A CORSICAN VENDETTA

By C. A. GUNTER,

The Successful American Playwright,

CHAPTER I WAITING.

•'Yes, I rather imagine this is the exact spot," says Mr Burton H. Barnoa, of New York, to the venerable host of the very old and very dilapidated little inn that stands on the shores of the Gulf of Ajaccio, near where the Bastia road turns inland, and following up the Ciravona torrent, first through the orange and citron groves of the fertile Campoloro and then over hills covered with the vine and Olive, is lost in the chestnut woods that hide the lower elopes of the great Monte del Oro. Nothing can be in more vivid and striking contrast than the. man and his surround - inα-s ; the light civilisation of an exponent of°the New York fashion of the year 1882 stands face to face with the barbaric romance of the old Corsican scene and the mediaeval picturesqueness of the native costume of the old inn-keeper, who curiously asks, in his soft, southern patois, ignoring the French in which Mr Barnes has addressed him, "The spot for what, Sigßor ?" " The spot where there is going to bo a first-class duel this morning, as soon as there is light enough to kill." " To kill what V' r

"Each other! "Don't you know what a duel is ?" Here Mr Barnes gives a short dissertation on the code of honour, illustra ting his Frsnch with vigorous pantomimic action. "Ah a kind of vendetta, says the old man, brightening. "Yes, a civilised vendetta.' \ou know •what that is, I've no doubt." " My father, the fisherman, fell in one," says the Corsican, moodily; "he was drowned." " And the man who killed your father ? asks the American, with some interest. " Was drowned also. I am the son of my father. My father's slayer was the last of their accursed family, so now I sleep in peace. Would tho gentleman like breakfast ?" and trade overcomes his romance.

" Yes ; place a table for me, Mateo— I think that's what you called yourself out here oti the portico. Give me a flask of your best ckianti, some fruit, and something to eat, if you've got anything not stuffed with chestnuts. I'll make myself comfortable till the time comes." " E Sg s ? " triumphantly suggests the host. " Yes. Eggs don't caste of chestnuts." A3 Mateo goes in to attend to this order, Mr Barnes mutters to himself, "Always beat to take things easy till it's time to act," and sinking lazily upon the most com fortable stool he can find, gazes medita tively over the exquisite scene that the early morning light is just making dis tinctly beautiful. The portico of the inn faces the bay, and is only separated from its torpid ripples by a few feet of shingle and rocks that run out into the blue water. This is now just brightening in the morning sun, rising over tho white peaks of the Corsican mountains, that, as usual, in spring, are shrouded in mists. Far out to sea, the lateen sails of tishing boats look like sea gulls' wing? ; in the harbour a score or bo of feluccas and speronares from Sardinia and Sicily are hardly moving under the lazy breeze, while the dark low hull of an Eng lish gunboat, which bas put into Ajaccio to purchase some supplies of poultry and fruit for her officers' mem, is giving out from her short funnel a black cloud of smoke that indicates that slie will soon be under way for Alexandria to assist at Arabi Pasha's downfall. With a sigh, Mr Barnes goes off into a brown study, meditating what a fool he has been to come, to Corsica, moufflon shooting, when he might just as well have been shoot ing some other wild animal, on some other part of the earth's surface. Mr