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He pictured to himself that fair boyâ€" ish faceâ€"and in the, clear morning sunlight the young Englishman‘s face showed marvelously few signs of the night of agony through which he had )passedâ€"ghastly and livid, with the stamp of death upon the forehead, ‘and the deep blue eyes glazed and idull. It was an awful thing, yet what could he do?. What hope was there? Leonardo di Marioni he knew to be a famous swordsman; Lord St. Maurice had never fenced since he had left Eton, and scarcely remembered the positions. It was doubtful even whethâ€" er he had ever held a rapier., But what Signor Pruccio feared most was the pale, unflinching hate in the Siciâ€" lian‘s white face. He loathed it, and yet it fascinated him. He knew, alas! how easily, by one swift turn of the wrist, he would be able to pass his sword through the Englishman‘s body, mocking at his unskilled defense. He fancied that he could see the arms thrown up to heaven, the fixed, wild eyes, the red blood spurting out from FIFTH INSTALLMENT WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE Palermo is the scene. There an exâ€" ile, Leonardo di Marioni, has come for love â€"of â€" Adrienne Cartuccio, .who spurns him. He meets an Englishman, Lord St. Maurice, who falls in love with Adrienne on : sight. Leonardo sees his sister Margharita, who tells him his love for Adrienne is hopeless. But he pleads with her to arrange an accidental meeting, to say farewell, between Adrienne and him. It was a fair spot which their two seconds had chosen to stain with bloodshed. Close almost to their feet, the blue waters of the Mediterranean, glistening in the early morning sunâ€" fight, broke in tiny, rippling waves upon the firm white sand. Inland was a semiâ€"circle of steep cliffs, at the base of which there were great bowlâ€" ders of rock, fernâ€"covered and with hyacinths of many colors growing out of the crevices, and lending a sweet fragrance to the fresh morning air. It was a spot shut off from the world, for the towering cliffs ran out into the sea on either side, completely enâ€" closing the little cove. There was only ‘one possible approach to it, save by boat, and that a difficult and tedious one, and, looking upward from the shore, hard to discover.. But on the northward side the_ cliffs suddenly dropped, and in the cleft was a thick plantation of aloes, through which a winding path led down to the beach. She consents. That night the Engâ€" lishman is informed of an attempt beâ€" ing made to carry off Signorina Carâ€" tuccio, and Margharita, who are walkâ€" ing, by brigands employed by a rejecâ€" ted suitor on a lonely road. He rushâ€" es 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 atâ€" tack. . Theâ€" Englishman now sees Adrienne often. The Englishman, sitâ€" ting in the hotel, finds a dagger at his feet. Looking up, he sees the Siciâ€" lian, and scents trouble. "We sat here a week ago," recalls Leonardo. Lord St. Maurice nods. Leonardo and the Englishman quarâ€" rel.. 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. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY THE WESTON THIES & GUTDE The Sicilian. was unmoved. The sight of the woman he loved chamâ€" pioning his foe seemed to _ madden him. "Out of my way!" he cried, graspâ€" ing his sword firmly. "Lord St. Maurâ€" ice, are you not weary of skulking behind a woman‘s petticoats? On guard! I say. On guard!" She suddenly flung her hands above her head, and there was what seemed to be a miraculous increase in the little group. Three men in plain, dark clothes sprang from behind a gigantic bowlder, and, in an instant, the Siciâ€" lian was seized from behind, "I shall not beg upon my knees," she answered proudly. "Yet, Leonarâ€" do, for your ownâ€"sake, for the sake of your own happiness, I bid you once more consider. You would stain your hand with the blood of the man who is more to me than you can ever be. Is this what you call love? Leonardo, beware! I am not a woman to be lightly robbed of what is dear to me. Put up your sword, or you will reâ€" pent it to your dying day." "Bah! You talk as you feelâ€"just now!" he said quickly. "I tell you that I do not believe one word. If he had not come between us, you would have been mine some day. Love like mine would have conquered in the end. Away! away" he cried, pushing her back in growing excitement, and stamping on the ground with his feet. ‘"‘The sight of you only maddens me, and nerves my arm to kill! Though you beg on your knees for his life, that man shall die!" § His face was ghastly, but he showâ€" ed no sign of being moved by her words. for:ever? I have broken no faith with you; I neverâ€"gave you one word of hope. I never loved you; I never could have loved you! Why should you seek to murder the man whom I do love, and make me miserable for evel "Leonardo, we have been friends, have we not? Why should you seek to do that which will make us enemies for:ever? I have broken no faith with you; I neverâ€"gave you one word "It is mot!" ‘he answered, lowering his sword. "This fellow insulted me, and I punished him publicly in the restaurant of the Hotel de o‘®urope last night, In my opinion, that squarâ€" ed matters ,but he demanded satisâ€" faction, and from his point of view, I suppose he has a right to it. I, am: quite ready to give it to him." . The seconds had fallen back. They three were alone. She went up to the Sicilian and laid her hand upon his arm. f "Lord St. Maurice, I need not ask you, I know! WThis duel is not of your seeking ?" f the wound and staining the virgin earth; almost he. fancied that he could hear the deathâ€"ery break from those agonized white lips. Horrible effort of the imagination! What evil chance had made him offer his serâ€" vices to this young English lord, and dragged him into assisting at a duel which could be but a farceâ€"worse than a farce, a murder? He would have given half his fortune for an earthquake to have come and swalâ€" lowed up that merciless Sicilian. Signor Pruccio had delayed the duel as long as he could, under the pretext of waiting for the doctor who had been instructed