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) I III I 1 1 'WSPgfS THURSDAY, MARCH 28. 1929. THB B^VRNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA THE DR d /»U lUUSfWED Bf flMNK&DRUEN r Tenth Installment WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE Pnlermo is the scene. There an exile, Leonardo di Marioni, has come (or lore of Adrienne Cartuccio, who spurns hidV 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 gharita, who are walking by brigands employed by a rejected suitor on a lonely road. He rushes to the scene, and proves able to rescue the ladies. Inflamed by the failure of his scheme, Leonardo sees Margharita who shows him she knows that he was instigator of the attempted attack. The Englishman now sees Adrienne often. The Englishman, sit ting in the hotel, finds a dagger at his feet. Looking up, he sees the Sicilian, and scents trouble. “We sat here a week ago,” re calls Leonardo. Lord St. Maurice nods. Leonardo and the Englishman quarrel. The Englishman at first refused to accept 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 25 vears in jail he is again at his hotel, an old, broken man with only memories left to him. v At his hotel the proprietor, worried about him. advertises for his friends and Leonardc is first visited by the woman he had loved, whom he shoos out of his sight. Then there corqes to him the daughter of bis 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 thctic. Margharita Briscoe takes a post at the home of Lady St. Maurice, Manoni's for mer love, as a governess in order to be in a position to wreak vengeance upon her. Lord Lumley, the son of Lady St. M heaven? And if so, what of our vengeance? Death is swift! What will she suffer? It will be those who are left behind who will feel the pain; for her, there will be a happiness be yond even the happiness of earth. She will be shriven of her sin by our vengeance. „ L - “Think of this, my dear uncle! Do not imagine that I am growing faint-' hearted; do not imagine that I am drawing back from the task which I now claim as my right. Death, or^ some other soft “of punishment, shall surely fall upon her; she shall not I found myself in the presence of the man for whom I was making vain search. My Margharita! my good angel! I have you to thank even for the successful accomplishment of my part in that edict of our Order which you and I ar^ banded together to carry out. “At first, Paschuli did not recognize me, and it was long before I could make him believe that I was indeed, that most unfortunate of men, Leon ardo di Marioni. But when he was convinced, he promised me what I sought. That same evening he gave "I turned aside into an old curio shop to buy some trifle for you which took my fancy, and it wa? Paschuli himself who served me.” rice, talks to his mother i-auy of Mi*s au Briscoe escape! Only think what is best. “Write to iy; ^11 (hat U in ypur “Margharita, there is ne poison m—- ■bout the past. ile Mi u.*..., ullmi h|Ml |b^art. Fear not to speak out! I would know all. Farewell! Your loving “Marghahtta.” Meanwhile Miss Briscoe is corresponding with Leonardo. He writes her of his de sire for revenge. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Letter from Margharita Briscoe to the Count Leonardi di Marioni, care id the Princess di Carlotti, Palazzo ( arlolti. Rome. “My dkar. DtA* Uncle: I am in clined to scold you for your letter. f*»r it made me very sad. Why should you be so sure of d>ing just as the ven geance which is your due beconie> yours? You are not very old. and I can nurse you even as I did l&fore. Think how lonely I should he without you. No, vuu must not think of leav- Letter from th* Count Leonardo di Marioni, the Palazzo Carlotti. Rome, to Miss Margharita Briscoe, Mal lory Cranae. I.incolnshire. “Beloved Margharita:-! will con fess that your letter troubles me. If there be heaven for the woman who wrecked my life, there is no heaven for me. no religion, no‘God. You say that she is a good woman. She is therf a good woman through fear. it to me. the world like that which I send you in this letter. The merest grain of it is sufficient, in wine or water, or food of any sort. There is no art of medicine which could detect it—no means by which the death, which will surely follow, can be averted; so you run no risk, my child! Bide your time, and then—then! “Margharita, I am coming to you. Nay, do not be alarmed. I run no risk. I shall come disguised, and no one will know me. but I must see something of the end with my own eyes, or half its sweetness w.uild he untamed. I w«mh! see her face and die! I would .trace. She seeks to atone, but she can never day by day, the workings of the atone. She w'on a bov’s nassionate noisnn • and in the last moment' ..