Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-10-01
CHAPTER XII,
VICTORY.

Masaniello had surrounded the palace of the Vicaria with his fishermen and lazaroni Yet the Vicaria presented formidable appearance.
 Several companies of reiters and lansque- nets defended the entrance, and the Spanish guards of the Duke of Arcos were stationed on the bastions
 Masaniello placed his men sharp shoot CTS, reserving, however, a picked body with which to force an entrance into the palace when the time for doing so had arrived.
 The fire had scarcely opened, when both reiters and lansquenets, won over by those of their countrymen who had already joined the peoples cause, abandoned their posts, and ran up to the insurgents, crying out: "Long live the Neapolitans! Down with the Duke of Arcos!" They mixed with the laza- roni, and immediately rushed back with them towards the palace.
 The gates were instantly broken in.
 All those Spaniards who offered any op- position were massacred without exception; the grand staircase of the Vicaria was quickly dyed with blood and strewn with the wounded and the dead.
 Masaniello was at the head of the com batants. He advanced from room to room and from passage to passage until he found himself in the council chamber, face to face with the Duke of Arcos.
 "Duke of Arcos," said Masaniello, after looking at the viceroy for q moment, ''the people of Naples. whom you have so long oppressed and crushed with taxes, and whose prayers and threats you but yesterday dis dained to listen to, are today come them selves to protest against the tyranny of their master. Look!'
 And he pointed to the tumultuous assem- blaze roaring without, to their haJchets, Alo,s,. I~1.,. iards, which were raised from time to time above their heads in a threatening manner. The viceroy looked for an instant ct the crowd of men, who uttered repeated cries of vengeance, and then turned his gray eyes on Masaniello.
 And who are youF' asked he of the young man; ''you who are seen wherever the revolt breaks out, and wherever traitors massacre the servants of the king?"
 "Who am + A dog,n answered Masa- niello, with bitter irony, "whom the farmers of the customs have pilfered for the last ten years, but who has now determined, Duke of i Arcos, to taste untaxed the fruit he cultivates and the fish he risks his life to catch, or to die with musket in his hand"
 But your name?"
 'Masaniello."
 And you are the scoundrel who has dared attack the soldiers of his Catholic majesty Philip the FourthP'
 ''Hold! Duke of Arcos, Masaniello means the victory of the people. Masaniello is the peoples will, and this will could crush you like reed"
 'Death to the viceroy! Death to the ty rantl" cried the insurgents.
 Some of them rushed into the chamber and the Duke of Arcos saw himself covered by their muskets.
 The old Spaniard did not, however abat. his pride one jot.
 He seized Masaniello by the arm, and lec him to the window
 ''Young man" said he, 'tyou are brave ans generous; save, therefore. this multitude whose misery has moved you, and who can not shower sufficient praise on you now. Ye take care! popularity is but a changing breath, which would raise you to powe today, and tomorrow dash you&o the ground show yourself to be loyal subject of tn king of Spain, my master, tell me what yo' desire, and neither honors nor fortune shal be refused you.n
 II require the people of Naples to be mad free and happy" replied Masaniello. 'I re quire that they shall no longer be forced t work like beasts of burden ill order to enric ins4tiable foreigners; 1 require that ou hsmes shall be no longer pillaged, and tha women and children shall no longer be cast numbed with cold and dying of hunger, int the streets There, Duke of Arcos, that what we all desire" ''Let him grant our demands or dieIn erie the insurgents
 The viceroy seemed to yield. "But what are your demandsp' asked ht with a slight ironical accent,