Evening Star Newspaper, November 14, 1929, Page 43

THE EVENING STORY One of World-Famous Works of Literature Fair Fiordespina. BY PIETRO FORSINL (Pletro Forsini was an Ttalian writer of | prose fiction who lived in the sixteenth cen- | tury in Siena. a eigy and archiepiscopal see ©f Tuscany, Italy,) Luigi Migliorelli, nobly born, but with a | strange and whimsical disposition, re- | sided not long ago in the city of Spoleto. | hopeful, meagsr. Unfortynately, he fancied him- s°If in love with a beautiful and accom- plished young lady, a daughter of one of the finest families—her name was Fiordespina. | To make matters worse, Piordespina | had already married a wealthy citfeen | of good blood. called Filolauro, who was in ‘every way worthy of his charm- | ing wife. They were very happy, mak- | ing & fine example of conjugal felicity | and fidelity. 1 Such happiness as that of Filolauro and | though his Piordespina seemed too superb to last. | no. Indeed, a secret fiend was already at work to undermine their joy. This fiend was inspiring the soul of Anwon Luigi with thought dangerous to their married bliss. Luigi set about winning the ob- ject of his desire, who was no other | than the beautiful Fiordespina. i But he tried every approach he knew =he used all the arts and flatteries of | which he was master—and he was de- | feated. He made no progress whatever in the eyes of Piordespina. She seemed | not to notice his attentions. Piqued Luigi vowed to be revenged for her pride and indifference toward him. He had tc keep his feelings under cover, lest her husband take the law into his own hands and bear arms against him. ‘The first idea that occurred to Luigi ‘was to take his own life. But whenever he was on the point of suicide the pic- ture of the beautiful Fiordespina would come into his mind, and he could not bear to think of leaving her behind. He finally made up his mind to try one last interview with his lady. When Filo- 1auro left the city on a hunting expedi- tion Luigi saw his chance—and was again defeated by seeing Piordespina accompanied by two young lady com- s tibiven asperation changed to frenzy in Luigi's breast. He lurked lbflu:’ the house, therefore, to_meet the husband ‘when he returned. He was late in com- ing and taking leave of his friends, but when he did arrive home he was as- tonished to come face to face with An- ton Luigi. | Luigi drew his sword and cried: “At last, villian, thou art dead!" At the same moment he wounded the hus- band severely. | “Ah, traitor,” cried Filolauro. He rushed at his attacker and closed with Flordespina, overhearing some dis- turbance, and recognizing her beloved husband's - voice. instantly seized her husband’s spear and rushed to the door. She saw her husband struggling in the arms of an assassin, his blood staining the ground round about. With the courage common to ladies of that day and place, she plunged the spear through Luigi's body—for =he could distinguish the .fighters one from an- other by the light of the moon. He fell dead at her feet. - She immediately took her husband into the house, to treat and bind his wounds. The homicide was discovered, of gourse, but no one 'knew how it had THf: EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THUKS to treat him even ‘worse than he had treated Fiordespina, much for the lady. She stood up and | confessed as follows: ever go do uv:r and remorseléss tyrant like you could abuse the person of my honored lord. It was I who did the deed. I alone smote the assassin band. I struck him dead at my feef. just heavens, ye noble people of o hear me A Te&!n my ut.text | the untimely death of his son, Luigi's | 't this tyrant no rive me of lady had done sich a deed o save her | \inat T hold dear.” P Her declaration surprised and 5 She had confessed A young man by the name of Anton | had something to do with Luigl's death, | gyjity when all kinds of torttre and the ospect of worse. torture had failed to husband arrested and thrown into & make her speak. 'Affection—ove alone happened. The governor wished to!me! know more about it, so he started a |hus! strict inquiry. The gorernor vas Tk s e e, at all chivairous, and the fact that & o husband’s life would not influence him. Finally. convinced that Fiordespina | ayery one. the governor had both her and her This was too itleman, “in history that a DAY, NOV LMLER 14, 1929, tion reached even the heart of that | vicibus tyrant. No matter how callous he might be, he could not remain in- sensible to what he had just witnessed. He was taken by surprise, and he was thoroughly astonished. In a volce milder than any one had .ever heard use, he commanded the officers to .. Hear | unbind Filolauro. ‘ of ‘The father of Luigi was now called and asked what he thought should be done. Though stricken with grief at signor. father nevertheless spoke the truth. He told of the passion which Luigi had formed for the beautiful and of how he had tried every expedi- ent to satisfy his wild. desires. The father further stated that he certainly did not wish to see the innocent suffer, leved erself Fiordespina | J ship for the ers and appealed to/ thep udgment of the spectators. “kgl them to solicit a complete pardon for the husband and wife—if pardon could be called—when no real offense m’gn? “Telentin mffémm of gov: relenting . ernor yielded and, having liberat the captives, he descended from his seat and, overpowered with confiicting emo- tions, left the scene. ENGLISH HUMOR TAKES PLACE IN GERMAN LIFE British Type of Comedy Grows in Popularity, as Trend of humor, a8 witness a very popular caba- ret turn at the moment. A strong man, after lifting great ‘weights, bending pokers, crumpling fur- persol niture and such displays, takes & lemon | length & small man with a ba‘tered in his right hand and squeezes it dry | hat insists on trying, and to the un- with & mighty grip. He then produces ' bounded astonishment of the audience be developing an English sense of |a thousand-mark note from his pocket and offers it to any member of the audience who can produce one more drop from the squeezed lemon. ns try and fafl and at (™ Several 43 he extracts three more drops. The strong one ‘sorrowfully hands over the thousand marks and asks how the thing" “Q?xox;.l replies the small man, @ easy.” “I am income tax collector.” an (Copyright, 1929, by North American News- paper Alliance. It is always | bees dungeon, awaiting trial, came forward to testify that there had dead man on the spot. They also as- | serted that it was unlikely that a woman could have deprived a soldier of his own sword and killed him with it. But the tyrant of a governor thought that it was more likely that Piordespina should be guilty of homicide than that Luigi should have killed himself. But as he proceeded against the fair lady the populace murmured in ngectlnm And since he could not make her con- fess the governor had to release her. t, however, he turned his prosecu- tiol hus| oy, o lummp:o):;li —had opened h-i u:m.l hx: %ezmled m’ne His temperament was confident and (less than miraculous that her love for it judgment was | 100K pity on her beauty, and witnesses | hor husband could make her speak words which she would not have spoken m no weapon gxcept that of the when threatened with death itself. Such an example of conjugal devo- | the unhappy f: OFTEN WOKE UP WITH A HEADACHE Finally Took ALL-BRAN In- stead of Drugs and Now “Coutdn’t Feel Better” How much sufi'eri{xg constipation brings! Headaches, loss of strength and lspetite. Sleeplessness. Often it leads to serious diseases. But here is one of the thousands who have suffered and found relief. 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