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“AU uvutu 'unu ‘WMV‘-- Where was she at that moment? He felt sure that she was thinking of him. Oh! what must she endure of sus- l’t‘nse! For him death promised re- lease from agony! but she must live on; and he knew she would live to suf- fer. He was thinking thus. with the twilight fast deepening toward even- lng ,when he was aroused from his re- verie by the sound of the bar outside his door. It was being moved. Aye. and presently the door was slowly. noiselessly opened, and a human fig- ure emerged from the gloom without into his cell, came in, closing the way carefully; and then advanced a few Paces. and stopped. A Benedictine monk! the capacious robe, black as night, sweeping the stone floor; the rosary and the ivory cross; the hem- pen girdle. with the deep hood-like cowl completely enveloping the head and the upper part of the face. and even the lower part was in such ut- ter shadow as to be entirely hidden. “ How now. good father,” said the prisoner, always kindly disposed toward those whom he believed to be humble followers of the lowly Nazarene, “hast come to shrive me '2” ‘V‘v UV ‘1‘.-- v A few seconds longer the dark-robed figure stood, and then, with a iow, wailing cry, sprang forward, and in a moment more two white soft arms were around his neck, and the cowled head was_pillowe_d_ on his_ bogom. . A1 I 1’ Zanoni knew not what he saidâ€"knew? scarcely, for the time, what he did. In. warm, passionate embrace he held her: â€"his own belovedâ€"his Isabelâ€"and cov- ered her beautiful face with kissesâ€"1 each kiss a prayer and a blessing. holy , and pure. And then. when the first; wild paroxysm of emotion had passed., he held her sweet face awayâ€"the cowl' thrown back, and gazed upon it in hisl unutterable rapture. _ _ _ _ . | “3:151?!” My 10:76! My own! 0h! have found you at 1911th !” . For a timeâ€"he knew not how long -Zanoni gazed into the eager, lovely face before him like one in a horrible dream. Then he bowed his head upon his hands and groaned aloud, while in every limb and at every joint he shook like a wide riven oak. And so he. stood until the paroxysm was pass- “Isabel: My love! My life! I can- not realize it. I can not understand it. It is yourself lâ€"butâ€"how? Oh. my darling! tell me what it means. How did you come? For whatâ€"for whatâ€"” “ Isabel! my angel of goodness and mercy! My own! My love! I can not do this thing! Hush! Hear me to the end. I asked the duke to exercise his authority and grant me the time of life I am now possessingâ€"and. I may sayâ€"enjoying. He granted it. In re- turn I gaye. of my _owr_1_ apogrd, {isol- “It is a pleasure for me to serve you, signer. I pray to the Blessed Vir- gin that she will give you joy and long life with it." And with this the man left the cell, closing and secur- "18 the door behind him. The prisoner remembered afterward that he had heard the strong bar swing into place but that the key had not been turn- ed in the lock. For atime after he parting words of Pandolfo and of the peculiar manner in which they had been spoken, but the man was strongly {Sympathetic and he had spoken on the Impulse of the moment. That was all. Then as, was his wont, in that calm and tranquil hour of closing day, he gave his thoughts to the darling of his heartâ€"his Isabel. . “Jain! Difi S'ou think I had forgot- ten_you ff _ ~ _ _ - -â€" an- A T “Juan. I came as I could. I found myself in possession of two strong forces. First, the love and esteem you have won from those on duty here. N ext. I had gold. Those who have help- ed me will serve no longer here. They will have no need. I have provided for that. So. dear love, you will wrong nobody; you will do harm to none._ meet you.” “Do you meanâ€"toâ€"escape 9” “Oh. yes! yes! The way is open. Flee! flee, sweet love, while there is time and opportunity. I am coming to you." - ed. Then he took a turn across the cell. and when he came back he reached farth and took her hands. His face was pale as death. but in his lustrous eyes_ giovyed 31 light _tha_t was sublime. “ And now,” she added, stepping back a pace. “you must be expeditious. You will put on this robeâ€"this cowlâ€"which will pass you by the guards outside without question. I shall be permitted to depart as soon as you are gone. Once dinâ€"d 3 mi strings motion worked-on his features. Presently he added: ‘flgubol! [luvs Inothr mung. D9 emn promise. and I called God for a witness to my faith. Further. Iprom- ised himâ€"promised him repeatedlyâ€" that he should have the picture finish- ed. Oh! I can not