Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-01-05

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generally sided with the mayor when
he turned Anastasi out of the house
and forbade him to speak to his daugh,
ter again. IF he had five thousand
francs" said the Infatuated dignitary,
Il should not let her marry him."
This was of course pure rhetoric,
and everybody quite rightly inter.
preted it to mean that If Anastasi had
i've thousand francs the mayor would
be delighted.
In the beginning 1t was the mayors
fault. Anastasi's father rented some
land from him, and when Anastasi
came to pay the rent, the mayor
would ask him to have glass of wine
and roll him a cigarette.
So Anastasi sat with the mayor and
Theodore, and after the second glass
of wine the mayor usually went to
sleep, and Anastasi made love to The.
odora. He is a handsome, straight
featured boy, and Theodore and he
enjoyed themselves very much. But
the deluge came when he proposed,
and the mayor went back to his wet
and empty cigarettes.
had written to Anastasi before I
came here this year, telling him I
should want his mule again for few
trips in the neighborhood, and express
ing hope that his suit was prosper
ing. He met me at the bridge over
the Eurotas when arrived, and asked
me If he might come and see me that
evening. His face was solemn and
mysterious, and waited for develop
ments. was sitting at the cafe after
dinner that night when I heard a
whistle from somewhere IN the dark
ness, which was twice repeated before
l looked round. Anastasi, from under
the shadow of pepper tree, was beck
oning to me to come, and obediently
paid for my coffee, and went. He
walked on ahead Of me until we wero
out of the main street, and then
stopped.
'Will you come to my house?" he
said, "the old devil''-he alluded to
his father-"is out, and 1 want to show
you something" He would give no
further explanation, and we walked
on in silence to the mill. He lit can
die, and asked me to sit down while
he went to the farther corner of the
room, and after some effort took up
one of the big fiat stones with which
it is paved, dived his hand in, and
brought out an old shirt, which evil
IDENTIFY contained something heavy.
He put this on chair between us,
undid 1t, and disclosed a big brown
handkerchief This again was united,
and showed Greek backward vase,
the mouth of which was stuffed with
newspaper. He took out the newspa-
per stopper, and poured onto the
brown handkerchief between five hun
dred and six hundred coins, some sill.
yer, some gold.
sAnastasia watched me as turned
the coins over.
What shall DOR he said.
Marry Theodore"
He laughed, showing his white
teeth.
"A fortnight ago." he said. IT was
digging a ditch into the vineyard in
order to water it from the mill
stream. The water had run for ten
minutes, and I went back to close II
again. AS I went, saw, near the
corner where those Americans dug
last year and spoiled two vine trees
little, black. shiny thing sticking out
Of the earth. So I damned up the
water, and went back to look. And
l found this vase. The old devil was
drunk that night, SO hid it in the
corner of the room and waited for
you to come. Shall l get five thou
sand francs?"
was not, and am not, acquainted
with the Greek law about treasure.
Anastasi to the best of my ability
put aside a Tenos coin and a coin
from Epidaurus, and certain others
which had not seen before, and from
the rest made a selection which were
about four thousand francs market
value. Now there is in Athens an ex-
cellent and honorable antiquity dealer
who buys slightly under market value,
and sells for slightly over, and with
him have had many transactions.
So l gave Anastasi a note to him,
and packed him off to Athens next
day. He returned yesterday with a
receipt from the Ionian bank for g..
700 francs. The rest of LLe coins re-
NAMED in their cache.
This morning we paid visit to the
mayor, and he upshot is that AnastaSi
is betrothed to Theodore.
A Piu Tale