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 CHAPTER I. 
 
 xieip ! ■— The Voice of David » — Ti,« d i . 
 
 1^' ■■ CHAPTs||fri. 
 [How in the World did It get the4? a • k " 
 
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 COlrtENTS. 
 
 of Polyphemus— The Cathedral. — The mysterious 
 Image. — What is it? — David Relic-hunting. *- A. 
 Cat^trophe. — Chased by a Virago^-iT The Town 
 roused. — Besieged. — A desperate Onset — Flight 
 — Last of the Virago • • 
 
 39 
 
 CHAPTER IV. : 
 
 Salei^o and the sulky Driver. — Paestym and its Tem- 
 pleg._A great Sensation. — An unpleasant Predica- 
 ment—Is the Driver a Traitor?— Is he in League 
 with Bandits ?-r Arguments about the Situation, and 
 what eitch thought about it . . • . .' 
 
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 CHAPTER V. , 
 
 They discuss the Situation. — They prepare to foot it 
 « — A toibpme Walk, and a^ppy Discovery.- The- 
 Language of Signs 6nce more. — The Mountain Cav- 
 alcade.— Bob's Ambition. — Its results. -r Bob van-. 
 • ishes. — Consternation of the Donkfey Boy. — Con- 
 . stemation of the Cavalcade. *- " E Perduto ! " . 
 
 65' 
 
 CHAPTER VL 
 
 Flight of Bob. — Difference beti«^en a tame Donkey 
 and a wild Ass. — Carried off to Oie Mountains.— 
 ^^Th^ headlong bourse.- The Mountain Pass.— Tj^e 
 
 "^""~ "loi^Tiey's End.— m-omened Place. — CdnfoanfledDj 
 
 a new Terror.— The Brigands. ., . . -73, 
 
 
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 -The hideou. HouseMd. - Tl,. hombfe oW hJ 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 '^pe^om^^t Captlve^Xight Slumbers. - Fearful 
 ^aKen.ng.-The stealthy- step. - The ovenn^te^ 
 
 IngHo.or.-TheloneBoyconf^^tedbyhisZ«^ . 
 ~T^e hungry Eyes.-Is i.«al, o.a NightmaTeTi* 
 The supreme Momtfnt . . ^ tuwcr— 
 
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 CHAPTER IX 
 
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 theavalcadeinPursuitl-Hopesand Fear8.-The. 
 
 ones about the lost Boy.^ A new Tuni to AfeuTI 
 ExpIanat.ons.^On to Sale^^o. - l„q„iri;3^^^. 
 
 «ed.--FreshConsternationandDespoLncy.^ 
 
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CONTENTS, 
 
 
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 CHAPTER XI. 
 
 The Return. ■— The tender Adieus. — Back to Salerno. 
 -—On to Castellamare. — A pleasant Scepe.-r-Ah 
 unpleasant Piscovery. — David among the Missing. 
 — Woes ^f Uncle Moses. — Deliberations over ih& 
 Situation. — Various I'heories. — The Vengeance of 
 the Enemy. — Back to Sorrento in Search of the Igst 
 One . . 
 
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 CHAPTER Xn. ^ - 
 
 The Waking of David. — A glorious Scene. — A^^i^p- '1^ 
 tation. — David embarks upon the wide, wide Se^^^^ 
 Youlh at the Prow and Pleasure at the Helm.4-~A 
 daring Navigator. — A baffled and confounded Navi- 
 gator. — Lost ! Lost ! Lost ! — Despair of David. j 
 — At the Mercy of Wind and Sea. ^^ The Isle of the 
 Brigand^, — The Brigand Chief. . . . .131 
 
 CHAPTER Xin. 
 
 David captured. — Tl^ big, bluff, burly, brusque, beard- - 
 ed, broad-shouldered, beetle-browed Bully of a Brig- 
 
 ; and. — A terrific Inquisition. — David's Plea for 
 Mercy.— The hard-hearted Captor and the trembling* 
 Captive."— A direful Threat — David carried oflf help- ^ 
 less and despairing. — The Robber's Hold. 
 
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 Op th? Way to Sorrento again. — A mournful Ride.— 
 A4e8pa>ring Search — A fearful Discovery. — The 
 

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 Old Virago again.^ In a Trap. - Sorrento aroused. ^ " 
 -- Besieged. -AU lost - A raging Crowd. -^ The 
 howling Hag. -Hurried Consul^tion. - The last 
 forlorn Hope. -Disguise, Flight, and Concealment . 158 - 
 
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 In the Royier^s Hold. -. The Brigand's Bride. - Sud- 
 den, amadng, overwhelming, bewildering, tremendous, 
 . astounding, overpowering, and crashing Discovery. 
 
 -T The Situation. -Everybody confounded.-- The 
 ^ Crowd at Sorrento, ^ The Landlord's Prayers. - The 
 Virago calls for Vengeance. . . . , . 168 " 
 
 CHAPTER XVI. 
 More Troubles for poor David. - Onset of four Women. 
 
 -Seized by an old Crone and three Peasant Girls - 
 
 Fresh Horror of David. -A new Uproar in the Yard " 
 
 of the Inn. -Uncle Moses bent double. . ,83 ' 
 
 CHAPTER XVII. 
 Vesuvius. -Ponies and Sticks. -Sand and Lava.-*^ 
 The rocky Steps. -The rolling, wrathfiil Smoke- 
 clouds—pie Volcano warns them off.- The lost 
 Boy. .-A fearful Search. -A desperate Effort - 
 The sulphurous Vapors. - o(rer the sliding Sands. . 19, 
 
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 Pompeii, the City of the Dead.-The Monuments of 
 the Past -Temples, Towers, and Palaces. -Tomb. 
 
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 and Monuments. — Theatres^ and Amphitheatres.— 
 Streets and Squares.,.^ . . . . . . ^03 
 
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 CHAPTER XIX. V. 
 
 Lofty classical Enthusiasnr of David, and painful Lack 
 of Feeling on the Part^of Frank. — David, red hot 
 with the FloW of tW Past, is suddenly confronted 
 witlj the Present — Tlie Present dashes cold Water 
 upon his glowing Enthusiasm. — The Gates. — Minos, 
 ^cus, and Rhadamanthus. - The Culprits. . . 214 
 
 CHAPTER XX.* 
 
 The Glories of Naples. — The Museum. — The Curios- 
 ities.— How they unroU the charred Manuscripts 
 exhumed from Herculaneum and Pompeii. — On to 
 Rome. — Capua. — The Tomb of Cicero. — Terracina. 
 — The Pontine Marshes. — The Appii Forum. . 226 
 
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 The Pontine Marshes. -A Change comes over the 
 Party. - The foul Exhalations. - The Sleep of Death. 
 ~ Dreadful Accident. — Despair of Frank. — A Bi'eak- 
 down. - Ingenuity of the Driver. - Resumption of the 
 Journey. ..... 
 
 CHAPTER XXII. 
 
 -The March ended. —A tenely Inn. — lEvfriilicesT-^ 
 Beetling Brows. - Sinister Glances. - Suspicions of 
 *^«Pa^— They put their Head* together. — Con- 
 
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 ferences of the Party. -A threatening Prosptct- 
 
 Bamcades. ~ In Time of Peace prepare for War. ~ 
 
 The Garrison arm themselves 
 
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 CHAPTER XXIII. 
 The sleepless Watch. - The mysterious Steps. -Tiie 
 low Whispers. -They co^e! They come ! -The 
 Garrison roused. - To Arms ! To Arms ! - The be- 
 leaguered Party.- At Bay.-The decisive Moment 
 -The Scaling Ladders. -. Onset of the Brigands - 
 End of Troubles. . «» ' ^ 
 
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 CHAPTER XXIV. •'. 
 
