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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY,

ST. PETER'S ROBBED. THIEVES HAUL OF SACRED OBJECTS,

THACKERAY'S LOVE STORY.

THE GIANT AND THE FAIRY.

[DY THORNTON (HALL-]

A sensation was caused in Bee on

Some years after the great shadow had July 4th, by the news that the Treasury fallen on Thackeray's life, he wrote to a of. St. Peter's had been robbed during young man who was about to marry: the night, and St. Peter's ring had beenThough my marriage was a wreck, as you stolen. All the afternoon crowds gather-know, I would do it again; for bebold! ed in the square of St. Martha. behind Lore is the crown and completion of all And no doubt he was St Peter's, on which the windows of the earthly good." Treasury face. The police were making speaking the truth; for, within the few brief diligens investigations and cardinals and years of union with his little Irish Rose," prelates attached to the Vatican came to he knew more happiness than most unea make inquiries. The Treasury of St. who live to see their golden wedding-day.

To Thackeray, the "big boy with the big Peter's is what is known as Room 82, adjoining the Sacristy, and was built in heart,a woman's love was more necessary 177 by Pius VI. It forms a large quad-than to most men. Like Balzac be regarded rangle to the right of the Basilien, and by subsequent additions became a spac. joux residence for canons and prelates attached to the service of St. Peter's Further superstructures were being added to increase the number of apartments for ennons, and masons have been work ing on it for the last nine months.

On the morning of the discovery, when the sacristans opened the Sacristy and icseted the adjoining rooms as usual. they were surprised on entering the Treasury room to see a large hole in the ceiling and a rope ladder dangling down to the floor." From a rapid glance at the glass cases and shelves they saw that in

They portant objects had been stolen. were horrified, and while Monsignor Bacchiui, the bead Sacristan, immediate. ly went to inform Monsignor Pellizzo, the Administrator of the Sacred Vest ments, bother Sacristan informed the police and an inventory of the stolen ob- Jeers was made.

woman as the "wool of man." He idealised and reverenced her, he yearned for her love and companionship.

Con's thou, O friendly reader," he once count upon the fidelity of un wrote, artless heart or tender or true, and reckon among the blessings which Heaven hath bestowed on thee the love of a faithful Purify thine own heart and try women?

All the prizes to make it worthy of hers. of life are nothing compared to that one." Such was the love he was fated to win, and after four years of unclouded happiness, tragically to lose.

Though love came to Thackeray early in life he was already, a sad and disillusioned He had tried both art and author. man. ship, and both had failed him. He had lost the greater part of his smail private income; and thus, the law, the only other career that seemed at all hopeful, was closed to him. "I um only twenty-four," he wrote to friend in a mood of despair: "and already utmost efforts. What the future may hold an branded a failure, in spite of my for me, I dread to think."

SUNSHINE OF A NEW HOPE. And it was in this black hour that love caine to flood his life with the sunshine of

new hope,

It was one day in 1835, at the house of his grand-mother that be 'first set eyes on Isabella Shawe's loveliness, and at sight of She was the daughter of a it succumbed.

The Arst reports stated that objecta worth several million lire had been stolen, but it was found eventually that the value of the previous objects taken amounted only to about 49,000. The oba jects missing are a silver-gilt monstrance, a gift of Cardinal Mathieu to Pius IX. the ring of St. Peter, with a big emerald and brilliants; gold cross with a topaz and brilliants, the gift of Cardinal Bian-poor Irish officer: but Nature had dowered chi, a bishop's pectoral cross in gold, the her "with gifts more valuable than gold. gift of Cardinal defia Yulpe; a solid gold She was, we are told, a blooming rose of chalier with paten and pyx ornamented Irish beauty"-a slip of a girl just emanci with pearls, brilliants, and rubies, the rated from the school-room, brown-haired, gift of Cardinal Merry del Val, and blue-eyed, with dimpled checks, and a which he had used for saying Mass only complexion of wild-rose delicacy,

creature of sunshine and laughter, with a the day before a silver-gilt challer pre-hundred moods, fascinating and tantalising.

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A little

sented to Pius IX, on his silver jubilee;: It is small wonder that the gloomy another silver-gilt chalien; a solid gold roung giat lost both heart and bend under cross with a huge went emerald. the the magic of such witchery. For him, from gift of the Republic of Colombia to Pius that hour, there could be no other woman X. and lastly, silver-gilt pys, the gift on earth. She was his beaven-sent bride,

of the Bishop of Orleans, Monsignor to bring swestacss and inspiration into bis Dupanmup, to Pius IX. The ring of St. darkened life; and to be loved and chiral- Peter. with its great enterald. is the prin-rously cherished as long as God, wind gire cipal object stolen. I had been made them to each other. for the finger of the statue of St. Peter. in the Vaticah Basilica. but for four it might be stolen it was kept in the Trea. sary and an imitation ring left on the

statu

A PLANNED THEFT."

