Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-04

snouIu pe given an English education.
Then she closed her eyes, and the or
phans were left entirely to the trustee s
mercy,
| He obeyed her spoken commands to
the letter. Anthony and Pauline were
sent to English schools; but having no
friends in their fathers native land, or
all Old friends having been lost sight of
during their mothers widowhood. the
holidays were spent in Italy They
grew up almost as much Italian as En-
glish. Ceneri husbanded, invested and
, managed their fortune with care and IN
business-like way. l have no doubt,
SO far as it went, his honesty was unim-
peachable.
Then the longed-for moment camel
The great blow was to be struck.
Ceneri, who had kept himself out of lit
tie abortiye plots, felt that now or never
he must do all ne could do for his coun-
try. He hailed the coming man. He
knew that Garibaldi was to be the
savior of his oppressed land. The first
rash step had been taken and led to
success. The time and the man were
at hand. Recruits were fiocking by
thousands to the scene of war, but the
cry was money, money, money!"
Money for arms and ammunition
money for stores, food and clothing
money for bribes- money for every
thing! Those who furnished the sinews
of war would be the real liberators of
the country!
Why should he hesitatep Had his
sister lived she would have given all the
fortune she possessed as freely as she
would have given her life! Were not
her children half Italian? Liberty
laughed at such small thing as breach
of trust
Except q few thousand pounds, he
ruthlessly realized and sacrificed the
whole of the children's Inheritance. He
poured their thousands and thousands
into the hands held out for them. The
large sum was spent where it was most
wanted, and Ceneri averred that he
freed Italy by the opportune aid. Per-
haps he did-who can tell?
Titles and honors were afterward of
fered him for this great though secret
service. 1t makes me think better of
the man that he refused all reward. His
conscience may have told him he had
not robbed himself. Any way, he re-
mained plain DR.. Ceneri, and broke
with his old leaders and friends when
he found that Italy was to be King
dom, not Republic.
He had kept, said, few thousand
pounds. The boy and the girl were
growing up, and their uncle thought
that even his patriotism permitted him
to keep back enough to complete their
education and start them in life.
Pauline was promising to be so beauti-
full that he troubled little about her fut-
ure. A rich husband would set every
thing right for her. But Anthony-who
was becoming wild. headstrong young
fellow-was another affair
As soon as the youth should reach
mans estate, Ceneri had resolved to
make clean breast of his defalcations
to tell him how the money had been
spent-tQ beg his forgiveness. and, if
necessary, bear the penalty of his fraud
.ulent act But so long as any money
remained he delayed doing so. The
young man, if evincing no sympathy
with his uncle's regeneration schemes
and pursuit of liberty, fully believed in
his integrity. Feeling assured that
when he came of age he would succeed
to splendid inheritance, swelled by ac-
cumulated savings, he threw away
money in thousand and one extrava-
giant ways, till Ceneri soon saw that the
end of the reserve fund was drawing
near.
So long as he had money in hand to
meet Anthony's demands, he postponed
tho evil day of confession. The idea,
which Macari had tried to work out
with my aid, of appealing to the Italian
Government for return of some Of the
amounts expended, suggested itself to
him; but to carry this out it would be
necessary to let his nephew know what
had taken place-the appeal must be
made in his name.
As the inevitable exposure drew near
he dreaded it more and more. He had
studied Anthony's character, and felt
sure that when he knew the truth his
one wish would be to take revenge on
the fraudulent trustee. Ceneri could.
see nothing before him but q well-de-
served term of penal servitude. If the
English law failed to touch him that Of
his own country might be brought
against him.
1t seems to me that until this time he
had committed no crime from which he
could not absolve himself on the
grounds of patriotism; but now the de-
sire to save himself from punishment
grew upon him, and he determined to
h. ~f naf,
He had never felt any great affection
for the two children. No doubt they
had latterly appeared in the light of
wronged innocents who would one day
demand a reckoning with him. They
were in disposition too much like their
father for him to be greatly drawn to-
ward them. He despised Anthony for
his gay, frivolous life-a life without
plans or ambition-and contrasted it
with his own. He honestly believed he
was doing good work in the world; that
his plots and conspiracies quickened the
steps of universal liberty. In his dark,
secret circle he was figure of consid-
cradle importance. If he were ruined
and imprisoned he would be missed.
Had he not the right to weigh his own
high purposes against the butterfly eX-
istence of his nephew?
So he reasoned and persuaded him
self that, for the sake of mankind. he
might do almost anything to save him
self.
Anthony March was now twenty-five.
Trusting his uncle; careless and easy
going; SO long as his wants had been
supplied he had accepted, until now, the
excuses made for deferring the settle
ment of his affairs. Whether his sus-
picions had at last been awakened or
not can not be said; but recently he had
taken another tone, and was insisting
that his fortune should be at once placed
in his hands. Ceneri. whose schemes
called him for time to England, paci-
fled him by assuring him that he would,
during his stay in London, explain
everything.
The explanation must indeed be given
now, as Anthony's last drafts had re-