 A beautiful Country. -Magnificent Scenery. -The '' 
 
 Approach to Albano. - Enthusiasm of the Boys - i 
 
 Archaeology versus Appetite. - The Separation of the ^ 
 
 •Boys. - The Story of the Alban Lake and |he ancient 
 
 subterranean ChanneL . . ^„ 
 
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 Thp lonely Path—The sequestered Vale.^The old 
 House. - Ai^eudal Castle. - A baronial Windmill. - 
 A mysterious Sound. -A terrible Discoverj-.-At 
 
 Bay.-The ^Id Beast's Lairl-What is it?-A 
 great Bore. . \ . 
 
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 at the Convent — The Guide. — The old House.— 
 The Captives. - The Alarm giveil. - Flight of Uncle 
 Moses and his Party. -Albans! to the Rescue!- 
 The delivering Host I 
 
 CHAPTER XXVn. 
 
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 Arma Virumque cano ! — The Chase of the wild Boar I 
 — The Prisoners at the Window. — The Alban Ar- 
 my.— Wild Uproar.— Three hundred and sixty-five 
 Pocket Handkerchiefs. - Flame. - Smoking out the 
 : Motaster. — A Salamander. ,0- 
 
 CHAPTER XXVIII. 
 
 The Salamander inaccessible to Fire. — The last Ap- 
 
 ., peal.— Frank takes Action.-He fires. - Casualty 
 
 to Frank and Bob. — Onset of the Monster. — Flight 
 
 — Tremendous Sensation. — The Guide's Story.— 
 
 Another Legend of Albano. — On to Rome. . . 319 
 
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 Stranger tn a strange Land. - A Citadel of Trunks - Be- 
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 uproar. -Kicks; Thumps !- Smash of ChairsTl 
 
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 greater part of his life in hi^ native 
 
 . village, and being anxious to see the 
 
 world resolved upon a tour in' Europe. As he 
 
 did not care to go alone, he offered to take with 
 
 him his four nephews, who ^yere great favor. 
 
 |?tes with their l,achelor uncle, and his chief as- 
 
 ifom he boys, and a willing assent from Oieir 
 [parents who fully believed that a tnn. .,\, 
 ue«cnpnon wouldlje of immense benefit to-^the^ 
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 ie appe.arance of Uncle Moses in Naples, where 
 
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 Ije- landed on a\ mellow day in February, jCn row^e 
 for Switzerland, bowed down with the respblasibiji- 
 ty of several heavy trunks, and the still heavier 
 responsibility of ibur fine lumps of boys, of whoso 
 troubles, trials, ti^ibulations, and manifold adven- 
 tures, he seemed, on the present ooqasion, to have 
 a mournfulpresentiment. i V 
 
 These troubles .began at once; for scarcely had 
 they landed when they found thepiselves sur- 
 rounded by the lazisaroni, and the air was filled 
 with a babel of exclainations; » "^ 
 
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 " Sare I " " Carra ze baggage ! " " Tek ze loggo/ge! " 
 " SJiow ze hold 1. " « Bold ddla Ew opal" « Hold 
 ddV Inghelterra 1 " " )^otd deW America 1 " " Eo- 
 tdlenza, you wania good, naisp, rosbif, you comma 
 ]ongsida me!" ^* Coine long!" "Hurrah!" 
 ^** Bravo !" " O, yais." \ " Ver nais." " 0, yaia. 
 You know we. American Meestaire!" 
 
 All this, and ever so npuch more, together with 
 scraps of French, German, Bohemian, Hungarian, 
 tussian, and several other languages which the 
 kzzaroni had picked up foi" the purpose of miaking 
 themselves agreeable to foreigners. They sur- 
 raunded Uncle Moy^r'and ^is four i)oys in a dense 
 CrWd. — grinning, (^hatterihgi gesticulating, dan-^ 
 cinisri pushing, jumping, ai^d grimacing, as only 
 titan laKzarom <^ i and ihey ttiech io-get= 
 hold of the luggage that lay \upon the wharf 
 
 ^gged, hatless, E^rtless, blessed with but one 
 
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 LAZZABONI. 
 
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 pair of trousers per man; bearded, dirty, noisy c 
 yet fat and good-natured withal ; the lazzaroni pro- 
 duced a starOing effect upon the newly arrived 
 travellers. > 
 
 -^ Uncle Moses soon grew utterly bewildered by 
 the noise and disorder. One idea, however, W 
 prominent in his mind, and that was his luggage. 
 He had heard of Italian brigands. At the sight oi; 
 this crowd all that he had heard on that subiec? 
 came back before him. "Rinaldo Rinaldini," -^ 
 '^r'°5,^u ^'?^ ^»o«k, which had been th^' delights 
 of his childhood, now stood out clear in his reeol- 
 
 ^^ A^' ^?! ^^.^^"^"^ '^"^^^ *« ^« a crowd of 
 bandits, fined with but one purpose, and that was 
 to seizo^the lupge. The efforts of the lazE^roni 
 to get the trunks roused him to action. Springing 
 forward, he struck their hands away with a formidf 
 ble .cotton umbrella, and drew the trunks together 
 
 top of thes. The i^ile was a small pyramid. 
 
 Don t let Jhese varmints get the trunks. Sit dowi. 
 on 'em, and keep ^em off." • 
 
 Saying this. Uncle Moses put the two Clark bovs 
 on a trunk on one side, atid the two Wilmot boy8 \ 
 on a trunk on the other; and mounting himeelf 
 
 
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 14 
 
 AMONG Ti^B BRIGANDS. 
 
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 *' Br-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-ra-vo ! " 
 
 To which Uncle Moses and the boys made no 
 reply. In fact, it would have been a little difficult 
 for them to do so, as not one of them understood a 
 word of any language spoken among men except 
 their own. So they said nothing ; but constituting 
 themselves into a beleaguered garrison, they in- 
 tre^hed themselves within their citadel, and bade 
 defiance to the foe. 1 
 
 The foe, on the otber hand, pressed round them, 
 bombarding the garrison • with broken English, 
 broken French, and broken German, and .> some- 
 times made an -assault upon-^the trunks. 
 
 Time passed on, and the garrison sat^here, holll- 
 ing their own. At length they all became awart 
 of the fact that they were excessively hungry. It 
 was very evident that this kind of thing could not 
 last much longer. 
 
 Meanwhile Uncle Moses had recovejed his 
 presence of mind. He was naturally cool and self* 
 possessed, and after mounting the trunks, and 
 gathering the boys about him, he quickly rallied 
 from his confusiOQ, an^ looked eagerly around to 
 find some way by which he might be extricated 
 from his (Jifficulty. j 
 \ At last a way appeared. 
 \ Around him, in iia immediate neighborhood, 
 
 age, 
 
 Iazzaroni,^s urgent, as piti<Bfft7Md^T^'^B''"®^ 
 aggressive as ever, \jrith their offers of assistance. 
 Beyond theae were |)eople passing up and down 
 
 
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DESCRIPTION OF THE BOTB. 
 
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 15 
 
 the wharf, all of whom were foreigners, and there-, 
 fore inaccessible. Beyond these again was a^ 
 wide space, and in the distance a busy street, with 
 carriages driving to and fro. 
 
 Uncle Moses looked for a long time, hoping to 
 see something like a cab. In' vain. They all 
 seemed to him to be " one-hoss shays," aad what 
 was worse, all seemed to be filled. 
 
 ""Boy8,"8ai4 he at. last, "I'm goin' to make a 
 move. You jest <§it here, and hold on to the trunks. 
 I'll go an hunt up one of them one-hoss shays. 
 There ain't 'nothin' else that I can do. Hold oii 
 now, hard and fast, till I come back." 
 
 With these words off went Uncle Moses, and the* 
 boys remained behind, waiting. " 
 
 A very fin^-looking set of boys they were too. 
 
 There was Frank Wilmot, about fifteen years of 
 age, tall, stout, with fine, frank face, and crisp, 
 curly hair. , , 
 
 There was Clive Wilmot, about fourteen, tall and 
 slight, with large eyes and dark hair. 
 
 There was David €lark, about Frank's age, 
 rather pale, with serious face^^and quiet, thoughtful 
 manner. ^^^ ■. 
 
