Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-16


| custom house authorities and the police
General PetroBeviteh - said one of
the chiefs OF the police, che who disap-
peared on the night of the i1luminations;
ard this (taking from the BODY a dagger
| that vas entangled rather with the cloth
ing than with the f1esh) the cause of
death, perhaps. -
On the blade Of the rusted knife could
still be seen deeply engraven a word in
Arabic, which learned priest translated
into Italian, French, and English. They
were the same Arabic letters as those
which were embossed upon the amulet
that the Countess Stravensky wore at
Mrs. Chetwynd' IS reception and the word
was ''Vengeancei
Thus the Judicial murderer of the Rab-
bi Lostuski, the assassin of the household
peace and joy of the Klosstocks, and the
scourge OF Czaronva flung after execution
into the sea, had come back again to
Venice witness of the far-reaching
hand of Nihilistic vengeance.
CHAPTER xvH.-PoETRY, PROSE AND THE
DEAD SWIMMER.
From Verona to Como is a days
journey. Under any circumstances there
pleasant companiouship it is perhaps one
of the most delightful of continental rail-
way Journeys. The scenery is never I'M
interesting, and there are always in the
distance fine ranges of snow-capped
mountains.
The happy English party from Venice,
it need hardly be said, found the trip
full of a new and special interest. Dolly
was radiant. 1t needed no psychological
student to discover that Sam Swynford
was the selection of her heart. If he had
been wise in his estimation of female
character, he ought to have discovered
in his earliest acquaiDtanoeship with
Jenny's lively sister that her stand-off-
ishness' and sallies of wit at his expense
were only feminine indications of interest,
if not love. 1t was perhaps little feline,
while she purred to make her lover con-
sCious of an occasional scratch. Had the
amiable young strookbroker TespOnde ed
with the mantul intimation that he was
not TO be wounded with imDunity nor
without resentment. it is quite possible
that the shadow of Philip Forsyth might
never have fallen upon DOlly's fateful
youth. She had in her secret heart loved
SwynfOrd none the less that she had oc-
casionally made him suffer. 1t was only
the tritling of somewhat coquettish ma
ture. Swynford had, in slave-like wor-
ship, flung himself at her feet, and she
had placed her foot upon his neck, not
viciOusly, but with something of the
pride OF conquest. She would have ap-
preciated from Sam the spirited re-
spouse that such treatment would have
received from Philip Forsyth, because
she knew that Sam was devotedly at
tached to her. She had doubts OF Philip,
was battered by his attention, urged to
accept him by her sister, who had no
other object but Dolly's social and happy
advancement in life.
The truth is the two pretty young
women were as much above the average
of their sex in genuine amiablity as they
were in appearance and manners. They
had, in the course of their education and
training, annexed unrOnsciously some
of the snobbshness of the upper middle
class in small social victories; delighted
in beng received in a higher grade of
society than their neighbOrs; found ia
social success of this kind, greater pleas
ure than should belong to the honest
performance of their home duties; liked,
of course, to be admired rather for their
were ambitious more or less selfshly for |
distinction in their husbands that they,
the wives, might assume the role of |
persons; were, in fact, good |
with women weaknesses.
No hostess was more gracious than |
Mrs. Milbanke, nor more successful in |
her popular little parties, and Dolly |
might well be envied for her high spirits,
her healthful constitution, her bright !
eyes and her unquesroned beauty.
Philip Forsyth had been proud to be seen
escorting her in the tents of Vanity Fair,
proud of the attention her happy, pretty
face invoked, proud of the envy it eX-
cited among women, and the envy he
excited as her prospective husband.
But Sam Swynford, in his more COM
nonplace nature, had paid far higher
tribute to Dolly's natural fasrinations
han was possible to Philip Forsyth.
sam had no ambition apart from her.
In every speculation he was inspired with
he hope of future with Dolly. He ad-
ninistered to her little vanities in every
way that was possible to his position
Is her admirer and an in
innate friend of the family.
he remembered all the days in which
he was specially Observation-Disclosures
he New Year, St. Valentine 8, Easter,
Ter birthday, Jenny's birthday, Walters
birthday. She always SAID he had ex-
ellent taste in the choice of flowers, the
bindings of books and the selection of
Iainty bits of brao. But Jenny
ould not forget that Sam had in his
ppech a suggestion of North Country
ialect, and was little inclined to
veTdress, took no pains to cultivate
society, and was, after all,
My a stockbroker; so that when Philip
'orsyth, with his distinguished style and
manner, his artistic prospects, his prom
sing position in society and his notable
ircle of friends, came along as q rival
0 Swynford, Mrs. Milbanke took Dolly's
uture into her hands and brought
bout the engagement which had ended -
D disastrously. She now congratulated
erself and her three companions on con-
lnuing their Italian holiday with the
ew love and being entirely off with the I
Id, and con fessed to Walter that there
AS something nobler in life than some
the aims which had engrossed her am
Ition, upon the sunken rocks of which
he had nearly wrecked Dolly future; {
ut Walter would not hear of the small I
ST thought of self-abasement on the part
his pretty and affectionate wife, and
ha< ho n1r Falf |