Show ID 00 IV 49 UM i L L tv 0 4 i AI N it CHAPTER II 11 continued and who is don juan A noung spanish grandee my jadv lately atel arned armed from the of pisa pi 11 yes ye lucretia dr drawled aId dragging out the word ord arid and how happens it that vou ou know so much about him the girl blushed and donati ruling riding cloe replied for her if rumor does not lie half the loel lo el ladies of rome liae have already fallen victims to his charm char mc i lucretia shrugged her shoulders disdainfully and he went on he is the one they call the great lover the great forgetful lover loer he told her with mith a icv smile think vou ou not that that there might be one whom he could not forget he asked her voice oice slipped ant and murmured over oer the words as a brook may slip anti and murmur oner oer jagged stones donati smiled but he was aas careful not to let lucretia see gee that ye lie lid did he sad sa d merely A challenge to rumor means a lost battle speaking carelessly as if he be hall had no idea edca ot or what ahat was inas in his cou cousins ins mind lu It tc retia cretia turned to the maid see that a meg menage age is tent sent to this don juan she said to the girl court 15 1 our beening ball will ill be made more inter interesting eting b bv his presence and the c falcade cival cade moed ironed on with nith donatis thoughts swarming like bees around the prospect of meeting the lovel loel girl he had ball seen lea leading ing church and lucretius Lucre around the thought of dun don juan jua i that loiel bare arm reaching for the lingerie in the upper window the great forgetful lover loner a oung spanish gr grandee anolee Q she ie smiled and contentment settled oer her ley beautiful cruel face the spaniard might add interest berei t to this evening and to others the ile calva cal cade rode on back in the house before which the borgias and their tram train had ball paused and laughed a girl gat at waiting young pretty desired bv bi many men tresaa sister of the duke margini margin found this a new experience this waiting ait irig for a man half an hour she i he would rould not have minded but fh ii matter of waiting while time slipped on marking off on one hour two that na was afferent Affer tnt she fas as almost in tears she paced up and down the long beautiful room tore to pieces the hand tt thief that had been the admiration f the coli coant mor workroom kroom from which it A had cornsi come went ent to the great car caned ed doors leading to the terrace and stared blindly at the sharp yellow and pink of the flowers blooming there turned to walk with short iMpat impatient lent steps to the smaller door doo r leading to the garden where abere a wan swan drifted idla 11 over the surface of a narcissus edged pool there were two to other door one leading to an ante room did not interest tier her that was the U dav av out the uther other leading to don juans quarters interested her too much that was nas the nay ay in the nav into heaven sent lent joy isto into paradise into dori don juans arms I 1 she looked up hardly at the sound of a riep on the tone stone floor but it was vas only Ped pedrillo rillo juans tenant sen ant he came over to her shaking his head sadly A sick friend doubtless maint maintains him my lady he be said humbly A oman I 1 she had not meant to voice that fear but she rhe cared so much for juan that she could not curb it lednilo stared at her in shocked lur prist madonna ladonna A vou ou are the one love ime of his life he told her almost reprove inele i chati a assurance I made her happy azain again for a moment nin ment sh she turned again to the garden and Ped petrillo pedrillo rillo behind hr back alane pl anxiously at the closed clofed door leading to don juans rooms As she faced hire gain h b hail had a sudden inspiration living with juar brought rif if I 1 might presume per perhaps hails dour our ladish P might better not vait ait it may b a mat matr mator r of hours hour lf if the friend is very pry ill sometimes he is out jut all night sitting up with a sick trusi j shook her head and nent into the probably lie he would I 1 come in by bv that wa na glie would sit where chere he be could see gee him the instant he be arrived armed she wished that she could wait in the street could hurry up it to meet him when nhen she saw cal him corning coming Ped pedrillo rillo shrugged his shoulders be helplessly then as she he left the room tiptoed to the door of juans lie leaping vin apartment and liRt listened ened for foi an in instant I 1 his big ear close to the wood listening he smiled lie he could picture the scene cene within tiptoeing away he heard a sudden ludden noise noile in the street ile he glanced through one of the long windows bindok win dok then ran to the street arriving arning ju just st in time to pre ent the entrance into the house of the woman noman who nho hall had just stepped cromber from her palanquin she was a as gorgeous as the perched perche d on the palanquin pala nUin door doo r as domineering as juan himself Ped lillo reflected this imgana Ini pana famous for her beauty belfied of the duke maigonis Ma igonia where is be she lie demanded I 1 of pedrillo Ped rillo for an hour I 1 have lia e am awaited ait dour our master in the blistering sun run on the palatine hill where is he pedrillo Ped rillo bowed hambli himi lill don juan did not forget lie he told her as if nothing but the po possibility nihility lity of if forgetfulness could have co come m e int into 0 hgr mind he was summoned ned by b y his holiness to the vatican she sm ailed contemptuously summoned es b a woman to a she he said surl surly her no oe noe e tr trembling with inith rage pedrillo Ped rillo looked at lir with nith that birne me shocked that hall had been lo 10 0 o effective a few moments before with v ith trulla ills his words also alio were the same came Ala madonna donnal hp declaimed you are aie the one lo 10 e of his life and this woman oman like the fhe other ether was vas satisfied she turned aar not quite believing him et van wanting ting to and as she he went back to her palanquin went 1 ent into the house boe bo e telling alim himself elf that lie he had handled that th rt sit situation u aaion neatly he ill did d not know that tm lm peria pena hesitating suddenly changed her mind about going away and was nas eien cien then making tier her way nav around the terrace he knew it a moment tarter later how bow ever eer for atnia and imperia imperi were ere facing each other angrily in the anteroom a ante each uncomfortably certain of the oters reason realon for being there after the ae firt first amazed ed moment the tha buret lur into a torm storm i of words vain Ped pedrillo rillo tried to quiet them but opposed to each other though they were u ere they were one in their indignation toward A ard him and he gap ga P up the struggle gle ile he sighed with nith relief as their voices retreated toward the street door all would be well uell if they would but go don juan need not even know of their meeting but at that moment the door of the sloping 1 ping apartment opened and juan himself hi stood in it for a moment then slowly came for forward viard languidly inquiring tle the reason for the noise ile he greeted with ith amusement rather than annoyance arid and sauntered aunt ered on to the anteroom to be continued |