 > And there was Jlobert, or, as he was always 
 called. Fob Clark — an odd-looking boy, with a 
 ^^j^^^faQftd, pug nose, comical face, -brown eyea^ 
 and shorl shingled hair. - - ---r-- "^ ''— 
 
 Uncle Moses was not gone long. By soi^oi 
 ijronderful means or other Whad succeeded in 
 
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 AlIOK^ THE &RIQANO|S. 
 
 procuring a vehicle of that kind w^ich is universal 
 in this city, and he now reappesired to the de- 
 lighted boys, Tjoming at a tearing! pace towards 
 them, seated in a Neapolitan calec^e. 
 
 The Neapolitan caleche is a wonderful machine, 
 and quite unequalled amorig wheeled vehicles. 
 The wheels are far ba^k, the shafts are long, and 
 one horse draws it. But in the caleche it is aveijr 
 common thing for any quantity of people tp pile 
 themaplves. There is a seat for two, which^is 
 generally occupie"^ by the most worthy, perhaps ; 
 but all around them cluster others, — behind them, 
 before them, and on each side of them,— clinging 
 to the shafts, standing on the axle, hanging on the 
 sprmgs. Indeed, I have heard of baibies being 
 elun^ underneath, in baskets ; biit I don't believe 
 that. r ' \ 
 
 At any rate, Uncle Moses and his party all 
 tumbled in triumphantly. Two trunks were, put 
 in front, one behind^^jji^ one suspended under- 
 neath. David Mid Clive sat behind, Frank arid 
 Uncle Moses on the se^t, while Bob sat on the 
 trunk in front, with the driver. The lazzaroni 
 looked on with mournful faces, but still Jiroffered 
 thjeir services. In patient pe^everance few peo- 
 ple can equal tbehi. i 
 
 The driver saw at once the purpose of thit 
 "Americaiis, though ifey r could fiHt^IThim what" 
 they wanted. So he drove them to a hotel in 
 the Strada Toledo, where he left *hem, after having 
 
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 TBEMEND0U8 UPBOAB. 
 
 17 >' 
 
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 been pa,d by 0nc)e Moaea thelatgest fere he had : 
 ever reoe.ved m his life, for Uncle Mpses gate 
 
 tlTides "''"'"■'''"'* '«" ^»'«'""' »<"^ 
 
 «xth story The hotel was a quadrangul* ejjiflce 
 w^h a spac,o„s court.yard. Around this courZrd 
 ran gallenes opening i„,o each story, and C 
 mun,oatWw.th one another by stairways, wh^oh 
 were used by all the occupants of the fioLe 
 
 Prom the gallery in the sixth story a door " 
 
 opened mto their parlor. On the left side o/C 
 
 was a enug bedrpom, of which Uncle Moses took 
 
 possession ; on. the right side was aiTotlier, wU°^ 
 
 H-PPropriated by David andCliye; whill he 
 
 bhird wh.ch was on the other side, and looked Jut 
 
 I aims the four boys paired off, and made the-B.. 
 selves very comfortable. ^"^ 
 
 I„!ef "'>'" 'J'^-"'! '^"-t «° bed early. tT„'c,e 
 
 loses retired last. All slept soatfdly, for thev 
 
 fere very much fatigued. ' 
 
 But just before daybreak, and in the dim n.'„™i 
 
 py a most tremendous uproar in the parlor- kicks 
 fe '*•"«^"P^""'g. Chairs bLking, a^d a 
 
 SSt^r uLSef" -^ '-""^'^ r- 
 
 This was certainly en4gh to rouse Miybodyl 
 
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 a»6no the brigands. 
 
 Up jumped Frank, and rushed to%he 'door. 
 
 Up junoped Bob, and sprang aftet^iiiK 
 
 The noiae outside was outrageoi|. What was 
 it? Could it be robbers ? No. Robbers Vfould 
 prefer to do their wort in silence. What was'il? 
 
 Slowly and cautiously Frank opened the dooi^ 
 and looked forth into the parlor. It was as yet 
 quite dark, a^nd the room into Which he peered was 
 wrapped ia the shades of night. What little he 
 could see he saw but indistinctly. Tet he saw 
 something. ° 
 
 He'saw a. dark, shadowy figure in rapid motion 
 backward and foripird, and at every movement 
 some article of ^jjirmture would go with a crash to 
 the floor. Sometimes the figure seemed to be on 
 the table, lat other times it was leaping in' the air. 
 .Suddenly, as he looked, the door^ which opened out 
 into the parlor, was banged ba<Jfk with a violent 
 blow, and shut again. Frank was nearly knocked 
 down. 
 
 "What is it?" asked Bob; 
 
 "I doii'tknow," said Frank, « nmk^m toad- 
 
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 man. 
 
 "Whatshallwedo?*' 
 
 "If we were all together,*' said Frank, "we 
 might malceua rush at him, and secure him. I've a . 
 
 rent mind to lUake a start, as it is." 
 
 'C^jBmstJje a brigand 1 " said Bob ; for hiflmind. 
 »e minds of the rest of the party, was^largely 
 
 Jed witttfeges of Italia^ bandits. 
 

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 THE CONSULTATION. 
 
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 •urse," said Bob. 
 
 eag&rly into the room. , .. ■''^®^^°<**ed 
 
 Suddenly Frank touchbd Bob 
 
 view'^lVr''"^/. T^"'" "'e'" fat met their 
 TOO Balls pf light that seemed like eyes, though 
 there was no form visible to which these eS 
 
 , ' °°"'' ""' tnt^very stillness cave tlA 
 ditional horror to that unseen beinff who!^ dr^ 
 g-e seemed to be fastened u^^n Sem * """^ 
 
 |ne'tro:mf?''"''V'*«-'»''-'»fromtho 
 
 _ 'rank I Bob I " __^___ ^^— *r> 
 
 "HalIoI".criadbo«ibo78r^ ^ 
 
 Ihavent any matches," said Bob! ^ ^ 
 
 What a p,ty f " said David. "« Can't vn„ « i, 
 
 a7*k Tt '^"'' ^''''°* ^« »e^t to his." • 
 that of Uacle Moses^and b^an to pound wit^ 
 
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 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
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 afl his might Uncle Moses did not respond, but 
 there came a response from another quarter. It 
 was from the thing in the parlor. Once more the 
 fearful uproar be^an. Crash! went the chairs. 
 Bang 1 went the tables. A rapid racket 6f hard 
 footfafls succeeded, mingled with the smash of the 
 wniture. 
 
 J ^prank closed the door. ,,.t. 
 
 « If I only had a light," said he, « I should know 
 what to do. But what can a fellow do in the 
 dark ? " 
 
 "I Under what's the matter with Uncle 
 Moses." 
 
 " He ? 0, he would sleep through anything » ^ 
 . « I wonder if it w a brigand, after all," said Bob 
 ^ «I don't know. I still think it may be ,a 
 madman." / 
 
 ." I doiv't like those glaring eyes." 
 ; "If I only had a fair chance, and could see," 
 said Frank, fiercely, " I'd fioon find out what is 
 pebmd those glaring eyes." 
 
 Louder grew the din while they were speaking 
 — the rattle, the bang, the smash, the general con- 
 fusion of deafening sounds. */ . 
 
 "I should like to know," said Frank, coolly. 
 « hcjw much longer this sort of thing is going 
 
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 For 
 
 jome tmifl longx^r^ tb» bey^ k e pt the- 
 
 Shut, and the noise at length ceased as suddenly 
 as It had begun. It h&d noW grown much lighter, 
 
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 •■ Wit's »ij>i»J.'.k-i<»A..5s4 . 
 
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 TBE EEVBLATIOH. 2I 
 
 for in these southern conntries twilight, whether 
 m the morn«g or the evening, is but o^f shorrd„.l 
 t^on^andhgh advances or retires with a rapidity 
 
 vI^tlT"""" "^ ''■S^S■'^« fre^h courage to 
 Frank, who, even m the Sark, and in the faL of 
 
 the mystery, had behaved very well ; and he beg^ 
 
 to arrange a p an of action. His arrangemeC 
 
 Z hT Tt'*^^- ^««™P'y drewajackknife 
 trom his pocket, and opened it 
 
 " Now, Bob," said he, « yon tbllow me." 
 