** me. i toroid ill it is morbid. I love; she wore his heart upon her Banish that lancy for my sake, and try and think of a quiet happy life Ligethcr. away in some southern city, where the sea and the sky are blue, and the sun is warm, and the breezes arc stilt and laden with the perfume of sweet flowers. We would never live in this country, would we? I do not like it. It is cold and damp, and it chills me, chills even my heart. Oh! I know just the life wc could live t«*gether. and l»e very, very happy. \\ rite to me no more of death. “I am quite settled <l*»wn here, wait ing- M y duties are light, aiui 1 do not find them irksome. Every day 1 realize that 1 did well in coming here as a governess, ami not as one seeking a home. They think that it is because of my pride that 1 liavc willed it so. They do not know. “Lady St. Maurice tries to be kind to me in her way; but when the honeyed words are upon her lips, I think of you and my heart is steel. She must have been a very beautiful woman—nay, she is beautiful now! You asked me in your first letter to watch and to tell you whether they were happy together. You asked me, and I tell you the truth. "Yes l I think that of all the women whom I have ever seen, her life seems to have flown along the most calmly and peacefully. I have never seen a cloud upon her brow; I hate her for it. She has no right to be happy; she w’ho by such treachery condemnet you to a living death. Once my anger rose up so fiercely that I nearly struck her, and I had to hurry from the room lest I should betray myself before the time. Truly she deserves punishment and my hand shall not shrink from inflicting it “Yet, after all, is death the most complete form of punishment. Some times I doubt it. I would mar the beauty of her face for ever, and laugh I would strike her blind gladly; would make her a cripple for life, with c*ut remorse*, without hesitation. To see her suffer would please me. should have no pity! “But death, uncle! If anything o r our religion be true, toould death be so terrible a thing?—Against my wit! sleeve; she cast it away at the moment of her pleasure. She broke the vows A an order, which should liave been as sacred to her as the face of God to the angels; and she sent a Marioni to rot through a useless life In a miserable prison. The boy whose itart she broke, and the man whose ife she severed, lives only to nurse his unchanging and unchangeable hate for er. Away with all other thoughts, my vengeance knows but one end. and tliat is death! Not sudden death, mmd! but death—slow, lingering, and liatniul. 1 would see- the struggle against some mysterious sickness, with my own eyes; I would stand by the bedside and mock. I would watch the heeks grow thin and pale, and the eyes grow dim. She should know me in those last moments. She should see me. the wasted shadow of a man, myself on the threshold of the grave, standing by her bedside, cold and unpitying, and holding out toward her a white hyacinth That is how I would have it, though thus it nay not be. Yet speak to me not of any other vengeance save death. Let none other dwell for moment in your thoughts, I solemnly charge you, Margharita. As to my search, it has not yet alas, been successful. Think not that I have lost heart, or that I am dis couraged. Never fear but that I shal find the man whom I seek—if not, there are others. I give myself one month longer; at the end of that time if Paschuli be not found, another must serve my purpose. The Princess is much interested in you, and sends her love. She is im r tient to take you under her care have told her that it will not be long—nor will it “Farewell, my child. Soon I shal send you the good news.—Yours, “Leonardi di Marioni.” "Falezzo Carlotti, Rome. “Margharita,—Beloved. Success success! My search is over, my pur T- • see that her life is good. She has made her home what it should be, anc her husband happy. She is a devotee Christian, and, wet or fine, every Sun day morning before breakfast, she goe to the little church in the village and kneels before the altar. She visits the sick and the poor, and they lov her. For me, religion has become something of a dream. I was brought up a Roman Catholic. What I am now I dp not know! When I vowed my life to its present purpose I filled A with new thoughts; I put my religion away from me. I could not kneel with hate in my heart; I could not confess with the desire to kill in my bosom. “Yet let that pass. Supposing there be a heaven, if we kill her for her treachery to you will not that sin be ^ wiped out? May she not gain'taste for Roman jewelry*, and behold, pose is accomplished. 1 have found Paschuli. Enclosed in this letter you will find a smaller envelope. It con tains the powder shaking, and that there is a mist be fore my eyes! I am an old man, anc great joy is hard to bear; harder"sti after a weary, wretched life such as mine. You will understand, thoiigh— you will be able to decipher this faint uncertain handwriting, and you wi forgive me if it tires you. Ay, you will do that, Margharita, I know! “Let me tell you how I found him It, was by the purest accident, turned aside into an old curio shop, to buy some trifle for you which took my fancy, and it was Paschuli him self who served me. Thus you see how indirectly even your star always shines over mine and leads me aright. If if had not been for you I should never have dreamed of entering the place, but I thought