The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-29

Eodfather, explaining all and begging h:nn to forgive her for not saying fAre- well. Then she wrote note to Tito telling him that her love was dead ana that she would never return to him.
 But she had scarcely reached the city wall before she was arrested by the sound of Savonarala's voice. Return" :" your life has been. Every bond of your life is a debt. The right lies in the uayment of that debt can lie nowhere else. In vain VII you wan der over the eKfeh. Return and help in the great work by which God will purify Florefce."
 The power Of the man subdued her. She sank to her knees and SavonaroSa stretched hfs hands over her.
 Thus when Tito returned home he found his wife there. and her manner showed him that she would not re- proaeh him for the sale of the library. He was glad enough to be relieved of this unpieasantness, for he was still full of q great dread of Baldassarre the greater for the fact that the old man had disappeared mystertously after the scene at the church. He was soon to see h:m, and most unexpected-
 one evening he went to little house that stood just beyond the town. At Sseone Ess 1@minr freaSens w 'Sisisor there. Hs stepped in gently and stopped in the doorway looking at Q pretty sight. It was Tessa. kneeIing by cot with two children and saying 6 prayer over 1t.
 She sprans up and threw her arms around his neck. Eagerly she re- counted to him all that had happened since his last visit--how the babies had acted, and how she had seen all the soldiers pass below. and finally great piece of news about poor, poor old man, who had begged for permission to sleep In an outhonse
 With quick suspicion. Tito arose and stepped Into the shed. The moonlight fell on him as he entered. The next instant a figure sprang at him and dagger was driven furiously at his heart. But 1t snapped in two-for ever since the meeting at the church Tito had worn q chain arTnor under his tunic. He hurled the man from him and looked ct him. It was Baldas- sarre
 Haltinsiy he tried 10 explain. He asked BaIdaasafre to Forgive him. and swore that he would make amends. To 1t all the old man. trembling and ex- hausted. returned no reply except to glare at him vengefully. At fast Tito turned and went back to the house, feeling that tehre was no choice now but to fight Baidagserre by charging him with being q ma0maEi.
 The opportunity came soon. for Bal dassarre forced himself into a gather ing in the Rucellai palace. and there tried to tell his story. But the priva- tions of his slavery and escape had worn his mind sadly. More and more often during his wanderings he had felt himself forgetting his learning strangely. And now, when Tito denied him and Bernardo RucelIai held out a Greek book to him and asked him to prove his claim that he was the scholar Baldassarre. the once familiar charac- ters meant nothing to him. He looked around in a lost way, gave a great cry and fled.
 If any at the gathering still sus- pected that the strange old man was not entirely mad they gave little thought to it. since they needed the supple, cunning Greek in the deadly game of politics that they were play ing to bring the Medici back to power. One of their plots was to assassinate Savonarola who had become the great est danger they had to fear. He had won the people over and had advanced from pulpit prophecy and denunciation to political activity. To Tito fell the task of turing the friar outside of the | walls With habitnaf prudence he fui- filled his duty weii---but at the same Ai'-~@ hA took nains to warn tha nrlest