 All right,'; said Bob, cheerily 
 Frank quietly opened the door, and looked forth 
 
 instant. There was now sufficient light for them 
 to^see eveiy „b ect in the room. A scene of ^M 
 disorder revealed itself. All the furniture w« 
 taraed topsy-turvy. The door leading t! Te 
 gallery was open, and ther^ before thlir eye, 
 standing on the sofa, was th{ being that 2 
 created enoh excitement. * ^ 
 
 One look was enough. ' • \ ■ 
 
 One cry escaped both the boys • — 
 thly^ "% goat 1 A miserable billy goat I •' cried . 
 
 4|d. the ne^t mome n t both ofi fa eui m^g fo^ 
 ward, and seized the animal by the h^nT^ 
 
 He w» T° * ''""K*'*- The goat was strong 
 He was also «oited by the singularity of hS 
 
 
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 enrroundingaiand the suddenness of the attack 
 So he showed fight, and resisted desperately. 
 Frank and Bob, however, clung most tenaciously 
 to the horns which they had seized. Backward 
 and forward the combatants pushed and dragged 
 one another, with a new uproar as loud as the 
 previous one. 
 
 In the midst of this they were interrupted bx! 
 the appearance of Uncle Moses. * 
 
 The door of his room op^ed, and that venerable 
 personage made his appearance in a long night- 
 gown, which reached to his heels, and wearing a 
 long, starched nightcap, which nearly touched the 
 ceiling. ; 
 
 " Wal, I never ! • ' was his ejaculation. " What's 
 this, boys? Why, whatever air you doin' with 
 that thar goat?" 
 
 The boys returned no answer, for they were 
 Btmggling with their enemy. By this time David 
 and Clive made their appearance, and each seized 
 one of the goat's hind legs. This additional help 
 decided the contest. The animal was thrown 
 down and held there, still kicking and strugglinff 
 violently. * 
 
 Scarcely had th^y taken breath when there was 
 another interruption. This time it' was at the out- 
 Mde door. A burly Italian made liJB appearance^ 
 -there ^fery ^rowh, very l)earded,ver/Srty, and 
 veiy unsavory. For some time he stood without 
 saying one word, staring into the room, and fixing 
 
 
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 A GENEBAL nOBT. 
 
 23 
 
 his eyes now on the goat as i% was held down by 
 the boys, again on the broken furniture, and finally 
 on the long, and somewhat ghostl^^ figure of Uncle 
 Moses. \ 
 
 " Santtsaima Madre ! " 
 
 This was the exclamation that at last burst from 
 the big, burly, brown, bearded, dirtyj^and unstfvory 
 Italian. At this the boys looked up, unconsciously 
 loosening their grasp as they did so. The goat, 
 feeling the grasp relax, made a mighty effort, and 
 rolled over. Then he leaped to his feet Then he 
 made a wild bound to the door, over the prostrate 
 forms of David and Clive. The big, burly, brown, 
 bearded, dirty, and unsavory Italian made an effort 
 to evade the animal's charge. He was not quick 
 enough. Down he went, struck full in the breast, 
 and away went the goat into the gallery, and down 
 the stairs, and so ib|o the outer world. 
 
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 "<^ '•• tlu World diS U nt th^t 
 Town ■ 2ZL / *' *"■*' ^'^"^ «w to 
 
 The Italian slowly picked himself i,p, and 
 
 BtendL theriT^l^- °'"'"P*''t» of the room 
 h <«BC-5 the q*:;L?t '°*'^r'' *'™«'^ 
 
 it ^^^rJ-M'.^t" I?^t'y'l"«»tion;tm at length 
 .7^ "T7e"ed by Uncle Moses. ^ 
 
 the d^; opt"''" ""' '*' " "' ^ ""'^'^ «» - J-- '; 
 
 « You I » Cried all. "" . - 
 
 ^;^wft that dooi^-^^r^r^ 
 
 went off to bed, and forgot all about it." ^ ■ 
 
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 BOW IN THE WORLD DID IT GET THERE?' 25 
 
 That was clear eiftugh as far as it went, but still 
 it did not account for the presence of a goat in 
 the sixt^i story of a hotel. This thej found out 
 afterwards. That very day they saw flocks of 
 goats being driven about from house to* house. 
 At other times they saw goats in their own hotel.* 
 They were hoisted up to the various --stories, 
 milked, and left to find their way down themselves. 
 The fashion of using goat^s milk was universal* 
 and this was the simple way in which families 
 were supplied. As to their visitor, the billy goat> 
 he was undqubtedly the patriarch of some flocfc, 
 who had wandered up stairs himself, perhaps in « 
 fit of idle curiosity. 
 
 "If it hadn't been dark," said Frank, «If it ' 
 hadn't been so abominably dark I " 
 
 "We were like Ajax," said David, - who was a 
 bit of a pedant, and dealt largely in classical allu- 
 sions, — « we were like Ajax, you know : -*- 
 
 • Give us but light, and let us see our foes, 
 . ^ We'U bravely fall, though Jove himself oppose.' » \ 
 
 «0, that's aU very well," said Uncle Moses; 
 but who's goin to pay for aU that thar fumito^r? 
 The goat can't." , 
 
 "Uncle Moses," said Bob, gravely, « therp!*' a 
 great deal in what you s ay.'V ■ 
 
 IHili^ Moses turned away with a lookdfion- 
 
 cero in his mild face, and retreated into his room. *'■ 
 
 (It may as well pe stated here, that Uncle Moses 
 
 
 
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 26 
 
 0-' 
 
 .A»b»GTHE BBIOAKDS. 
 
 had to pay for thatyurnitnre " Th. i \„ . ' 
 np ah interpreter \ «„^ *?' , * 'an^Iord called 
 
 "fufliciant to ftrnish^^rie suTT;^'"'"'^'" 
 >n anpther part of the honae ) ^P»'toei>ts 
 
 theifi in any wav si!, flT \?^ ® "'"'"e to gratify 
 
 « guide, Z>7Mioha ^i^r ''r"''«'''«'™^' 
 English) and thU. ?"'''' ''''° '^"" »P««k 
 for Bate, ' * """PP"'^* t*«y «et out first 
 
 Pa«t the fewer,, 0^0^'^^'^™'''' ^"^<"'': 
 
 sffipo: Th,..gh :k* re?dr";te^"° "' *•- 
 
 whment at its vast .limll • ' ^^°8 """ton- 
 
 crowdaof people who rrn"™'- '^1'^"' "* *'" 
 foot, on hLebLrLT™'^.°"'?"'"''Shit,oa 
 
 party. Cnole Moses X/^'-v "P"" W «*"« " 
 
 ^uponthg^s-gfo;;^ »-^'- *^' 
 
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 atth« spZtile p;;S'r "««"« «M^ 
 
 f ''^^'"edtospeakafewyord. 
 
 cea 
 
Mi" 
 
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 _ BKGGABS. 
 
 of Ifelian to them, which he had caught from Mi- 
 chael Angelo. David muttered something aboul, 
 the ancient Romans, while Bob kept humming to 
 himself these elegant verses : — 
 
 "Hark! hark! The dogs do bark ! 
 Beggars come to town, 
 Some in rags, some in tags, , — ^ 
 
 Some in a tattered gown ! ^ 
 
 The beggars followed them as far as they could, 
 and when they left thqm, reenforcements always 
 arrived. # - 
 
 Thus they were beset by them at the crater of 
 the extinct volcano of Splfatura. 
 
