The Columbus journal., 1893-10-18

81 WANTED TO BID YoU GOOD BYE"
1t would indeed have been useless,
q on the following evening, protected
by the falling shadows, Gontran with
little luggage mysteriously took . cab.
directing it, not to the station, but
toward the distant quarter of Gros
Gallon.
There he rented q room for ten dol
lars q month in Cometa street, q street
in which one need have no fear of
meeting the Partisan fashionables.
All summer long he remained there.
He hired an old servant to attend to
his wants, and also bought the neces-
sary material for q large c%orrespon-
dence.
Eight days afterward Guido de
Rheteuil received q letter. of which
the following is an abstract:
ITO GUIDO DE RHErEUIL, POssIDENr,
Rue Tour DE DANES, PARIS:
Steamship Generate Garibaldi, 18th
May, 1s- "How beautiful is the
sea! How freely does one breathe
when surrounded by this immensely
of water! All, my dear Guido, how
l pity you, who have to remain in that
infected Paris As you wish me to
write all my adventures and sensa-
tons, l shall begin by remarking that
l sailed On the Generate Garibaldi, q
steamer plying between Genoa, Civita
Vecchia and Naples. You we'll know
my sociable temperament, SO that it is
hardly worth while to mention that l
Immediately made the acquaintance
of the captain by offering him the
cigars of cur club-Captain Paufill is
. dear old acknowledging put of port
the ship began to tip a little. How
wretched it is to be seasick! Luckily l
did not suffer long. l have not told
you yet about the passengers of the
Generate GarIbaldi. - English, all
English! There is one Engli-h girl
who is enchanting-a little girl, with
q wealth of blonde hair falling on her
shoulders She often looks at me and
list! I must not tell everything in
. day.
After all this talk, my dear Guido.
1 stopped writing to go on deck and
admire the far off lines Of the Corsican
coast disappearing in the blue horizon.
"Yours affectionateiy,
'1GoNTRAN."
'sP. S. You will receive this letter
of mine, as well as the rest, through
q third party who attends to my bust
ness interests in Paris"
Four days afterward a second letter
came from Gontran. dated in Genoa:
Hold me, my friend, hold me, as I
cannot restrain the great admiration
which ovcrcOmes me. while 1 exclaim
wonderful. deiightful!-No one car
imagine anything like it! Genoa is a
1t has a gulf, and oh. what a gulf
and marble. marble everywhere. too
much marble: They say the Ligures
founded Genoa about seven hundred
years before Christ Later, the Ro-
mans united it to the Gailia C~isalpina.
After the fall Of the Keenan, empire it
was taken and passed through the
hands of different barbarous pnpula-
tons, until it b came li.ye to Charles
the Great At the beginning of the
fifth century Gen, IA declared itself an
independent cit and was governed by
consuls, upheld bv the senate. The
people gathered il assembly on the
public square and took part in the ad-
ministration.
I'm 1879 the Gcnnese AMI the Vene-
tiaus. who CONTROLLED the seas. began
to fight each other furionsly and com
pletely dcmoralized one another."-
Here it nav 0e we'll to remark that
Gontran had before departing for
Comets street, b ught a Baedeker
guide.
by the way: I have found me En-
glish girl of the. steamer at Genoa.
We live in b same hotel. and she is
accompanied b. an uncle with long
whiskers and Two cousins with pointed
teeth. l have been told that she be-
longs 10 one of the richest families OF
Cambridge The day after my arrival
] hogan the attack. In love. ! never
waste time A maid. generously
bribed. has promised to convey to Miss
Arabella This is her name, a note, the
triumphant result of which under
taking ] patient Y await"
When GOntran wrote these Sweet
words he had jcst dictated the items
OF his wash'ng-.i~t to his washer
woman. whose "rth gra,hy had deeply
interested him.
Thns the letters to Guido de
Rheteuii f,Iiovesi one another for
three months It MAS a flood of
rhapsody. TIE most amusing and
wonGerf al adventures were described
in them: cxcu: sions in gondo!as in
Venice fantastic. SerpnadoS nm Tho