The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-12-07

must kill them both,
Patience, thOugh-the Order of the
Malta had taught him to be cautious
and deliberate in his movements when
seeking revenge.
The summer was waning; it was the
Tag end OF the season when he and Gil
gi found themselves at Atlantic City.
There Lorenzo Riccadonna with his
wife and piano-organ We're the tirstthcy
met with.
The information he thirsted for was
his at last.
Lorenzo had seen Teresa in Philadel-
phia. She was living there, he said, but
the man she was with was not Ameri-
canO; he was Italiano. a rich restaurant
keeper who kept a p~ensione in New
York as well as Philadelphia. He did
not know the number of the house, but
he gave Antonio the name of the street.
TrOvato.
Dispatch, lest they escape him.
In three hours time he and Gigi were
i'll Philadelphia. At last they found the
street. The music of his organ would
bring her to the window, he hoped.
He ratified off his repertoire block
after block, but the faces he and Gigi
saw were all strange and unfamiliar.
He had pulled his hat we'll down over
his eyes to avoid recognition; and as
for Gigi, he was disguised in an entire
ly new uniform.
He was in the midst of the intermezzo
from the 'Cavalleria" when Il familiar
form appeared at the second-story WIN
dow OF Il small red brick house.
Presto. the face was turned toward
him. IL the gathering twilight the fea-
lures were intistinct; he strained lis
eyes; his hat b. i'm bothered him, but
yes, it was she! Trovato. it was Teresa
All. but what Il change from the TIrl
of the Bend! She was no longer tie
simple, Iaughip: little flower girl, out
a heavy, dull-cYed, painted creature.
adorned with cheap and flashy jewelry
and clad in 4 silk gown of startling red.
She leaned indolently out of the vim
dow and whistIcd to the monkey.
Antonio was now playing in galop
time, his excitement was so intense.
GIgi had begun to climb the water
spout of the quaint little house and was
nearing the woman at the window.
Would she recognize the monkey, and,
thus warned, escape him? was All
tonio's L thought
Gigi had reached the window sill ard
was graycly saluting his former mist
trcss. Antonio did not dare look up at
the two, hut ground away with his eyes
fixed ca the cohblestoncs, mechanically
Jerking at Gigi's rope.
Diavolo. He glanced up in SURPRISE;
thccordhad Suddenly grown very slack.
Che. Both the woman and monkey
were cone from the window.
He pulled hard on the rope; it came
tumblingtothe ground with no monk. y
attached 10 it. What had become of the
two?
Was She going to steal his monk"
his h.iored Gigi:
Had she recognized him? She WAS
@oin" to escape with him and cheat his
master of his revenge.
The monk was off the string. DO
milo. but he must recover Gigi at any
cost. lie leaned his organ against he
area railing and rushed madly through
the open basement door.
y huge ncgrcss tried to bar his way,
but he east her aside with an oath and
plunged on through the dark hallway
in search of the stairs. He reached he
first landing. There was a door, wide
open, leading into Il court in the rear;
from the court ran Il narrow alley, con-
Meeting with the adjoining street. The
house had both an entrance and exit
leading into different streets.
Santa Maria! she had escaped him!
He dashed on upstairs and threw his
weight against the door of the front
room. 1t swung open to the vigorous
push of his shoulder and he went
~sprawling on the floor.
The room was deserted!
Slowly the door swung back on its
| hinges
All. what was that-there! Se.,,
transfiXed to the inside panel of the
door, Il long, keen, shining s~tiletto
driven through it, its little arms and
legs extended in a last agonized con-
vulsion-what was it? Look again, An
tonic. at the thing nailed to the door as
if Crucified, with the life blood slowly
ebbing from it and forming Il dark pool
on the carpet below.
'T~raitoresS." he ShriCkcd, in italian,
staggering toward it with outstretched
hands. Pinned to the breast by he
blade was 4 scrap of paper on which had
been hastily scrawled in Italian: IF
you dare to follow me l will treat you
as have treated your monkey"
When the policeman, who had been
summoned to arrest the crazy organ
grinder. opened the door of the little
second-story front room he found a
dead man and a dead monkey. But tire
stiletto was no longer in the monkeys
body; it was up to the hilt i'll the mans
heart. and the writing on the paDrr
was quite illegible.-Godey's Magazine.
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