 They encountered them at the gateway of 
 Cumad, y 
 
 ^t the Grotto of the Cumwan Sibyl, 
 
 At Nero's Baths, 
 
 At the Lucrine Lake, 
 
 AtBaire, '^ 
 
 • At Misenum, 
 
 In feet every\^|iere. 
 ^ Still; they enjoyed themselves very weU, aid 
 kept up their pursuit of sights until lateinte 
 day. They were then at Baiae; and here the party 
 stopped at a littl^ inn, where they pro^sed to 
 ome.^ ^ere the beggars beset them in frbh 
 crOwmlSl Uncle Moaes was^ compel 
 
 '■r:i 
 
 -m 
 
 his puree, and tear himself away from lis clamor- 
 ous visitants. Prank and Bob went off to see if 
 they pould find some donkeys, ponies, or horses, so 
 
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B^f^Ti'^'S^i'w 
 
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 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 as to fiave a ride after dinner; while David and 
 tlive strolled off towards the country. \ 
 
 « « Come, dive," said David, « let Frank and %h 
 enjoy their jackasses. For my part. I want to gl 
 to some place where I can sit down, and «ee th?a 
 glorious land. It's the most classic spot in all the^ 
 world." 
 
 " It's the most beautiful knd poetic," said Clive 
 who was given to sentiment. ' 
 
 ^ WalWng on, they came to a place which pro- 
 jected ifato the sea, and here they sat down. 
 «0, what a glorious sight I" exclaimed CUve. 
 Look at this wonderful Bay of Naples I How in- 
 tensely blue the water is ! How intensely blue 
 the sky IS 1 And look at Vesuvius opposite. What 
 an immense amount of smoke is coming from the 
 tjraterl" > ° . 
 
 ^« Yes," said David, clearing his throat, « this is 
 the place that the elder Pliny sailed from at the 
 time of the destruction of Herculaneum and Pom- 
 pen. And look all around. I'hat little town was 
 onoe the luxurious Baiae. Oyer yonder is I^ke Lu- 
 crme, which Virgil sings about. On that side is 
 Misenum, where the Roman navy lay. There is 
 ^Cahgula's Bridge. What a glorious place I Every, 
 thing that we have ever read of in classic story 
 ^^^^rs ab out n^Jerg^Q Hor^- 
 
 Virgil, Tiberius, and Juvenal, seem to live here yet 
 Nero and Agrippina,. Caligula and Claudius,^ 
 evety oW Eoman, good or had. And look, CHve 
 

 ' BEGGABS. 
 
 that is land out there. As I live, that is Capraea! 
 And see, — 0, see, Clfve, -^ that musi^be the — '^ 
 ' " Daiemi un carliho, signori, per V aitu)r di Dio, 
 Bono jpovero — moUo povero 1" . 
 
 It was in the middle of David's rather incohe- 
 rent rhapsody that these words burst upon his ears. 
 He and Clive started to their feet, and foutid close, 
 behind them a half dozen of those miserable beg* 
 gars. Two of them were old men, whose bleary- 
 eyes and stooping irames indicated extreme age. 
 One was a woman on crutches. Number Four was 
 a thin, consumptive-looking man. Number Five 
 and Number Six were strong-limbed fellows, .with 
 very villanous faces. It \^«,s with one universal 
 whine that these unwelcome visitors addressed 
 the boys. 
 " Datemi un carlinO) signori, per V amor di DioJ* 
 ^^David shook his hi^d. 
 
 hno miserahUe,^* 8m4^jNumber Five.- 
 don't understand," said David. -y 
 
 >i (Mian(t fame" said Number Six. % 
 
 '' f*Nan capiaco," said Clive, who had learned that 
 much Imlian from Michael Angelo. 
 ^*0, signori nobilisaime ! " 
 «I tell ydu,l don't understand," cried David. 
 *f Non capisco," repeated Clive. 
 *f Siamo d es peraU," aa\A ytimber Six^ with a sjfl-' 
 
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 ister gleam in his ey6s, which neitHer dflhe boys 
 
 liked. " ' \ • / ' 
 MCome,Clil^,»^8aidl)avia, "le1?s gd^^b^ Din* 
 
 jMr must be ready b^ ihis time." ^ 
 
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 AMONG THE BSIOANDa 
 
 t* And they turned to BQ. -, 
 
 Swt ""'^fy *""«d, lumber Five tod Number 
 S« placed themselves in the way. . ■ " r 
 
 ." J»:^ their arms a^a^t:oT,dJ^'"^^'|^*» 
 b4n TsLout fothe'r TtTt '^r^' ""<> 
 
 ^ rs-^rr4S^«:t:r^ 
 
 »..e.handjve-l-^^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 nor uive could now uttpr » ,,,.*, m. ^'*^'? 
 
 -^Whe.ney:ra:Zm.l^-f 
 
 Ba^id':ii?„ridt'h:^s:?vert'^^^ 
 
 rappals, the beggars xyJ^lT ^'^ '^^^^^ 
 
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 ' " Scelerate I " cried Ntinftber Six ; and he threw 
 Pavid to the grpund, and held him down, while ho 
 caught him by the throat. But though thus Over- 
 powered, David Btill struggled, and it was with< 
 some difficulty that the big brute who held him, 
 was aMe to keep him under. 
 Suddenly, at this moment, when all hope ^eemed 
 
 ^ lost, a lodd cry was ffeard. There was a rush of 
 two figures upon the scene ; and the next instajit 
 Number Six was torn away, and rolled over on his 
 back. " A firm grasp was fixed on his tliroat, and a' 
 tremendous bilow descended on his head from a 
 stout stick, Which was wielded by the youthful 
 but sinewy arm of Frank Wilmot. At the same 
 instant, also, Bob Clark had bounded at Number 
 Five, leaped on his back, and began beating him 
 about the heajd. ' 
 
 The attack had been so sudden, and so utterly 
 unexpected, that it carried all before it. Away, 
 with a wild cry of terror, fled the four decrepit 
 beggars, leaving Number Five and Number Six on 
 the field to themselves and the four boys. Number 
 Six groaned with pain, and struggled furiously. 
 He wrenched hin^self from beneath his assailants, 
 but they again ght the upper hand, and held <m 
 firmly. Bulj Number Six was too strong to be 
 easily grappled with, and it went hard with his 
 
 -a88ttilairtftr:7T-.;. ^ ■ - -■■ ■ '•■ - ^- ^=^ 
 
 Meanwhile Clive, relieved by Bob, had become 
 an assailant also. Snatching up a stone, he dashed 
 
 w^ 
 
 
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 32 
 
 
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 AHONO THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 '' ftll Jn the face of Number Five Tfc« > 
 
 gefed back and fell and Lh '^''f T" "teg- 
 
 ailing «nde,_f,|; b^nIh °T"'^ ^-^P^-^ 
 
 ■ instantly, and feforf Lj 1 V^o "T", "^ 
 
 - with him again darte,} nff °.' ^'»^» <=ould close 
 
 , by nature, the beggars did L, .i i' ?»«'"<"^ 
 ■ of their assailants -fK- <• • """'' "'^ ">« 8'™ 
 
 ton.en,.anTh:;VnlXXT^";^^^ 
 
 fliglit But Number ^•^, "'^'"'^'^ "' « P'nio 
 
 . WUu,„t.s sinew?!.! 7' "''™ yet, with Frank 
 
 • Clive nowTusIedT, f ""' ""■■"' """^ »<"> '"'4 
 
 .This addition ttIL^Ltk?r r """ '*™^«'' 
 
 scale completely ^ "^ '^"" *"™«d the 
 
 nacity iHighZni coXranI """■'"^ *^ 
 ously assisted by thf :tl erThVe ° r'thlf tT 
 union of a I their fnrr>^« f •. ' ^ **^** *he 
 
 one man wir^a^^^^^^^^ «o«ethmg to wHich 
 
 jn.« /- scarcely equal. In aV«rv shorf *,'»;»« 
 
 lltherefore, after the arrival of Rn^ /^?. ""^' >' 
 
 •'^f -s, a.- refer"- 
 
 w a-J"£-«^5^ 
 
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 1J«?* w. ' 
 
 BEOOABS. ' 
 
 M- r 
 
 held hm, dowia by ^Wing^n his leg,, while David 
 »t on h„ neck. Franfcjpow asked fo/their hani 
 
 then directed Bob to fasten thrman's feet. This 
 I rhfr? '^k' ""li "' *•* " -^ »«»"? «» though 
 iL't^oWveJ;:""''' "" *" that particular bufi. 
 
