Show NICOLOS REMORSE nicolo swart dark indolent lying iving up 04 his back and look looking izig up into the sky the sky cloudless brazen and the muddy yellow river ajl with reflections of the sun son the stillness of a I 1 afternoon with nothing to hear but the ripple of the water titer and add its splash aga against the boat the monotony of a semitropical 7 arab with nothing to see but the parched grasses the swirling eddies of the river and the cloudless heavens and nicolo with one arm resting lazily across the me tiller keeps the vessel in id midstream dri drifting ft toward the gulf and watches the wre wreaths atlis from his bis cigarette as they mist mii t themselves away into nothing nicolos Nl colos tam face wears a look of triumph and d his bis eyes sparkle with the plea pleasure ure of his thoughts it is true that a shadow crowe crosse it now and again but he tosses his bond and the shadow fades away and nicolo in his lugger drifts toward the gulf golf seemingly happy the dull brown waste of marshland seems interminable 1 it stretches so BO far away on either band in such each unbroken dreary levels once in achue a fright frightened emed bird darts f from t the he waters water edge sedge to wheel and circle out of bight the whisper of the solitude seems to creep across the surface of the earth but bat nicolo 11 bleeds s ne neither ither bird nor dor solitude nor anything except the passing of his reverie which is sweet to him chesun the sun slips down toward the west the glare glam of the day fades fade into the az azure ure of the evening along aloag the edge of the horizon blue and purple and red and gold en el clouds begin to stretch themselves away across the sty sky solitary knots of treas frees grow black against the flush and glow of the evening heavens hea ens and over everything the shadow of the coming night dight creeps on apace nicolo bestirring himself to set his lights watches the gathering blackness of the bea heavens venit his smile is gone now the corning coming of the darkness seems to overcast his spirits he glances furtively about him as he busies bini delf with the boat although alone he seems to look around tor some one whom be will not welcome thus his boat arrives at the place where the waters of the river are lost and forgot ten in the waters of the sea and passing out from the confining shores rid rides with ith long sweeping motions upon the swell of the mightier deep the night shuts out the earth the beav enia ena and the waters there is a terror in the coming of a tiem tempest pest which conquers the mightiest of minds the hissing his of the raindrops as they strike upon the waters has a venom of its own the heavy beavy bellowing of the clouds as they discharge their passions of lightning the voice of the rushing storm winds and the lashing of the sea subdue and overawe the roost most powerful PO erful nature of man nicolo crouching by bla bis tiller watches the increasing anger of the night in terror to him the high hibb waves we are peopled with a thousand mysterious betags and he witnesses tho gathe gathering zing tempest with super euper etious awe as aa he be guides the way of his bis vessel teasel over the rising and foaming waves a the pause of nature natum before she strikes the first ff fierce blow in auger anger touches his nature and makes him tremble as aa he be bowe cowers in hla his boat but the deafening crash of the elements follows quickly and the boat darts forward into a caldron calit of seething seething it f foam tuto into ft a fiery circle of light and into a mighty chaos of discordant sound bound now it la Is in the valley of tte the waters and around it the U leaping guox moun taina of waves dance and dart upward to what seem towering heights phosphorus s gilm mera e from their sides wd and peaks uke like eyes of untold spirits of the now how the vessel pauses upon the bagh highest of the billows and from an all of the surrounding waters gilodo mm a myriad of at ghastly the nw anger ang ir of fear barad selnea upon him and ha cursed them while bla hand clu clutches tebes desperately 4 paw and he guides ids hla toil by instinct via the ever eer it with frightful vi g ty and tt plunges again into thor tro efio ss acot around liim I 1 al a ln eliw I 1 V bilm that gli gleaming f i i i tins to stare upon I 1 i and keep h in i ii ves eyes persistently mother jr if IT 1 he ni mutters utters and shi his eye eves ij i h lr can foel feel the gaze alva f fi terud upon him listen li List tn cn lit cru crus cri s beating ats hand band upon the night liten li ten mia it has haa followed ine 1111 that face through evern storm until it is dri irig me ine mad I 1 it t was all rn en accI account int of sanita nanita madre mia all on account of nanita that I 1 love ever sirce since WL ke N v ore baan hal nanita and 1 I 1 I have bave loved br h r bind nix she was mine until reppo beppo cam came B pax with I 1 ins is black benr bearil and great cht ahti t hu could I 1 stand sf se ing her gine her to him when I 1 would bave died fur one cine of those same smiles and so madra inia on a night like this when wind and the sea were jig and blepp beppo ii 11 d I 1 were sailing illig alon I 1 pushed biru bini nto ato the sea it is hla his face which niu nie and steals away at nighttime the happiness which conle canies s t to mo of davs da ais when I 1 think that nad nanita ita is mine all mine again and beppo cannot come bet between oh ob madre mia for the love of christ take away that face the ungoverned boat sweeps onward through the tempest and the night inight the waves are tosi tossing ing it about at will nicolo kneeling at his prayer for a mordent moment throws s his handi out wildly he feels and hears bear the rush nish of waters ri ni they close about hun him lie he shrieks 4 aloud in tir terror ani and the flash flah of thu the lightning disc dialo ca s an overturned overture d boat driven along before to fore the temp tempe Qt bt in smiling summer bummer suns sunshine bine the white sands gleam like ermine the gen washes up its secret treasures and its spoils all eloquent of the ravages of the storm far out at wa an upturned boat drifts helplessly les ialy upon the sand the body of a drowned man lies with upturned face and wide open staring eyes there la is a look of horror upon the lace face and the hands bands have torn away the garment from his chest an open locket hangs from a ribbon around his bis neck it contains the picture of a woman N nanita anita for the body la Is that of washington post |