
her as her tiance her first cousin. This
young gentleman resided in Naples,
and thither the mother, daughter, and
family doctor repaired to arrange the
nuptials. The youth, however, found
no favor in the eyes of Miss Vernieri,
who, on the contrary became desper-
ately enamored of a young advocate
whom she met under the roof of an
aunt in Naples. Her passion was recip-
rocated, and the mothers opposition
made the daughter only more resolute in
her determination to marry the young
advocate. So doctor and mother to-
gether changed their tactics. One
morning Madame Vernieri said to her
daughter, "Are you really determined
to marry him" IS Yes" "Then, as l
can't bear to see you unhappy, 1 give
my consent" The young lady fell on
her mothers neck, and wept with joy,
till, gently disengaging herself, Madame
Vernieri said, Snow, as your lover and
his family live at Naples, it is better
that We should go there and fix the day
of marriage. and get your trOusseau
ready" They started accordingly, and
took apartments at the Hotel FiOri,
near the Fiortini Theater, intending to
take house in the country for the en-
suing summer, the marriage having
been arranged for the end of autumn.
They had been only two days in the no.
tel when DIR. Cosimati came in with a
Signor Miraglia, whom he represented
as cousin of his, and as DESTROYS OF
forming Miss Nernieri's acquaintance.
The young lady chatted pleasantly
enough on current topics with the new
conner till he took his leave, and she
thought no more about him. Forty
eight hours afterward the doctor pro.
posed n drive into the country, at which
the ladies were delighted, and all three
were soon in a carriage bowling along
the Via del Camho.
Miss Vernieri asked many questions
as to the palazzi and villas they passed
till they approached a grand editice,
whose magnificent site awoke her ad-
miration. Whose was it? The doctor,
as if suddenly struck by an idea, or
dered the driver to stop. "Here," he
said, sis precisely what you want, a
country residence till the close of No
vember. This palace is divided into
suites of apartments. Come in and let
us see how you like Them" They
alighted and entered, and the doctor
asked for Madame Flourens. An iron
gate was then opened, admitting to a
courtyard, from which they mounted
two flights of stairs, and then they were
ushered into q drawing-rOOm, where
they were politely received by that lady.
DIR. Cosimati then intimated that Miss
Vernieri wished to take apartments fol-
the summer in the palazzo, and would
like to be shown through the various
suites. Madame FloUreLs was only toe
delighted, and offered her arm to the
young lady, who mechanically took it.
Then the mother said, languidly: ''Iou
can go alone, my dear, and make youI
choice, which is sure to satisfy me.
am tired, and will wait here with the
doctor till you come back" Madame
Flourens and Miss Vernieri then moved
of, and the moment the door closed be.
hind them the mother and doctor slipped
stealthily through a private passage,
gained the staircase, and were soon in
tho courf.vard Meanwhile Miss Yer.