The salvatore

part-2

   (There is climax in this part)

I suppose it had never struck him that Ischia ,which he looked at every evening, it was like a fairy island in the sunset. Clouds looked like fairy castles in sky and birds flying were looking as maidens organising party and making arrangements for the fiesta in which all the fairies would arrive.

Salvatore  remained nervous and was filled with the wish to meet his family members in that place which he used to think that it was the reward the bad deeds held by him in his previous birth .
          After that he went on his way .
        One evening he was returning from his duty to the cottage which was allotted to him for his stay during his services in king victor Emmanuel's navy .
He was dread fully homesick .But it was hardest for or all to be parted from the girl he loved l. Shirley was her name. He loved her with all his passionate young heart. He wrote to her (in his child-like hand writing) long, I'll spelt letters in which he told her how constantly he thought of her and how much he longed to be back. He was sent here and there to spezzia, to Venice, to Padua followed by Bary and after that finally to China. Here he felt ill of some mysterious ailment that kept him in hospital for months.
He bore it with the mute and uncomprehending patience of a dog. When he learnt that it was a form rheumatism that made him unfit for further services for which his heart exulted, for he could go home, and could not bother, in fact he scarcely listened when the doctors told him that he would never again be quite well. what did he care when he was going back to that little island he loved so well and the girl who loved him waiting for him?
              When he got into the rowing boat that met the steamer from Naples and was rowed ashore he saw his mother and father standing on the jetty and his two brothers,big boys now, and he waved for him. His eyes searched among the crowd that waited for him, the girl he loved
From the depth of her hearts .
                                               He could not see her. There was a great deal of kissing when he jumped up the steps and they all, emotional creatures, cried a little when they exchanged their greetings. He asked where the girl was ? His mother told him that she did not know ; they had not seen her for two or three weeks; so in the evening when the moon was shinning over the placid sea and the lights of Naples twinkled in the distance he walked down to the grand marina to her house.
     She was sitting on the doorsteps with her mother. He was little shy because he had not seen he for so long. He asked her if she had not received the letter that he had written to her to say that he was coming home. Shirley tried to neglect his question and she also tried to avoid to give the answer of his question ??
                                         He again asked the same question to both.
Now, Shirley answered 'no', 'not yet' !! After that Salvatore asked another question about Shirley's health, she answered only, Fine.
Salvatore felt strange, He was thinking what had happened to her why she was not giving attention to him 😨. Leaving all this he took out the gift which he brought for her from abroad. As he raised his hand to give the gift she refused ! Now, seeing all this he was so disturbed, he asked Shirley why was she behaving like that as if he was a strange?
                                     When he heard the answer, the words of the answer was like fire shot of bullet on him 🔫.
         Shirley replied that she cannot be together any more.
She said a man who is not able to earn a living and who cannot buy food, what will she do with him. She also said that it is a waste of life to get with him. Salvatore felt nervous and sad, he thought the lady who was in love with him since he was going to become a sailor, and now because of his mysterious ailment, he was pulled out of service l, she left him. Now he get understood that her love was selfish and not the true love , he doesn't complained anything and he doesn't blamed the girl because he loved her so well, and went back to her home.
 

                                He tried to forget all about his past failure in love, and put on his life .