to follow them, but who had not yet arrived. Twice the Sicilian had urged that they should commence, and each time he pleaded that they might wait for a few minutes longer. To enter upon a duel a Toutrance, save in the presence of a medical man, was a thing unâ€" heard of, he declared. But at last this respite was exhausted, for the opposâ€" ing second, with a pleasant smile, had remarked that he himself was skilled in surgery, and would be happy to officiate should any necessity arise. There was no longer any excuse. Lord St. Maurice himself insisted upon the signal being given. Sadly therefore he prepared to give it. Already both: men "This is no sight for you to look upon!" he cried, between his teeth. "©You will not save your lover by waiting. You had better go, or I will kill him before your eyes!" She walked calmly between them, and looked from one to the other. A flock of ‘seaâ€"birds flew screamâ€" ing over their heads, and he waited a moment until they. should have pasâ€" sed. Then he"fraised his hand. (‘Stop!il , â€" The cry wfi%mc? woman‘s, They all looked round. Only a few yards away from them stood Adriénne, her fair hair streaming loose in the morning breeze, and her gown torn and soiled. She had just issued from the sloping aloe plantation, and was trembling in every limb from the speed of her descent. had fallen into position. The word trembled upon his lips. The cloud on the Sicilian‘s face grew black as might. . .. s 997 | PART TWO â€"â€"TWENTYâ€"FIVE YEARS LATER _â€"â€"For three days Count Leonardo di Marioni abode in his sittingâ€"room at the â€"Hotel Continental, living the life of a man in a dream. So far as the outside world was concerned, it was a complete case of suspended animaâ€" tion. Of all that passed around him he was only dimly conscious. The facâ€" es of his fellow creatures were stranâ€" ge to him. He had lost touch with the world, and the light of his reason was flickering; almost it seemed as though it would go out indeed, and leave him groping in the choas of inâ€" sanity. Mechanically he rose late in the morning, ate what was brought to him, or ordered what was suggestâ€" ed. All day long he sat in a sort of dreamless apathy, living still the life of the last fiveâ€"andâ€"twenty years of imprisonment, and finding no change, save that the chair in which he sat was softer, and the fire over which he stretched his withered palms was, a new experience to him. There were things even which he missed in the freedomâ€"if freedom it could be calâ€" led. He missed the warm dancing sunlight which, day by day, had filled the shabby sittingâ€"room of his conâ€" finement. He missed that patch of deep blue sky seen through his high, barred window, and the fragrant er‘s hand, traitress, and think to find protection there. But in your heart I read your fear. The day shall come when you shall kneel at my feet for mercy, and there shall be no mercy, Gentlemen, my sword. I am at your service." At the mention of his first name a deathlike pallor had swept in upon the Sicilian‘s face. His manner suddenly became quite quiet and free from exâ€" citement. But there was a look in his dark eyes more awful than had been his previous fury. I "You have done a brave thing inâ€" deed, Adrienne!". he said _ slowly. "You have saved your lover., You have betrayed the man who would have given his life to serve you. Listen to me! As I loved you before so do I hate you now! As my love â€"for you in the past has governed my life, and brought me always to your side, so inâ€"the days to come shall my unâ€" dyingâ€"hate for youâ€"and for that man shape my actions and mold my life, and bring me over sea and land to the farthest corners of the earth to wreck my vengeance upon you, Be it ten, or twenty, or thirty years, they keep me rotting in their prisons, the time will come when I shall be free again; and then, beware! Search your memory for the legends of our race! Was ever a hate forgotten, or an oath broken? Hear me swear," he cried, raising his clasped hands above his head with a sudden passionate gestâ€" ure, "by the sun, and the sky, and the sea, and the earth, I swear that, as they continue unchanged. and unâ€" changing, so shall my hate for you remain? Ah! you can take your lovâ€" where I do now!" A fourth man had strolled out of the aloe grove, smoking a long cigarâ€" ette. Into his hands Adrienne had placed the little packet of letters, which he accepted with a low bow. Even now the Sicilian felt bewilâ€" dered; but as his eyes fell upon the fourth man he started and trembled violently, gazing at him a sthough fascinated. : "I do not understand!" he faltered. The fourth man removed his cigaâ€" rette from his teeth and produced a paper. <r0 k. d "What does this mean?" he cried furiously. "Who dares to lay hands upon me? We are on free ground!" She shook her head. "Leonardo, you have brought this upon yourself," she said, firmly but compassionately. "You plotted to murder the man I love. I warned you that, to protect him, there was nothâ€" ing which I would not dare. Only a moment ago I gave you another chance. One word from you and I would have thrown these papers into the sea," producing a packet from her bosom, "rather than have placed them where I do now!" He looked around at his pale and furious. They were to him. As yet, he did in what had happened. "Permit me to explain," he said politely. "I ‘have here a warrant for your arrest, Count di Marioni, alias Leonardo di Cortegi, on two counts: first, that you, being an exile, have returned to Italian soil; and secondly, on a further and separate charge of conspiracy against the Italian Govâ€" ernment, in collusion with a secret society, calling themselves ‘Members of the Order of the White Hyacinth.‘ The proofs of the latter conspiracy which were wanting at your first trial, have now been furnished." He touched the little roll of papers which he had just received, and, with a bow, fell back. There was an omiâ€" nous silence . brought this , firmly but plotted _ to . warned you is _ captors, e strangers not realize ‘ he eried lay hands ground!" 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