The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-06-11
III Continued.

After this brief summary OF what pre-
cedes. the time has como to retrace the
Grand Master. Macheca and his trusty
Monasterio in the formers house.
Once In his room, Machsca tossed his
hat away and fell clumsily on sofa,
growing
II was evident that he was In great
CONSERVATION. for he was breathing
heavily. while beads of perspiration were
standing out on his bald head.
T.rts agitated.A contemplate mood, into
which Mecheca had fallen was not
brought on by fear or cowardtce. but by
a maddening rage. caused by having some
elm thwarted and which aim was always
disreputable. mean and base.
Giuseppe Mecheca. though In a fine nm
ancial condition, with a strong personal
ity on account Of his political influence,
was secretly detested and hated by his
feilow-countrymen and Stunned by
many. Why7 Because he was considered
an insiuuating. insidious man In social
intercourse and we'll understood Chat he
was ostracised
Mecheca lived In a two-story house on
| South Rampant street, and conducted a
| wholesale fruit store nearby. where he
was always TO be found behind his coun-
ter, as II nailed there. He was real
money maker. laying UP piece by piece,
hling bill after bill and boarding up with
! sordid intent.
From the highest to the lowest in the
city. no one seemed ever TO know him, ex-
cept to hate his intoierable meanness. He
had no blood IN his veins, IL was said
| and his heart was the size OF ten-dollar
gold piece He was considered proven
villain and could not have been treated
at heart by people more cruelty.
The other man who had accompanied
Macheca home was on the whole. not
much unlike him. He was fiend and a
knave, a rascal and a coward altogether
1 Pietro Monasterio was thirty years old
! and had the foible OF considering himself
handsome. He was Macheca's valet and
agent in all his wtckednese. For a Ions
while Monasterio was his masters span
lei. until he got decided ascendency
over him. on account of bis superior intel
ngence and edrcation, for he was known
| in New Orleans as 1.-The Greek profess
or"
Monasterfo's controlling influence ovei
| Macheca had assumed lately form oi
outright supremacy; In fact, ever since
the time when Macheca had suddenly be
| come the Grand Master OF the Malta, ar
ter the mysterious disappearance of the
former one Monasterio smelled something
| foul In II and he was taking all possible
advantages OF the position, trying at th'
same time TO unravel the mystery, and
while he was eating out his heart with
impatience. being already palled with
| Nacheoas upp4shness, Monasterio had 9
wild project of his own we'll fixed In his
| mind
When Macheca sat on the sofa, seizet
by tantrums anger and pain, MonasteriC
did not pay much attention to him, bu
sat unconcernsd in rockingham, lei
surely, lighted his pipe, and betweer
| pufYs, lounging with half shut eyes. nov
and then. was herring at Macheca'
| movements.
That disdainful attitude toward the
dreadful Grand Master was not alone
due to the self corrcett OF Monasterto. who
thought himself Macheca's master-mind
but there was another strong reason why
he should hate and aggravate the Grand
| Master, and that was because Monas-
terio himself. was. deadly smitten with