Barnes is net a typical New Yorker. At first sight he is always suspected of being what is now contemptuously called a dude -, but if his dress from its elaboration, almost to the point of affectation, niight make an observer suppose him one, his bearing and manner would in a very short time prove; that he was also a man, and a man who knew and understood both the world and himself pretty, thoroughly. Mr Barnes's; occupation in the twenty-eight years , df his life has been killing time. Being blessed •with an ample fortune, he has never eerned his own living ; though he oftce thought he onfht to have a profession, and studied surgery till he discovered that the death rate of the world was ten a year to every practising physician ; whereupon, glad of the excuse, Mr Barnes said he would let his ten men live, and refused to take out his diploma. Being compelled to kill time, he has mostly killed it by killing wild animals. A crack shot of the New York Rifle Club, he has once or twice saved an International match by literally having no nerves at the critical moment, when it was absolutely necessary to shoot a bull's eye to win ; con eequently, before dangerous game, espe cially tigers, Mr Barnes is very deadly. ■ Not averse to the chase in any form, he would gladly have hunted in the preserves of Belgravia and Fifth Avenue, for he had the entree to both English and American society, but he despised a long flirtation with its imperceptible advances and calculated manoeuvres, which he stig matised as " snaring canary birds and n6t true sport." . . ™ v Too languid to dance in a ballroom, he would climb the Rocky Mountains to kill a bighorn ; consequently, when-over.a game of "Baccarat at a Parisian club, a'passing acquaintance, Count Musso Danella, a Cor sican, invited him to visit his estates on the island for the purpose of killing moufflon, Mr Barnes accepted, and within the three weeks preceding the day we meet him, had shot ail the moufflon he desired, travelled generally over the island, but had missed seeing what he was most curious about—a vtndttla in actual progress, and was at Ajaccio, enroute for France, when he became engaged in the morning adventure that now occupies him, not on his own account, but for the sake of a young lady he had in the interior of the island. The next estate to that of his host in the fair valley of the Gravona, below the far epreading chestnut and beach woods of Bocognano, was one belonging to, a family in whose veins flows the blood most honoured and most loved in all Corsica, that of the old-cime patriot and liberator, Pasquale Paoli, and the young lady was one of the last of that ancient name. . Count Musso Danella was the guardian of both the girl and her brother, and had invited Barnes to visit, with him, his young ward who had just returned from an Italian boarding-school in order to meet her brother, a young nalval officer in the service of the French Republic, ex pected home from a three years' cruise. "She will return to school no more ; they write they will hot have her back," says the Count as they ride up the avenue of olive trees, toward the low, Corsican house. «' Indeed ! Why ■?" asks Barnes. " Per Bacco.' she is too Corsican for them; she loves liberty,too well. . She, ran away from school tohear Gerster sing in Florence one night, and threatened her paining master with an unknown vengeance if; he dared to desecrate with daubs from his no school modern Italian brush, a painting she bad iust finished. .The. Italian his picture unaltered W me with bis compUunv j

