New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-05-14

Paper y, ana alone scribbiing verses without rhyme
| and often with little meaning except In their COLI
nection with his thoughts. lie was no poet
"A sweet dark woman. with sad holy t eyes,
hn% ,ouched the dear dead thing that's buried there
Her sanity magic cannSt make u AYE deep thrill
The bright torn flesh where my lost love breathed last
She has no miracles for me-nor God .o.
Forgiveness, earth healing.nor death a;, dear
think e TcrK IKE enSG but yf To to-
AS Hs'ii IL learned to live, should hate death.
s SIN, Gn' IS dead which made death hateful
Nor hate ANYTHING; let all i, I'VE on,t
Sinner and saint man, devil, angel; MARTYR
What are they ali to met Good night, sweet rest
wish You ara most so %na' a SS yon heard the talk
About the latest scandal Of lou our tt town a,a
A ASo the the men men and women have known.
| Good highland thanks for being KIND 10 me-"
CHAPTER XVI.
Donna Adele Savclli was ill., There was no
DENYING the fact, though her husband had ignored
il as long as possible, and was very much annoyed
| 70 find that he could not continue to do SC until
| the usual time for moving TO the country arrived
As has been said already, the world
attributed her ill-heath to some unexpected
| awakening of the family skeleton, and when the
Savclli couple suddenly retired to Gerano it
| was sure that Francesca had lost money and
that they lad gore for economy. But there
was no lack of funds in Casa Save That
| ancient and excellent house had, as a family,
keen appreciation Of values, great and small,
| and continued 10 put away more OF its income
| i'm safe investments than any ore knew or Nor
| was there any other trouble TO account for Adele
| illness, so far any member Of the household
conli Judge Every one else was WELL lnciIaom NM
| the chill lren. Every body was prosperous III was
| not conceivable that Adele should have taken
| Herbert Arden's death to heart IN u way 10
endaneer her own health She might. perhaps ,pis
| feel some rcmOrsc for having spoken or MN
| as she had-for Savel had discovered that some,
| thing at least, of the gossip could he tra",!
| 10 her-but she could not De supposed to care
so much as TO fall ill., What she suffered from
was evidently some one OF tt"sc mysterious
nervous diseases which, in Francesco's opinion,
| mo Tern medical science had invented expressly
in order that it mi.ht deal with them IN
| fortunately the particular man OF learning VINO
could Adele was not Forthcoming Inc
doctors who were consulted sad that something
was prcying on her mind, and whoa Sic as
surcd them that this was not the ease they
| shrugged their shoulders and prescribed soothing
| medicines country air and exercise. She par
| ticuarly dreaded the night, ard could not bear
| to he left alone for a moment after dark she
said she saw thines; when asked what Things
| she saw she seemed 10 draw upOn her imagina-
| ton Francesca began to fear that she might
so mad. though there was no insanity IN thc
Braccio family The prospect was not Rieas s
| should die and leave him at liberty to marry
| Laura Arden. He never dreamed that the latter
|
velI if he were free to ask her hand ana
in his cautious. unenterprlsint fashion. he loved
her still. while remaining rehglously iaitnlih 10
his wife, and not. on the whole. treating her
unknaly. The consequence OF all this was
that he made her try the simple cure SUI
gcsted by the doctors and accompanied nor 10
The hereditary stronghold from which the
head of the Braccio family took his principal
title was vast and gloomy fortress in the lower
| range Of the Sabine Mountains. situated in
| beautiful country and overlooking the broad
| Camragna, that Law between it and the distant
sea. The great dark walls were fahkei py
| twelve feet thick, that the deep clnbra,ures
| Of the windows were in themselves ike ht,lc
| fnrri.ur;, was almost all old, and WAS well in
keeping with vaultcd ceilings, the frcsco"d riezcs
| and the dark marble doorposts. Donna Adele
sleeping chamber was rs large as most OF ,hc
| drawing rooms in the Palazzo 1'raccio. and her
dressing room was almost of tho same size To
reach the hall in which she AMI her husband .nnr
rooms and vaalted passage nifty or sixty yards
| long in which the steps OF any on" VINO
c.scd echoed and rang on the stone pavement
! and echoed again during some seconds a,.cr-
| ward in p rather uncanny fashion,, me sitting
| room was next to the dlning-lail. ana cohs,-
| aucntly also at great distanrc rom the nsu'
rooms. There was more of comfort in it than
elsewhere for the walls We're hung with tapestries
| and there was carpet on the floor, whereas
| thrown down here and there where they were
most needed here. too. the doors Ind heavy
curtains But. on the whole, a NOR" g GnsSnv
and gloomy place than the Castle Of Gerano
could hardly be imagined, especially at dusk when
tho blackness dccpened in the remote corners ana
recasses of the huge chambers ana Tue Sr"'prn;; n
If each arch. grew shadowy and alive with
hideous grimaccs in the gathering dimness
Adele had never been subject to any Tear OF
tho smnnrnatural. and the old place was so familiar
TO her from childhood. that she had looked iorwarn
with pleasure to seeing it again She was AT
tached 10 almost everything connected win II, 70
lie
corbcIs 10 the lame old wardcr. Glacomo. ana
10 his wife who helped him TO take care OF IN. tn,
sort Of feeling. and capable, indeed, OF much
more hal it fallen in her path She could not
hated as she did If sns aa n howe S Si hnl
dovcIopcd the one far moro than the other, Tor
lcr r fr,t great passion had been jealousy; a.,
afternoon r,'' of the day following their visit to
Laura Arden The weather was Tine ana the
wcsfernng sun streamed. through the broad
windows and lent cyeyfhlng phssn gs, ' houps
Adele felt that she must soon he better ana
that she could find some rest at ast IN the an, n"
Int when the sun was low and the golden
light turned purple and then to fainter nncs ana
died away into twilight, shc shivered as she sat
in tho deep window-scat, and she called to her
husband, telling him TO order, the lamps
lyon used TO like the dark, he observed, "a
bc turqci mt the od-fashoncd bcll-rope can
not imagine what makes you so AFRAID OF oelns
in the dark" At. $500. :.
Nor H. shc said nervonsly. IT must be
nart Of my illness. Please have as much light
as possible. and lamps in the passage and IN our
rooms IA we'll Stu,
II suppose candles will do answered Savclli
"I do not believe there are more than haii
dozen lamps out here. Your people always bring
them when they come"
oh. candles thcn-anythine Only let me
have plenty of light. II there were no night.
should get we'll
-. ITnfortunately. Nature has not provided that
form OF cure for invalids," said Savclli. with a
langh. Pat we will do our best, he added,
always willing to humor his wife in anything
reasonable.
The servants quarters were very far away and
several minutes elapsed before man appeared,
Tho Gloom dccpcned, and Adele came from her
place AZ the window. evidently In some sort of
distress She sat down close 10 her husband
almost covering at his side. lie could not scc
her face clearly, but he understood that sac was