Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-10
BY FRANK L. PACKARD
Author Of THE MIRACLE MAN"
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shook his fists again at his daughter
and then his eyes were half yeiled, and
his hands opened and he began to pat
the girls arm and his voice held a soft,
purring note.
Listen You are not a fool. nv
little one: / have not brought you up
to be\a fool---eh? Well, then. listen |!
We have little money, but IL il not
much. And he will get that hundred
thousand dollars. Do you understand
He is clever and he has the courage, y,
DO you think that ] would have tricked
the police for him otherwise? Eh-tlo
you think old Nicolo Capriano does not
know what he is aboutf"
:, She stared at him, sort Of dawning
dismay in her eyes.
You mean," she said, and the words
seemed to come in n hard. forced way
from her lips, "you mean that IL he
gets that money again you are to have
share?'
"a share. Ha. ha :" The old Italian
was rocking backward and forward in
glee. mo, my little one, not a share
Nicolo Capriano does not deal in shares
any more. All-my little one--all One
hundred thousand dollars-all! And
my little black-eyes will have such
Father" 1t came in a startled
broken cry Of amazed and bitter expos
tulation.
Nicolo Capriano stopped his rocking
and looked at her. A sudden CLINT Of
fury leaped from the smoldering eyes.
BAH" he said angrily. "Am I
mistaken after all? Is it that you are
your mother---and not Capriano ! Per-
In, II ah1 81 A,1 4 4.
now you will make the best Of it and
behave yourself and not play the child
-eh? Do you think I risked myself
with the police for nothing! Yes-all |.
All-except that must pay that leech
Dago George something for looking
after our young friend-con amore--
con amore. Nicolo Capriano-eh ?-since
I signed the letter so.
She stood an instant. straight and
tense, but n little backward on her
heels, as though she had recoiled from
blow that had been struck her-and
then she bent swiftly forward and
caught both her fathers wrists in her
strong young grasp and looked into his
eyes for long minute, as though to
read deep into his soul.
"You signed that letter con amore :"
Her voice was colorless. ''You signed il
-tOH U1DOTt-tUp cOuc worn OF tnp Olu
horrible. miserable days when this house
was den of outlaws, the code word
that marked out the victim who was
| to be watched and bounded down :"
The old bomb king wrenched himself
still further up in bed. He shook his
wrists free.
what is it to you" he screamed in
blaze Of fury-and fell into second
and more violent paroXysm of coughing
and now caught at his breast with his
thin. blue tipped fingers. and now in
unbridled passion waved his arms about
like disjointed fails. "Yes--T signed
it that-con amore. And it is the old
signal. Yes. yes! And Dago George
will obey. And he will watch our youns
Observation-Disclosures - watch, And
in the cnd--bah i'm the end our young
friend will supply Nicolo Capriano with
that hundred thousand dollars. IIa
And in the end we will see that oul
young friend does not become trouble
some.
"He is pawn-a pawn - Ole
| Nicolo's face. between rage and cough.
ing. had grown a mottled purple. "A
| pawn And when a pawn has lost It!
scfulness-eh Pit Is swept from thu
board-eh? Con amorc! The old days
again. The finger Of Nicolo CaprianC