FOR LOVE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1087, 23 February 1883, Page 3

FOR LOVE.

A gang of Italian labourers have for months past been employer! on tho railroad a few miles below Amsterdam, near New York. They are very quiet, industrious, and well-behaved,, and seem to be above the average of Italian labourers. Among them was one whose form was slender and symmetrical, complexion fair with a slight olive tint, eyes dark and lustrous, and hair long, dark lured and wavy. Tho fair 'personage was a woman. Her name wis Angel la Lourino. Her lover was Franko Patricio, came to America like many of his country, men, to hotter his fortune. Tire fair Angel la pined in his absence, and finally determined to join him in tiro far-off A meri a. To carry out her plans she oisguised herself in man’s attire, and having no money with whic i to nay her passage, she stowed hj rsalf away in an ocean steamer bound for the United States. After the steamer sailed sire was discovered, and willingly did a sailor’s duty to work her pae-age ac>’. ss tire broad Atlantic. At length she arrived in New York city, only to learn, after patient investigation, that her lover .had joined the army of Italian labourers upon the West Shore railroad. Nothing d runted, she, too, b 'came a railroad worker, and •laboured for her daily bread at various poiirts along the Lake -liore railroad, ever keeping tho object of he ■ life -to find her lost lover—in view. Du irg her wouderiugs she c rrae near meeting him. Once she caught sight of him on the deck of a canal boat which | mssed near the spot where she was at work, but the overseer kept Iter at her last task, and the boat went onward. At another time she caught a glimpse of him as he was rapidly whirled by tho Amsterdam railroad station on an express train. In the course of her wanderings and changes she was finally located with a gang of Italian laborers. Iter constitution, naturally delicate, was unable to endure tbc exposure and hard work, and she fell a victim to typhoid fever. Tire fatal disease made rapid work, and tho poor girl who, until her sickness, had strictly kept to herself the secret of her sex, rapidly succumbed to its ravages. As the end approached, Angella awoko to consciousness from the feverish delirium, and saw her lover beudi g over her. He had been detailed to work at this spot, and arrived only in time to M'e her die. She fixed her eye* on tho face of her lover with a look of love, and fdntly muttered in tire language of her native land, “ At last we meet only to part for ever. Farewell, my dearest ” With these words •ho died Toe remains of Augella were placed otr a platform, covered with cloth, and stones placed beneath her head Four days and , nights the bo ft- was kept in this posti thru, while tiro lover kept a ceaseless I vigil beside it. At the expiration of this time the body was wrapped in a winding-sheet, and bind d in tho “dump” of the road bed, tiro remains being covered with tho earth from the dumping carts.