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CHAPTER XVIII.
The Haunted Man.

The majestic gateway of the Palazzo
Mocenigo was dark as Gordon entered
save for the single lamp always lit at
nightfall. Fletcher served his masters
supper in the great upper room, but
tonight, as too often happened, it was
scarcely tasted. Long aften the valet
had retired. his watchful ear heard the
uneven step pacing up and down, up
and down, on the echoing floor
A restless mood was upon Gordon,
the restlessness of infinite yearning and
discomfort. He was tasting anew the
gall and wormwood of self-reproach.
He had felt the touch of Teresa S
hand as 1t lay against the couch in
that squalid room-had known it
trembled-and the low words she had
spoken in the street. standing, as it
seemed to him, with that forest shrine
ever for background, were still in his
ears
He had seen her but twice, for but
few brief moments. Once she had come
TO him on the wings of prayer; and
again to-day over the hurt body of a
child. Each meeting had touched the
raw nerve in him which had first
throbbed to anguish at sight of her
miniature. Each time he had heard a
voice call to him as if it were the
ghost of some buried thing he had one
day known and lost, speaking a
tongue sweet though untranslatable.
Hours went by. Gordon's step flag
ged. He, approached the desk on
which were scattered distraught
leaves of manuscript, blotted and in
terlined. He swept these into his
hand and read for moment Be-
meath the outer crust of fiippancys and
satire strange new development had
begun. But the mental habit had per-
sisted strong during the moral boule-
versement, as the polar glaze sprea dis
its algid mockery. above the warm
currents of an Arctic spring. How his
muse had bemocked him, he thought.
A drama of madness, whose dramatis
personae were magicians and spirits
of the neither world--stanzas hover
ing between insane laughter and
heartbroken sobs, between suppIica-
tions and lasphemies-cantos whose
soul was license, though their sur
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people; one flowing under the clock
tower with its blue and gold dial and
bronze figures, one through the west
entrance under the Bocca di Piazza,
and still another rounding the Doges'
Palace and meeting the thronged Riva.
1t was on the fringe of this second
stream that she saw him, when the
hour was almost ended. He was
standing in the shadow of the pillars.
watching, she thought, yet distracted.
With whispered word to Tita she
ran and touched the moveless figure
on the arm.
Gordon turned instantly, and turn
ing, spoke her name half-aloud- Ter
est.'' The utterance was almost auto
matte, the lips. startled, voicing the
word that was in his mind at the
moment. 4
She thought he recognized her
through the veil. and answered with
a cry expressing at one time her re-
lief at finding him, and quick delight
that thrilled her at the sound of her
name on his lips. Many things had
wrought together to produce this new
miracle of gladness. The strangeness
and romance of their first meeting, the
tragedy of loneliness she had guessed
in the scene at the shop, her dread
and the physical risk entailed in her
adventure of this night, all had COM
bined with cunning alchemy. When
he spoke she forgot to be surprised
that he had called her by name, for
got that she did not know his. forgot
everything save his presence and her
{ errand.
He leaned forward, breathing deep
ly. 1t was she! She put her veil aside
quickly--her eyes were like sapphire
stones.-and told him hurriedly of the
threat she had heard, of her dread, all
in rush of sentences incoherent and
unstudied.
And so you came to warn me ?''
He would do it, Signorel All, /
saw his face when he said it. You
must be guarded. You must not go
abroad alone!"
His mind was busy. How much she
had jeopardized to reach him in that
fancied dangerl She, in Venice, a
young girl of noble rank, with no es-
cort save a gondolier. Risk enough
for her in any case; what an endur-
ing calamity if she should be seen and
recognized there, with him.
He led her back between the pillars.
put out his hand and drew the veil
again across her face, speaking grave
ly and gently:
What you have done is a brave and
nable thing; one / shall be glad OF
always. 1t was no less courageous,
nor am less grateful, though what
you heard was a mistake. Little Pas
quale is not dead 1 spoke with the
surgeon here less than half-hour
ago. He had just come from the piaz-
zetta. The child will recover"
'Oh, thank God!' she breathed. She
clasped her hands in very abandon
ment. The blessed Virgin has heard
mel"
His heart seemed suddenly to cease
beating. The exclamation was a reve-
1ation far deeper than she OWNED. 1t
was not joy at the life of the child
that was deepest in lit was some
thing else: a great relief for him. He
felt the blood tingle to his finger-tips.
Only one emotion could speak in such
an accent-only onei
With an uncomfortable imoulse he
leaned to her and clasped both her
hands.
You cared. Teresa" he said. You
risked so much--for me ?''
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passing music thrilled like the laugh
ter of falling Lucifer.
He flung the sheets down, went to
the window and threw it open, lean
ing out across the balcony that hung
over the canal. 1t was a night of
wistaria canopy nailed with white
blown stars; of musical water shim-
mering into broken bits of moon; of
misty silver air. Around and beneath
him spread the enchanted city, mar
vel of purple and mother-of-pearl, a
jewel in verd and porphyry. Condo
las, dim in the muffied shadow, or
ablaze with strung lanterns and echo
ing with tinkling virginalS and softer
laughter, glided below on their way
TO the masked ball of the Cavalchina.
The fieeting thrill. the bubble pageant;
what did they all--what did anything
mean now for him?
Looking out, Gordon's gaze went
far. He had vision of England as
he had last seen it across the jasper
channel-green fields and white
cliffs in a smother of vapors; of Lon
don with it's pomp, its power, its call
umnies, it's wicked magical vitality
And he spoke of it, murmuring SEN
tenceS not sneering now, but broken
with a stranger soft emotion:.
What you have done-you island of
hOmei IL / could tell you! l had the
immortal fiame-the touch of the d.
vine. 1t was mine-all mine. for the
worldi You took me-my boyhood and
embittered it. my youth and debauched
it, my manhood and robbed it! You
jeered my, first songs and 1t. stung me.
and when / cried out in pain you
laughed and f1attered. When you tired
of me you branded me with this mark
and cast me out.'' He turned again to
the desk where lay the manuscript.
What l write now has the mark of
the beast! 1t is. the seraph's song with
the satyr laugh cutting up through it.
and the cloven hoof of the devil Of
hatred that will not down in me! And
yet / wrote the poem that she loves!
/ wrote that-I! My God! 1t was only
two years ago! And now-shail never
hear that voice singing in my soul
again? Shall / never write SO again ?
ver-never-never?
A pungent, heavy smell Of flowers
filed his nostrils. He turned from the
window, quivering. Fletcher had en-
tered behind him and was arranging
a mass of blooms in bowl.
The Fornarina! She had returned
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CHAPTER xxx.
Tcrcsa's Awakening.

