. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. seeking to sup-plant him in the affections of the dancinggirl. As the weeks passed Marius grewto disregard the animosity of Peatro,for he was facing a new problem. Mada was gradually growing tired ofhis constant adulation and one eveningfrankly told him that it was his moneythat had attracted her, not this admission was a bitter blowto Marius, for he had believed the girlwas genuinely fond of him, he soughtto make the best of it and offered to doanything that would restore him to herfavor. At this time the band was passingthrough
. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. seeking to sup-plant him in the affections of the dancinggirl. As the weeks passed Marius grewto disregard the animosity of Peatro,for he was facing a new problem. Mada was gradually growing tired ofhis constant adulation and one eveningfrankly told him that it was his moneythat had attracted her, not this admission was a bitter blowto Marius, for he had believed the girlwas genuinely fond of him, he soughtto make the best of it and offered to doanything that would restore him to herfavor. At this time the band was passingthrough a wild and lonely country whichwas thinly settled, though there werescattered here and there through thecountryside the luxurious villas of therich nobles. Several members of theband had made successful and highlyprofitable visits to one or two of theserich villas and had, by stealth, obtainedcoins and jewels of considerable valueas a result of their clandestine seeking to prove his courage anddevotion to the girl he loved, Marius. 1152 POPULAR ELECTRICITY and the WORLDS ADVANCE rashly offered one day to participate inthe next raid upon a rich mans summerhome, and Mada had smiled and tauntedhim with being too cowardly to carryout his threat. In the meanwhile Count Marcelli withhis family sought to forget themselvesand their sons disgrace by seeking asummer home in the country and bychance selected a villa in the very neigh-borhood through which the gypsy bandwas then passing. The Countess and her husband beingsuddenly called back to the city onbusiness, Lea was left alone one night inthe great villa, though she had assuredher guardians that she had no fear, sincetheir absence was only to be a short in order the better to forget hergrowing terror at the loneliness of the bigrooms, Lea sought her boudoir earlierthan usual, and had barely sunk to sleepwhen she was aroused by the soundof some one in the Counts room, whichopened off from hers. Rising on here
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