Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-11-13

then sought Felicia to bid her farewell
He drew her away into a lonely road and
Swallowed by wall, in few words told
his story. The girl listened, half IN.
credulous, but silent; then in burst o.
passionate weeping sF clung to him.
ut Is no deed OF yours, Luigimio
(Ah, my father) You will come back
to me again, after awhile, when time has
gone by
'.Neverr' he said with groan, as he
clasped her closer. sit may not be! A
gulf we cannot pass divides u.s."
! So fed the two, father and son, away
into the night, and returned no more.
A II acquitted Luigi of the crime when
it was discovered; indeed he was known
to have been elsewhere at the time 1t
must have been committed, and to have
had no share in the i'll feeling between
the older men.
ALI, too, pitied Felicia, and in time
some even tried to win her; for among
the fairest of the Capri girls was none
more beautiful, none whose laugh had
been gayer, none whose step had been
lighter when in the evening they had
gathered together to dance the "Taran-
tella." But laughter had fed her lip,
and her heart was heavy. Sometimes
in her bitterest hours she almost hated
the man who had deserted her, and tried
to turn her thoughts to some other-but
in vain; she loved him still.
ULo,, 10, ~,oo4bor S,ooopoo bokof,,J RI
her. The blue shining water as it broke
against the rocky shores seemed to mock
her, and she longed to get away. OF
her sisters, one died and the other mar
ried. One brother married and went to
Naples, and the other went out into the
wide world, no one knew whittier; and
so at last she was free to go where she
would. The buried city of Pompeii
seemed to have strange fascination for
her, and some people of her acquaintance
having gone there, she followed, and
thenceforth made it her home. Hour
after hour she spent sitting or wandering
1mong the ruins, never seeming to weary
of them.
Here, after the lapse of years, returned
Luigi. At first hope, which had died
down to ashes, famed up once more in
Felicita's heart; but it was changed
Luigi, and no thought OF a renewed re-
lation between them was in his mind.
Only some strange likeness seemed to
blind him to Felicita, and though he had
little direct intercourses with her, he
came back now and again to the place
where she dwelt. After his fathers
death he had wondered afar, sometimes
with comrades, but more often solitary
homeless, living ever under the shadow
of crime that more and more seemed to
haunt him, and from which alone his un-
balanced mind found relief in this
strange explation which he should devise
and she execute.
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Through the star-lit night Feicita
rode swiftly, revolving in her mind va
rious plans for the execution Of her trust.
Personal fear was unknown to her.
Could she only accomplish her ruse, she
cared not what came after. But she
found the beginning of her task easier
than she had anticipated. Carlo Bassi
was in measure prepared for her demand,
He was an OLD comrade of Luigi's, and
had sworn to him long before that he
would see him buried as he desired,
though what the form of seplture was to
be he had not known. He had also in
his possession round wooden box that
Luigi had prepared for himself, and SO
far all was in readiness. The night by
this time, however, was too far advanced
to attempt the ascent of the mountain,
but Carlo and companion mounted an
other mule and returned with Felicita to
Pompeii to make all needed preparations.
She found all as she had left it, and
the three prepared Luigi for his fiery
tomb. The touch of death had smoothed
Dat the harsher lines that life had traced
upon his countenance. It was the digni-
y of king that rested upon his brow as
ne lay at last, statuesque and almost
in the narrow bed his OWL
hands had made ready. He seemed
neither of the past or present to Felicia,
Is she gazed down upon him fearless and
silent.
But the night was waning, the dawn
It hand. Hastily she gathered few
Kings together and laid them at his feet.
hat the place might appear as if he had
gone away as usual, and then the two
men lifted the box and carried him out.
They made way to the amphitheater, and
beneath one of the dark arches they de-
posted their burden, to return and make
he ascent to the mountain the following
hight. It was a hazardous experiment,
nut the only one that seemed to promise
successful termination to their under
aking.
All through the long, bright hours {.
he next day Felicia sat and watchci
rom a little distance or wandered near.
Sometimes che fell asleep from sheer
but started awake If so much
IS football of goat rowing in search Of
God disturbed her broken slumbers. It
vas 80 customary for her to spend hours
.mong the ruins that no one took note
# it; and as it CHANGED, none passed that
way save two ragged boys, who, after a
scuffle of brief duration, again