The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-02-13
CALLED BACK.
a weIl-Told Story Of Continuous
and Absorbing Interest
BY HUGH CONWAY.


friotism. sympathized with him in his
schemes, and listened TO the wild plots
he was always planning He was some
years older than she was, and upon her
return to Italy she found him, out
wardly, nothing more than a quiet,
Woodworking, ill-paid doctor. She mar
yeled At the change from the head
strong, visionary, daring young man
she had left. 1t was not until he was
certain her heart had not forsaken her
country that Ceneri allowed her to see
that under his prosaic exterior lurked
one of the subtlest and ablest minds
of all those engaged in working out the
liberation of Italy. Then all his old sway
came back. She admired, almost wor-
SHIPPED him She, too, was ready to
make any sacrifice when the time should
came.
What she would have done aad she
been called upon. it is impossible to say:
but there is little doubt but her fortune
and her children's fortune would have
been freely spent in the good cause.
As it was she died long before the pear
was ripe, and when she died, such was
her faith in her brother. everything was
left in his hands as sole trustee for her
children. In her last moments the
thought of her husbands decided En-
glish proclivities made her exact a
promise that both the boy and the girl
should be given an English education.
Then she closed her eyes, and the or
phans were left entirely to the trustees
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
ali 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-
giish. 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 lonmed-for moment came,
The great blow was 20 be struck.
Ceneri, who had kept himself out of lit
tie abortive plots. felt that now or never
he must do all he 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 focking 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 furn shed the sinews
of war would be the real iberators of
the country
Why should he hesitate? Had his
sister lived she would have given all the
fortune she possessed as freely as she
would have gwen her lifei Were not
her children half Italian? Liberty
laughed at such a small thing as breach
of trist.
Except a 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 sam was spent where it was most
wanted. and Ceneri averred that he
freed Italy by the opportune aid. Per-
haps he 6id-who can tell?
Titles aud 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
cosscicn>. may have told him he had
not robbed himself. ANY way. he re-
maincd plain Dr. Cencri. and broke
with ms old leaders and friends when
he found that Italy was to be King
dom, aota !terRblc.
Fee la; low l-aii = COW ti'ousand
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 becem ng 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 tine money had been
spent-to 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-
CANT 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 Anthouys demands, he postponed
the evil day of confession. The idea
which ,Macari had tried to work out
with nv aid. of appealing TO the Italian
Government for a 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 plaee-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 a well-de-
served term of penal seryitude- If the
English law failed to touch him that of
his own country might be brought
against him.
If Saep.s tn me- that until this time he