The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1878-09-05

PaOlina for your sake. Look at him,
Giorgio. Kiss him"
Here she seemed once more to lapse in
to Inconsistencies, and tho good .frqt
said:
''Atl, poor Lucia, her mind wsnders
back to her marriage, and mingling past |
and present, she speaks of what never was;
the father never saw the child"
did you know her husband, then2' in
quired my wife IN italian.
The frate shook his head; 'Only the
circumstances OF the marriage
Tell me what were they2' she ex-
canned, clasping ner hands in an agony
of excitement.
Simple. very SIMPLE" said the holy
man, quite unmoved, and struggling his
ample shoulders; "a young Englisnman,
an artist, living in Florence, and who had
made Italy the land of his adoption, and
who took an italian name, fell in love
with Lucia who was his model, and mar
ried her, not an unusua. occurrence among
your countrymen, believe" he added,
turning to ME.
was bewildered; did not know in the
least what to make Of all this, and have
no doubt looked as stupidity helpless as
felt
sand then2" eagerly inquired my wife,
Selling the frate's arm, and looking into
bis face, after casting a glance of unutter-
able scorn upon me.
HE made little home for her, and
everything promised we'll for their hap
piness, when he was taken suddenly i'll,
broke a blood vessel, and died in Lucia's
arms
"Do you know what his English name
VASE" here again hurriedly inquired my
wife.
"What can you possibly want to know
that for?" l inte1posed in Engliah, quite
in the dark as to what she was driving at
"n Walter, Walter how stupid you
are" she answered, throwing more and
more contempt into her words and man.
ner; "does nothing suggest itself to you2
Can't you guess what anu thinking Of
Tell me, he said again repeating her qucs
ton in Italian, and turning to the monk,
tell me the English name of Lucias hus-
band; do you know what it was?'
Isl. Signora, 81; but cannot reveal it:
it was made known to me under the seal
of confession"
Seeing that she was again shout to urge
the frateto gran, the request, entreated
her to be silent, and to look after little
PABLO, who was climbing up to his moth
er aud trying to make her play with him.
"Ah!" she then exclaimed, dear little
fellow; do look at him, Walter. and then
think of his fathers assumed Italian
name-Vianero; think what is English
equivalent means"
More bewi dercd than ever, l obeyed
her command, and began to think, while
she, once more in Italian, earnestly en-
; treated the frdte 10 tell her the name.
For mercy's sake, let me know She
said. II am not asking out Of idle curios-
} ity but only that love and service may be
rendered to the memory Of the ad. l
feel that am on the point Of discovery :;
tell me, am not right in believing
} that his name was George Blackway?"
J The old monk started at these words, and
so did 1; for this was the name of my
wife's only brother, whose death was the
piece of family SORROW referred to at
starting.
"A bit OF scapegrace, with strong
turn for art, and never understood by his
father, he had gone to Rome years ago
long before knew the famil chad ex-
, patriated himself, and, with the little
competence he possessed. had entirely
) withdrawn himself from all his early
associations. HIS sister alone at long in
tervals had tidings OF him, and at length
, We heard, but not till loag after the event.
: that he had died in Florence suddenly.
; There was a rumor that he had married
| under an assumed name, had been natur-
allied as an italian, but nothing very
: definite ever came to light.
And low, what was happening? Why,
that we had here come upon trace
his latter day, and had found in this
Obscure corner Of the world the pretty
Italian woman he had married
; "Yes;" exclaimed my wife, turning
; with au air of triumph to me; land per-
maps, Waiter, you can now understand
. what it was that drew me from the first
: toward this woman and child, and why
: the little creature has inspired me with
, such deep affection. 1t was the mys-
! ferrous and subtle instinct Of kinship, OF
olood relationship, for this baby-bo is
my brothers child; and with these words
she seized the little fellow, claspcd him
; to her bosom, ana wept copiously.
r The matter was clear to me now at last
but who on earth could have expected
r such denouement, or that she should
have been led to the only spot where she
, could have gained any tidings of her
brother?
And yet so it was, and this discovery
was the result of ''her holiday" that tleat
which l had desi gned "aIl for her." OF
course, we had an addition to our fami-
~: of course, the contract for her holi.
day would not have been completed if
had int.rposed any views of mine, and
: had prevented her carrying Off in the end
the young semi Italian scaramouch to
, add to our own collection.
However, I am bound TO say believe
she might not have pressed this point
, had 1t not been for the fatal effect of the
accident. which after all terminated in
Lucias death, and consequently for the
: child having thus, as it were. fallen to
our charge as his natural guardians. 1t
was all very sad and miserable, the end
Of our time ut Locarno involving numcr-
GUS complications with the local law. We
were detained there till the end of Octo-
.. Der, for the old padrone departed this
life soon after his daughter, and we had
1, some difficulty in proving our right to
the child.
Our right to the child! Hump! Truly,
i; women are wonderful beings; and sic
had instinctlvely discovered this right,
had discovered it through that mysteri.
= Gus, delicate, subtitle jntuition to which
our masculine and grosser natures arc
entire strangers. She was quite ccrrec,
from the first. Little Paoio has grown
! up marvelously like his youngest cousin
4 even can see it pow.--London tSocietu.
, Small Waists.
Small waists and early deaths have
: been the subjects Of recent comments Of
= q nh QSician of cnlehfitu md his notion