LOVE AND FORTUNE."-

Thus for Thackeray, Paradisa opened its

blessed man in all Europe," he said, "I had to pinch myself to make sure that I was still flesh and blood, for I bad never dreamt that much happiness could fall to a mere human." But these halcyon days were not fated to last long; for in less than a year from his wedding-day, the newspaper to which he was attached had to suspend publication; and in its rain the balance of his small capital, which he had invested in it, was engulfed.

No sooner had lose led, the way than fortune followed; for Thackeray had not been engaged many weeks to his "Irish Rose" when the appointment of Paris correspondent to a London newspaper was offered to him; and, the way to the alter The thieves prartrated into the Trethus providentially made smooth, he was sury from one of the rooms just above. soon able to lead his little bride to it. Masons and painters had been working here, and their implements were scatteretigates. There was no such happy or about. In one part of the room a large wooden box settied placed negligently, and it appears that here one of the rob bers had been working for, daya making a hole large enough for a mar to purse. They probably remained inside the Sacristy on the previous evening, and during the night let the roi ladder through the gleningg, and rapidly car ried off what they could. They must have het two or threr in number, and seem

But, cruel as the blow was, there was for to have len suddenly disturbed by some hakeray no return to the abre of gloom alarm, as they left without carrying away and despair. Isabella laughed at his long other objects they had already prepared fare; she "ehased the puckers away" with to steal, and one mbostraner was found her bright words and merry smiles. We brokin up.

Luckily, they seem to have will be happy on a crust, darling." she said with her afua around his neck her soft had little artistic discrimination, as, apart from the ring of St Peter, they cheek nestling against his; and it will be verlooked many other far more previous strange if, with your clever brain, you can't !jects, and things of great historical earn tha!! And thus it was that with the flame of hope still burning, he returned I'value

The robbery caused a painful impresto London, to find shelter under his father's sion in, Bone, and especially in the roof while he looked round."

Nor was he long left to look round; for Vatican The Pope was informad just before he was about to reggive the Carbis pen at last found its magic, and that dinal Secretary, and, when Cardinal Gas-magic was quickly recognised and rewarded. parri appeared his Holiness spoke to him There were to be no more days of struggle in bitter terms on the sacrilege comunit- and soon we see him installed prosperously

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in a house of his own in Great Cinam St.,

ted. He requested Cardinal Gasparri to with a second baby in his nursery and Roy and what had been stolen and envying no man on earth."

Never, indeed, was there a happier: inform him. At noon Cardinal Merry

del Val appeared and made an inspee-couple than this great big boy and his tiny tion of the Sacristy and Treasury, when wife, plaging at housekeeping and finding 'the palier were on the spot, and con- each day a new and wonderful delight. versed for a long time with them. The Well it was for them that they did not see Masonry through which the robbers broke the cloud of tragedy growing and nearing is nearly ft. thick, and it is supposed they, took at least five or six days to open the hole.

RECOVERY INTACT

treasures wepe The stolen Vatican

discovered Romewhat battered later

lant intact in

in their sky. No fear of the future marred their joy in the present. And it was when life seemed its brightest and most blessed that the blow fell, laying Thackeray's life. in ruin and desolation.

A GREAT SOEROW. One May day in 1810, a third child rame the hands of un to the young couple, and the price paid for individual named Mariano Stella, who it was a terrible one; for, though the had been ander surveillance by detes mother recovered physically, the light of tives owing to his suspicious behaviour reason had gone for ever, and Thackeray in approaching strangers tride St. was left to mourn a loss far worse than that Peter's with proposals to deal in jewel of death, with two little girls dependent on lery: A detective named Marotta had bim for all the tenderness a mother might alrendy concluded a contract with Stella have bestowed on them.

But Thackeray was not now the man to for purchase of a large "consignment of jewels alleged to be coming from Paris. abandon himself to Borrow and despair, as When the Vatican theft occurred the he might have done before he knew the "bravest, brightest spirit ever enshrined in police surmised tha' 'Stella had some cun-

For twenty-three years he tore retion with it, and when Marolta, pro-woman," card to this house of Stelln, who is his burden bravely, and masked to the cobbler, to take over the jewels be found world a broken beart bebiad a smiling the missing treasures of which the police, face, finding his solace in the love of his who had surrounded the house, promptly children and in tender ministering to them.

took charge.

(Continued on next Columa).

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