Nogales international., 1929-04-05
Eleventh Installment
WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE

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WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE
Palermo is the scene. There an exile,
Of Adrienne Cartuccio, who spurns hifN,
He meets an Englishman, Lord St. Mau-
rice, who falls in love with Adrienne on
sight Leonardo sees his sister Margharita,
who tells him his love for Adrienne is hope
less But he pleads with her to arrange an
accidental meeting, to say farewell, be-
tween Adrienne and him.
She consents. That night the Englishman
is informed of an attempt being made to
carry off Signorina Cartuccio, and Mar
employed by rejected suitor on lonely
road. He rushes to the scene, and proves
able to rescue the ladies.
Inhamed by the failure of his scheme,
Leonardo sees Margharita. who shows him
she knows that he was instigator of the
sees Adrienne often. The Englshman. sit
ting in the hotel, finds dagger at his feet.
Looking UP, he sees the Sicilian, and scents
trouble. 1--WE sat here a week ago. re-
calls Leonardo. Lord St. Maurice mods.
Leonardo and the Englishman quarrel.
a challenge to duel, then when the Italian
slaps him consents. The two men face
each other ready to fight to the death.
Margharita stops the duel by coming just
IN the nick of time to save the Englishman
from his fate, with two officers who arrest
The exile Leonardo. Leonardo vows ven
geance After Is years in Jail he is again
at his hotel, an old, broken man with only
memories left to him.
At his hotel the proprietor, worried
about him, advertises for his friends and
Leonardo is first visited by the woman he
had loved, whom he shoos out OF his sight;
Then there comes to him the daughter of
lis sister, whom he greets in great SUR
prise He learns that his sister is dead.
Count Leonardo tells his niece the story
of his love for Margharita She is sympa-
thetic.
Margharita Briscoe takes a post at the
home Of Lady ST. Maurice, Marionis for
nler love, as a governess in order to be in
a position to wreak vengeance upon her.
Lord Lumley, the son of Lady St. Mau-
rice, talks to his mother of Miss Briscoe
and Lady St. Maurice begins telling him
about :the past.
Meanwhile Miss Briscoe is corresponding
with Leonardo. He writes her of his de-
sire for revenge.
A correspondence between Marioni and
his niece lay the plans for the poisoning Of
Lady St, Maurice, Marioni having obtained
the powder from curio dealer, Mr.. Pas
chuli. He tells in his letters how he came
to the scene and looked into the window
of the ST. Maurice home.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
ri, too, had a great surprise, Mar
gharita You will not wonder what
/ mean by that when l tell you that
in the light which streamed from the
uncurtained window everything in the
room was distinctly visible to me.
Vas / dreaming, child, or were you
.eed asserting to the embrace OF the
1nan whose arms were surely around
you? Him, | could not see, for his
back was turned to the window; but
will you laugh at me, l wonder, if
tell you that felt strangely jealous
of him. I am a foolish old man,
Margharita, but all the love of my
heart is yours, and l had begun almost
to look upon youth nay thoughts-as
my own child. l cannot bear the
thought of giving you up to any one.
You will not think me very, very
selfish. / have only a few more
months to live, and l know that you
will not grudge that much out OF your
future, that you will stay by me to
the end. Afterwards, l have no wish
save for your happiness; and although
I must confess that | had hoped you
might have married one of the sons
of our own country, still it is you
who must choose, and | owe you, or
shall owe you soon, too great debt
to press upon you any desire OF mine
which is not at one with your wishes
But tell me this-Is he an English
man? Alas! fear so. Send me a
word by the bearer, and tell me; tell
me, too, of what family he is, and
whether he is noble. But of that |
feel already assured, if he be indeed
the man to whom your love is given
"You must surely have sustained a
shock at my sudden and rash appear
ance. Doubtless you wonder at see
ing me here at all. / could not keep
away. l must have news day by day
aim st hour by hour. 1t is all that
kee me alive. / must be near tc
fee iiat 1 am breathing the same air
as !. woman on whom a long-delayed
vel.A ance is about to fall.
have taken a furnished cottage
or e outskirts of this village, and a
lii more than a mile from Mallory
G re. But do not come to me
D, y as I would love to have you
tai to me, and hear from your own
lips that all goes we'll, yet at present
it were better not. I will devise
some means of communication, anc
let you know of it shortly. I an
living here as Mr.. Angus. Yours
ever,
81. NJ"
MY DEAR UNcLE-I am a culprit-
a miserable, pleading culprit. 1t is
true that | love an Englishman-the
man who was standing by my side
last night; and it is true that he has
asked me to marry him. But | have
not told him so, and l have not
promised to marry him. That is moi
all of my confession. Not only is he
An Englishman, but his name is Lord
Lumley St. Maurice, and he is-her
son.
Now you know the terrible trouble
/ am in. Last night he was telling
me of his love, and assuring me Of
his mothers sanction and approval
when your face appeared at the win
dow. Can you wonder at my start
and that | tainted? Can you wonder
that sit here, after sleepless night
with eyes that are dim and heart
that has become a stone? / dread to
stir from the room. Ny position is
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