Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-29

E. HR-N E#EEtH2'E EF.-Ha"ME EE#.-I.
land of romance and her great
V families the actors in dramas
much stranger than fiction. The
most pitiful OF tragic stories has just
ended happily here in which the char
acters are Of the historic house of Co
lonna and the scene Rome, their home
for more than a thousand years.
The Colonnas, as long g as the
wear 1000, We're among the dominating
families of the Eternal city. Off and
on they We're really the masters of
Rome, fighting always their traditional
enemy, the Orsini, except when it was
to the interest of both to join against
n mno enemI, such as Rienzl and
other reformers. They have produced a
great pOetess. Nittoria. friend and COM
rade of Michael Angelo, and down
through the. ages they have had a
large hand in making the intensely in
teresting history of the city of Rome.
Our story begins "a quarter of q Gems
fury ago in an idyllic To go
still further back, a certain Duke di
San Teodoro married an Englishwoman..
nee Locke, who had romance and TRACE
5dy in her blood. She was the daughter
of Locke. whom Bulwer +Bytton put in
Ernest Maltravers," her mother hav-
ing been Il sister of Lord Tollemacle.
She and Locke had taken the law into
their " hands, made II runaway
match, and had come TO Italy. where
their life WAS a continual idyll until one
day, on the lake of Como, the boat in
which the happy husband was sailing
35clpsizcd in a gust of wind md he was
drowned. his distracted wife looking on
from the shore. Their p~osthulnous child
was q girl who married as her second
husband Duke di San Teodoro. Her
first husband was Lord Burglersh, and
her third Lord Walsingham. To the
Duke di San Teodoro she presented a
daughter. Thresa, with whose. life rO-
n still more tragic than that of
her grandmother. this tale is ~concerned.
AN EXTRAORDINARY BEAUTY.
Thresa grew up the idol of her par,
ents, as she was of extraordinary beau
tY and charm, spending her time be-
tween London and Rome. Iii his last
place she fell in love With the Duke di
Marine, heir to the princedom of Colo
mia. 1t was a genuine love match, and
all might rave gone we'll had they not
lived in Italy, where even today, but
more so % years & Caesars wife
must be above suspicion. The happy
wife had given her husband two little
girls, and was just on the point OF go
ing to England to visit her mother
when she, sensitive to any mood in her
husband, thought him depressed and
unhappy. To her repeated inquiries he
CAV evasive answers, until, unable to-
endure the reproach in her eyes Inc
feeling that she must not go away
With ascloud between them, he said:
You have given me a most difficult
task, my dear. How can / make you
understood that I consider YOU quite in
nocent of any harm and still say what
/ have to say?"
Much alarmed. Donna Thresa asked
what she possibly could have done, as
she felt herself absolutely tblameless,
and was so distressed h a her husband,
taking her in his arms. said:
s'Thresa, YOU must haye noticed the
infatuation for you of the Marquis Nea-
poleone iRoccagiovane, which is not
only patent to me but to all Rome. II
do not blame YOU, but my honor COM
pels me to put a stop to It,
Donna Thresa. who was the only per-
son in Rome unaware of the passion
of the young man, protested her entire
unconsciousness, refused to believe any
thing of the kind, implored her husband
not to move in the matter as he would
he putting her in a false position, and
declared that she would go to England
at once. and that everything would
have blown over before her return.
Leaving her husband apparently con-
WINGED that this was the most dienif1edt
course to pursue. she made her arrange
ments5 osleayegthe text day, and went
to rest that night with almost a light
lbeart Meanwhile Don Marine. fully