Teresa, meanwhile, had been facing
her problem-how to warn the Eng
lishman of his danger. During the
slow hours while Gordon sat gazing
into the distorted mirror of his own
thought, she had traversed every
causeway of risk, sounded every we'll
of possibility. To a young girl of the
higher class in Venice, night trip,
uncavaliered, held elements of grave
peril. Discovery spelled lasting dis
grace perhaps, certainly the anger of
her father. All this she was ready to
hazard. But beyond was the looming
probability that she could not find the
object of her search after all. How
ever, it. was a chance, and fear, with
another sentiment that she did not
analyzs, .impelledS her to take ii.
1t was an easy task to win Tita, for
he would have denied her nothing. To
him, however, she told only part of
the truth-that he wished once to see
the Piazza by night. Only an hour in
the music and lights in his car, and
then quick and safe return to the
Palazzo Albrizzi. The house servants
she could answer for. Who would be
the wiser?
So. a little while after Gordon had
been set down that night at the Molo,
another gondola, lampless and with
landing, and Teresa, closely veiled,
with Tita by her side, stepped into the
square, beneath the flare of its fam
beaux, into its currents of eddying
maskers where the white fazzioli of
the lower order mingled with the rich
costumes of patricians, all alike stung
by the tarantula of gayety; d flashing
sea of motion and color surging end
Iessly beneath sky alive with winged
spots of gray and black-the countless
pigeons that circled there .undisturbed.
She had chosen the Piazza after
much deliberation. 1t was the last
night of the carnival, when all the
: world Of Venice was on the streets.
At the new Fenice Theater the latest
J, opera of Rossini was playing, and
there was the ball of the Cavalchina.
the final throb before the dropping of
the pail of Lent. The sadness in Cor
don's face, she felt, had no part in
these things. She felt instiHctively
that he would be spectator rather than
actor. would choose the open. air OF
the square rather than the indoors.
The danger she feared for him would
not seek him in crowd; it would
lurk in some silent byway and strike
unseen. The thought made her trem-
Bile as she peered about her.
The center of the Piazza was pool
fed and emptied by three streams OF
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figure sprang up suddenly and his
brown hand flew TO his belt.
My Pasquale-dead!" he shouted;
I'm kill the Inglese.'
Teresa heard stif1ed cry. Her faith
er had seen and heard also, though he
did not know the explanation. Nor
could he have guessed what an icy
fear had gripped the heart of the girl
beside him.
AN ugly looki" he muttered, as the
frantic form scrambled into the car
penter's craft.
Teresa could not speak. Her horri-
fed gaze was on the sinister face, the
red cap like a sans-culotte, the eye
glancing under it tigerishly. Little
Pasquale was dead then. The father
blamed the Englishman. His look was
one of murder. He would kill him
of whom she had thought and dreamed,
the man in whose heart had been only
tenderness, Kill him? A panging
dread seized her. She felt as if she
must cry out; and all the time Tita's
oar swept her on through the dusk,
farther away from him whom danger
threatened--him whom, in some way,
no matter haw. she must warn!
A strange helplessness descended
upon her. She did not even know his
name, or his habitation. To her he was
but one of the hundreds Tita had said
were in Venice. That the gondolier
himself could have enlightened her did
not cross her mind. She felt the inn
possibility of appealing to her father
she had not even dared tell him she had
left the gondola- What could she do?
Trust 10 Tita to find him? Could he
know every line of that face as did
she? Even in the dark-in crowds-she
told herself that she would know
him. would somehow feel his
presence. But how to do it?
How to elude the surveillance at home?
And if she could do so, where to look
for him?
Her reverie was broken by the gon-
dola's humping against the landing.
Her fathers talk had been running on
like a flowing spout.
"A palazzo in Ravenna finer than
this he was saying. and you the
Contessa Guicciolii Shall we not be
proud-eh, my Teresa"
She realized suddenly of what he had
been babbling. AS she disembarked at
the water-stairs, she looked up at the
balcony. There, beside the stately Con-
tessa Albrizzi, an old man, was lean
ing, hawk-eyed, ite-haired and thin.
He blew her a kiss from his sallow
fingers.
Her nervous tension relaxed in a sud-
den Quiver of aversion
mo, mol" she said in a choked voice,
with clinched fingers. Il will not marry
till / choose. Why must every one be
in such haste ?"
And with these broken sentences, that
left her father standing in blank as
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from Naples then. 1t was her barbaric
way of announcing her coming, for she
could not write. She had been absent
a nlonth-how much had happened in
that month!
The man. with the excoriate surface
of recollection exposed, with the quick
OF remorse laid open suddenly, could
not bear 1t. He threw d cloak about
him and went rapidly down TO the
water-stairs.
The gondolier came running to the
steps. catching UP the long oar as he
sprang to position.
whittier. Excellence?" he asked.
A burst of music, borne on the air
across roofs and up echoing canals,
came family to Gordon from the far
away Square of ST. Mark.
TO the Piazza" he said.
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(I'his is the fourth instaIIment
OF Tho Castaway," the novel of
Lord Byron, by Hallie Erminle
RiVes, which. because of its
poetical grasp of a truly ro-
mantle theme, and its strong
and vivid portrayal OF the char
acter OF ono OF the most remark
able OF all OF the great English
men OF letters, has taken a high
place in popular flction.)
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Copyright, 1905. Bobbs-MerriIl Coz
"ORDON had distinguished in the
girls voice a note of pity and
NJ OF fear for his safety, and a
y flash Of smile softened the Bit
terness Of his Inns.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1905-09-16

