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III Continued.


eyeiids dry. 30 greatly was she moved by
every moan from Gabrielle. she gave the
swooning girl a sharp shakeup. causing
her to open the lids again and 10 gaze
blankiy around the room, until her eyes
fell on Margaret.
Then a great sob burst from Margaret.
The iron exertion she had forced upon
herself vanished and a flood OF tender
feeling overpowering her. poor Margaret.
wiping her tears asked with trembling
voice:
''Dou you know me. Gabriella?"
Gabrielle endeavored to raise herself
from the pillows, and Margaret. IN help
ing her. stole one arm around Gabriella's
neck and with the other softly caressed
the tresses touching her brow. Then again
looking down upon her face. she repeat
ed:
'Do you know me Gabriella?'
''Yes. Margaret, but he-he Is dead" and
Gabrielle sank back on the pillows, ex-
hausted, while scalding tears from her
.brimming eyes were falling on Margarets
hand.
"You silly childl What fancy Is this Of
yours? who is he, who died7"
Alfredo. poor fellow! IL loved him
so dearly"
How do you know he is dead-who told
you?"
Margaret OF the signals and their inter-
probation.
A cold shiver took possession OF Maj
garet also; then she began thinking. and
after while she said:
This is beyond my comprehension
Whom do you think signaled?''
''Whyi Don't you see? First he asked
| for an interview; afterward he announced
| a danger. and finally he added sprig OF
| cypress, that is clear"
THAT is nonsense" screamer Margaret
| stamping her foot on the floor, II have
| discovered the right meaning OF that
| green stuff He urges to see you, be-
| cause a fearful danger Is impending"
God grant that l may be wrong In my
| Interpretation OF this, but those dreadful
| words caught at my uncle's door are
| still re-echoing in my ears with dire and
| mournful meaning IT, however. your ex-
| planation is the right one and see AL
| fredo again. I'll scarcely believe my eyes.
| Besides, we must remember and consider
| also what Monasterio hinted about some
| danger threatening Alfredo"
Don't you worry about anything else
until tonight and promise yeu that you'll
see your Alfredo orsini safe and sound.
| kneeling at your feet and begging for
| your pardon for having caused you so
much trouble. But I shall never forgive
| rim, and you wait: I'll handle him In a
|
time. making him more careful in the fu-
ture about soaring my child"
| ooh Margaret You like him. / know,
| he Is so good -natured that no kind-heart-
ed person would harm him. and am
sure that. instead OF handling him hard,
| you will embrace him"
And make you Jealous?"
| mo, any kindness TO him pleases me.
for love you both. Margaret. and
don't think | can live without you, the
| only friends / have on earth II will seem
an eternity before We can possibly see AL
fredo. but IL he come, ! know you'll be as
| much pleased al l."
The girls fell into each others arms.
| and a flood of relieving tears made things
lighter and enabled them 10 wait the
coming night with fess abated spirits and
| apprehension.
| But as the darkness fell their counten-
ances displayed naught but gloom.
Only those who have experienced irk-
can understand both Gabrellas and
Margaret's fdgets. A similar situation.
exemplifying womans nature might have
| inspired Milton. when he vote:
Now clear understand
Why our great expectations should be
The seed of woman"
Now and then the girls exchanged opin-
| ions regarding the many strange posi-
bilities which Gabriella's magnified i'm
glass OF love and danger. as through a
prism OF varied colors. could suggest; and
then Gabrielle would continue her ever
lasting drumming on the window-pane.
as IL to tighten the burdensome hours by
watching passers-by on the street In a
vain hope of seeing Orsini, while Mar
garet ever ana anon was tramping back
ward and forward I'm the hallway, whose
| windows were opposite those In the rear
OF Orsni's house. which was considered
by the two lovers the lighthouse TO their
imperiled love-bark adrift among the
reefs in a boisterous sea.
The hours for Gabriella, who was tor
tured by mournfll thoughts, passed very
slowly; Margaret was feyerish, both
| day, which seemed an aeon 10 them,
would never come TO a close.
At length. the shades OF evening settled
upon the earth. the church bells tolleh the
usual call for the devotees. then at
length the streets became silent and after
a while the monotonous ticking OF the
clock was the only sound to disturb their
At ten o'clock Margaret noticed that the
uncle had retired TO his room and short
time later all lights were extinguished.
Gabrielle began looking az Margaret
with inauiring glances. and the latter. un-
Outstanding the meaning, said
II am going to look for him: you be
quiet. child. and do not get any more ex-
cited and nervous. / am certain that
when return somebody else will be with
me. and then you'll see whether keep
my word or not!'
Not too hard. Margaret. Just like this. -
and Gabrielle squeezed Margaret lovingly
in her arms and kissed her.
Margaret understood and replied.
"Shall do all that. even kiss him?"
'No-yes-you-'
mo or yes? I know-Ill bite him on
the nose" and Margaret ran out OF the
room and toward the end OF the hallway
stopping at the foot Of the stairs leading
TO the attic.
A few minutes after Margaret left Ca
briella regretted having let her go.
| Alone In the dimly lighted room she
thought that she would not dare TO move
from her chair until Margaret's return
But after a short while she sprang up IN
a sudden fright Her sensitive ears caught
a faint sound near at hand, which seemed
like the graphing of men underneath the
window which she was on the point OF
| opening At second thought. however. she
| stopped for fear OF making any noise
which might attract attention.
| She sat down again. and old fireslde
stories Of ghosts and goblins came Arrest
TO her recollection.
Dismayed and heavy hearted as she
was. she began 10 give shape 10 the pic
lures OF her Imagination. TO the ghostly
"reminiscences OF her childhood days. and
already she beheld an apparition shroudeo
/