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LLOYD TRIESTINO MATEO FALCONE COAL ENTERS INTO

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12th Oct.

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"What will you give me if I hide {you?"" he asked, drawing nearer.

Glanetto fumbled in a leather pocket which hung from his belt and drew out, the five franc piece which he had taken to pay for his pow- der.

Fortunato took, the

said, "Now you have

money

nothing

and

.

of Porto Vecchio and passers-by will ask, "What time is it?' And then,

KINGDOM AGAIN

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This scheme alone calls for a

as proud as a peacock, you will say. million pounds worth of steel. That when I am a big boy my uncle, the real significance of the coming Just look at my watch.""

is a single fact, but one that reveals the corporal, will give me a watch," replied Fortunato...

revolution.

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“But your cousin, the 'corporal's son already has one and he is younger than you."

The boy sighed. "Well, little employment in the coalfields. But to cousin, do you want this watch it will mean the indirect employ-

it will mean much more than that:;

jacked the adjutant.

"Why do you tease me?" the boy The boy made a hole in a heap asked, petulantly. of hay placed near the house.

"I'm not teasing. Just tell me Gianetto crept in and Fortunato where Gianetto is and the watch is carefully arranged, the hay so that yours." As he spoke the adjutant Pete with the foreign import? no one could see it had been dis-held the watch nearer and nearer to guaranteed preference gives the Fortunato, till it almost touched the turbed. As a further precaution he

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The old coal industry is dead. A¦ new industry, far greater, rises in its place.

went into the house and found a cat The conflict going on was plainly Richard Redmayne, British and her little ones, which he placed apparent. Fortunato's eyes were petrol, buttressed by this prefer on the top of the heap. He covered troubled, his naked chest rose and ence, will be able to handle the home fell, as if he were stifling. And the traces of blood along the path

market against all foreign competi- there was the watch, dangling, turn- with dust, and then took up his

Lon. ing, now tickling the end of his nose, former position in the sunshing and Slowly his right hand rose closed his eyes with the greatest wards it, the tips of his Angers caressed it, and the adjutant, sull tranquillity.

The old methods, always wasteful holding the chain, let the entire men watch slip into his hand. Its face will go, and coal a commodity minel of raw materials, often uneconomic, yel-was blue, the case was of beautiful from the earth and sold as fuel be adju-and novel workmanship. In the sun comes coal the raw material to the shine the watch glistened like fire. hand of the industrial chemist, the The temptation was too great base of many invaluable commercial Fortunato lifted his left hand and, ¡products.

A few minutes later six wearing brown un forma with low collars, commanded by an tant, stopped before the house,

The adjutant, Teodoro Gamba, was slightly related to Mateo Fab

He was a clever, active man, with his thumb the heap of hay be yards that nothing is lost except the greatly feared by every outlaw, for hund them.

cone.

running

without speaking a word, indicated

They say of the Chicago stock-

squeak of the pig. Of the coal

the

his many successes in tracking and The adjutant understood at once, petrol industry of to-morrow

them down were well He abandoned the watch and sprang shall, perhaps, say that nothing is known throughout the countryside. ten steps towards the hay. There lost of the coal save its colour.

"Good morning, little cousin," he was the fugitive, covered with blood, said pleasantly to Fortunato. "What his wound so terrible that he was a big boy you've grown into. Did too weak to stand up. The men you see a man pass this way a little bound him, and as he lay there on while ago?"

looking startled.

the ground ne turned his head to:;

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"A man?" repeated Fortuunto, wards Fortunato and cried con- Thé m.v. "Silveryew" from New

temptuously, "Son of a......!?!

York sailed from Shanghaj 16th in- "Yes, a man with a peaked bon While the adjutant and his menatant and is expected here on 19th net and a vest worked with red and were busy making a little stretcher instant at daylight. yellow."

from some chestnut branches, and "Let me sec." mused Fortunato. attending to Gianetto's wound, "This morning M. le Cure passed Mateo Falcone and his wife appear this way on his horse. He asked ed at the turning of a "pathway me how my father was and I said "which led from the maquis.

