The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-02-03
CHAPTER XIII.

|
This chapter is of the nature of ar
intersection. 1t contains, without any
reference to the chain of events ii
which | was an actor, the story Of
Henry Thorlane. This cleaned from
him in bits during the few days i'm
mediately following the death of Ma
ligni, the prefetto, and the Count di
! Pordino.
The story Of Thorlane which Nut
terelli had told me concerning the
arrest and imprisonment of the limo.
cent man for conspiracy and the con.
hscation of his estate, was true. He
had been incarcerated in the monas-
terry OF The Saints. The truth was
this: Thorlane, during his days of
liberty, had, as Mutterelli had in
formed me, been an open enemy of
the monks of The Saints. But his
enmity was not directed toward the
entire body, nor against the superior
OF the monastery, but against those
monks whose practices he believed to
he corrupt and who, he believed, were
in league with the prefetto and the
Count di Pordino in their extortion
and brigandage. In this he had found
a secret friend in no less parsonage
than the superior of the monastery
himself, who, though good man, was
weak and unable to successfully cope
with the combination for evil which
he knew existed.
lie did, however, develop enough
backbone to help his friend Thorlane,
and soon after the Imprisonment of
the Englishman, the superior succeed.
ed, in some way, in making the pre-.
fetto believe that the prisoner would
be more secure in solitary confinement
in the monastery. The prefetto readily
assented, and Thorlane was removed
from the Tore dell Elefante to the
monastery.
From the monastery he was assist
ed to escape by the superior, who con-
tinually reported to the prefetto the
security and safety of his prisoner.
Thorlane lived for a time in the
marble grotto, and one day he met,
while hunting mouflon, disguised be-
You'd recognition, his old comrade and
university companion, Mutterelli, to
whom he made himself known. Nut
terelli helped him to escape from Sar-
DINA, with the four mountain lions
who had been his companions in the
grotto, and with these he resolved to
seek his fortune in America, until he |
had amassed enough money to enable
him to legally and successfully CON-
bat the charges against him and re-
gain his confiscated estates.
He reached America successfully
and exhibited his lions in small way,
adopting the name Maubikeck as be-
Ing one not likely to lead to identified
ton.
Then Pacho Maligni, the brother of
The man against whose life he was &C.
'used of conspiring, began operations
collecting the materials for his circus.
Pacho Maligni, although he may have
Known of the change of ownership of
he Villa di Thorlano, keeping abreast
II the affairs in SARDINIA, he did not
lnow Maubikeck, and the lion-tamer
esolved to link his fortunes to those
II the Sandman, with the hope that
n some way the connection might
cad to some discoveries that would
re advantageous to himself.
At the rehearsals he met and loved
Vita Barlotti, and she returned his
owe. To her he told all the story of
rs misfortunes, and found in the
eautiful trapeze girl a ready sym.
athizer.
What occurred in New York to stir
nd start afresh the adventures of }
~ remarkable friend has already !
cen set forth in these pages. :
When Thorlane, or, as I knew him, y
laub'keck, was left behind on the v
mixing Queen, he did not 60 tamely q
q heroic death, as supposed, but !,
set to work to save his he I,
nc life. He managed, by the aid of 9
70 others, to get raft together be- 2
re the ship went down. This was
Finished with sail and supplied
ith food. Upon 1t they launched a
emselves upon the waves. j
They were fortunately driven to the Il