Lost valley, a novel

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ... the monkey up home. We think she followed to Boston. I thought you'd tell me if you'd ever seen her, so I could find her and take her home. I don't want to hurt anybody--unless the man hurt her." Anna translated to her mother, and the torrent of Maria Giardini's reply was deafening. Madge could see that Anna protested... and that her mother spoke more sternly. Not understanding was an agony.... The child shrank, cowed and sullen, before whatever it was her mother was bidding her do. "Then I will tell her, miserable creature," Maria was saying. "Your father is a fool--a good man, but a fool." "You can't." "Then tell her, you. And speak slow, that I may understand if you say what / say." Anna pouted miserably. "My father," she began, "is a good man, but a fool. My mother says so." "Yes?" Madge hardly dared to breathe. "My mother asks was your sister like a Madonna?" "Yes." "Did she have long gold hair and no sense?" Anna was putting off the evil moment. "Yes--" "My mother says"--Anna turned her head away--"she come here with Giusep' three month ago." "Does she know where she is now?" There are no words to measure the passion of Madge's query. It almost choked her as she spoke the common words. "Of course not. I told you Giusep' ran away, with the money, and the monk' and the organ, in the night." "But does she know where he put her, here--here in Boston? Oh, please to remember!" It was more a prayer to God than to Maria Giardini. Then Anna realized the misunderstanding between them. Madge did not realize that the girl had not only come to them, but stayed with them. Anna hoped to be spared too ma...