The San Francisco call., 1898-05-25

Great Britain, Rosa Baldichino by name.
 She was rich, as Maltese estimate wealth. and paid to her intended husband as dowry one hundred scudi on their marriage. After the full benediction of the church had been pronounced upon the young couple at the Church of the I'm maculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, the young man signed a very strong con- tract to provide for the return of that dowry money out of any property he might afterwards acquire.
 The couple settled down in the little town of Peregrini, Malta, where MT. Goss was known by his right name of Antonio Michaele Cassa. Goss prospered in busi- ness for three years and became ambitious to make fortune faster. He decided to come 10 America. With many fond em- braces he left his wife and three children, promising to correspond with them and regularly send money for their support.
 At that time the civil war was just breaking out in this country, and Goss with several of his friends, were carried away on a wave of patriotic enthusiasm and enlisted in the navy. For a time he was stationed on the lower Mississippi. trying to run the blockade established there by the Southerners. When he went to enlist his knowledge of English did not exceed the recruiting officers Knowledge Of Maltese, spelling, so to make matters simpler for both the name was Changed from Antonino Michaele Cassa to Michael Goss, and as Michael Goss he was known
 Goss contracted "black fever" was ,n- valided anG honorably discharged. Broken in health, he went to New York All the money he could get together had been sent to his wife to help maintain her three little children-Giuseppe, Giuseppa and Annunciata-and he was about to return to the old life in Malta when he became acquainted with a bIue-eyed American girl living in New York with her rich old father. She, like himself. was a Roman Catholic. He did not tell her of 4l1n fA but affection and made her his wife, as she believed.
 The priest. Father Brennan, too, thought everything was all right for he again gave Goss the full benediction of the church, with his own blessing. at the Church of St. James, in New York
 Goss could not rest in peace. He was restless and unhappy; maybe because the dark-eyed baby looked at him with the same eyes he knew before. Maybe the fight was still in his blood; anyway. he fought till the end of the war. Then, with his young wife and child, he came to San Francisco. With the money she had they bought the home they still live two have been married-and there Mi chael Goss lay, for two years paralytic till his death
 He was cared for by his wife and daughters during his long illness, and the priest often visited him. He received the full consolation of the church. but his secret was buried with him, along with the good he had done.
 But the evil that men do lives after them" and now, in her old age, the young girl who married him in New York knows that she and her children have no hold upon the property they have helped to accumulate against this very time. It is a hard and grievous blow to her.
 How could I know except what he told me?" she said, in telling her story. My husbands s friends came here to the house often when they came from Malta. but they always spoke in Maltese, and l could not understand them. They were always pleasant to me. How could I know, even f. as some of them must have done, that he had a woman in Malta?
 And Joe. who you say was his son Giuseppe and not his nephew, he always called me aunt and my husband uncle. He lived in our family for two years, and the children all thought he was only their cousin. How could he do it-eating our breadY'
 Her daughter says the same. She is beautiful girl. with the black, straight hair, arched eyebrows and great dark eyes of the East, which filled with tears ls she spoke of her father so recently lead.
 How could he have been so wicked