The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-09-10
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IT would tahs too IsRg and weary you
out we're 70 try to tell you all shs squire
oio for the lad. how NJ treasaa asm suSe
as u ne were his own son. and bow TIE
BOY. with chiJdlike devotion, tried with
All MS might TO repay In some vAy The
sreas kindness shown him-hslpan9 ~
nome. and BY his remarkable voice making
the little village church famous. for
crowds nocked 10 hear the rsch clear ,ufeS
. OF carlo. the young Italian csorsssr
SIX years after and Master Carlo vas
as bonnie lad n you'd ind OF his sgs
N the United Kingdom His love for the
squire mad grown with HE growth and
stsens'nened with hss strength. and Mr.
Ae.fh often used to wonder how ne nd
ever gotten along without him.
Inc boy was general favorffe The
only persons VINO looked down upon hsm
we're Master Jack and Frank Thursev. Sir
Ianes rnuriows sens. and once. VIXEN
master Jack made game OF his devotion to
that prying paryon. Master Carlo spraus
on him and stretched him fun lrussh u3on
the ground. and ever after young Thu-loy
nept his distance from that wrsech Of IN
Italian
In the year that I became housese-p<r
the squire caught n heavy cold. which SET
tied on his lungs and for . long time
threatened to end fatally, % a. soon ~ no
complete rest and change OF scene. so.
accompanied BY the lad. he started for
Italy.
One day while at Rome. after leaving
the Vatican. he was stopped In the street
by neatly dressed woman, who In face
and manner OF speech was decidedly
scotch. Ny mistress 10 dying. my pusr
bonnie Teddy. an would ye na come and
say wee bit prayer after she gaesr she
asked. with tears In her eyes.
MI Keith turned on tho spot, never
Inquiring what the disease (which proved
10 be thu fatal Roman fever) Was, and
hurried along by the woman's side.
Had her mistress been III long?
Not In this great danger. but she had
been ailing about nine years. ever since
little Carlo. her only BARN. vas accident
ally drowned.
Was she wfdowf
Yes; her husband died about three
months before the child was born. leaving
her without a penny. She was by birth an
Engiishwoman. and has written again and
again TO her father, q rich baronet for
help. but has never received any answer
Did they ever find the body Of the boy?
NO but they had positive proof Of hts
death. For said the woman. one morn
tHs WuIc i wan uxlU4 my ieuoy B3fr TIC
wee bit daddy was playing In the garden.
and after, when I went to fetch him IN.
couldna find the BARN, but what aid find
was his tiny cap floating upon the Tiber
On that day my puir mistress heart broke.
and she has never been the same woman
since. Here We are at the house now.
will We come In? I don't much think she
will understand ye-shs's too far gone for
that, but ween she'd be fam 20 ken that
one OF her ain kirk was with her az her
last hour
With these words sbe led him up a
winding stairway into q small meaniy
furnished room. closely followed. though
unpsrreived. ~ the bog Carlo. On t1e bed
the form OF won1ao was lying. her face
which, In spite q ~ paiIor. sfllI had some
claim 20 beauty. wss scarcely les white
than the pillow Itself.
"'Ahr she said IN . voice 30 weak and
low ~ TO be hardly heard I have had
such q sweet. sweet dream. Janet.