Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-10-28

ne VIII but initiate your example
caro- MIC"
"Ah, but | n stand it," he said
He cannot. Few Neapolitans are like
met"
| watched him narrowly, and went
on with the list of my invited guests,
After these, comes The CapitanC
Luigi Freccia."
What! the raging %fre-eater?" Elk.
claimed Guido, He who at every sec.
ond word raps out a pagan or Chris,
tian oath, and cannot for his life tel
any difference between the two!"
And the illustrious gentlemen Girls
piano Dulci and Antonio Biscardi
artists like yourself" | continued.
He frowned slightly-then smiled.
Il wish them good appetites! Time
was when | envied their Skill-now
a afford to be generous. They are
welcome to the whole field of art as
far as | am concerned, | have said
farewell to the brush and palette
shall eve paint again
True enough, | thought, eying the
shapely white hand with which he
just then stroked his dark mustache;
the same hand on which my family
diamond ring glittered like a star. He
looked up suddenly.
Go on, conte, | am all impatience
Who come next"
More %ire-eaters, / suppose you will
call them,' | answered, land French
f~re-eaters too. Monsieur lie Marquis
u A%vencourt, and lie beau Capitaint
Eugene de Hamal."
Ferrari looked astonished. 'Pei
Bacco!" he exclaimed. Two noted
Paris duelists! Why-what need have
you of such valorous associates?
confess your choice surprises me-
Il understood them to be your
friends" | said c%omposedly, IF you
remember you introduced me to them
| know nothing OF the gentlemen be-
yond that they appear to be pleasant
fellows and good takers. AS for their
! reputed skill | am inclined to set that
down to a mere rumor, at any rate
my dinner-table will scarcely provide
a field for the display of swordman-
ship"
Guido laughed, well, no! but these
fellows would like to make it one
why, they will pick a quarrel for the
mere lifting of an eyebrow, And the
rest of your company
Are the inseparable brother sculp-
tors Carlo All francesca Respetti
Chevalier Mancinl, scientist and man
of letters, Luiano Salustri, poet and
musician, and the fascinating Mar
cheese Ippolito Gualdro, whose CONVEX
%sation, as you know, is more entranc-
ing than the voice OF Adelina Patti,
! have only to add and | smiled half
mockingly. "the name of Signor Guido
Ferrari, rue friend and loyal lover
and the party is complete
Afro. Fifteen in all including
yourself said Ferrari, gayly, enumer
ating them on his fingers. Per la
madre di bio. With such "A goodly
company and a host who entertainns
N rio we shall pass a merry time OF
it. And did you, AMIGO, actually or
game this banquet. merely to vel
ccme hack so unworthy a person as
myself"
Solely and entirely for hat rea-
SON. ! replied.
He jumped up from his chair and
clapped his two hands IN my Shout
ders.
"A la bonnie heure, But why, in the
name Of the saints or the devil, have
you taken such a fancy to me?"
why have | taken such a fancy to
you?" | repeated, slowly. my dear
Ferrari, | am surely not alone in my
admiration for your high qualities!
Does not every one like you? Are you
not a universal favorite? Did you not
tell me that your late friend the Count
Rcmani held you as the dearest to
him in the world after his wife? Eb-
bone! Why underrate yourself
He let his hands fan slowly from his
shoulders and a look of pain con
tracted his features. After a little
silence he said:
"Fabio again! How mis- name and
memory haunt me, ! told you he was
a fool it was part IF his folly that he
loved me too well-perhaps. Do you
know | have thought of him very
much lately?"
indeed" and | feigned 20 be abb
sorbed in fixing a star-like iaponica in
my button hole, How is that?'
A grave and meditative look soft
cred the Usually difant brilliancy OF
his eyes.
To be continued.
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