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| An American!
i Surgeon
i He Was Needed Because x
| He Would Not Tell
| By HORACE BRADFORD J
n n • « J *
I am a surgeon, and my home Is in
Florence, Italy. When a young man
I studied at a college of physicians and
surgeons in my native country, Amer
ica, but, possessing a teste for art, con
cluded to change m.v profession. Com
ing here to Florence, I studied art for
awhile, but soon saw that I did not
possess the talent necessary to make
an artist. Having fallen in love with
this delightful city, I remained, hang
ing out my shingle as a surgeon.
One night I attended a ball at the
Pittl palace. It was my first appear
ance among the aristocracy of Flor
ence, and I was much interested in
watching the people there, few of
whom I had ever seen. A young girl
with a gentleman attendant on each
side of her walked by me. The ap
pearance of the three told a story.
The man on her left was young, hand
some, In every way attractive. lie on
her right was past middle age and dis
agreeable looking as the other was en
gi'^ing. As they passed me he gave
tlio younger man a malignant look.
The girl appeared to be much trou
bled. It was plain that her heart was
with the man on her lci't. that she
was constrained to choose the man on
her right and that the two men hated
each other on her account.
"Everywhere," I remarked to my
self, "the stream of life is troubled.
To be rich, to be prominent,-<loes not
render one Immune from that which
Is disagreeable. Happy love has evi
dently come to this young girl, to be
Interfered with by one who, Judging
from her expression, has some claim
upon her. IIow I should like to know
the story!"
As I thought the last words I little
dreamed that within a few hours a
climax would come in the drama be
ing enacted by these three persons
and t'.iat I would come upon the slage
for a minor part. When I left the
palace I went directly to my rooms
and to bed. An hour later I was
awakened from a sound sleep by a
violent knocking. I urose, slipped on
a gown and opened the door. Two
gentlemen in evening diess stepped
Into the room.
"lou are nit* Axiiericuu ±
believe?" said one.
"At your sen-ice," I replied.
"You are wanted to attend a man
dangerously wounded," said the other.
"You are eliosen partly on account of
your standing in your profession, but
principally because you ore not one of
our circle. We do not like our affairs
to be known. I must ask you to per
mit me to blindfold you."
I objected to this, but one of the
men put bis band t<» bis hip pocket and
drew forth a small pistol with mother
of-pearl mountings, while the other
produced a stiletto. I picked up my
bag of instruments and suffered theui
to tie n handkerchief about my eyes.
They led me out to the sidewalk, told
me to raise my foot, and 1 stepped into
a carriage.
"Drive a roundabout way." I heard
one of the gentlemen say.
"So," interposed the other. "liemay
bl»ed to death. We must go as quick
ly as possible."
There was no need to nuke turns,
for I had no idea where they were
taking me. In what 1 supposed to be
ten minutes the carriage stopped. I
was helped out and soon by the In
creased warmth of the air felt myself
to be in a building. Then I mounted
steps, and at last the bandage was
taken oil my eyes. I was standing
beside a bed on which lay—mirabiie
dictu—ihe young man I had seen walk
ins on the left of the girl at the Fittl.
I knew too well the danger of show
ing any sign of recognition.
"Signer Pottore," he said with a fee
ble vobe, "I have been stabbed on
the left side—here." uncovering. "It is
near the heart."
It was near the heart, but had for
tunately just escaped that organ. Aft
er an examination I assured the pa
tient that if he kept perfectly quiet
till the wound should heal lie would
recover. But 1 thought that, consid
ering it.: close proximity to a vital or
gan. a surgeon should remain with
him uutil a healing should be estab
lished.
"Then," sai l one of the men who had
brought me, "you must remain. We do
not care that two surgeons should be
introduced here just now."
"But my practice—my patients?"
"All damages to your prr.otice shall
be liberally paid for."
I made a virtue of necessity and as
sented.
Meanwhile I had bandaged the cut
and when I had finished turned and
looked about me. I was in ono of those
old palaces, as they Are call< 1 in Flor
ence, belonging to some influential fam
ily. The furniture, at least s; mo of it.
must have been several hur. lred years
old. The bed on which t' e wound
ed man lay was canopied On the
walls were paintings, some of which
I recognized as masterpieces of the fif
teenth and sixteenth centuries. There
was no one in the room except the two
men who brought me and the patient.
I directed that a large lounge of an
tique pattern should be made com
fortable for me to sleep on. as it would
be best for me to be very near the pa
tient. Then the men who bad brought
me left, one of tbem first saying to me.
