The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-12-13
Manitowof pilot.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1888
A ROMANCE.
The Remarkable Story Related by g
Famous Singer.

dAouS DlASOTs
/ The sLounger'' of The Washinqton
/ Sunday Herald relates the following
story:
I'm all the range of romance | have
never read of more wonderful story
/ than that l shall try to tell as it was
/ told me by one of the greatest singers
/ the world has ever known. -Four
years ago., said the lady relating the
/ story, there was a Young American
/ girl in an Italian town who was studying
music. She came from a quiet New
England village and with her mother
located in place celebrated for its
masters to undergo . complete musical
+ training. Her master was a thoroughly
| conscientious Italian, whose voice had
| broken down just as he began to be
/ famous as a tenor, and so he had to
give up his lifelong-aspiration and
train others to gather in the golden
fortune that by his art he himself had
/ hoped to win. The girl who had been
given the sweet old puritan name of
| Faith studied diligently, and was in
! her second years course when an i'll
ness attacked her mother. The small
sum set aside for Faiths musical
! studies was well-nigh spent in the
mothers sickness. What to do the
daughter did not know. They were
without friends, and the future was
without hope. One night before retir-
| ing the girl knelt by her bedside and
| fervently prayed to God to help her.
| She arose from her prayer comforted,
| for in her simple way she believed in
God, and that He always heard the
prayers of His children who prayed
believing in Him. That night she
| dreamed a curious dream. She saw
her dead father as he had appeared in
| life. He said to her. Believe in God.
He viii help you The mcknight the
dream was repeated. The third time
she dreamed she was in Monaco; that
she had gone into the great kursaal
where they were playing. She sat
down at a table and put sum of
money on the red square and let it stay
until the red had won thirteen times.
| Her father stood behind her chair as
she sat- and when she finished he put
his hand on her head and gave her his
| blessing, and then she awoke. The
dream puzzled her. She had never a
| been at Monaco. She had never seen
gambling-hall, and yet the whole place
| had appeared so wildly in her dreami
When her teacher came that day she
told him of her dream and those that
| preceded it. He listened attentively.
Like all Italians, he was superstitious.
J He thought of it all day. When he
saw her again he said: why not try
| it? God helps us all in his own
mysterious way That night her father
came again, and said: Got That
decided her. She told her mother that
she thought little rest and recreation
would help her, and said her teacher
| and his daughter, who were taking
little excursion, had asked her. to join
them. Night she go?, The mother
thought few moments, and could see
no harm in it to her child She would
only be away one night, and she had
her favorite servant to keep her COM
pany during her daughters absence.
The next morning they 1.-THE teacher,
his daughter, and Faith) took their
departure. They looked upon the
beautiful gardens of Monaco. as lovely
as was the Garden of Eden before the
fall. At 9 that evening the three
! entered the great kursaal. 1t was just
as the girl had seen it all in her dream.
The place was full of well-dressed
people, ladies and gentlemen, and a
band was playing beautiful music. In
a corner the girl recognized the table
she had seen in her dreams. With a
swelling heart and emotions that can
not be described, she sat down, and the
Italian stood UP behind ner. During
the day she had determined what
to. do.
''She drew from her portemonnaie
two notes, each for one English pound,
and the Italian showed her how to put
| them on a red spot. What if it were
all superstitious folly? What if she was
wasting in wicked gambling-house
the little money they had between them
and starvation. She dared not think
She must do what her father had
hidden her in her dream. y amselle
has won,' she heard the croupier say.
Let it stay she replied. What is
the limit?' asked the Italian. we
have no limit, the well-dressed, cold
| blooded man with the suave voice said.
She won again and again. The red
had come up three times in succession.
She had won ZIG, or $50 of our money.
viii not the lady take up her money!
said the croupier. No. she answered.
Let it alone; l am going to play the
red to win thirteen times. He shrugged
his shoulders imperceptibly. The game
went on. at the sixth play her winnings
were 500. She sat like woman in u
trance. When the red had won for the
eighth time she had $3.50. Oh, what
should she do? Before her was q small
| fortune. Ought she not take it and
| go? By this time crowd had
| gathered. Something new was going
on. a woman with a face like the dead
! had won eight times in succession on
the red. A few old gamblers began to
back the red to lose. 1t was impossible
| that it should come up again. The
game continued. Nothing was heard
but the click of ivory and the voice of
| the croupier saying: The red wins
again At the tenth play she had
| $l0,24 Her excitement was uncon-
trolable. Here before her was more
money than she ever had seen all her
| life before. 1t was hers Should she
take it and goP No. she managed
to whisper; Il will play it all, lose or
win, till | have played the red thirteen
times! The red came up again at the
eleventh play. She had $40, $50. For a
moment she hesitated. She would take
Gods gift-for it was His, she said
and 90. Something said to her. PLAY
the thirteen timesr She did. At the
the twelfth turn she had $40, 800. She
| gasped like one fainting. Give her
air. said one just behind her. Once
more, once morer she whispered. Thir
teen came, and the red Won. She had
$S1, 920. There was a soft sigh. Give
her air; she has tainted, said the
croupier. The excitement had COM
munieated itself to the crowd who had
gathered and watched. No more, she
| managed to utter. 1t was over. The
croupier gave her her money in English
bills, f100 each, and calling a
carriage, she and her friend left with
| an ehormoTs fortune made in half an
| hour. At the next turn the red lost F"