The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06

s.1taI yss Wnen ns saw you, ne con- verging upon cowardice." |"
 Because he knows that hold a secret of his life which Is verified by documents;
 there would bs no postion 1 nish eonsh Si Say ic prevent his falling from 1t, no pafron powerful enough to protect him: he would be buried alive"
 F"And do you not make use of 1t anainst hfm?'' asked Blanca excitedly. s answered Manasseh.
 And do the people from whence you come practice no revenger
 And your sister-that poor. deceived girl-did she find consolationf"
 Nc, Princess; my countrymen are those who love but once"
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 Through Italian Mountains.
 But Italy is truly a wonderful coun- try. Man. after having been driven out of Eden, said to God: Let us two make
 The wondrously beautiful landscape al- lures and invites man to remain there. Parting from it is as undesirable as/wak- ing from blissfui dream.
 Manasseh Adorjan in proceeding on the journey without stopping. manifested great self-sacrifice. Few would have se- iected the shorter route through the di- vine vale of the Arno.. in order to avoid
 
 time in which they could admire the most beautiful river, and at the same time the heavenly eyes of a charming lady.
 He took the route by way of Sienna and Orvieto, which is the shortest, but the one most avoided by travellers. They passed cities formerly powerful but now neglected. with churches only half fn- ished; desolate castles in which formerly heaths interrupted by sandhiils which reminded the traveller more of Arabfa Pa- traea than of Italy. When surveying all this. the stranger Is attacked with tremb- It is the fever breeding maiariai air of the neighboring swamps, which renders man unable to till the ground. Wherever man is not healthy, there also the soil
 But besides being short, this road had the advantage of being rarely frequented. The revolutfonists. who from all sides were hastening northward, avoided it. for there was nothing worthy of their notice in the quiet cities along this road. A revolution for the purpose of re-estab- fishing the republic of Sienna, or for making Viterbo the seat of the popes. infest this route, for upon 1t no travellers are to be found. Manasseh conducted his companions quickly and securely along this tedious journey.
 Toward evening, when they came into the neighborhood of Rome. it commenced raining. and they were denied the pleas ure of seeing the cupola of St. Peters Church tower toward the evening sky. A long, monot0nous street, enclosed between garden walls, with here and there a small chapel. graveyard monuments And inns, tried their patience until all at once the stage coach stopped and the position Porta Del Popolo where the travellers are questioned as to the object of their jour ney.
 This. then, is Rome. One would hardly believe it. The goal had, however. been reached. They had arrived in the great city on the evening of the same day which Manasseh had promised. Had their adversary arrived before them?
 Upon the question of the postilion as Mir. Gabriel Zimandy took out his note book and read the name of hotel, which hotel keeper in Vienna had recon.
 In this hotel German, Is spoken. !" That was the advantage 1t had over others. And you will put up where we do. won't you?" said M. Zimandy conde- scendingly to Manasseh.
 Where German is spoken? No, thank you. If I say at this hotel that I am a Hungarian, they will kiss me- and make me pay for 1t; If I say I am German. they will cudgel me and include ttat also in my bill would rather go to place where. when I name Pennsylvania, they will think 1t is some place in America, perhaps in the neighborhood of Pennsyl- Vanld-dnQ Ine AIflSTlCan IS TGSQeCLeQ DY the Italians"
 ''I am very sorry" said M. Zimandy. among so many people who are strange and indifferent to us it would have been agreeable"
 S'To have an enemy near" was laugh- ingly supplied by Manasseh. T intend to remain here for some time, and I will not stay at a hotel; as soon as have my procure small. cheerful room in the neighborhood of Monte Pincio, where I can hide my corpse"
 Now the carriage turned into brilliant ly lighted street. Near corner house ascended the streams of a fountain or
 namented with magnificent works of sculpture.
 This is the Palaxzo Cagliari," remarked Manaseh in quiet tones.
 Blanca, with involuntary curiosity. put her head out of the window in order to look at the palace which was the ances- tral seat of her husband. and the inte- rior of which she was never to see.
 Soon afterwards Manasseh rang the bell and the carriage stopped. He descended, and, shaking hands with his companions, took his leave. The lawyer dismissed him with the remark that they would certainly meet again; the blond beauty expressed the hope that they would together visit some places of interest in Rome but the Princess said nothing
 And now the stranger, whom they had met by accident, disappeared He went many individuals and nations are in- tered and in which his corpse also may find a resting place-his corpse, that has a living heart within it and carries an arrow in its bosom.
 But the Princess, with her company, drove to the hotel where German was spoken. Upon their arrival the proprietor hastened to meet his guests. He was a polite, gentlemanly man. M. Gabriel, of course, commenced with the explanation that a Vienna hotel-keeper had recom- mended this hotel to him and at the same time mentioned the name of the Princess. When the hotel-keeper heard this name he clapped his hands and uttered that pe- culiar, whistling sound which denotes great surprise.
 And did Your Excelency, on the road, meet with no misfortune?"
 Why do you ask this? .5.. ......
 ''Your expected arrival had been made known to us by our Vienna agent and at the same time that of another guest, a distinguished Hungarian gentleman, who also desired a room on the nrsr floor This afternoon the news was conn with his companions had been taken prisoner in the defile of Monte Rosso and dra gged into the mountains; there they will he kept until ransom is paid for them. We feared that you had shared their fate" o.,.. .,
 "TThat was fortunate for you
 "XVhst was the name of the gentleman whom the brigands capturedY asked the Princess with an expression of deep inc terest. - - rot remember it, but will look for 1t in my correspondence. and will copy 1t for yol on a piece of paper"
 Rlanca had just taken off her cloak when the waiter brought to the room