break my word! I can not!” He paused at this point, while a new ulht cams into his eyes I am .outside this celi, no one'will trou- ble me. You know where the dwell- ing pf Cola Pandolfo is ?” “ Nothing, except to cept Amy gratitude for I. ‘ uau ucvu um“--â€" “LL vvu - The day passed. Zanoni had covered up his work and laid aside his imple- ments. His supper had been brought and eaten, and the lieutenant had come. to carry away the tray. “Signor Zanoni what more can Ido for yen?” “Nothing, except to receive and ac- - ‘C‘fil‘_ â€"'â€"_ Pandolfo's looks as well as his words told his deep and heartfelt thankful- ness. He was thankful that he had seen the picture, and he was more thinkful for the kindly information that had been vouchsafeci. -‘ .1 " Go there quickly; and there Iwill (Continued.) “Yes, own, I promise! Remem- her, on 13.5; sixth day from fins. 1? You come, and you shall then open t e way, for my escape and ask me to flee, I will do so.” “T_be fnxth day from this ?” He paused a moment, thoughtfully; and then with a clear, bright light in his eyes and in his handsome face. he answered: “ Ohâ€"l Juan 1” throwing her handshp- on his shoulders, and gazing up Into his face with startling eagerness an? hove. " And will you then flee? If come at that time will you do as I shall ‘ask ?” “ And thenâ€"thenâ€"ynu will flee from your prison. and seek with me ahagpy, blessed union in some friendly cllme where the laws of Parma can not reach 118“ Ken promise !” , “My darling! I have perfect faith In youâ€"in your love and in your judg- mentâ€"and I give you my promise that whatever you shall ask me to do. when ne‘xg we meet, I will do it.” “Isabel! Wait. If you have come now. can you not come again when my picture is finishedâ€"that will beâ€"I will call it. on the sixth day from thi_s ’6” “Enough! Oh, bless you, my love! bless you !" And again her head was pillowed on his bosom; his strong arms encircled her; and the little time they had. left them was given to the whis- pering of _the deep, enduring passion that had become part and parcel of their lives. . . \Vhat explanation, if any, the prin- cess vouchsated to the person or the persons who had aided her in her brave and devoted effort in. his behalf our hero could not know. He only knew that on the following morning. when Pandolfo came with the breakfast. he {leeared to regard him with a new Interest. and to treat him with anew respect and esteem. But no word was spoken; no sign was given, from which It. could be suspected that he was cog- nizant of any occurrence in his de- payment out of the usual course. “J UV-‘ 'Jv- -v v'v‘. He paused at this point, standing firm and strong, though in earnest sup- plication, while his companion shook like an aspen. Presently he took her to his bosom; drew her close, and un- printed a loving kiss upon her pure white brow. “Ill yuu HUI. ouvu JV“ ....... “Isabel'! Can there be safety in dis- honor 'I Ask your own heart, cast yo thoughts forward into the future. to the time when this present agony shall have become sanctified to you, and ask yourself, would you not rather remem- ber me with honor, be able to bless my memory in your heart, than that I should hear your life-long companion- ship, with the remembrance of abrok- en faith clouding every hour, which it certainly would? Oh, my love! You will not, you can not ask me to perjure myself before God_and man i” A ‘J:mm From this time Zanoni worked with a‘ zealâ€"a new ardor. He had bro‘lght ibe. face of his saint to perfection. sav- ing only here and there. at. minor points, where a new touch of light or of shade might Inn ..-â€" Jr ‘ the final touches of his brush. . And so. with his picture finished. the morning of the sixth day dawned. The sixth. counting from the visit of the princess to the prison cell. wâ€"wâ€"v â€"'Dâ€"â€" be needed; and before he coud do this he must put the final touches up- on all the rest of the picture; every light and every shadow must be as it was .to remain for all time. she would not tempt duty. but she had f have him called away. but he made no_ sign. not be sure when I shall return." The painter. without remark, took away the cover from the ca Etepped back. The kennm- nun-MA ture. which I am now painti shall be my masterpiece, and come to it . a redeeming power. As forth and blesses me. Oh. my darling! Do not sk me to for- sake it i. As true as heaven the magic of my master-piece is real i” The princess gazed at him with a dread mingling of love, of wonder and of strange alarm in her looks. “ Oh, my darling!” she cried, seizing his