The Press., 1915-08-04

they SuOOu iOOkiHS Out LII tue WutcI. They were some distance from the wine shop, but Lita saw couple on the dock and with the keen scent of love surmised that they were Julian and the girl who had stepped in be- tween her and him.
 Catching up dirk knife and thrust
 ing 1t into her bosom, she ran along the shore, now ciambering between the water and the cliff, now stooping be- | meath some object to conceal her ap- | proach till she came near the dock on | which the couple were standing un- | conscious of her approach; then, duck ing under the side of the dock, she ran ! along 1t till she reached the margin of the water. There she stood listening | to the pair on the dock, who were | above her and little farther out from l the shore
 Hemstreet was talking to his com
 panion in English, a language the Ital-
 ian girl did not understand. He was | we'll educated, and the ancient Romans had always interested him. He was pointing out different objects of inter est within view-the island Capri near by, ISchia in the distance to the north,
 and opposite what in old Roman times was Il city of summer residences called Balae, owned and occupied by wealthy Romans. He described the scene on | fore when the bay spreading before them was dotted with galleys shooting here and there in the lurid light of the 1 fires emitted by Vesuvius, those upon them engaged in trying the dangerous work of saving the fleeing Pompeiians,
 who were struggling in darkness un-
 der the cloud of ashes raining upon
 their devoted heads and burying their city, which now. after having been
 buried for twenty centuries, is being
 uncovered, to be visited every year by
 thousands of d civilization far differ
 ent from that which passed slowly out
 of existence from the Italian peninsula | Then Hemstreet spoke of the part
 inGs that took place on that eventful
 night, when parents, children, lovers lost one another in the darkness.
 The only English word Lita knew
 was love-" and this she heard spo-
 ken by the man with whom she
 had become infatuated to her rival
 Finally she drew out from under the
 dock where she could see them and,
 drawing the dirk from her bosom,
 aimed it at Mildred. Whether a slight
 sound she made was heard by Julian I or whether there arose within him q premonition of danger he turned just
 as Lita started to threw the knife and
 barely in time to place himself between
 it and the intended victim. The knife
 entered his side. from which the blood
 gushed over the white summer suit he
 wore.
 Lita stood aghast at what she had
 done, then with cry sprang up the
 side of the dock just as Julian, sinking,
 was caught in Mildred's arms. Mil
 dred, who had not seen the knife
 thrown. only knew that it was in her
 companions side, but before she could
 act Lita pulled it out and threw it into
 the water, then with kerchief she
 wore about her shoulders began to
 stanch the blood.
 "Who did it?" cried Mildred.
 "It was an accident" said Julian
 faintly.
 Some men were working on a boat
 not far distant and Lita beckoned them 10 come. When they reached the dock
 Julian had tainted, but he soon re- vived and was carried to one of the
 houses on the beach. There he re- | mained for a time, the surgeons un- decided whether or not he would re- | cover. No persuasion could induce
 him to declare how he had come by l the wound, and Mildred Twining had not seen the knife thrown. Julian gave out q theory that some one con
 cealed near him had thrown the knife I at him for the purpose of rendering | him prey for robbery. But although ! ,here are many criminals in Italy the | theo:'y was not believed, for it would
 not be easy for any one to have lurked nc2r him ?nl ret away after stabbing | him without being seen.
 | Julian as soon as he was able to be
 moved was carried to the top of the cliff and lav at his hotel till he recover I cd. Miss Twining left with her party | coon after he vas out of danger, being he only n,la W ho did not suspect that | the "irl who had been near her and | Julian at the time he was wounded | had been his asasilant. Julian joined Miss TwininG later in Switzerland, and there resulted an engagement between l them. Drt hc kept his secret from he. Wh he' he ever saw Lita after tli., attempt on her rivals life is not | known: probably not, since her people, | knowing that she had committed
 crime sent her up into the mountains where she would not be attainable If ca lied to an account