Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-10-04
The FiShermanO NaplG'
BY ALEXANDER DUMAS.

when they come to present their credentials to mel"
 "But you will, at least, lessen the expense of your stud can easily understand that you will soon cure yourself f'that mania of yours for horses, which causes 6O,0O0 ducats to pass annually from your pocket into that of the Arab horse dealers"
 s'Silence, Fernandez, you irritate me, and want all my patience for the approaching interview"
 "Wiu you have patience enough, mi senor, to listen to the complaints of your munlcl- palities and corporations. when the fat citizens who form them come to clamor about the maintenance of their privileges? Will you have patience to worm out of them, ducat by ducat, the sums necessary to supply the expen ses of your household? If Marguerite, the re- gent of the Low Countries, were still alive, she could tell you what she had to put up with from the snarling disposition and sordid ava rice of the magistrates of Brussels and Ant werp; she could also tell you whether she ever had an instant's repose, when the worthy states general of Flanders, of Brabant, or Of any other province were assembled The Emperor Charles the Fifth, mi senor, had, you see, been brought up among all these Flemish creatures; he had mania for char ters; and the consequence was, that, at his
 
 fell to pieces It would be better for you to abdicate at once than to grant these Neapoli- tan scoundrels the charter they persist in en- deavoring to regain"
 Isabella, my dear daughter, Isabella, has fallen into their hands, Fernandez" mur- mured the Duke of Arcos, and tear started from his eye.
 "Alas! mi senor," replied Don Juan, II made snperhuman efforts to save her; and one would think that your Spaniards are in league with the people, for they all took to flight at the first cry of the multitude, and I was separated from Isabella by the in- furated crowd"
 There was a moments silence between the viceroy and his counselor.
 "And then" continued the former, "what will his majesty Philip the Fourth say when I return to Spain after having lost one of the brightest jewels of his crown? The Duke of Arcos will be banished from court, ban ished and dishonoredl Oh, God! oh, God how will it all endr'
 "Well, if you choose to listen to mel
 "What would you have me do, then?' "Why. cut out from the text of Charles the Fifth all that refers to the privileges oi the corporations and municipalities and te the rights and immunities of the nobles, the clergy and the citizens. I would then put my seal to the act thus modified, and would order the chancellor to restore the article suppressed when he read the charter to tho lazaroni and mendicants of Naples; should | thus gain time. mi senor; and to gain time l is something when we are pressed by revolu | tions.''
 'And in the meanwhile his Catholic maj | esty could send fleet to Naples with re-en l forcements," added the viceroy.
 "To speak frankly, think that the vessel of the king of Spain would arrive too late,' said Fernandez.
 "You think, then, that the insurgent would discover our stratagem, and immedi l ately take dire revenge?"
 "They would, on the contrary, be crawling in the. filth out of which they never ought t. have come, long before the arrival of tn | fleet"
 You mistake. As long as Masaniello lives Naples will never be tranquil"
 ''Mi senor," said Don Juan, twill you l highness allow me to invite two of my friends the prince of Caraffa and the duke of Mon teleone, to accompany US to the interview9'
 "Most certainly; I even beg you to do so.
 "Good," said Fernandez. "Now, Duke 0 | Arcos, remember my words: before nigh descends from the heights of Pausilippo, yo will have returned to the Vicaria, and tn whole kingdom of Naples will again be unde the rule of King Philip the Fourth.