The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-29

who cut his bonds. thinking to himself:
"a mysterious old tiger! Tito looked at
him as If he were seeing ghostN
Four days later Romola. was In the
artists studio. She spied a small can
vas and gave a little cry. 1t was a
| picture of Tito, with an awful fear In
This face, staring at the man with the
rope around him.
What does it mean?" she cried. Il
saw that man in the church,"
! Nothing" said the painter. HE
merely stumbled against your husband
| in passing, and made a freakish
sketch" He took the picture from her
and turned 1t with Its face to the wall.
| Romola walked home. strangely OPP
pressed. At first she intended to ask
Tito what it meant But her heart told
her that she dared not ask.
Tito and she were steadily drifting
further and further apart. despite her
attempts to hold him. The Greek had
attained official position Of high rank
and spent much Of his time away from
| home Her father had died. leaving
!. behind him in Tito's hand the sacred
TRUST that his grand library should be
given to Florence. Tito seeT1ed
strange,y Indifferent, despite all Rorao-
las entreaties. to whom 1t was q sol-
emn duty. She could not rest while her
dead fathers wish remained uhfulfilled.
AT last, Just after the French Rad
left the city. Tito told her after much
1 circumlocution that ne had SOLD the
library t. the Duke Of Milan and tho
marbles to France.
Roniola listened as IL she were turr-
ed to stone. She heard him rise after
This confession and heard the great
outer door shut on him. Then she went
to her fathers chair and fell on her
Iknees before 1t. sobbing.
During the next few days she saw
but little Of her husband. Men came
!. in to pack the books ana manuscripts
and she watched without word. When
the last package had gone she called
her servant and prepared to depart for
ever. She wrote a letter to her god
father explaining all and begging him
4 to forgive her for not saying farewell
Then she wrote note to Tito telling
him that her love was dead, and that
she would never return to him.
But she had scarcely reached the
d city wall before she was arrested BY
4 the sound Of savonarola's voice. IRE.
turn" said ne. my daughter, I know
what your life has been. Every bono
OF your lite Ia debt. The right liei
In the payment OF that debt. It can IL,
nowhere else. In. vain will you wander
over the earth. Return ana help /,
, the great work by which God will
purity Florence"
The power OF the man aubdued her
She sank to her knees ana savonarolt
stretched his hands over her.
Thus when Tito returned home h,
found his wife there, and her name
showed him that she would not re-
preach him for the sale OF the library
He was glad enough to be relieved o
this unpleasantness for he was still
full Of d great dread or Baldastarre
} the greater for the fact that the oil,
,nan had disappeared mysteriously at
ter the scene at the church, He wa
i soon to see him, and most unexpect
4 eddy,
\ One evening he went to a little hous
( that stood Just beyond the town. ]
+ was familiar way to Tito, for he ha
4 become 4 frequent visitor there II
stepped In gently and stoned IN IN
i doorway, looking at a pretty sl ght. y
h was Tessa, knaelinS by a cot With NV
. children and saying "a pro Af over ".
j, She sprang up ana threw. her arm