The Argosy, October 1906 — page 85: what you’re looking at

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IS ‘cat quite ae aneound what = Figs happened,” she said. “All of a sudden my guides turned in a different direction from yours. Then they lifted me to this ledge and sat down on the edge of it and begdn to smoke. I could- n’t get a word out of them. So I stood there for about half an hour—till you came.” ae - Half an hour! At the very least it had been half a century. é - As the guides were carrying us to- ward the entrance of ie grotta, ahs went on: sees : = “But now ‘that Tve Br orenea ‘not to tell, don’t you think you might let me ‘Know what it was about? ”’ : ‘Just this,” I explained with cheerful ~~ mendacity. “We lost track of e&ch % other and your two guides set you down in the most comfortable place they could find in all this expanse of dark wet- ness and waited till Murena and I could That’s all.” hunt around and find you. ““T don’t see anything in that to war- rant such a solemn pledge of secrecy,” she retorted in disappointment. = Perhaps,” I answered, ‘ you think I would enjoy being guyed. oe ‘Billy ss Gregg and scolded by Mr. Todd, and sneered at by Sebaste and ~ Mine. de - Tournon for my abominable carelessness - _ in losing track of you?” : “Oh!” she said, and I thought her voice betrayed a little note of displeas- ure. Just before we emerged from the grot- to to the clean, bright world above, I ‘whispered to Murena : - a -“ Until further orders, all despoiling of travelers, in any way whatsoever, at - Solfatara, is forbidden. There are good reasons, which will appear later. Rass the word all along the line.” ee - Murena mumbled respectful assent ; but there could be no doubt ‘whatever of the displeasure in Ais voice. __- Decidedly this was not my day for me saying acceptable things. pe CHAPTER -X. Fe T HAVE AN INSPIRATION. ee SSS Margari!_ ‘Eperzo a salvatore! - ¥ - Margari! 1 Ma L’ommo e ‘cacciatore} - Margari! Nun c’aie Corpa tu! = Chello = one *. —< we = = x Se SS THE: SCARLET sc ARAB, _ What’s the use of spielin’ songs no one = | right!” he admitted. -corkers. - a Px ee Fad <= = N Ow what in Onin Shel does = that pie-eyed. dago think he’s ‘singin’? a queried Billy Gregg, breaking in on the ‘gay lilt of the street-singer. “ Does he think there’s words to it, I dunno, ons does he make uP them sounds’ as he goes <= = along?” = £ “It’s a street song—a : Sgeeiia == explained Sebaste patronizingly. — ““Ehe== : air is gay, but the song tells of a broken- oe — hearted maid whee — “The words sound more like a broken — >= vichy bottle!” commented Billy. can understand? Now, down to <Toay- Pastor’s——”’ SS ‘Ah, you have such songs of the peo- ple in your own country?” asked Mme. ‘de Tournon, on whom Billy’s blatant -crudities seemed. to exert a sort of horri- ble fascination. ‘‘ How interesting!” “ They’re. int’restin’, all - right, all = s = ‘Some of ’em’s Ever hear Maggie Cline —_ x I think © Mile. Cline. has cess sung on the continent,” replied the countess - _ regretfully; “ and I’ve never had the happiness of as gees Is she a soprano or. ae “She’s a ‘fog- ot: and a jim- -dandy ae one at that. And there’s a bunch of | other hot oS ‘most: as good ass SS she is, too. Why— me “And those folk-songs of yours? Are they like the canzoni we hear at night on the Naples streets? Cannot you hum a snatch of one of them?” = Before I could surreptitiously Rik <7 him, Gregg had thrown back his head es ‘and burst forth in the most splendidly tuneless, off-key voice it has ever been “my luck to hear—a voice that contained =—=— but two notes, neither of which, by the faintest chance, ever was the note re- ee quired at that particular point. =~-= == =e —“ Mother, mother, mother! pin a rose on es : me! : a I can’t get the girls to leave me be! — eR -When I give ’em a kiss they ask for three! Oh, - mother, mother, mother! pee a rose 3 on me!” = SS He paused to draw in a fresh breaths 3 caught my vengetak eye, and. See ae $= sided. ——— Sebaste had turned his back: tex as as His shoulders — were see Doris — amg Ss = - mee : oS Tes aael a a ean Ae St < Se