Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-12-14

These noble protestations were not need
ed to awaken a like response from Lucia.
But YOU may be sure her father knew
| nothing of their plighted troth.
The emigranfs soon landed al the Bat
| terry and settled in Mulberry Bend They
| lived in New York for over five years,
| but they were not very happy. That was
| Diego's fault. He had lived tive years III
cruel New York and not in that Paradise
which his more fortunate cousin mad PEE
| tured with such beautiful coiOrs. There
was Just as much competition IN the
| fruit business. he discovered. as IN other
pursuits Competition meant small prof
| It's and would in time drive him out of
| business. He was worse off now than
| he was in Sicily. He had noticed the
numerous suitors of Lucia, but could find
not one Of them with sufficient means %
! support Lucia and TO keep him out Of his
| difficulties SO, as his position became
| more and more discouraging. he was
| forced to look for help from another
source.
Uenrico Capello was the proprietor of
! 4 select ''t0nsOrial pari9r" on the upper
| Bowery, He was neither pleasant To
gaze upon nor agreeable TO converse
| with but ne was well-to-do. Because
! he had saved up a few thousand dollars
many Il shcewd mother in Little Italy
| had marked him for her own as son
| in-law. Henrico, on the other hand, be-
| ing equally ahrewd. would erase the
! mark. and at the age of 10 still re-
NAMED unattached. But Henrlc0 es-
capped the nets of the mothers only to
| slip into the hands of a more diplomatic
parent. Diego and HenricO became
quite friendly and the barber in time
| came 10 pay MS respects to Lucia. But
| she, dSlikng him from the first day. re-
| fused those attentions which for Il time
she had willingly received from her other
I
avoid meeting him. And when Diego
would tcy to sound her about marrying
Henrico she either skillfully sidetracked
him or else openly protested that she
would never marry HenricO even 10
save her father from the streets. Final
ly she was driven to burt out that she
was engaged to Luigi and that she
would never listen to a proposal from
any other man. But even this rebuff
had little effect on the determined Diego.
The man persevered. and on the same
day that Luigi had secretly arrived he
exacted from Henrico Capelo a written
promise to marry Lucia and to lay aside
III her name an ample dover.
10 achieve success where the craftiest
Of mothers had failed was indeed
thing to boast of, but to gain in addition
dover from SO elusive bridegroom
hordered on the miraculous. Diego was
wild with happy excitement. At half
past he closed up business. went
around TO Capello's barber shop and bus
tied Capello off to come home to supper
with him. Ordinarily the walk to Di
egos tenement could not have taken
more than dozen minutes. hut today
ITS duration was limited only by the
failure of every building on the way to
be saloon Diego would treat at least
once in each block. and by the time tho
health of the bride. of all relatives on
bolh sides, and of the Tammany chief
tam of that ward had been drunk. bride
groom and father-m-law had become
convinced that the earth was round and
not fiat.
Then they started to stumble IN the
long lights of dark tenement stairs. The
eHort seemed irritatingly supcrhuman.
hut was eventually successful AT the
same time, it partly aroused Diego from
ms stupcr. He paused before entering
the rooms and tried to put together few
pleasant words with which to greet and
propitiate Lucia. He threw open the
door and beheld Luigi. Pouring forth II
torrent OF curses. he staggered toward
HIM, lunging at him with a knife Ii.
his fury and abandon he tripped on the
rag carpet and fell PROSTATE. In an
instant all was confusion. Luigi. leaping
TO his feet, sprang on the drunken man.
ne barber. believing that discretion was
the better part of valor. rushed out upon
the ire escape and yelled for the police
nc bdibtI tries VulcklN SOUcTeu up
everyone connected with the fray. Their
only thoughts now We're to escape the
police. They were too late.
Diego and Luigi spent seepless night
in adjoining cells. The next morning
they were released with fine that Lucia
succeeded in paying. The barber had de-
serted Diego at this crisis. but the cir
cemStance was not necessary to make
the old man see the error of his WAYS.
He had plenty of time the night before
to think. Luigi then was in Il position TO
state his side of the ease fearessly and
foTcibly, and when he told Diego thar
ne had saved M several hundred dollars
ne made. perhaps, his strongest point
For what Diego wanted had not been the
barber so much as his money
And concerning the fact that Luigi was
n Palermo-well. man who was perse-
vcr.nG enough to wait five years for his |
hride and cross the seas for her GER
ta'nly deserved to win her This feeling
1t was that possessed the old man as, ac-
Companed by the two young lovers, he
letf the gloomy courtroom for THE sun
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