The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-24

gan to intrigue. using the weak will and the selfish vanity of Anzoleto for her purposes. He was often with her now. Consuelo felt that her lover was changed but trusted him blindly still. | As for the count, armed in virtue she neither needed nor dreaded his ad- | vances.
 One day old Porpora said to her: "Come. my child, 1t is time you werc doneSwith this sort of thing. Anzoleto | is false to you. The count seeks your | ruin. y What! You will not believe
 me Be 1t so. Come to my house to- | night. I will give you proofs.' That evening the old maestro led Consuelo | to a little balcony which commanded a | view of the interior of Corilla's apart | ments. Standing like a statue, the girl l looked down into the lighted room and | saw Anzeloto at the feet of Gorilla. "Oh, my master!" she cried. Viewer | shall my feet tread the board of an- | other theater. I must leave Venice at once. Yes. must go away somewhere. | You are right. Anzoleta is an infamous
 man." The next afternoon when An | zoleta sought Gorilla she met him with outstretched arms. Great newsv she | cried. "Consuelo Is of. She has gone | to Vienna, where Porpora has, sent her and whither he will soon. follow her. | She has deceived us all, the little cheat.
 She was engaged for the Emperor's theater. where Porpora intends that | she shall appear in his new opera" Gone without word!" cried Azole- | to. By all tho furies you have gained your point, but you have taken my life | along with it." And he swooned away on the Persian carpet of the false Co., | rilla.
 But Consuello was not in Vienna. In | the western range of the Carpathtan | kA nAhA NNo
 from Bavaria, there stood an old coun- | try seat of immense extent called in | consequence of some forgotten tradi-
 ton the Castle of the Giants. There l reigned the lords of Rudolstadt. The l head of the family was Count Chriss tian, whose aged sister, the Canoness
 Wenceslawa. had presided over his | household since the death of his wife. l With him was stopping now his broth | CT, the Baron Frederick, intent only
 on the chase--a bluff and hearty mo-
 bleman. And the Baron Frederick had
 brought to the castle his beautiful
 daughter, the Baroness Amelia, in or-
 der that she might be married to her
 cousin. Count Albert. the Count Chris
 tian's son and heie.
 To this castle had Porpora sent his l pupil, Consuelo, for he was an old
 friend of the Rudolstadts. The Baron
 ess Amelia had asked for a music 1 teacher. not that she wanted to learn
 music, but the dreariness of the old
 castle was more than she could bear
 alone. The count had applied to Por-
 pora and the presence of Consueio in | the castle was the result.
 No guests of the surrounding gen.
 try visited the Castle of the Giants
 in these days. The family liveds a
 lonely existence, keeping within their
 breasts and screening as far as they
 might from the public the singular
 character of Count Albert. This young
 man had an intelligent face. but there
 was something repellant about him,
 something that frightened. He spoke
 hardly once in twenty-four hours, and
 when he did the eyes of relatives and
 domestics were turned upon him and
 there was apparent upon every face
 a deep anxiety, painful and affection
 ate solicitude. The young man was
 subject to fits of catilepsy; and at
 other times he would disappear mys-
 teriously from the castle for days or
 weeks at a time. to reappear agai mas suddenly and mysteriously. calm and
 serene as if nothing had happened.
 Tn short the Count Albert would have
 been pronounced mad by most peo- l pie.
 she sang the Spanish hymn in honor oi [ Our Lady of Consolation. which oegtni