THE LONG ECHO

..... and a lasting curse shadows an Italian altar painting, rediscovered after 200 years by Andrew Carson, who also finds more than a resemblance to the doomed girl who had modelled for the Sant Again of the picture in beautiful Marine Beneadorno, 19. The old vendetta between two villages is revived- and Marise in its victim; the picture is defaced, and there is a murder, and Andrew is the unwitting agent in the harm which results. An undisguised romantic adventure- to which the local totems and taboos lend a certain character and