El .que suscribe pone en conoci-
miento de sus. numerosos parroquia-
nos, que desde esta fecha, en nj Sc
gundo comedor, los precios essarAn
On re- aGion con la situaci6n actual;
Tn biatek. II ctvs. Una ternera en-
pansoa, 10 ctvs. Un srroz con gal.i-
ma, 10 ctvs. Un caldo gSllego, 10 ctvs.
Un bscalao 4 la vizcaina, 10 ctvs. Una
sopa con carne, ctvs. Una sopa de
gallfna, 8 csvs. Una mixsa, 5 ctva
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y asi suce vamente todos los demks
platos.
Tambien 30 haecn sbonos para
tamilias precios linitados, estos con
qlincenas elantAdas.
I'm cubierso de II | y dc 5 q en-
el Restaurant. so ctvs.
Los jueyeo y doming2s Sc haee VI
selecto caldo gallege. los sabados
pasteles y all4>as cor pe.lo.
JUAtG ARCIA.
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N..AMfRI(AE INSTITUTE
dIil9ld0 pQf Don Jose DaaIagO NlSaa1
67 w. e7th st. NEW YORK

lna'rucel6n en- to6os les ra1os-
CondUcclon adecuada en- los estudies
Iraso y direction convsnisnses al sarac.
'er de la razs lattua-PerlescLon aniea-
70 en- ell idioma espanol, 4 fin de o. los
lovenes que SO noa envfan no vuelysn
'uego d sus paiaes hacienda napsles
fldiculos, ain saber hablsr bien, ui el
espafoll nj el tngl6s. --Euaeh hanxs ran,
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da y efcaz de este idioma-Cuidados
de tsmilia--Comida & la espahola--
|oostumbres, religion y tradiciones
.patrias -M6todos de enseGanza ame-
'rieanos-Idiema obligatorio. ell ingles.
Nuestras especialidades: C0merciol &
Idsoa0os. Rsfsrencias de .donde 20
quieran y como Ne qujeran.
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La Catalina
SAN FRANCISCO So,

