The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-01-30
Copyrigh l, 1901, Dodd Mead & Co., N. y.
CHAPTER |.

rhs Shock in the MarselIes Depot.
II wonder il ! can head off those
cursed Corsican murder enthusiastic
muttefs Mr.. Barnes, of New York, as
he stands on the deck of the French
steamer with Marseilles looming UP in
the heat mist ahead of him on May |
morning of 1888, after the escape of |
the bridal party from Corsica
There are very few passengers. |
Barnes gold having sent the steamer |
back on her return voyage to Mar
settles within two hours after her ar
rival at Ajaccio.
His glance is turned contempative- !
~ beyond the whirling, eddying wake |
oil the propeler's foam toward that Gu /
rious island of a semi-mediaeyal race, |
200 miles behind him, whose rugged |
mountain slopes and chestnut valleys /
are the home of that undying revenge |
that the Corsicans think is noble that /
they worship idealize and call the |
Vendetta
The representative of New York |
fashion, American craftsmanship and
modern materialism, who has fitted |
10 the island and plucked not only the
young English lieutenant, Edwin Ge-
rard Anstruthcr, but his bride Marina,
the daughter of the Paolis. from the
meshes and enlauglemeats of a feud
that only ends with death, notwith-
standing his reward is TO be the hand
of the beautiful girl he loves, emjts a
low, contemplatiye. melancholy whis-
ale.
He mentally glances back and sees
the house OF Musso Dauella in the
mooniit chestnut groves of Bocognano,
and Marina in her brides gown, her
sensitive, passionate face filled with
that weird mixture of undying love
and uncanny horror as she shuddered
from the arms of the man she had just
sworn to cleave to through life and
muttered. "Antonios murderer"
Next he remembers the strange proof
that brought back the wild happiness
10 the brides face as she learned there
was no faint OF her brothers blood on
Edwin Anstruther. hey husbands that
her horrible belief was due to circum-
stantial evidence and the Jealous and
crafty plot of MUsso Dane!la, her guar
dian. the man lying dead upon the
floor of the bridal chamber, Tomasso's
dagger in his heart and then had fallen
faintiug into her bridogroom's arms.
NTH This. the mind of Mr.. Barnes
reverts to his desperate efforts to get
the whole party 70 Ajaccio before the
natives of the lit.le commune of Boco-
gnano learned they had now another
10 aycngc. and TO the death of Ma
rina's brother on the beach in the
dueilo had been added that of Danella,
their oId-time friend, and to his peas
ants their kind maestro and proprie-
tor.
Additional Concern makes the face
Of the American even more grave as
he mentally hears The distant ringing
Of the rifles on the mountain side as
the carbinecrs shut ola Tomasso Mon
adj, who having beeene an assassin,
had fed as a bandit n Che party made
their weird ride to the Gorsican sea
Port
III no deaths had followed the APP
pearance Of Marina $ husband and me
IN the island, perhaps the accursed af-
lair might have slumbered and died
out. reflects Barnes, sloomily, as it
Is. there's no telling where the deylish
ihing may end. If they have money
enough to pursue us, holy poker. they
EIay even include me in the scrm-
mage"
4 little, delicately gloved hand laid
upoa his arm interrupts his medita-
tion. Miss Enid Austruther standing
Reside him, looking like a joyous fash
template in n light Partisan travelling
dress. whispers archly Thinking Of
me-" then suddenly calculates in nj.
most frightened tone: oh, hope not!
Your face is SO moody, dear" Blushes
spring upon the sensitive face and his
young English faneee whispers with
n piquant pout: Gloomy and going
10 marry ne in three days? That's
not very complimentary, Burton"
NO, In two. if We can make quick
connections for London" answers Bur
ton, rapturously One day is past.
But | wasn't thinking of you, young
lady" he continues. tenderly. giving
her delicate check a caressing, pro
prietary pinch; Il was thinking Of"
what we left behind us shudders
his vivacious betrothed. Don't let us
think OF that weird horror, when
when The radiance OF her blue
eyes and the bushes on her fair checks !
suggest the rest.
when our wedding day is so near"
whispers Burton, tenderly. \ would ,
be very happy. too. If our Corsican !
friends would only forget it lie I
checks himself. biting his llp and adds:
However. the modern world is before !