The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-10-04
A Dangerous Prize.

the beautiful bay about which so much
has been said and written. Along the
steep banks that descended abruptly to
the sea are many charming villas facing
directly on the water, and reached from
the main road by zlgzag paths, through
gardens rich in all the luxuriant growth
of Southern Italy.
In one of the prettiest of these villas
lived an English family and at the
time of the present story some tender
passages were taking place between the
eldest daughter of the house and Lord
Ardley, whose yacht was in the harbor
at Santa Lucia, whence 1t was his fire.
quent custom to sail across in the dingy
when the wind was favorable, both as
short cut, and to avoid the dust, jolting
and evil odors along the Chiaja. The
usual companion of these journeys was
lad of eighteen, an Englishman who,
some few years previously, had been
cast adrift at Naples by one of those
strange chances which are liable to be-
fall young sailor who finds himself
with brutal captain and a drunken
crew. After many shifts and much
misery, by dint of sheer honesty and
industry-virtues at considerable pre-
MUM in this city-and aided by a quick
intelligence, he had acquired a fair
knowledge of the language, and de-
cent position as guide, courier, commits
sionaire, as occasion offered. His name
was Frank Lloyd. Lord Ardley had
taken u fancy to him, and attached him
to his special service during his stay in
the neighborhood, finding him both
useful and discreet.
Now it happened that adjoining the
Villa Santangelo was an untenanted
house, placed under the care of gard
ener, named Baldelli, who occupied
small house close to the waters edge,
which served for bathing apartments
when the main building was tenanted
With old Baldelli, lived his niece Teres-
ina, All exceptionally beautiful girl of
fifteen who had rather hard time of
it to make things com Portable for her
surly and avaricious uncle, to whom the
expenditure of every soldo for house
hold necessities was agony. Teresina
was great favorite at the villa, where
she was often required to assist the
ladies with her needle and there some
of her happiest days were spent, much
indeed to her own advantage; for, TAX
ing an interest in her, they had taught
her habits and modes of life which rails
ed her considerably above her country
women of the same class. Deprived of
her early parents, she mixed little in the
society of her own class for Baldelli
was strongly averse to anything in the
nature of outings or junketings, as in
volving expense, and his miserly habits
made him unpopular amongst his neigh
bors.
Teresina had been for some time at
tached to Frank Lloyd, much to the
displeasure of old Baldelli, who hated
him very cordially for the way in which
Lloyd steadily set his face against the
monstrous impositions attempted by the
old man, though he frequently put lit
tie commissions in his way for flowers,
fruits, poultry and the rest Baldelli's
son, Luigi, was also thorn in the sides
of the lovers. He was a typical spec-
men of ''those Neapolitans,'' term of
contempt used specifically for loafing
set in Naples by the surrounding towns.
Just shade above the lazzaroni, who
are fast disappearing, they are as idle
and worthless set of cubs as are to he
found in EurOne Work ia hatafnl to
them; they would sooner filch shilling
than earn ten any day; their time is
spent around the doors of cafes, in the
piazza, on board the bay steamers, in
the gardens of the Chiaia; always in
gangs, gambling, idling, smoking, sing
ing, sometimes-but rarely-fighting,
never working. Where they find means
TO dress their unclean bodies in the taw-
dry pseudo-respectable clothes they
wear, and for the lavish display of col
lars and cuffs-the less said about their
under attire the better-is a mystery
Luigi had graduated highly in this set !;
but, having notion to settle down into
a less precarious mode of life, and
thought that Teresina might prove a
useful appendage, and, perhaps, by her
cleverness and industry, supply him
with means for his own particular pleas
ures
Affairs thus stood when a stroke OF
fortune, which befel Teresina, gave rise
to the tronble of which this story tells.
Like many wiser and better people than