wrists, and looking up with a world of prayerful entreaty in her earnest, elOQUent eyes, “ think! think! Oh! think what must be your fateâ€"what my fateâ€"should your mystic hope ' LL (\L my fateâ€"should your .mysntlc fail you! There is safety m {1,1th will you ngt smfe yo'urself? CC Bounting to~morrow as the first T’ 3! CHAPTER XVIII said he, “Signof Pandolfo my place.; so you will want 8 H leer the hand of the princess novel of the keeper. Him 1 not tempt to a breach of she had found means to --‘I- I vâ€"vv--- pr_iss_oner his breakfast keeper. _ ‘Maraccini. regret, that he Another hour passed; and another. and the sun was near to its setting. casting its slanting rays. like bars of bright gold, into the prison cell, when the door was opened and the duke entered. At this moment. while the duke waited. a strange thing happened- {‘3 it afterward proved. the keeper In leaving the door. after the entrance of the august visitor. had simply swung the bar without using the key; and this was the situation as the princess had expected to find it. She had come in with Pandolfo’s wife, as she had done on the occasion of the for- mer visit. They had come at once to the corridor of that section without having seen the keeper. and as only the bar was found in place to secure the door they had taken it for grant- ed that it had been left thus for the princess’s accommodation. They had acted accordingly. . The last words spoken by Zanom had scarcely left his lips when the door of his cell was again opened. this time giving entrance to the Bene- dictine. He would not think of such a thing. Pandolfo. if he was in the secret. would prevent it. He thought of it. nevertheless, and it continued to wor- ry him. Fuxther, he would not, on any account, have the princess come first. “Signor. I am late. I have been kept by a. review of our troops. but I think the light is still good. 18 the picture finished ?” “It is finished my lord," the paint- er replied, his voice deep and solemn. his face a trifle pale, “but you W111 wait a few minutes. As the sun- beams now fall they would cast a false light." . H “You can move the easel. Signor. “Wait a moment longer. my lord. and you shall behold it." . vvvvv uugu‘ ° W1“ you uncover It. may seem stran; W'A'é gfie ‘3i1111tveas crept away into hours after this, the painter became painfully nefrvo‘us and ‘qngiqgs. . Sug- pose it should happen that the duke's coming should interfere with the com- ing of Isabel. Or, worse still, suppose the two should, by any possibility, chance to meet at the prison! wuuectea with the prison, from whose observation her disguise would shield her. since the presence of a son at the church. in such a place and at such a time might be expected. he princess. herself. what feelings when she recogniz- ed the .voice of her guardian can be betterumagined than described. How- ever. it was too late than to escape. «She could only.hold her peace. trust- The keeper shook his head, and was upon the point of returning a nega- tive answer, when he chanced to call to mind that it was the day appointed for the parade and review of the troops. at which, of course, the duke must be present, being, by virtue of his civil office, commander-in-chief. So if he came at all. it could not be until later in the day. -V “.un I -w- Noon came, and the dinner was brought. The painter asked Pandolio. who had taken his chief’s place. if he could imagine why his grace had not come. In WI ea Lu: “Vluvu-v .. ' hog 8M5; one more glance at the me- ture; then took up the tra ' . the cell. . During the forenoon Zanonnl f at his picture from every pornt- . 0 View. but could find nothmg to 1m- rove. He would not have put 30ml: ofa pencil upon a featureof the face could it have saved hls llfe.. It was perfect. More than once the 1m- Dulse had been upon h1m to fall down before it on his knees and worship It -â€"not the picture his‘hand had creat- L--‘- 44”: frnn And then. as though rem-m5 m..