The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-08

ana reserve. Whicn Mad melted away un-
DER the genial influence of their home
| he was handsome, In a swarthy way, and
| there was something that was melancholy
In his soft dark eyes. Unlike most Gu
build. After the first barriers were
| passed he look his place as prima te In
vorite IN the household and II was per-
| haps not unnatural that the girls should
| spoil MIN. lie was so big and vet SO
| gentle
When he came in to dinner Jeanne
would excIaim; her eyes ,alisht with mis-
chief, lie ro. lie roi''
10 sit 'beside her: but the little Angelo
| said nothing: would only give him one
! swift glance from under her long. black
| lashes; and il was perhaps for this rea =
son that his eyes were oftenest fastened
| upon her demure face.
II came abou; very quickly, One day
| Angelo said TO her mother. Mamma, /
| have promised 10 marry Andreas de Ce
rillo''
You have promised TO marry Andreas
de Cerillo" cried Madame. horror -strick-
en-. Mon Diou, What are we coming
to? II Is |. your mother, who should
| have made a marriage for you. and you,
baoy, tell me that YOU have promised
| TO marry! 1t is impossible, say
Angelo laughed and repeated obStinte-
ly: Il have promised to marry Andreas.
/ am an American now. / will marry
like an American girl. the man I love.
not man picked out for me"
reau began feebly Monsieur Jarreau
has done us the honor to ask for your
i thank You. my father and 1 was a
glad and happy wife
1T is all changed" said Angelo.
~ will never consent said Madame,
way had been pointed out too long for
her 10 be able to tread a path for her
own making. But she could not resist
The temptation OF conhding to one OF
la lan1 fi,srg in No
English. The state OF mind in which she
found herself;
Me! I was astonsh when Angelo say
TO me. Mamma. | go TO marry Andreas
de CeriIlo.' Those girls make me aston
ish. tout Ie temps; they arc not like the
young girls that know. They wish to
marry like the Americaines: and. mon
Dicu, thcy have come to treat me like
the Americainc mothers. II is not one
Outrage? Me. myself That Monsieur
Ccrillo he is rcech and he is loving An
gce a great deal-but-l do not know
mc-it is ali so strange and so out OF
nature But the little Angelo did
not think so. She went about now With
a now light III her dark eyes. She sang
more eayly In tlIe mornings when she
gave out the linen, and soon she was seen
sitting In corners. shyly rolling and whip
ping The dainty ruffles that are so large
a ps,a OF a creole trousseau, The whole
family rolled and whipped ruftles. and
did dainty hemstitchins: and there was
many a gay laugh and Jest, Andreas
himself was not backward In adding his
share to the kindly teasings that brought
the rich color to the young girls soft
checks -,
balmy breath OF the tca-olive filled the
air Never before had the maSnolias
opened their smooth loveliness more Law
ishly to the moon. Never before had
prodgally upon the summer night
Every whispering breeze was laden with
love and Andress and Angelo walked
in that enchanted garden OF young hope
a united life The days sped, and they
were counting the moments. when a
change came over the life OF the old
town; an excitement. at first suppressed.
grew into a terror that pictured itself
upon the faces OF the ttmid, thai forced
the foolhardy into bravado. and the
was only a whisper that The fever,
that dread Scourge of the semi tropical
town, had. against all precautions, forced
itself into New Orleans The women
were sen, away, and soon upon tho
houses OF the ~ch and poor alike were
seen the placards that warned the pass
ers- by Of the tainted atmosphere. Brave
lief bands TO nurse the sick and bury
the dead and many fell by the wayside,
and one OF these was Andreas.
No longer the night lrlred the lovers
into the garden, no more the moth and
FREELY iuttered around them. The les
son OF love l.; pain. and Angelo was
learning hers in the hours Of anguish
which she spent alone while Andreas
gave his every energy and thought to
the saving OF life in the stricken city.
One day they brought him home and
laid him on his bed. He knew no one
and babbled necessarily Madame Jar
reau. who had long since given over her
old opposition 10 him. sat beside him
aud nursed him tendcrly. Angelo crept
Ia, tir,,a To md mo-, CT. Il
motionlcss beside him. but he seldom
knew her, His consciousness came and
went at intervals.
For the most part. the room WAS very