The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-04-15
CHAPTER xvI.-continued.


As he gallops from the little hamlet,
some cyclameR branches greet him. he
urges on his steed. ::
:. And what a. ride it is. under the
great trees eff La Castagniccia, where
.chestnuts big as eggs drop upon him.
the. giant chestnuts that fed PaOli's
patriot. army, the bread of Corsica.
;; ems marriage dover. - 49,
But though the woods are all chest.
nuts. Edwin still sees In his road cycla-
d. men branches. slightly withered now,
:: their fragrance fading. and hope
grows higher in his heart. ...
= So he rides along the parklike wales
of La Castaghiccia, and before him is
2. the green of the great Bavella forest
fading away down the hillsides toward
. the distant and still unseen Tuscan
sea: -. =. -"-. q.
Here Edwin checks his horse,
: springs off and picks up a cylamen
. branch. and as he rides along. looking
a. the flowers. suddenly calculates:
"Jove, how fresh their perfume and
:. plucked two days since"
. -. But the lately cut flowers give no
:: warning to the sailor: he is too eager
now. Pausing at the little village of
Petra. Edwin steps into the inn to ask
some questions and hears news that
makes him frenzied. -'...
= The landlord. delighted at his lib
J.: eral hand. tells him to avoid the COM
munal where the voting is going on:
THE Lucehese' have got full of wine
s. and are having riot in that direction,
They are perfect devils. these fellows
i" from Lucca over across the sea that
,Danella imported to work upon his
. estates here" ~. -,
=. Count Cipriano Danella has estates
here?'"asks Edwin excitedly.; -. q"
Yes. now it is Cipriano. Down to
ward Cervione. where the cliffs run
into the sea. the only place where ii is
not sickly and they have no lagoons.
You can know it by the Genoese watch
tower that was in ruins, but the count
: some years ago had repaired and made
: habitable.''
Its curious never heard anyone
mention Cipriano's properties here"
= ,nutters the sailor.
oh, possibly not Till fortnight
since. they belonged to Musso Danella,
the dead one. but Count Cipriano has
now taken possession of them"
He is there." -.
-. why. think so. A boy who came
up the pass yesterday said the new
count had come there in a vessel"
). He is there at present?'
:: Quite sure!" laughs the man ."Ci-
priano himself rode through here yes
terday escortiug lady with some of
his followers" q.
aha. in carriage driven. by an old
Corsicane" 49,. 80 -
she was in a carriage. but was not
. driven by an old Corsican: a boy
:. whipped the horses"
She was young and beautiful:"
d. MY. eyes are old. 1 could not see
well. ySignore. The carriage came rap
idly past ME. three or four riding about
it. The lady locked as if she woul6
say some words: she rose almost as If
= to spring out. but something in the car
:: riage seemed to check her, and they
whipped up. the horses Oh. Signore.
how terrible you look
'The quickest way to Cipriano's,
estatesc" asked Anstruther hoarsely. Z
s:'Dewn the road there. through the
forest. oxer two ranges of hills and his
land: begins Bat be careful how you
go that way. the. .Lucchese' are just
beyond the village. Hear them
They are riotipg' now" as Neapolitan
outcres and. Tuscan generations and
~oaths and the. rattle ot stones are heard