The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-01-25

trobber's cave and upon robbers bosom
a wild, brilliant woman, without the
pale of society-yet the gent.es st OF
human hearts beating in her bosom
lShe put on fierceness as language in
which alone her wishes could be under.
stood and her humanity seconded.
Antonio rushed in breathless. ~
! 1"IYhat is ii, Antonio ?"said the woman
az she sprang forward and pierced with
1 her great awakened eyes into the soul oil
the .robber. .t-,s,. -
| Leonardo painted Antonio. shas
shared asingle traveller and by this time
| 1 fear, has hurled him headlong from
Mount Gargano."
Ills Wanton cruelty will rouse the
whole country, cried the angry woman
striding rapidly toward the cliff, as if to
prevent, If possible, the contamination
of the deed. They have not sealed the
4 poor wretch's fate" she said. See, the
victim is bound and in the grasp OF
Leonardo and Pizani. Now they stOor
to gather their strength-God death
what, hol LeonardO-villains, 1 will
| have you punished for this"
The rufians roughly dragged the poor
painter TO the fearful scene.
l. A1-' " SHtS1 , W p eiJ NA' aoAou
Have you confessed?" asked Leon
aTdo.
"In the name OF God, friends, do not
put me to this cruel death!"
Your application is too late" said
Leonardo while the two bandits seized
the artist by the feet and shoulders, the
former OF which, as well as his hands,
were closely bound, and lifted him over
the bTinE. He closed his eyes with a
convulsive shudder-one or two entreat-
les were choked in his throat
Farewell painter" cried the feroci-
GUS leonardo "a pleasant journey to
you.sg Ills long one, but you will not
be long on the way"
sAvEp.
Another moment and al will be over,
when the shout of Madalena from be-
low arrested the brutal arm of Leon
ardo:
"Psr Do" he said, "Madalena!
There will be breakers ahead"
'.Diavolot'' cried his companion-; 'if
the beldame had stayedyaway a,minute
morew & A& f.
But they conldAnot decently finish
their atrocious work without paying her
! the respect OF waiting for her first to
come up, although the temptation of
f1inging man 5000 feet off precipiece
was almost too powerful to be resisted.
Madalena mounted the ACTIVITY; she
knew well thenatures of the men aboYe,
ON H. J., nj
had, the moment before, found vent in
threats and revilings, she had Gained
/ herself now to steadier mood.
"Knaves !" she cried, "do you do these
things in my absence? Why anil not
| invited to your amusements?n q
You are Welcome" growled Leon
ardo fiercely, with the air of hungry
dog whose bone had just been wrenched
from between his teeth by superior force;
although not invited, you are vel
GOMEZ
"But who is this Wretch-the doomed
victim of your displeasure2 What"
She placed her finger on his forehead
to steady his palsied and CHASTITY features
while his languid limbs hung neryeless
in their tight bands.
why, BY the Virgin, this is merely
boy-young .unarmed, helpless, bound. y
And she took between her thumb and
finger a piece OF his worn garment.
Poor, too, and perhaps an outcast and
victim like yourselves. Why, Leon
ardo, this is a low game; this is insignii-
cant prey; this is victim rather for a
woman's arm, or, rather, for her eyes.
IT understand no jest, fair lady. This
fellow is, in our belief, detective sent
here, peradventure, with promises of
reward for your head and mine.
HE FINDS HIS SISTER.
otis but fair" cried Pizani, ''to let
him leave his own head as a pledge for
his good faith"
Not his head, good Pizani, but his
heart"
And we have women to lead us, and
they talk of hearts to be pierced with
ECupid's arrows. rather than good Mexi-
can steel; we may better lay down our
weapons at once. | say give him n
sound sleep in the rocky bed OF yonder
stream.
nYouth,n cried Madalena, and with
one bound the artist freed himself, and,
rushing toward the woman, exclaimed:
"Sister, sister, is it truly your"
Salvador, my brother" exclaimed
MadaIena, as the two bandits again
seized the young man, and with an oath
swore that no false representations or
love nonsense would Illustrate their in
tentions. Atierce struggle here ensued,
but bullet from Madalena's pistol
pierced Leonardo's heart and he fell
| headlong over the cliff into the gorge
below. Salvador had forced Pizani to
his knees, but was nearly exhausted
when Madalena came to his assistance,
and in twinkling the bandit was rolling
down the deep decline to a death similar
| to that of Leonardo.
! Antonio, Madalena's husband reached
the scene with three others of the band
lust in time to witness Pizani's fate and
see his wife tenderly embrace the artist.
Explanations followed, and Salvatore
story of his sisters abduction by Rlnal-
do, the former chief of the bandits, his
death and her subsequent marriage to
Antonio, were graphically told. The