 : The man^was no«r bound hard and fast, and lay 
 
 I struggle. The weight of the boys was so disposed 
 Ithat ,t was not possible for hip, to get«d «f th^m 
 and P.unk watched all his ml%^l£^Z 
 so v,g,lanay that every effort Waa baffiUrth^ 
 out'et Frank also watched Bob as he tied the 
 knots and then, seeing that the work was weU 
 done, he started up. ' ? »» "ou 
 
 V *^'"»/'>^V' Mid he, "let's give the rased a 
 [chance to breathe." - \ , 
 
 At this the boys all got „p, and the Kalian re- 
 Bieved from their weighj, rolled over on h s bick 
 knd then, on, hi, side, storing all around, and rtafc 
 K desperate efforts to free himself. H^ was "t 
 hhe immortal Gulliver when bound by the MhW 
 
 t;- '"^^P' *•"" -« »f '■.•3 assailants, St' 
 jas no Lihpntian, for in brawn, and stoewk^d 
 Hd muscle, Pjank, boy though he might bT' Was 
 fee^. n nchifat , :;Vhis;nfe r it>r.-^lJ^ 
 feled, and^stared, and rolled about, the boys looked 
 |on; and Frank watched him carefully ^aIt^ 
 ^pnng athim^t the «r« sign rf tjJI^rS^J 
 
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 way.. But the knots ha^ been too carefully tied, 
 and this the Italian soon f^und out. He therefore ' 
 ceased his useless efforts, \nd' sat up; then, draw- 
 ing up his feet, he leaned his chin on his knees, 
 and stared sulkily at the grou'nd. 
 
 " Ahd now," said David, " w\at are we to do? " 
 
 "I don't know," said Frank. ^ 
 
 "Let's go for Uncle Moses," said Bob, "or Mi- 
 chael Angelo." 
 
 « We'd better hunt up a policeman," said Clive. 
 "No," said Frank, "let's get Uncle Moses here 
 first. You go, Bob ; and be quick, or else tho^e 
 ' other bbggars'll be back here and release him." 
 1 Upon this Bob set out, and the others guarded 
 the prisbner. Bob was not gone long, however, 
 but^soon returned in company with Uncle Moses! 
 Bob had found him at the inn, and in a breathless 
 way had told him all, but he had scarcely under- 
 stpod it ; and as he now came upon the scene, he 
 boked around in wonder, and seemed utterly be- 
 wildet'ed. Had he found his beloved boys cap- 
 tured by .bandits, he would have been shocked, 
 but not very much surprised ~ for that was the 
 one terror of his life ; but to find the tables 
 turned, and a bandit captured by his boys, was a 
 thing which was so completely opposed to all hie 
 ordinary thoughts, that he stood for a moment 
 HfWrHy trfnpefred^. -Isfop was iT^un 
 the whole story, and thus given him a second and 
 Davidiau edition of it, that he began to master the 
 situation. 
 
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 we to do?-" 
 
 THE CAPTira KOBBEK. ^ 35 
 
 "Deaf I dear! dear I "'he cried, looking dowlv 
 at eachjof tl>e bo,^ i„ euccession, and^tl^eH 
 the,r s- ant and sulky captive, « and so yon rail^i 
 and truly were attacked and made prisoners by 
 bandits. , Dear! dear I dearP' ^ 
 
 tim?i°n^!i'^ inexpressibly shocked, and for some 
 t.me^ stc^ m sUence amid the loud clatter of the 
 
 " ^"^j- Y^"'" Mo«e8>" said Frank, at last, « whi 
 are we to do with him? " ■ 
 
 To this Uncle Moses made no reply. It was 
 own hfe had been so peaceful and nneventful, that 
 
 Tlll^T, ""' ^-"^ ■"""™"y. » -n-ewhat pe^ 
 p exmg oae to answer. He stood, therefore, with 
 
 his left elbow, and his left hand anpportL h"! 
 robber ' T" •■" ■"""* ''^•''' '«ea'ded the captive 
 and hTs mfd " """'/."' """■«' P^'o™"' S'»ce! 
 «"e,derny. -"'•"'' '*"'' '" ''<"«"»« «>»' -P" 
 "Well Uncle Moses, said Fra„k ^ ^^ ^ 
 
 about itl„ ^ 1 r"""""'"*'- »'' b« q-iok 
 tt:^!°'^;^,7_'_->heo^ ';erbeggars-llbel^^ 
 
 So.- 1 f ''^'^ '^«°*»'^*^ pint that I'm j^ 
 .«»« im .b^j&min to think, .that the Very best 
 

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 36 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 thing yon can do is to take your handkerchees 
 back, and come back with me to the inn, and get 
 some dinner. For Pye every reason to- believe 
 that dinner's ready about this time, bein as I re- 
 member hearin a bell a ringin jest before Bob 
 ' came for me." 
 
 At this the boys stared in amazement at Uncle 
 Moses, not knowing what in the world to make of 
 this. 
 
 "What do you mean," said Frank, "about our 
 handkerchiefs, when we've tied up the bandit with 
 them ? " 
 
 ' " Why," said Uncle Moses, « I think if you come 
 you may as well bring yer handkerchees with you 
 — as I s'pose you prefer havin em." 
 
 " But ute'd have to untie them," said Bob. 
 " Wal, yes," said Uncle Moses, dryly; « that fol- 
 lers as a nat'ral consequence." 
 
 "What I" cried Frank, in an indignant voice, 
 "untie him? Let him go? And after he has nearly 
 killed David and Clive ? " 
 
 "Wal, he didn't quite kill em," said Uncle Moses, 
 turnmg his eyes benignantly upon the two boys. 
 They seem to me jest now to be oncommon spry 
 - arter it all. They don't look very nigh death, as 
 fer as appearances go. No harm's done, I guess: 
 an eip, I dare -say, we'd best jest let em go." ' 
 — At this-Erank lo o ked i oegafatydrs gustgd; 
 
 "You see, boys," said Uncle Moses, "here we 
 ^» B^ v®'7 peculiar situation. What air we? 
 
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p' 
 
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 tnrCLE MOSES* ARGUMENT. 
 
 37 
 
 Strangei:^"ftnd sojourners in a strange land: don't 
 know a word of the outlandish lingo ; surrounded 
 by beggars and Philistines. Air there any law 
 courts here ? Air there any lawyers ? Air there' 
 any judges ? I pause hr a reply. There ain't 
 one. No. An if we keep this man tied up, what 
 can we do with him ? We can't take him back-t^rith 
 us in the coach. We can't keep him and feed him 
 at the hotel -like a pet animule, I don't know whar^ 
 the lock-up is, an hain't seen a policeman in the 
 whole place. Besides, if we do hand this bandit 
 over to the ^lice, do you think it's goin to end 
 there? No, sir. Not it. If this man's arrested, 
 we 11 be arrested too. We'll have to be witnesses 
 agin him. An that's jvhat I don't want to do if I 
 can help it. My idee an aim alius is to keep dear 
 of the lawyers. I'd rather be imposed on; I'd 
 rather pay out money unjusth., be cheated, hum- 
 
 nnf Vri^' '°r^''"' *^^^ P«* myself in the 
 
 power of lasers. Depend upon it, they're as ba^ 
 
 here as they air home. They'd have us all t 
 
 jail^ as witnesses. Now, I don't want to go to jail " 
 
 The words of Uncle Moses produced a strong 
 
 impression upon the boys. Even Frank saw that 
 
 handing the man over to the authorities would in. 
 
 vo ve some trouble, at least, on their part. He 
 
 j^^^hy he cajl e d ^^ both er" B onidoT, he had - 
 
 no vengeful feelings against the Italian, nor had 
 
 !l f f.^r*^ *°^ ^^^^^' '^^y ^«^« the only 
 ones who had been really wronged by the fellow; 
 
 but they were the last in the world to harbor re^ 
 
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 38 
 
 AMONG THE BBIGAND8. 
 