of you and your her agony I would reveal myself, and would point to my4 withered frame and the hand of death upon my fore- rad, and cry out to her that the 3rder of the White Hyacinth had ccpt its vow. I would have her eyes meet mine as the mists of death closed in upon her. 1 would have her enow that the oath of a Marioni, in nendship or in hate, in protection or in vengeance, is one with his honor. his may not be, Margharita! I can not see all this! I cannot even stand >y her bedside for a moment and show ler my face, that she might know whose hand it is which has stricken ier down. Yet, 1 must be near! Fear not but that I shall manage it safely! would not bring danger or the shadow of danger upon you, mv be- oved. “I leave Rome to-night, and 1 leave it with joy. You cannot inogine how inexpressibly sad it has been for me to find myself in the place where the greater part of my youth—my too ambitious youth was spent. All is changed and strange to me. There are new streets and tpany innovations which puzzle me; and although my riends are kind, twenty-five years iave crushed our sympathies. To them I am like a sad figure from a bygone world, a Banquo at the feast, something to pity a little—no more. I am nothing to anybody beyond that. I am a wearisome old man, whose mind is a blank, and who only cumbers the way. Ah, well, it is not for long. The day of my desire is at hand, and God has given me you, Margharita, to accomplish it, and to close my eyes in peace. Bless you, my dear, dear child! You have sweetened the end of a marred and wretched life! Yours has been an angel’s task, and you will have an angel’s reward. We shall meet before long, but of the manner of our meeting I cannot _ tell you- yet, Titi- then adieu 1—Younr in hope,. “Leonardi di Marioni.”.. “P. S.—I forgot to say that the whole of the poison, or even half a teaspoonful, would produce sudden and abrupt death. Just a pinch, adminis- tered twice, perhaps, in order to be quite secure, would be sufficient.” “My beloved Margharita,—Many a time have I reproached myself for my imprudence la^t night, and the effects which I fear it had upon you. It was thoughtless and rash of me to come near the House at all; but, in deed, I meant only to watch from a safe distance; only, as I crouched be hind a shrub upon the lawn, I saw her face, and the sight drew me nearer against my better judgment. I met your eyes, and I knew that you were overcome with fright; but I feared to linger lest they might ask what it was that alarmed you, and seek for me. And although I fancy that I am altered past recognition, yet I would run no risks. - ’ * t ‘ l * Continued Next Week w- NEW ONE CENT GAS TAX NOW BEING PAID So far as the consumers of gasoline are concerned, the Stcte has already begun its hard-surface road program under the $65,000,000 bond issue, which has been provided for by the general assembly, for last week the extra cent on the gallon was being collected. The bond bill was finally ratified and signed by the governor just before the general assembly ad journed March 16, and is now the law of the State. The companion bill, in creasing the tax on gasoline from five to six cents a gallon, was likewise signed by the governor, and immed- Barnwell Folks Are Caught in Hailstorm Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd A. Plexico and Lit tle Daughter Have Very Un pleasant Experience. * While returning from Augusta Thursday night of last week, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd A. Plexico and little daugh ter, Kittie, of this city, had a very unpleasant experience when they were caught in the heavy hailstorm that visited the Aiken-Augusta sec tion. In addition to the hailstones, many of which Mr. Plexico declared to be as large as hen eggs, there was a torrential downpour of rain accom* panied by high winds, the combina- tion making driving an impossibility. Mr. Plexico was finally forced to bring his car to a stop in the middle of the highway and he and his family waited in their car until the storm passed on. The body of their auto mobile shows a number of dents from the aerial bombardment. Reports from Augusta state that the heaviest fall of hail was reported in North Augusta, where hundreds of window panes were smashed and other damage done. In some places the drifts of hailstones were said to be six to ten inches deep. The storm on the Georgia side of the river was not so bad, being of only two or three minutes duration, but even at that many windows were broken and auto mobile tops were smashed. Some damage was done to peach orchards, but the Fruitland Nursery was the heaviest sufferer, acres of hothouses being smashed. v Early Thursday evening, a heavy cloud was visible N<Ath* and North west of Barnwell. The lightning was almost continuous and there were oc casional distant rumblings of thun der. That cloud probably marked the course of the storm. MONEY TO LOAN Loans made same day application received. i - ■ 1 No Red Tape HARLEY & BLATT. Attomeys-at-Law Barnwell. S. C. Spanked By Thaw? 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