The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-10-01
o Melville Dapfsso1I Post
coprrisht 81 EdMard ]. CIodo

,oW It. Il was carried through the
streets 81 T6EFe DEF Greco behind
ighted candles. That night the efup-
ion Of Vesuyfus ceased and the mar
lufs's Virgin was on the instant Ia
nous. She was called now the Virgin
u the Mountain.
There IS this virtue in miracle,
that one doeB not hayo to repeat It,
ike a clowns trick. to keep ones rep
station shining. The Virgin Of the
Mountain continued the patron OF
FORE del Greco. Twice q year in
Nay and in October. the painting was
borrowed Of the marquis and carried
n procession through Tore del Greco
It was May and but seven days be
| ore the festival Of Tore del Greco,
#hen the old voluptuary Of Sorrento
Jared forth so swiftly With guest he
sad not invited The new marquis
xas scarcely warm IN his bare house
ana the old one cold in his before the
procession Of boats. each with its COM
| ,ortabIe priest, came TO the stone steps
md bore away the Virgin Of the Noun
ain to her semf-annuaI worsliping-
An American tourist chose that
morning to ascend Vesuvius. Passing
.AOkES 0SA N1ASNOp IL 49,
By the procession Of the Virgin, and
his driver wns ordered by the priests
10 pull up by the roadside Fnntu the
holy ceremony VAS ended The tour
lst. standing up on his carriage seat,
1bserved that the procession was not
. likely to pass within any reasonable
time, and as the ceremony was in no
wise holy to him. fact which he
stated clearly enough in his own Ian
yuage, he ordered his driver to go on
The driver declined, having, like the
I Did marquis, an eye to the welfare
! IF his soul. whereupon the tourist, not
caring a whit for his soul, caught up
The lines and drove into the process
sion.
A crowd of women with their hair
streaming down their backs were
passing at that moment. These prompt
~ seized the horses, cut the traces OF
he harness, pulled the Iinchpins oct
IF the aSles. and tEun6led the carriage
.nto the gutter. They thensrin a va
riety OF ways, explained to the tourist
| he esteem fn-which they held him.
He, likewise, gave his views no less
picturesQuely, finally declaring that
he would buy the COMPOUNDED Virgin
as soon as he got down from zVesu-
vius. srd hang her up in Carnegie
(ibrary-a threat at that moment lost
On the un-Englished peasantsfot Tore
del Greco. but otherwise an expression
lated, ike an oracle. 1t was not lost
however, on the guide who sat beside
him, but accurately remembered and
accurately repeated in reply to innu-
moFable queries.
One does not know what hand the
! Iong-ba med mountain took in the bust
ness. At any rate, the following
morning the American called on the
new marquis and asked him to name
a price for his picture. The young man
declined. The American offered
thousand Ira. then ten, finally twenty.
I The marquis still declined, and the
American in disgust returned to Ma
pies. The young marquis locked up
his house and went to the inn at Sor-
rento for his dinner This hosiery
is maintained by the pleasantest THIEF
! in italy. Over his wine the marquis
| had the incident of the procession re-
lated with endless comment; so many
gesticulating witnesses came forward
to he heard that the marquis was COM
relied to remain the night under the
roof of this pleasantest thief. When
/ he returned at sunrise and opened the
door of the villa with its iron key, he
found the Virgin of the Mountain van
| ished; the canvas had been cut out
! Of the frame.
The man, overwhelmed with this
! tremendous disaster, sat down. on a
bench in his hall, covered his face
with his hands and abandoned himself
| to despair, forgetful of the open door
and the sun now shining through IT.
! He was aroused by a voice Offering
! him the salutation OF the morning and
| the benediction of God. He looked up
to see the padre OF Sorrento standing
in the door. The old man had come
early, tramping down the mountain
through the wet lemon groves, to
warn the young marquis against that
| devils threat OF the American and TO
Z bring peace to his house
/ The young marquis took one Of his
hands from over his face and pointed
| TO the empty frame hanging on the
wall. The padre, following his finger,
groaned Ike one struck with mortal
agony and backed slowly out Of the
door. Then, livid, quivering' his
teeth rafting like castanets, he cursed
( the new Marquis Mazaccra with hide
Gus, excoriating curses.
! Chou who hast sold, like Judas, not
] Christ, but the Mother Of Christi"
The boy leaped up like one proddeo
with hot spit.
..No, no, padre!" he cried. 81 have
not sold 1t. 1t was stolen See. it was
! cut from the frame have not sold