Nogales international., 1929-02-05
Second Installment
WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE

Second Installment
WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE
Palermo is the scene. There an exile,
Leonardo di Marioni, has come for love
of Adrienne Cartuccio, who spuTns him
He meets an Englishman, Lord st. MaNi'
rice. who falls in love with Adr1enne on
sight. Leonardo sees his sister MarghaTlta'
who tells him his love for Adrienne Is nope,
less. But he pleads with her to arrange an
accidental meeting, to say farewell, be-
tween Adrienne and him.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
She laid her troubled, tear-stained
face upon his shoulder.
1T is wrong of me, Leonardo. Yet,
if you will promise me to say farewell,
and farewell only
BE it sol. promisel'
well, then, each night we have
walked past the Marina, and home by
the mountain road. 1t is long way
round and it is lonely; but we have
Pietro with us, and on these moon
light nights the view is like tairy-
land"
"And will you come t1at way noiile
tonight, after the concert"
"Yes."
'It is good"
IT was almost midnight, and
Palermo lay sleeping in the moon
light. The concert was over! one
by one the promenaders had lett the
Marina, and all sound had died away.
One man alone fingered drinking IN
the sweetness of the night. The
Englishman sat on the last seat OF
the Marina, in the shadow of cluster
Of orange trees.
He had seen her again-nay, more,
he had heard her sing-this girl
nightingale, who had taken the world
by storm.
He sat dreaming, with burned
out cigar between his teeth, and his
eyes idly wandering over the blue
Mediterranean. Suddenly the stiffness
was broken by the sound OF soft
gliding footstep close at hand. He
had heard no one approach, yet when
he looked up quickly he found he was
no longer alone. A man in the garb
of a native peasant was standing by
his side.
Naturally the Englishnlan was a
little surprised. He half rose from
his seat, and then resumed it as he
recognized the dark, swarthy lace and
black eyes of the waiter who had told
him Adrienne Cartuccio's name.
"Hullo! Whac are you doing here?"
he demanded.
Il was in search of the Signor =
was the hasty response. "For an hour
I have sought him everywhere, and
now it is by chance that | am sue
cessful."
The Englishman looked at him with
suspicion. This change of dress was
doubtless for the purpose of disguise.
What was the meaning of it?
swell, and now you've found me,
what do you want!" he asked, watch
ing him closely.
II will tell the Signor. Is-it not
that he has an admiration for Made
moiselle Cartuccio, the singer? Well,
she is in dangerl 1t is for the Signor
to rescue her."
The Englishman sprang up with
sparkling eyes, and pitched his dead
cigar into the sea.
''In danger!" he repeated breath
lessly. "Quickl Tell me where"
The man pointed inland.
do you see that belt of white road
there, leading up into the hills?"
Eyes; what about it?"
"Have you noticed anything pass
along it?"
There was heavy cart or carriage
and some mules, l think, went by hall
an hour ago"
The native shrugged his shoulders
ut. was an hour, Signor, but nc
rnatterl Step back with me into the
shadow of those olive trees. That is
better. Now we cannot be seen, and
l wifi explain"
! The EngiishmaN beat the ground
with his foot.
Explanations be damned" he ex-
claimed. where is Mademoiselle
Cartuccio? Quickw
| The man held up his hands, ard
spoke more rapidly.
This evening 1 heard by accident
of plot to carry off Signorina
!, Cartuccio by a rejected suitor.
hasten to inform the police, but or
the way l pause. l say to myself
what shall I get for my pains, anc
for the risk l run? Nothing! Their
l think of the Signor. l watched his
face when the Signorina pass by, anc
/ say to myself he has the passion oi
her. If I show him the way to save
her he will be generous. He will wir
the lady, and he will reward poor
! Andrea"
That's all right. Tell me what tc
do, and will give you fifty pounds
anything you like. Don't waste time
/ Speak up!"
The mans eyes shone with cupidity
He went on rapidly:
| "The Signor is prince. Listen
Along yonder road, before many min
utes have passed, will come the
I Signorina Cartuccio with her friend
attended only by an aged servant
Men are waiting for them in the grove
of orange trees above the Villa
Fiolesse. Their orders are to carry
off the two ladies to the other side OF
the island, where a place has been pre-
pared for them. For an hour l have
searched for the Signor. that he might