I sent Marion's picture to the Salon, and when it received an honourable mention, I threw the Italian's complaint into the fire !" ........... "A picture from a girl receive mention at the Paris Salon ?" Mr Barnes gasps in unbelief. "L think it was as much the subject as the treatment which secured its success; for with true girlish vanity she had painted herself," laughe the Count, as they enter the house. The next instant Barnes sees the original, and then only wonders that the copy, if half a likeness, did not gain the gold medal of the year. Aβ she rises to receive them, the girl drapes her modern Parisian dress about her like some old Grecian robe, and outlines a form perfect as her face, which is of tho mostbewildcring, dazzling, Southern beauty, animated by a soul that, shining through it with changing piquancy of expression, makes it indescribable. To love her would have been to love, perhaps, within tho hour a Juliet and Madonna ; and, perchance, in the dread moment of her life, a Lady Mac beth—all strangely beautiful and each Marina Paoli.

Barnes, whose descriptive adjectives are limited, called her " a stunner," and was right as regards his own sensations, for she simply appalled him, not perhaps when he first saw her —but afterwards. As she comes toward them with a smile of welcome, the, Count presuming on his guardianship, is about to kiss her lips ; the smile changes to a flash of hauteur as she coldly says: "I've grown older now—my hand, please." While the man of the world, with his forty years of Parisian life that cost him fifty, smiling behind his white teeth bends over her lingers, Barnes suddenly thinks • that Mnsso loves her ; and that the young girl with her sex's instinct has placed a rampart between his passion and herself. As Mr Barnes is introduced, her smile is back again ; she exclaims, " An American ! a freeman ! youcan kiss my hand also i" " You like Republicans':" . "I hate tyrants and despise slaves. I should only bow to a Russian or a Turk, but an American—it is different!" "I'm glad I'm all American," says Mi- Barnes, kissing her hand, and that kiss gave him interest enough in her life to make him turn out of his way, on the day we first ace him, to do her service. They are friends at once. The girl sings him a strain or two from an opera, accom panying herself on a mandolin. Then, from Italian music, she turns to that of her own island, and chants some old native ballads which are all Lamenii relating to the ven detta—ior in Corsica there are no other local songa This leads to her explaining to Mr Barnes what the vendetta really is ; that it is considered a sacred duty to avenge one of the family who falls by another's hand; that the " liimbeam" is a reproach which is spoken or sung to him who forgets the wrong of kindred, and a Corsican who did not listen to it would be for ever With this she chants a Jtimbccro with a wild pathos that shows, though educated in the civilisation of the Continent, Marina Paoli is still in spirit a Corsican. With some curiosity ho aska her whether there has ever been a vendetta in her family. "Not for three generations," says the girl, " but it always comes in the third, and that is ourrf. There are only three of us - old Totnasso, who serves mo so faithiully and who in my foster-father and would avenge my wrongs as his own ; myself, and Antonio, my brother" (her eyrs take an expectant look), " the only bno of my blood I have to love, whose letter 1 shall t>ooll receive telling me when 1 shall placo my kiss upon him. Ah ! I hear horses' hoofs ! Mia Mad>* ! if it is ho I" Her face brightens with a great joy, and she darts out into the portico. Alter a pause the Count says : " Would you like to see the picture of the Parisian Salon ?" He draws aside a curtain, diwclosing a canvas that as, Barnes throws the lamp '"lic'ht on it, develops into a portrait of Marina in the eo-stume of aCorsican peasant with its bririiantly-coloured tnandile and ahorb skirt,which give to Iwrgracefulfigure eveo additional charme ; but hor face has a dreamy expression, as if her soul was far away from hor body, and her eyes look intensely strained, seeking some ono that comes not. The attitude is one of expectant passion. Underneath is Written,'•• WAIT ING !"

"" Ah, waiting for her lover! I under stand •!" laughs Barnefe. "No ! Waiting , for her brother. He is the only being Marina loves. The two children grew'up,, as it were, in each other's arms; nnbil three years ago their lives were one. And now she awaits his coming like an expectant bride. There is no room in her heart for any other lovo !" remarked Musso, moodily. The words have hardly left him, when 'Marina' enters lilco one inspired. ' "See, she Cries, "hie letter ! My Autohio's letter!" and she kisses it.. "He will, be in Corsica to-morrow, and the next day" (a eigh of longing) "with me! I have cent old Tomasso to light fires of good omen on the hi|ls, so that our shepherds on the higher ranges of del Oro may ltnow their master is returning, and come to give aim welcome. I shall wear that dress when next I see him," She points to the picture. "He loved me best as one of his own people." "We had better go," whispore Danella to our American; "She will now think only of her brother. As they take their leave, the Count asks for the bunch of white laurel flowers the girl wears. But she plucks them from her bosom and thrusts them into the hands of the astonished Barnes. Danella scowls threateningly at the young man. Marina noticing, says quickly with a laugh : "Do not be jealous; Mr Barnes will take them for ihe to'Ajacoio, and if he sees my brother give Antonio the flowers of his native land and tell him that Marina, who is watting, Bent them, and will rest no more until he gives them back to her. Understand you are not even to smell them; their perfume is all for my brother." As the two men ride away she stands looking after them, her eyes beaming with expectation. Backed by ihe fire-light that streams from the open panes past the iron gratings that defend all windows in this unquiet country, ehe forms a picture of joy and love that is almost mediaeval in its in tensity. "By George! They don't manufacture such girls in Fifth Avenue!" said Mr Barnes.

1 "No! Civilisation would stunt the growth of such a heart. Marion has two great native of country and love of family ; but there are none like her, not even in Corsica. While her brother lives she -will love no other man." ; .