Gran rebaja de .precios en- beneGcio del pdbhco.
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GETTING READY
FOR HIS TRIAL
Young Weber Wants Copy of
the Statement Made by Him
to the Auburn Authorities

AUBURN, Jan. 14.-Adolph Weber
was taken into court this morning on
motion of his counsel. who asked for
an order directing the District Attor-
ney to give him statement of the evil
dence taken prior to the preliminary
examination on the morning after the
murder. Adolph. Weber was taken
into the back room Of the Sheriffs
office and questioned by the Sheriff
and District Attorney. The latch of
the outer door accidentally caught and
Attorney Tabor could not get in the
room.
A heated argument with the District
Attorney ensued over the request for
the order for the testimony and the
court threatened to fine Attorney
Tabor If he did not desist. After the
argument had been concluded the
Judge said he would look up the law
and would grant the request If he
could find any law warranting the
Court in making the desired order.
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WILL PROBABLY NOT
RETURN TO DIVISION
III General Macarthur Goes to Orient
He VIII Report From There
To Washington.


General Macarthur has as yet re-
ceived no official notification of his
being sent to take observations on the
war In the Far East. II the war con-
tinues for a considerable time and
General Macarthur goes to the scene
of conflict he will in all probability
remain there for an indefinite period.
His command here will doubtless be
filed by a new official, and at the
conclusion of his observations at the
seat of war General Macarthur will
report directly to Washington. From
present indications it would appear
that the general will not return to
this post.
General Francis Moore. department
commander, who has been making a
tour of inspection of the post at Hon.
olulu, is expected to return to the Pre-
sidio about January %. He will come
up on the steamship Sonoma. This
will give him plenty of time to con-
fer with General Macarthur regard
ing duties here during the latter's abb
sence.
DIR. John D. Yost. q. s. A., will
leave for his new post at Honolulu on
January 25, taking passage on the
transport Sheridan. The Sheridan
will only take first class passengers.
as ALI her available room will be util-
lied for freight.
The Twenty first Infantry will sail
for the Philippines on the transport
Sherman. leaving here February L.
The Sherman will also take one COM
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cross-complaint, seems to have been
short lived. Yesterday Mrs. Runge.
who was Nettie Hawkins when she
married Runge on October last, filed
a suit for divorce. repeating all the
allegations of cruelty contained in the
ccunter-charge to her husbands for
mer suit His chief complaint was
that she told him that she did not love
him and treated him unkindly. She
declares that he abused her at st.
Louis when they visited the fair and
that on October 80 when she tried to
leave him in the Occidental Hotel In
this city he threatened to shoot her.
She renews her statement that he is
worth between $4,000 and $1,000
and has an income of $4,000 a year,
besides money in bank. She demands
$3.50 a month alimony and $1,000 for
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You Will Say

The Price Cutter is the doctor for
your purse when you see these new
spring ribbons at the low prices for
which we will offer them to you.
ALL SILK TAFFETA RIBBON,
5 inches wide, or sash ribbon width,
in pink, blue, black, red and reseda;
very rich luster: washable. Price
zoe a yard
ANOTHER-Mad of all silk sat
in taffeta, white. with black polka
dots; an up-to-date ribbon for neck
or millinery purposes. Price.
2Oc a ward
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An Enemy TO Patent Medicines

Are these long Flannelette Kimonas.
No fear of getting coughs or colds
Ii you wear these. Made of extra
heavy striped Daisy flannel, Mikado
sleeves; around the collar, down the
front and sleeves finished with a
deep band of solid colored flannel.
In pink and white and blue and
white stripes. Real worth $500, at
the Price Cutters Monday. y so
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An Enemy 10 Cold Weather

Are these Dressing Sacques or Ki-
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front and sleeves trimmed with en-
broidery medallions; finished at the
neck with a large satin ribbon bow.
In pink, blue and cream. Instead
Of 50, special for Monday. 81 so
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Lovers of Pretty Waists.

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You cannot buy the silk for the
price we are asking for them fin
ished. Price .........$2. 40
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1905

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Royal Worcester Corsets
Soc Instead Of $500

his number has been discontin-
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front steel. with garter attachments;
lace and ribbon trimmed; tape at
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coutil. Feel assured on seeing
them you will take more than one
at this low price. soc