The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-05

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Quickly Miriam told him that sht knew through high sources of infor- nation that Hilda was safe and won't rejoin him in two days. Then s1e begged him to listen to her story
 She began by saying that her inota \ CT had been English. while on ter fathers side she sprang from one of those few princely families Of South ern Italy that still retained enormous wealth and vast influence. She men, toned a name that made the sculptor start with amazement--and then turn pale. for only a few years before the world had rung with Miriam's real name in connection With mysterious and terrible event.
 She went on to say that while stilf a child she had been betrothed to a Marchese of another branch of their house. When she came of age she re- pudiated the contract for her destined husband had traits so vile. % evil and wicked that they could be accounted for only by the insanity which often developed in old, ciose-kept races of men.
 Then occurred the terrible crime. to which Miriam would barely ailude. A- though she was innocent, suspicion of guilty connection with it fell so dark ly on her that In her despair she fed from home.
 She had begun . new life for herseff In Rome and had begun to taste hap- piness. when her evil fate came on her again In the form of the strange man of the eatacomh. who was none other than the Marchese. Ills madness had led him Into a fearfuily grotesque iike or mingled depravity and penance. He had entered q monastery where hia frightful seif-innicted penances had won for him the reputation of superior sanctity and had gained for him great CT freedom than is generally enjoyed by monks.
 His meeting with Miriam whom hs had thought dead. inspired him with fresh impulses to blacker crime than ever. To bend her to his will he held over her the threat of exposing her.
 And thus" said Miriam. weeping; T have since become horror in Hiid.s eyes by . crime that she saw me help to perpetrate. What it was she win tell you with her own lips. But as for us. there arc only two more days left haunted with reinorse. is determine6 then to submit himself to earthly just .VsloS,v sS Ts ts,s sIsa nSw st T6as ss: l, are still two days. Let us De hanuvfs
 As Kenyon looked at hin, all tha sweet and delightful eharaeteristics returned to him. Miriam smiled sn or him and Kenyon drought that she too. like Donateiio, had reached n way side paradise. For a few hours he was the sylvan faun sna she his Tt conpanion, nymph of grove or fountain. Then a remorsefuI man and woman, linked by a marriage bond or crime. they would set forth toward an
 Two days aftsrward Hilda returned as Miriam had promised. She had been Kept a prisoner iu convent while the despotic government of Rome taok nf affair as 1t was not desired to bring to the light of day. Miriam had re- turned to Rome and called on her nrat.rt Ereos connsGti1ns nee there to tree ti,s she had acted simply as a messenger and had no knowledge of the import ant secrets that the packet contaiued. family exerted that. though the auth critics had more than supected the cause of the monks death, no word of t was ever permitted to reach the
 The arm of the law left her untoueh- ed. Indeed. after all, her crime lay srssy merely in slsnss sar,b,x shs done .,s9 9 was truly cruelty to one who could find iIS psaSs Sono9lY,o o9Iy in Ihs tomb .. had been married many years and were on a visit to Rome once more. What became of him7"
 said K.nyas Sss assR ssdy n in oRs cf them lies our poor Faun."
 And did DonateIlos ears really re- ssmbi.s nij.: those of the Faun of Praxi-
 T know. but may not tell" replied Kenyon smiling mysterfously.
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