- ._- might have said too muc . for his im- the prisoner to pardon him Pulslve expression of feeling, and hav- ing wiped the moisture from his eyes. he gave one more glance at the pic- d left door. had not noticed the another person. He saw. a the princess, in her som- .eowl. if she had seen that tor. supposed it {o bathe atl‘any _rate, same one could the light And. as I not have shall the the members; then the secretary turned and “Minded him of a, pm e in the AK“!!! to th “(not that gibunrfhina‘ llow llc )lflcs on Justice Io Ills; Subjects. Miss Hamilton. an Englishwoman who lived for some time in the amcer's Palace. narrates some characteristic anecdotes of the cool way in which this doing so. "Then." said Abdurrahman. “we can do Without you." and forthwith direct- ed that the idler should he hanged- his ears cut off for some mdiscretion happened to be a friend of the ameer's fig'fimm‘éffl Vb? inflpiqusly avert- The Antarctic continent has no in- habitants to be impressed by the red crow banner. It will simply give vent to the British craving for flag- I'aisinc. It appears to be an instinct of the race. The bamboo staffs must be erected on the trackless ice and the Union Jacks will flap only in view of the seals and penguins. but the British explorers will have an opportunity to cheer every time a flag goes aloft. On the rare occasions when Miss Hamilton ventured to appeal for less heroic measures. her patron remind- ed her that it is not very long since men were hanged in England for sheep- stealing and poaching. and he never tired of disconrsing on the barbarities of slavery under white rule. there are 300 bamboo flagstaffs and 500 .Union Jacks. These ought to be enough to draw a circle clear around the Antarctic pole and thus establish an unimpeachable lien on that feature of the Southern icescape. The Brit- ishers of the Southern Cross expediâ€" tion are determined to hoist British flags it they do nothing else. Once a beggar had solicited alms from him. and in answer to inquiries informed him that he had never work- ?d in his life. and had no intention of fairs. The Southern Cross carries food for a land party for three years and food for the crew of the ship for two years. It is the intention to have the Southern Cross reinforced by a second ship toâ€" ward the end of three years to bring off the eXplorers. The food is all car- ried in a greatly condensed form. It is singular that no meat is carried. There is not a scrap of flesh food in any form. The provision cargo con- sists of one ton of compressed potatoes. one ton of compressed vegetables, one- half ton of compressed tea and coffee. 3,000 tins of cocoa, coffee. chocolate, and milk, 1,300 tins of Swiss milk, and one-half ton of tobacco. Many scienti- fic men might advise the omission of the tea and tobacco. but it may help a man in a cold climate to have the cheer of tobacco. The ship carries ninety Arctic dogs. which costs $10,000, sledges. leather, clothing, portable cabins, and great stores of all things needed amid the Among all the elements of the cargo the most curious and yet the most Characteristic feature is the outfit of .BfitiSh flé‘rgfi- On the Southern Cross What the latest British Antarrllc lepmll- mm WIII no. A British expedition to explore the Antarctic ice continent has just left London in the steamer Southern Cross. It is said to be perhaps the best equip- ped vessel ever sent into the eternal winter lands. Even if it be true that polar explorationbe scientific insanity it must be admitted that the prepara- tions for this undertaking have been made in a sane manner, says the Pitts- burg Despatch. “@6171 have Eiven to your St. Cecilis the form and the features of my own blessed mother. as I hold them in sac- red. loving memory. Are you pleased with the picture? Does it satisfy you i" U “Pleased! Does it satisfy me!" re- peated the astounded potentate like one struggling out from a wonderful dream. He gazed upon the painterâ€" gazed with his very soul in the searching. eager look. ”Signor! Whoreâ€"whore did you ev- or see that taco!” he and in a bush-- ed. quivefing tone. “Why. do you uh. my lord 8‘ Is it a. two tomilior to you t" “You! You! Oh. for the love of heaven! tell Inaâ€"whore did you know it? ’You must have known it: to have paints}! it 6° “nix-'2. = . .' 5' ”Duke!" answered Zanoni in solemn earnest tone. “you behold there the pictured face of the now sainted mother who gave me birthLYes. my THE AMBER OF AFGHANISTAN. i-barbarous ruler often settles at- UNION JACK 0F ICEBERGS. D. ID turned t9 the Elitist. To Be Continued. :5. “foot Ehai‘ihyi'hinz the reproceptatiye _of the acted ; and the ears when the ameer [acute between two tax-gather- ‘It a; etch told i In loudly that “Had Henry given (‘01 audience. instead of treating ' mere sailor. out of his :11de most impossible to believe natural aeuteness and foresigh not have revealed tohim the ous discrepancy between the ' volved and the possible main in supporting him. became powerful. the richest. and the envied country in Europe. ‘th bus sailed under the “1891M. land instead of those of ' whole history of the NW would have been different. 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