 Bentment or think of revenge. Their vicVj W 
 
 ■ fW Tk %*';'"' '"'''^■^"'- ^° *^^« ^'^d k it was, 
 that they did according to Uncle Moses' Vuffffes- 
 tion, and untied the bonds. \ 
 
 Number Six was evidently amazed. He r^se to' 
 t his feet, looked warily at the party, as though ex- 
 pecting some new a;ttack, then looked all around 
 and then, with a bound, he sprang away, and run; 
 nmg towards the ro^d, soon disappeared. The 
 rest did not delay ^fouch longer, but returned 
 as soon as possible, to the inn, whefe they found 
 their dinner ready. This they ate, and then drove 
 back ^ Naples. 
 
 The opportune arrival of Frank and fiob was 
 ^soon^explained. They had been riding on donkeys,- 
 and had seen the crowd around David and Clive 
 and the struggle. Fearing some danger for thair 
 companions, they had hastened to the spot, and 
 reached it in time to 6e of service. The adven- 
 ture might have been mpst serious to David and 
 Clive ; but as it happened, the results were of no 
 very grave character.. They felt a little sore ; that 
 18 all. Bob also had a Ijad bruise on his left arm - 
 but on the whole, very little hamrhad been done 
 n^r did the bojs regret afterwards that they liad 
 let the scoundrel go free. >-"^' 
 
 As for their guide, Michael Angelo, he had been 
 
 Jmy m another direction, thtfiflg^tfamarfvefi Mrr 
 and wheti he heard of it, he was very anxious tj 
 have them arrested ; but Uncle Moses, for reaeon* 
 already stated, declined to do anything. 
 
 
♦ * 
 
 IN THE COUNTET. 
 
 39 
 
 J 
 
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 CHAPTER III. 
 
 Out into the Country. — The Drive. — The glorious Land. 
 
 — Sorrento and eternal Summer. — The Cave of Poly- 
 phemus.-^ The Cathedral. — The mysterious Image.— 
 
 What is itt— David Relic-hunting.— A Catastrophe, 
 
 — Chased by a Virago.— The Town roused — Besieged. 
 —A desperate Onset. — Flight.— Last of the Virago. 
 
 FEW days after the affair related in the lasl; 
 chat)ter, our party set out from Naples on 
 an excursion round the environs. With 
 the assistance of their landlord they were able to 
 g6t a carriage, which they hired for the excursion, 
 the driver of which went with them, and was to pay 
 all their expenses for a certain given sum. . They 
 expected to be gone several days,.and to visit many 
 places of surpassing interest ; for Naples is a city 
 whose charms, great as they are, do not surpass 
 the manifold loveliness with which it is environed, 
 and the whole party would have been sorry indeed 
 if they had missed any one of thoaa acftneg of p n- 
 chanteaent that lay so invitingly near them. 
 ^-Jt^they drov« along the. shore they were all in 
 Se highest spirits.. The ak^ ^m cloudless, and of 
 
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 40 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 ^ %t deep blue color which . is common to this 
 1 climate; and the sun shone with dazzlibg bright, 
 ness, being only warm enough to b^ .pleasant, and 
 ^ . not m aoy way oppressive.- For many miles the 
 way seeikied nothing else than a street. Houses 
 arose ori each ^ide; crowds of people, and^multi- 
 .tudes of wagons, and droves of cattle, constantly 
 met their eyes. ; Caleches dashed about in all direc- ' 
 tions. The street itself was paved with the large 
 lava blocks which prevail throughout the city : and 
 in fact It seemed as though Naples was prolonging 
 Itself indefinitely. ^/ ^ 
 
 At length they emerged from the close-built 
 city, and entered *the country. AH thp way th^ 
 scenery was exquisite. On the le'ft extended 
 green fields, and orchards, and-vineyards ; spread- 
 ing away for miles, they rose up the sides of high 
 ^^ountams. Upon these were small^las and 
 hainTets, while occasionally a castle p^ched upon 
 BOine inaccessible height threw an air of romantic 
 attraction about the scene. They passed several 
 villages, and at length reached Castellamare. a 
 town on the shore of the bay. Passing beyond 
 this, they found a change, in the scenery. The 
 road wound along clifi-s which overhung the sea 
 and was ornamented by trees. . The road itself 
 was a magnificent one, as smooth as a floor, and 
 
 ?uTa .T ! ^? "^^'^^ ^°"'^' of Naples, the towers 
 Wt dotted the shore on, everyiside, the islands *' 
 
A *^.' 
 
 '•W^ 
 
 i»--!«^- iv^§^.,^4^y * 
 
 •tl, 
 
 THE OLOBIOUS LAND. 
 
 41 
 
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 that irose from otit the waters, the glorious bay^ the 
 g^ootoy form of Tesuvius, with its smoke clouds 
 ^ver)|angiiig, all united to form a scene whiqh 
 called forth the most unbounded admiration.* 
 Besides all these general features there were 
 others of a more special characte^, as from time to 
 time they came to some reCess-in the shore; and 
 the road running in brought them to some little • 
 hamjet, which, nestling here, -seemed the^ode of 
 
 leace, and innocence, and happiness. Through 
 luch variations of scenery they passed, and at 
 [li^ngth arrived at Sorrento. : 
 
 This little town is most beautifully situated near 
 ;h^ mouth of the Bay of Naples, and around it 
 n^ high, encircling hills which protect it from 
 ;he ^old blasts j of winter and the hot winds of 
 lumiiier. Sorrento has a perfect climate. All the 
 leeasoAs are blended togethier here, and in the' 
 •range\ groves, that surround the town, there may/ 
 le seenVat the same timp the strange spectacle of 
 rees in\blo8som side by* side with trees that are 
 loaded with fruit fully ripe. ' /, ' 
 
 It was evening when they arrived, and th^y had 
 lot muc^ time to spare ; so they at once procured 
 
 guide from the hotel, and set forth to see what 
 hey could t)©fore dark. . First, the guide took 
 ihe mtQ^ft Jeep chasm, wb^ 
 ibrupt, so deet) and gloomy, that it looked like the 
 bork of a rec^t earthquake. Ndt for from this 
 
 are some andient reservoirs, th^ Work of the 
 
 
 
 
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 42 
 
 AMONG THE BBIQANDS. 
 
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 'times of imperial Rome. The arche* were yet 
 perfect, a^d over the reservoir was a garden of 
 orange tre^s. Not far distant was a ruined temple, 
 in the enclosure of which was a myrtle plant, five 
 huridred years old, and so large that it formed a 
 respectable tree. 
 After showing them these things and several 
 - others, the guide took them to the sea-shore, to a 
 place which goes by the name of the Cave of Poly- 
 phemus. This is a large cavern in the cliff, in* 
 front of which is a huge fragment of rock. Here 
 the boys recalled the story of Ulysses ; and David 
 volunteered to give it in full to TJncle Moses. So 
 David told how Ulysses ventured to this place 
 with his companions ; how the one-eyed Cyclops 
 caught them; how he imprisoned them in the 
 cabin, shutting up its mouth by means of a huge 
 rock, which David thought might have been that * 
 very fragment that now lay on the shore before 
 their eyes ; how the monster began to devour . 
 them ; how Ulysses devised a plan of escape, and 
 succeeded in putting out the eye of the monster; 
 how he then effected his escape from the cave, and 
 regaining his vessel, put forth to sea. 
 
 Then they went to visit the house ih which 
 Tasso was born. They were not able to enter it, 
 and as it was now dark, they retreated. to their 
 iiotet.-"' — — ^ 
 
 ; On the following morning they all set out with- 
 out the guide, to see the town for themselves.. A 
 
1 
 
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 THE CATHEDRAL. 
 
