Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-08-21
CHE Stury Teller.
ECCOLO.
Saving A Beautiful Girl from Death for
His Own Wedding.

paratiVe anatomy, and dlSSecteu everything
that came in his way. His dissecting room
was in the courtyard of the Palazzo Car
minali, Rome. But it wss upstairs in his
library and alone that 'II Scozzese" carried
out his choicest manipulations, and made
the more delicate of his preparation of hu-
man muscles, arteries, veins and nerves,
which, when completed, were displayed un-
der glass shades on 8 large table in the CEN
tire of the apartment. 1t was at this table,
havingju finished the dissection of very
small hand-never mind to what kind OF
creature the hand, while it was living
hand, belonged-that he was sitting, one
evening in July, 1775, when it suddenly oc-
Cured to him that he had exhausted his
supply of cochineal with which to tinge the
melted wax which he proposed to inject on
the morrow morning into the venous sys-
tenn of his "preparation."
DIR. Eneas Macbride proceeded to the
well-known druggists shop kept by Slgn0r
Panciarotto, at the corner of the Via de
Condotti. It was one of the largest and
handsomest shops in Rome. He made MS
purchase, and placed the packet OF cochlneal
in side pocket.
on the threshold 81 had forgot something.
You must make up, if you please, that ad-
mirably eficacious sleeping draught with
the secret of the formula, of which only you
and are cognizant, and which has given
ease to so many of my patients. Will you
prepare it for,me at once! must take 1t
with me-"
"With pleasure, illustrissimo ed excellen-
tissimo Dottore," said the apothecary, as ne
hustled from jar to jar pouring various IN
gredients into glass vial. '"Tis wonder
full sleeping draught, to be sure. have
tried it on my wife, who, poor soul, endures
agonies from the toothache, and it never
fails in producing slumber. To be sure, had
you not told me that the potion was quite
harmless, should have been afraid to use
it; for the sleep which it brings about is so
deep and SO long as to be really like the
sleep of DEATH"
He soon completed his task, and DR.. Mac
bride, placing the vial in his side pocket
with the cochineal, left the farmacio. He
crossed the Piazgi di Spagna, in the dlrec-
ton of the College of the Propaganda; when
Just as he had reached the spot where now
is the monument his path was crossed by
: tall man who was wrapped up in long
black cloak, and who wore his broad tiapped
hat slouched over his eyes.
''It's all very well for you to siouch your
hat over your eyes, my friend" said DIR:
Mscbride, to himself; 'but know that hat
and cloak very well, or 1 am grievously
mistaken. They belong to the nalneless
man who lodges in one Of the garrets at the
PalaZZo Carminali. / once nursed you
through fever my friend, and gave you
money to get your, cloak cut of pawn. L
don't think you would do me any harm al
though folks do say you are spadeclno-
hired assassin"
Scarcely had he thus mentally expressed
himself, when he heard, in low voice be-
hind him, the single word 9'Eccolo ~ And
Immediately he was seized from behind by
strong arms, heavy cloak was thrown
over his head and was lifted from the ground
and carried some yards. Then he was
thrust forward on what seemed to be some
kind of bench or seat the arms which had
seized him had relaxed their grasp, a door
was slammed and he became aware that ne
was in rapidly moving vehicle.
DIR. Eneas Macbride had verify been kid
mapped by two men, forcibly carried by
them to coach, one of the doors of which
was standing wide, huddled into the vehi-
Gle and rapidly driven away. The whole
proceeding, indeed, had been watched with
the livelest interest by an individual who
was clad in long brown cloak, and who
wore his hat slouched over his eyes, and
who-there is no indiscretion in saying it
was the nameless man who lived in one of
whose profession was conjectured to be that
of an assassin for hire. AS he watched the
carriage rapidly retreating into the shadows
the nameless man was jingling some golden
coins in his pocket and chuckling merrily
'sTen ducats," he refected-"ten ducats
only for pointing out the Signor Dottore to
them. And they have sworn not do him
any harm. Of course, if they had wanted to
harm him they would have come to me but
. &oLL Slo nnt
tore; no not for hundred ducatS. Let us
90 and drink bottle of Chianti."
While the nameless man was thus con-
graduating himself on the successful result
of his exceptionally bloodless nights work,
unseen hands had relieved DIR. Eneas Mac
bride of the heavy cloak in which he had
been muffled and in which he had been
all but suffocated. He sat up to find him
self indeed in the interior of what was
evidently a carriage belonging to some per-
son of rank. The blinds were closely drawn
down, but small lamp hanging from the
roof gave sufficient light for him to see that
the Opposite seat was occupied by two gen.
tlemen very richly dressed, but whose coun-
tenances were wholly concealed by masks
of black silk, having deep fringes of the
same material. One of the gentlemen has
tened to inform him that he must submit
to have his eyes bandaged, as the person in
whose presence they were about to conduct
him was lady Of rank, whose name and
place of abode it was imperatively necessa-
ry to conceal. AS he pulled the bandage
out of his pocket and proceeded very adroit-
ly to adjust it to the doctors eyes, his COM
panion took occasion to remark that he and
the other gentlemen were fully armed, and
should the doctor at this or any other stage
of the proceedings, offer the slightest re-
sistance to any request which was proftered
to him, he would be Immediately stabbed
to death. Upon this admonition DIR. Eneas
Macbride determined, like the canny Scot
he was, to hold his tongue and see-when
he was permitted to use his eyesight again
what came of it.
1t seemed to him that the carriage was
continually turning, and was being driven
through a great variety of streets, possibly
with a view to prevent his forming any &C
curate idea as to the part of the city to
which he was being conducted. The coach
at length stopped, and the door was opened
for him. His two companions took him
each under one arm, assisted him to alight,
and conducted him up narrow staircase
into a room, where, after moments pause,
the bandage was removed from his eyes.
He found himself in small draWing-room,
or boudoir, dimly lighted by. wax tapers,
and richly furnished, although, sheets and
nieces and tapestry had been thrown over
some of the chairs or placed in front of
some of the picture frames, as though for
the purpose of preventing a stranger from
too closely identifying the contents of the
room There was a flask of wine on the
table, and one of the gentlemen filled a
large bumper of Venetian glass and offered
it to DR.. Macbride.
tsI want no Winen he said cOOlly, "It