."'" But jf, she, ebould ''",■ suggests laugh ingly the American. "Not while I live !" cried the Corsican, with a muttered oath and a sudden sinister contraction of his face that tells Barnes his secret. " But you take the road to Ajaccio, and it leaves mine here. On which the two men part with many a kindly farewell, for, though Barnes despises a mart who cannot keep his temper, and the Count has the passions of the lower regions, they have been good comrades for their three weeks' shooting, and have bagged niueh game, which makes all sportsmen feel kindly to one another. As Barnes rides down the beautiful valley that is watered by tho white rapids of the Gravona rushing towards the sea, he smells the perfume of the laurel flowers and sees the fires of welcome lighted upon the hills, and knows that any kindness done to the brother will make the sister his friend; and, though his common sense forbids him to love a volcano, he would do much to gain her esteem, iq The next evening he is in Ajacoio, and, thoughtful of his message to Antonio, lounges into the local club* which, with the bradftional hospitality of all Goroictt, i» open to foreigners, thinking to find iairu.

There are but few visitors at that most quiet of all clubs, the Circle of Ajaccio, and Barnes at first thinks there are none ; but soon angry voices come to him from the next room, followed by a couple of good round home-made Anglo-Saxon oaths that no foreigner could imitate. Glancing in, he sees two French officers, and an English one, who evidently belongs to some British man-o'-war in the harbour, as he wears the naval, uniform of that country. The matter of their dispute is the Egyp tian question, which up to this time makes very bad blood between the two countries ; and in 1882, before the bombardment of Alexandria, was the cause of even more decided and bitter feeling than now. The controversy has been brought about by an extremely clever cartoon in the London " Punch " that is lying , on the table of the Club. This picture represents a gigantic palm tree laden with Egyptian cocoanuta, which France, in the costume of a French officer, is shaking so that the fruit will fall right into the open and capacious jaws of the British lion, who is reclining lazily beneath its branches. ( As Mr Barnes looks In, the climax is reached by the French officer, calling the Englishman a liar, and the next instant getting knocked down for his trouble. The Frenchman gathers himself together, which takes some little time, as the blow was straight from the shoulder, rises, and is about to spring at his opponent, when his comrade stops him, saying " Not now !"

The assaulted man restrains himself, bows and presents his card, in the eager ness of the moment diawing *wo from his case. Tho Englishman takes one, leaving the other on the table, and then says, " You must excuse my giving my card in re turn."

" A brave man !" thinke Barnes. "He has courage enough to refuse a duel." "And you are an English officer?" says the Frenchman, with a sneer. "And it is because I am an English officer that I refuse. To send or accept a challenge is against the orders of the British Admiralty." " Not quite so brave as I thought him ; he fears the British Admiralty," mutters Barnes.

"Ah! you dare not!" says the French man. "You are only fit to fight Egyp tians." .

"lam very well able to murder you if you wish it," replies the Englishman ; " and if you put it on the ground of courage, I'll face both of you and a court martial together." A meeting is arranged for the next morn ing at eight sharp, at tho little inn by the shore, called II Pescatori, for the English man's ship sails at nine. Then the men leave tho club, the French officer remarking, " Domain I a Iα mart .'"

This affair would not have interested Mr Barnes greatly—ho had once looked on a duel between two cowboys in Texas, and had seen enough blood shed at that meeting between those vagabonds of the wilderness to make him wish never to see another; but, happening a few minutes afterwards to stroll into the room where the dispute had taken place, ho picked up the card from tho table. After one hasty glnnco at it, and then another to bo absolutely sure, he went hurriedly out into the street, and, ten minutes after, , a Corsican boy, instructed to ride for his life, was spurring wildly into the darkness op the Bastia road with a despatch fM , Musso Danella. The xext morning Mr Barnes hurried to tho Mm of II Pescatori for the sake of the girl he had seen waiting bo expectantly tho cominv of her brother ; for tho card ho had picked\?p in the Ajaccio Club was—

(?'o 6e Continued.)

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