A CHOLERA STORY
There is a terrible story in the Latilla family of Naples, which Mrs Hugh Fraser tells in “A Diplomatist’s Wife in Many Lands.” In one of the first visitations of the cholera' to the city, the head of'the family was carried off suddenly, and was hastily interred in the family mausoleum where his ancestors renosed, far away at the most distant end of the largo park. The mausoleum was carefully shunned by the familv and servants for quite a year after the unfortunate Marchese had been carried thither. At the end of that time his widow, who had either just been married again or was preparing’ to do so, summoned the courage to go and have a look at it. Imagine her horror on beholding, behind the bars of the heavily grated windows, a ghastly alrr.ost-skeleton, with fingers twisted, ns in a last agony of despair, around the iron bars!
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7450, 26 May 1911, Page 8
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153A CHOLERA STORY New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7450, 26 May 1911, Page 8
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