"SIgnor Dottore, we are very glad to
j hear you say that the patient has so
i Rood a chance for his life. When you
j leave here be discreet and all will bo
I well with you, but if you talk—well,
! all I have to say is you will not talk
' very long."
j 1 remained a week at the palace, the
name of which I did not know. In
deed, I was not permitted to leave the
room of the patient, my meals all
I being served there. My mail was
j brought me, and it was amusing for
| the first day or two to read the mes
sages of my patients with reference to
my sudden disappearance. Then I ask
j ed those who had kidnaped me to
j leave word at my apartments that 1
had been called to Sienna on a very
j important case. This had the effect of
quieting those who sought me.
I My patient turned out to be as en
| gaging a man as I had deemed him to
I bo when he passed me in the Pitti
| palace. *
"Your effort," I said to him on© day,
j "to keep your drama—it came very
I near being a tragedy—from me would
possibly have been successful had it
not been that I was at the ball at the
ritti palace the night you were stab
bod. 1 saw you pass me with the man
who stabbed you and the lady for
whom you were stabbed. So you see
it would be safer,for you to tell me
the whole story, since I have a part
of it, I pledging myself to secrecy,
rather than to permit mo to go away
»with what I already have unpledged."
He was not only very much aston
ished, but saw the reasonableness of
what I said.
"I did not notice you," he replied,
"at the ball and supposed that you had
no position in court society. An Ital
ian surgeon would have been unavail
able for us. We are all so interlaced
socially, those below constantly watch
ing those above and all watching one
another, that we dare not trust any
one of our own number. You, as an
American, are not mixed in our jeal
ousies, our disputes, our"—
"Assassinations."
"You are wrong there. There are
no assassinations in modern Italy. I
fought with the Duke— Cut I will
tell you tho story and have every con
fidence that you will not reveal it
"I am Count Paradini, and my ances
tors have lived in this palace since the
twelfth century. The man you saw on
the other side of the signorlna at the
ball was the Duke of Abolino, a rcla
I tive of the king. The signorina herself
is the daughter of the Countess Fran
coceio, an o'.d family that sprang up
under the Influence of Lorenzo de' Me
dicl, commonly called Lorenzo the Mag
nificent. Signorina Bianca Francoccio
and myself have been lovers ever since
I was sixteen and she fourteen years
old. Upon her entrance into society
lately on her eighteenth birthday the
duke saw her and became desirous of
possessing hor. lie is a widower, very
rich and has great influence with the
king. Soon after seeing Signorina Bi
anca he made a formal application for
her hand. Her mother—her father is
dead—urged her to accept what Is to
bo considered in n worldly point or
view a belter position than I could give
her. To lie n duchess and rich is high
er in the worldly scale than to be a
countess and with no possessions ex
cept this old palace. As for Bianca,
her heart is all mine, as mine is hers,
and if left to her own will she would
refuse tho duke to marry me. Indeed,
rntlier than wed with iiim she declares
she will go into a convent
"The duke was expecting to have his
own way in the matter when at the
recent ball at the Pitt! he discovered
that I was his rival. I was with Signo
rina Bianca a few minutes before we
passed you, "when the duke Joined her
and by a look lir.de me give way to
him. I asked the lady to go with me
into another apartment She assented,
whereupon the duke went with us. On
reaching the other room Bianca show
ed the duke so plainly that his pres
ence was not desirable that ho left us,
giving me a malignant look as he did
so that plainly meant 'I am a man of
too much importance to be Interfered
with by such as you.'
"On leaving the palace the duke, who
took occasion to po out at the same
time as I, jostled me. Seeing that I
must have it out with him, I sent him
a challenge.
"Just at present the king would be
furious if ho knew that members of
the nobility to whom lie looks for'sup
port, especially his relative, had fought
a duel. If 1 were known to have sent
a challenge to the Duke of Abolino I
should in soir.e way be made to suffer.
I met him within an hour after we
left the Tittl; but, realizing my posi
tion, I did not dare even pink him.
lie came very near killing me, as you
see. and I doubt not will be disappoint
ed if I recover.
"The duke and my second joined in
conference as to how to keep the mat
ter a secret and decided to call upon
you to attend me.'
"There you have the story so far as
It has been enacted."
The balance of the tale I leaJned
from Count Baradini after he had re
covered. Signorina Bianca was com
manded by her mother to marry the
duke, and the king sent a message to
say that he would be pleased at a
match between her and his well be
loved cousin. Despite these commands
and requests the girl flatly refused to
marry any one but the man she loved,
and when those who were conspiring
against h«r found it impossible to
move her they desisted, and finally her
mother gave a reluctant consent that
she should marry the count
When the wedding came off I- was
present and had a pleasant chat with
the bride about her husband's wound
ing, of which she had been kept in ig
norance till the affair had blown over.
So long as I remained in Florence I
was welcome at the palace of Count)
and Countess Baradini.
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