"You little monkey," said Gamba, At the sight of the soldiera "you are playing with me. Tell me Mateo's first thought was that they quickly which way Gianetto went, had come to arrest him, It was for it's he that we want and I'm true that he lived peacefully and Fortunato, and said in a tone of

leaning on his gun, he looked certain he passed here.”

honourably, and had a good reputa concentrated fury, "You have begun "I've been sleeping all the morn-tion, but he was Corsican and moun well," ing. How could I ace who passed taineer, and there were few Corsi- by 7"

can mountaineers of that time who "Nonsense. The sound of our could scrutinise the past and not guns woke you up."

And some pececadillo, some adven "You think then, my cousin, that ture with gun or dagger. įyour guns make so much Roise? Mateo's conscience W28 clear.

You ought to hear when my father Not for ten years had his gun been just noticed the end of the watch Lurned against another; but it was chain. "Who gave you that watch 1" "The devil tako you, you young well to be prudent. He put himself she asked severely. rascal, I know very well you've in position beside a thick trunk, seen Gianetto. Perhaps you've hid-ready to take cover and fire if need den him. Come, my men, search|be.

Gres his rifle.”

"Father!" cried the child, making

throw himself at Mateo's feet, a movement as though he would

me!"

But Mateo cried, "Go away from

Giuseppa drew near. She had

"My cousin the adjutant.”

Falcone seized it and threw it against the wall with such force that it broke in pieces. "Wife," he cried, "is this child mine?"

Gigneppa's brown cheeks “became

the house and see if we don't And: The adjutant was visibly disturb our friend there. He could only ed. "The devil!" he thought, "I limp along on one leg and he's too Mateo should take it upon himself clever, the rogue, to try and get to to defend Gianelto, who in his friend, brick-coloured. "What are you say-- the maquis crawling like a dog." his first shot will come like a letter ing, Mateo...." she stammered.

"What will my father say?" ask-to the post......."

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ed Fortunato, with flashing eyas, In his perplexity the adjutant act-race," answered the man, stonily.

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The child began to sob bitterly. || "BARPEDON" sence 7"

saying, "I wanted to say good-day gun and ordered the boy to follow "PHILOCTETES" "You young dog!"" exclaimed to you in passing. "We've had him. He atrode towards the maquis. Gamba, taking the boy by the ear; complain, for we've finished with a Giuseppe followed, and caught at her "perhaps if we give you a few blows long journey, to-day, but I mustn't husband's arm. "He is your son," you will tell us what we want to bit of good luck. We've just cap-she said, her voice trembling. know."

tured Gianetto Sanpiero,"

"Let me alone," said Mateo, "I Fortunato only laughed. "MP "God be praised," efied Guiseppa. am his father." father is Mateo Falcone," he said "He took one of our milk goats last

Giuseppa embraced her son and with emphasis. ⠀

week."

[ran into the house. She flung her- "Don't you know that I can take "Poor devil,” said Mateo. "He self: on her knees before a statue you now to Corta or Bastia?" said was starving,"

lof the Virgin and began to pray the adjutant. "You will be put into "He defended himself like a Hon, fervently, a dark cell, with irons on your feet, continued the silfutant. "He killed Matso stopped at a little ravine and then I will have you guillotined."one of my men and broke Corporal and descended."Fortunato, go to

The boy laughed again. "My Chardin's arm. Then he got away that large stone." - father is Mateo Falcone."

and hid himself so cleverly that The boy obeyed. "Adjutant,” said one of the men, without the aid of my little cousin."Say your prayera."" in a low voice, "we want no quarrel Fortunato, I should never have found "My father, my father, don't kill with Mateo Falcone 17

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“Say your prayers," repeated Fal-limited passenger accommodation, an

dent and he talked in whispers to "Yes. Gianetto got under the cone in a terrible voice." his men, who had already searched hay, My little cousin gave AWAY The boy, sobbing and stammering. the house. The little Fortunato his trick. I shall ask his uncle the repeated the Pater and the Credo. 8th Det. went on caressing" the

He corporal to send him a handsome The father in a Arm voice," said seemed to enjoy the confusion of present, and his name will be men-Amen" at the end. the search-party.

tioned in the report I write to the "Are those all the prayer you MA soldier approached the heap of general,"

know hay and negligently stirred it with "Damnation," said Mateo, in a low- "I can his bayonet, but seeing the cat and voice," t

Litany

Ave Maria and the

"Say thank then.!!

The boy inished the Litany with

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