Clarksville evening chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn) 1886-1890, 1888-10-19
The Fisherman Of Naples.
By ALEXANDRA DUMAS.
CHAPTER XII.
VICTORY.

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-
rets defended the entrance, and the Spanish
guards OF the Duke of ARGOS were stationed
on the bastions.
Masaniello placed his men as sharp shoot.
ers, 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
tho peoples cause, Abandoned their posts,
and ran up to the insurgents, crying out:
Long live the Neapolitansl Down with the
Duke of ARGOS" They mixed with the laza-
roni, and Immediately rushed back with
them towards the palace.
| Tho 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. lie advanced from room TO room
and from passage to passage until no found
himself in the council chamber face to face
with the Duke Of ARGOS.
Duke of Arcos," said Masaniello, after
looking ct the viceroy for u moment, ''the
people of Naples. whom you have SO long
oppressed and crushed with taxes, and whose
prayers and threats you but yesterday dis
dancd to listen to, are today come them
selves to protest agains: tho tyranny of their
master. Lookw
And he pointed to the tumultuous assem-
blaSo roaring without, TO their hatchets,
their muskcts, their pixies and their pom
iards, which were raised from time to time
above their beads in threatening manner.
The viceroy looked for en- instant at tho
crowd Of men, who uttered repeated cries of
vengeance, and then JGrned his gray eyes on
Masaniello.
Sand who are you" asked he Of tho young
man; you who arc seen wherever tho revolt
breaks ont, and wherever traitors massacre
the servants of the kinga"
who am II a dog" answered Mnsa-
nicllo, with bitter irony, whom the farmers
OF the customs have pilfered for the last ten
years, but who has now determined, Duke Of
ARGOS, to taste untaxed the fruit lie cultiyates
die with a musket in his hand"
''But your nanep
"Masaniello."
"And you are the scoundrel who hes dared
attack the soldiers Of his Catholic majesty
Philip the Foarth!'
"Iloldl Duke Of ARGOS, Masaniello means
tho victory of the people. l.asauiollo is tho
peoples WILL and this will could crush you
like a reed"
death to the viceroy! Death to tho ty-
rantm cried the insurgents.
Some of them rushed into tho chamber,
and the Duke of ARGOS saw himself covered
by tE"ir musEcts.
The cid Spaniagd did not, however, abate
his pride ono iot.
lie seized Masanielio by tho arm, and led
him 20 the window.
Young man." snid he, ''you are bravo and
generous; save, therefore, this multitude,
whose misery hes novel you, ard who can
not shower sufficient praise on You now. Yet
taiIe carol popularity is but a changing
breath, which would raise you to power
today, and to-aoTrow dash you to tie ground;
show yourself to be loyal subjsc; OF tho
king Of Spai u, my master, tell me wha: you
desire, and .shhr EonoTs nor fortune snail
be refused yoi.p
II require ne people of Naples TO be rlado
free and he y" replied Gas2Gieilo 81 rc-
Quirc that :ey shall 10 longer be forced 70
work liSe SITS of burden in order 20 enrich
Unsuitable )reigners; l require that our
homes shG. 5e no longer pilaged, ard that
women ana children shall no longer be cast,
nu:nbed with cold and dying CT hunger, into
10 streets There, Du1o OF ARGOS, that is
wL.. we I'll desire"
''Lr. him gran: cur Gemaals or die" cried
The insurgents.
Tho vica-oy seemed TO yia,G
BE-: whss arc your de-iarGsr' asked he,
With q slichs iroaicsI accent,