Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-05-13
CHAPTER XlIl.-Continued.

Here, as they warm themselves be.
fore the fire, Tomasso remarks: Il
have little to offer you, dear mistress,
but some dried sleeps flesh.'
"Pish! hunger is nothing. You
are alive, dear old Tomasso," re-
peats the girl, as he again
mumbles her hand. Still the
young lady's eyes seem happier
when Barnes, opening his haversack,
throws out cans of preserved meats,
potted chicken and timed biscuits;
platec. These being followed by box
of cigars, the American emits a snor
OF joy, and remarks: Little Leboet
Is a genius
Immediately all together they go to
work to make mountain supper.
Soon after, as they eat, Barnes re-
marks: This is a mighty curious CO.
incidence. Do you know, old Tomasso,
that Saliceti, the young politician
here, the one who is to marry your
daughter, Etheria, has sworn a ven
delta against me for putting the troops
On your track and getting you shot to
death?"
"A vendetta against you? Well, it
was his duty, seeing he is to marry my
daughter, had your soldiers killed me-"
returns the old Corsican, in his simple
way.
A moment after, however, he chuck.
les to himself: per Dio, that was
what Rochini and Romano wanted me
to do to-day was to kill YOU"
Those awful Monsters" shudders
Marina
What makes you think that, Mon.
aldi?" asks Barnes, surprise upon his
face.
well, this Rochini, and his mate,
have been run out of Rotondo, the
farmers there having got tired of their
sheep disappearing too rapidly, and
nave come over to this mountain. To.
day these two approached me some
four hours ago and said: Brother
bandit out of a job, join us. A mes
Senger has been sent ahead and we
are going down to help Saliceti make
votes for himself by killing the Amer
icano down in the vale toward Gu
agno.'"
Hum! then you did not accept" re-
marks Barnes, lighting his cigar.
II am not quite bandit enough to
shoot man have never heard of be-
FORE" answers old Monaldi proudly.
80 l said: NO All, but he will have
gold with him. cried Rochini. For
eigners always have gold,' said Roma
no, 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 I, Tomasso, am alive" answers
the old man savagely.
mo, but by Cipriano Danella, Mus
SOS brother and the scar-eyed young
man, Musso's nephew"
"Oh, yes; l know them both. They
they threaten herr" The old Cor
sican gazes with love and reverence
upon the being he adores. Threaten
her-these people?" he exclaims vim
QlctlVely.
Eyes, because your stiletto killed
Musso, they say she plotted with you
for his murder, so as to save her hus-
band" remarks Barnes, putting his
cigar.
What, when she shrieked to me
not to strike through the curtain. All,
but I have something to say to Mus.
SOS relatives. And my friend, Saliceti,
whom I once voted for, who is to
marry my Etheria-if he is with
them, will have word with Saliceti.
and should he not prove pliable Ethe.
: ria must get another for husband.
Girls should not marry corpses, and
Saliceti will be dead" AS if the mat
ter is ended, old Monaldi fills a bat.
tered cherrywood pipe with the strong,
bitter. native tobacco Of the island,