Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 14, 1913, Page 7

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And Fusell saw the blazing eyes of old Dio- niglo. “Gentle Dionig- f0.” they called him, because he had a tender heart. He kept a wine shop near the Municipal bridge, and was know for his char- ity As they came from the funeral, the people stole glances after the bent, white-haired form of old TP Borsini, and whis- Ava pered: “He will dle of grief. It is @ great pity that he is too old for vengeance.” When they passed the shop and found the shutters closed day after day, with Nicola Davio’s pupples playing on the steps and the dust blowing into the corners, they said: “Poor old Dionigio, his heart is broken.” And all the while Botts swaggered and grew fat with glory. But one day the shutters were opened, the pupples sent away and the door left ajar, so that one could see the mirrors and the kegs of rum, and more than all, Gentle Dionigio himself, with his towel on his arm, and his fresh white apron. And the word went from one to another, until one by one all the topers came—all but one, and he was Botta. | ,And so it was for a week, when | Botta himself came smiling and insol- | ent and showing no fear. It was then that the old rum seller's lips grew white, and as he glared he snarled: “Smile now, Botta, so that you may look pleasant when your time comes.” Botta laughed, but his eyes grew | white underneath and his hand shook { as he drank. Again Botta came, laughing and Jesting with his cronies, and winking when Gentle Dionigio was not looking. But he grew silent when his uncle turned to him and said, softly: “Take care, my nephew, God has told me to kill you within two week was there again. And now, when his uncle came toward him, he drew back with affright, and put & chalr before him as a shield. “Have no fear,” said the old man. “1 .would have killed you last night, but God came to me in a dream and sald, ‘One week longer, Dioniglo.'” All the evening Botta sat with his [} undrained, thinking - sick ts, with aighs and furtive at Gentle.‘g‘onlg!o. For he ‘afraid. As he weat home he said to himself, “It is not right that he should bring God into this business. Why does he not try to kill me, as any one else would do? I could de fend myself then.” : He did not appear at the wine shop for a long time, but stayed in his room whittling the carvings that he sold on the ‘streets in the daytime. One day he stopped, for he found that always his figures took the look of old Bor- sini and leered and laughed at him ' | under the lamplight, and chilled his lmbs. In time the shadows in the room drove him to the wine shop. He drew courage from thinking, “Old Dionigio bas forgotten. 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