Clarksville evening chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn) 1886-1890, 1888-10-16

kill me with terror. Alasi came to try
once more TO save you"
''It is falsei What interest can you take
in my safetyF'
"Oh, heaven how can he ask mel"
These last words were pronounced with so
true an accent of despair and real grief that
Masanello felt his heart tremble and his
anger yield
son. murmured he, ''do not still hope 20
! deceive me. Your conduct is beyond excuse
1t is impossible that you, the daughter of him
who represents the king of Spain, could ever
have loved the poor fisherman of tho Mergel-
I linal"
.'Masanielloln
mo, no" continued the young nan, "you
merely came to trouble my happiness, or
from idle curiosity: and may heaven grant
that 1t was not for q worse purposep
"What do you mean, Masaniello?" asked
Isabella, trembling
"Ohl know, sonora, what your justifca-
ton will be. But if sentiment of fllial love
excuses you in your own eyes; il, in order to
save the viceroy from the dangers which sur
round him, you had recourse to stratagem,
you might at least have spared my heart, and
not lent your own to falsehood, in order TO
obtain my confidence"
Isabella listened TO him with starting eye
and a face as pale as death.
'This idea is not your own, Masaniello!"
cried she. Confess it! 1t has been sug-
gested to you by some one else-by person
who cannot judge our acquaintance prop.
! erly, and who calumniates mo without
! knowing mo-"
SIT is true" said Masaniello.
"Who is this persons"
"He whom just now sent to you, and who
recognized your person"
The viceroy's daughter placed her hand on
her heart and uttered sigh, as If she had
just been relieved OF an enormous weight
"OhI" said she, 81 should have despised
you, if had found you capable of entertain
| ing such an ignoble suspicion. / can under
| stand that the revelation of my rank and
| birth confused your head, and made my con-
duct appear unaccountable. One word will
suffice to enlghten you on everything. As
could not descend to you, ! had formed the
project of raising you high enough to present
| you, some day, to my father and to say to
him: This is the man lover"
| ''Isabellal-no morer' exclaimed the Gs.i-
erman, with the greatest anguish.
may" answered she, "let me justify my
self, for you have accused me. Such was my
dream, then. You possess all that is neces-
sary to rise rapidly to brilliant position.
Yesterday you talked to me of honor, and
said you would not betray the cause of the
people. Is it betraying the cause of the
people to approach him whom you blame,
and to gain, by reasoning, that which an i'll
advised revolt will forever place beyond your
reacha The vceroy would yield to persua-
sion; but he will chastise violence. Obi |
implore you, do not let me have the sorrow
to see you treated like criminal, you whose
life might be so brilliant, you for whom |
had conceived such boundless hopes
Mad and chimerical hopesw interrupted
Masaniello, led away, for an instant, by the
mirage of ambition which Isabella had held
before his eyes, but who quickly recovered
all his fiery energy on thinking of the wrongs
Of the people, and of tho poniards blessed by
Dom Francesca.
Then you are still bent on this rcvolt7"
said Isabella
Eyes"
"And you renounce my lovep
''Senora, Don Juan Fernandez cast anchor
in the bay yesterday. He has come from
Spain on purpose to marry the viceroys
daughter"
"But hate him-and will never be hisl'
"Whati senora," said the fisherman, his
face radiant with joy, twill you refuse this
alliancer
Yes" mur'nured she, in the midst of her
sobs, II will refuse it; for it is you alone,
EIasaniello, that love. Obi yield to my en-
treaties. Yield! implore you"
1T issimpossible. Were to betray the
cause Of tho people should be forever cursed
both in heaven and on earth"
But have just told you of a better way
to serve the cause Of tho people,"
Illusion! Were | even to obtain tho posi-
ton your dreams have placed me in, | should
become corrupted, like the rest, and practice
pcrtidy as they do No! mol will remain
Masaniello, the fisherman, and hasten to tho
combat
Gracious heaven! You are hurrying to
your destruction"
''What matters! When tyrants vanquish,
the scaffold they raise becomes a throne Of
martyrdom for the vanquished."
'.Iasaniellol Masanielol has everything
ceased, then between usl"
YES, sonora The daughter of the viceroy
and the fisherman of the Mergelina must
forget past days Ny heart will bleed in
consequence 1t Is with sorrow and regret
that tear in twain this page of my life But
tho suffering people expect their deliverance
FROM me. ABDUL I am henceforth unknown
10 you"