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"This 25th day of April, 1498, be...ing invited to dine by his Holiness Alexander VI., and fearing that not...content with making me pay for my hat, he may desire to become my heir, and re...serves for me the fate of Cardinals Caprara and Bentivoglio, who were poisoned...I declare to my nephew, Guido Spada, my sole heir, that I have bu...ried in a place he knows and has visited with me, that is, in...the caves of the small Island of Monte Cristo all I poss...ssed of ingots, gold, money, jewels, diamonds, gems; that I alone...know of the existence of this treasure, which may amount to nearly two mil...lions of Roman crowns, and which he will find on raising the twentieth ro...ck from the small creek to the east in a right line.

Not till then does she know the continuation: 'ssed Marie, or 'cked the Vicomte, whichever it may be. Not a luxurious reader, that one, you see. "Well, this morning I enter as usual. There she sits, book in hand. 'Maryland' I murmur.

He felt it in the trouble of her bosom pre ssed against his; in the nervous thrill of her arms clasped around his neck. The Magdalen of his innocent experience, a woman with the master-passion of her sex in possession of her heart already! "Have you thought long of this, my dear?" he asked, as soon as he could speak composedly. "Are you sure ?" She answered the question before he could finish it.