The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1915-08-27

Of 1t except herself. Juiinn was 50
wrapped Ii the girl he was handing
into the boat that he did not even see
the other. When the party returned
from the sail Lita was screened from
them by window, through which she
looked at Miss Twining with the eyes
Of tigress.
Julian after his meeting with Miss
Twining made no more visits to the
wine shop. He did not realize the hold
his personality had taken upon Lta,
but was aware that he should have
withdrawn from the latter's company
sooner Nevertheless he did not look
upon the sudden flame he had inspired
In her as Of much Importance. The
flerceness Of southern women In such
matters did not occur to him. When
he looked on Vesuvius. with its crest Of
smoke hanging lazily on It's summit, he
did not realize that down In the breast
Of the Italian girl there lurked fire
equal In intensity If not In force to that
In the mountain.
One day when Julian and Mildred
were rambling about the grounds Of
the hotel where they stopped they
came upon a passage way leading
down to the water. They concluded
to 60 through It, On reaching the low
er end they came upon a dock. There
they stood looking out on the water.
They were some distance from the
wine shop, but Lita saw a 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 clambering between the
water and the cliff, now STOPPING 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 We're
| above'her and little farther out from
the shore.
| Hemstreet was talking to his COM
panion In English, a language the Ital-
ian girl did not understand. He was
well 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 u city OF summer residences called
Balae, owned and occupied by wealthy
Romans. He described the scene on
that night nearly twenty centuries be
fore when the bay spreading before
them was dotted with galeys shooting
here and there In the lurid light Of the
fires emitted by Vesuvlus, 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 dew voted heads and burying theil
city, which now. after having beer
buried for twenty centuries, Is being
uncovered, to be visited every year by
thousands OF civilization for 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 eventfu
night when parents, children. lover
lost one another In the darkness.
The only English word Lita knew
was 'love," aud this she heard spo
ken by the man with whom sh,
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 II at Mildred. Whether n sligh
sound she made was heard by Juliar
or whether there arose within him I
premonition Of danger he turned JUS
as Lita started to threw the knife an,
barely I'm time D place himself betweei
, Il and the intended victim. The knife
! entered his side. from which the bloc,
gushed over the white summer suit h
wore.
Ilta stood aghas. at what she ha'
done. then with a cry sprang up tn
side of the dock just rs Julian. sinking
was caught In Mildred's arms. Nil
dred, who had not seen the Enif
: thrown. only knew that Il was in he
companions side, but before she coul'
act Lita pulled II out and threw II int
; the water. then with a kercbief sh