The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-15

gold with him. cried ROchini. For
eigners always nave gold, said RO-
manO, and the two went on their way.
They are down the valley now"
That is not all of it," says Barnes
earnestly. Your loved mistress-her
life is in danger, too"
Not by those or any other men
while /, TOmasso, am alive" answers
the old man savageIy.
No, but by CiprianO Danella, Mus
SOS brother, and the scar-eyed young
man, Mussos nephew"
''Oh, yes. knew them both. They
they threaten herr" The old COrsican
gazes with love and reverence upon the
being he adOres. Threaten her-those
peOple?" he excIaims vindictively.
Yes, because your stilettO killed
Musso, they say she plotted
with you for his murder. so as to save
her husband, remarks Barnes, putting
his cigar
What, when she shrieked to me not
to strike through the curtains. All but
! have something to say to Musso's rel
ativesi Where are they? Down i'm the
village ! will find them. For myself
l feared and hid from the gendarmes,
but now, be not afraid" He dotingly
pats MaTina's tresses with his
wrinkled hand. And my friend, Sail
ceti. whom l once voted for, who is 10
marry my Etheria-if he is with them
l will have q word with Saliceti and
should he not prove pliabIe Etheria
must get another for husband. Girls
should not marry corpses. and Sail
ceti will be dead" As if the matter is
ended. old Monaldi fills a battered cher
rywOOd pipe with the strong, bitter, ma
tive tobacco Of the island. lights it and
goes to putting cOntentedly.
Neither Of the Danellas is in Cor
sica," remarks Barnes. The danger
will come to your mistress when she
returns 10 her husband on the French
mainland. But Saliceti has abducted
my wife and brought her here-so that
l. following him, shall come to my
death in BOcOgnanO.'
"Pah, nothing will come to your wife
tonight" says old Monaldi. Girls
picking wild Strawberries were talking
that the day after tomorrow the peO-
pie vote. They have a meeting this
evening in BocognanO. I listened from
behind a rock and heard them, but
when l put out my head the children
screamed, 'Rochini,' and ran frightened
/ from ne. I was anxious to get word to
my daughter Etheria that she should
bring me clothes and food %
But Barnes is not so easy about his
captured bride; he steps out Of the
cabin and finds the wind has died
away. the mist has cleared with the
rapidity usual to mountain storms He
/ is looking down through the clear night
| air on the lights Of BOCOgnanO. gleam-
/ ing at his feet in the valley of the Gra-
vona amid the chestnut trees.
! He steps in and says anxiOusly 10
Marina: The evening is very clear
/ You know my anguish-dO you think
you have strength to venture down the
/ heights. assisted by TOmasso and me,
and enter your own village
! Certainly ] am refreshed. Another
cup of tea and I will go with you,
cries the girl so eagerly that Barnes
puts grateful eyes upon her, for he
/ knows il is her spirit more than her
strength that produces her assent 10
/ further journey.
] They are making hurried preparations
/ to leave the cabin. Barnes is bending
over the fire, brewing Marina's tea
their guns. and even the Americans re-
vOlvers are lying in their belt on the
pile Of bOughs near the entrance. To-
/ masso is saving: will I not astOnish
the men who swore a vendetta against
you for my DEATH I who am alive
and-and-" when suddenly TOmassO
stops. There is a rattle in his throat
that causes Barnes TO look hurriedly
IN Marina has retreated to the cor
ner of the cabin and Monaldi's eyes are
] full Of horror.
! Just across the fire from him stand
! two dark mountaineers- Rough, I'm
dressed sheepskins cover their brawny
shoulders; long guns are in their hands
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