 43 
 
 I festival ,of some kind was goipg on, which attracted 
 Im^}^ people, and the cathedral was filled. The 
 Ibojs, having nothing else to d<>, wandered away 
 Itbwards the common centre of attraction. Thej. 
 poon lost one another in the crowd, and one by one 
 they worked their wayt into the interior of the 
 jplace. The organ was sounding forth, the priests 
 irere intoning service, on the altar ciindles were 
 JuriMng, and far on tigh, through the lofty^aulted 
 iay^,4here rolled "the smoke of incensei and the 
 (rail of sbng 1 'j 
 David found himself a little distance away from 
 side chapel, which was evidently the chief at- 
 traction to the worshippers within the sacred 
 jdifice. A dense crowd assembled about it, and 
 in front of it. Through these David managed to 
 lake his way, full of curiosity about the cause of 
 ^heir interest. He at length forced himself far 
 enough forward to see inside the chapel. He saw 
 structure, in the centre Of the chapel, covered 
 rith drapery, upon which was a .cushion. Lyhig 
 |)n this cushion was the image of a child, clothed 
 rich attire, and spangled with jewels, and 
 lorned with gold and silver. Whether it was 
 aad© of wood or wax he could riot tell, but thought 
 was the former. The sight of it only tempted 
 ligLCJ l dQsJty the more^ and- heJbngod to Jook at -it 
 )re closely. It was evidently considered by the 
 burroundirig crowd to be an object* of great 
 ictity, tor they regarded it with theutrnpflt 
 
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 44 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 ^reverence, and those nearest were on their knees. 
 Upon the altar, at the end of this chapel,. lights 
 were burning, and a priest was engaged in re- 
 ligious ceremonies. 
 
 David's desire to go closer was so strong, that he 
 waited patiently in this one spot for the opportuni- 
 ty of gratifying his curiosity. He had to wait for 
 a long time ; but at length he had the satisfaction 
 of seaing a movement among the people, which 
 showed that they were on the point of dfepersing. 
 After this the crowd lessened, and the people 
 began to take their departure. At length but a 
 feW remained, some of whom were still on their 
 knees around the image. 
 
 - David now, in ja. slow and unassuming manner, 
 advanced towards the image. He could go close 
 to it, and was able to see it perfectly. An iron 
 rail surrounded the structure on which it. was 
 : laid, preventing too close an approach ; but stand- 
 ing here, outside of the rail, David saw that the 
 image wap very rudely carved out of wood, and 
 was intended to represent a child. Why such an 
 image should be the object of bv^ interest and 
 devotion he could not for the life of him imagine. 
 He could only postpone any investigation into this 
 , l^til he could find out from some one. 
 
 I And now there came oyer him an overwhelming 
 4fisiret<>abtatn a fragment fromTlSfeprTib^^ 
 this image, or its dress, or its surroundings, to 
 serve as a relic. His relic-hunting J^opensifciep 
 
 

 DAVID BELIC-HUNTINQ. 
 
 46 
 
 iad never been stronger than they we-re at this 
 loraent, and no sooneT did the idea suggest itself 
 than he looked all around to see what were the 
 bhauces. 
 
 As he looked ^around he saw that the cathedral 
 
 iras nearly empty : a priest was near the hi^li altar, 
 
 Iwo boys were in the middle of the nave, by th© 
 
 bhief entrance was a little group just preparing to 
 
 save. Nearer him, and close by thp imag^, were 
 
 |wo womep. They .were on their knees, and ap- 
 
 i)eared to be absorbed in )their devotions. It 
 
 leemed ro David that it would be quite easy to 
 
 bossess himself of some small and unimportant' por- 
 
 lion of the drapery. He was quite unobserve'd, for 
 
 lie two women who were nearest were not regard- 
 
 ig him, the drapery was within easy reach, and a 
 
 tow of tassels, upon which he could lay his hand, 
 
 Iffered an irresistible temptation. If he could but 
 
 tet one of those tassels, what an addition it would 
 
 ^e to his little stock of treasures 1 
 
 David once more looked all around. The priests 
 rere still at the altar ; but the boys had gone from 
 ^e nave, and those who had been near the door, 
 lad departed. The women seemed as intent as 
 fverupon their devotions. David looked at the 
 Irapery once more, and upon one of the tassels 
 ' uch was nearest him. ' ■ 
 
 t 
 
 )nce more he looked all around, and then, 
 kretching forward his hand, he touched the 
 BQveted tassel. . ^ ' I 
 
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 46 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
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 , Then he drew back his hand, and putting it in 
 his pocket, he drew forth his knife, which he 
 opened. 
 
 \^ ' Tijen he looked around once more. 
 
 Then, for the last time, he put his hand forward, 
 holding the knifenBo as to cut the tassel. But flie 
 cord which bound the tassel to the drapery wds 
 strong, and the knife was very dull, and David 
 found that it was not so easy as he had supposed. 
 But he was determined to get it, and so h^ sawed 
 away, with fcis dull old knife, at the cord, severing 
 one by one the filaments that composed it, but 
 doing this so slowly that he began to grow im- 
 patient. The women were not looking, ^here 
 was no danger. To work with one hand was use, 
 less, and so he reached forth both hands, ana 
 began sawing away more vigorously than iver. 
 But his impatience, and his vehement pulls land 
 tugs, produced an eifect which he had nbt expected. 
 The heavy drapery, which had been loosely thriVn 
 over, began to slide off towards him ^ he pullid. 
 David did not notice thisf^ but continued his workj 
 looking around to see whether the yomen were 
 noticing him or not. At length he had sawed the 
 «>rd almost thi:ough, and gave a quick pull at it to 
 bi-eak it. - it. „■' ■ ~ 
 
 The next moment the heavy d rapery onn^A 
 
 riidmg down towards him, and, to his horror, the 
 wooden image came with it, Ming with a crash 
 ©n the marble pavement. 
 
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 OHASEP BT A VIBAGO. 
 
 47 
 
 In an instant the two women started to their 
 set, staring^ with wild eyes at^ the image and the 
 rapery. Then their Neild eyes caught sight of * 
 ►avid, whose frightened face would have revealed/; 
 im as the guilty cause of this catastrophe, even :>• 
 "it had noti been shown by the tassel and the ' 
 life, which were in his hands. ,> 
 
 With a sharp, shrill scream, one of the women 
 )rang £owa,rds him. David instinctively ^aped 
 [ack, and eluded her. The woman chafed. David 
 lodged her around a pillar. 
 
 The woman followed. 
 
 David dodged behind another pillar. 
 
 T^ie woman cried out, "0 Sodleratol Birhonet 
 
 ^urbo! Ladronet" And though David's knowl- 
 
 Ige of the Italian ^guage was but slight, yet it 
 
 ifficed to show him that these names which slie 
 
 [elled after hitik had a very direful signification. 
 
 Thu« David fled, dodging the woman behind 
 
 [illar after piUar, until at length he came near to 
 
 le door. Had the other woman taken part in the 
 
 lasp, David would certainly have been captured. 
 
 lut the other woman did not. She stood as if 
 
 )trified — motionless and mute, staring at the 
 
 ULen sanctuary, and overwhelmed with horror.^ 
 
 |o the flight went on,;nntil at length, reaching the 
 
 )or. David made a ru sh fo r i tj dashed through,^ 
 
 id ran as fast as his legs could carry him. The 
 
 roman followed, but af i; slower rate oC speed, arid 
 
 iw him go into tih& hotel. Then she returned to 
 
 
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 :iv 
 
 2 
 
 48 
 
 AMONG THE BBIGAND8. 
 
 On reaching the hotel, David found the rest of 
 , the part^>ere, at dinner. He said nothing of hi 
 recent adventure, bnt took hi, seat at the tfl^e 
 ^^efore long, the party became conscious of a 
 p-eat tumult and uproar in the street in front of 
 the house Prank and Bob went to the windows 
 and looked out. A sudden excWation of surprise 
 brought Olive and Pncle Moses to their sMe 
 Dav,^ followed slowly, with a strange feeUng of 
 apprehension, and with the recoUection of his late 
 flight still strong in his mind. 
 He looked out. | 
 A great crowd presented itself to his horrified 
 
 1 ,7 "'.™T-WP''?'«"''°e a" Sorrento; the 
 old, the mid<re|fed, the young; the rich the 
 
 poor; male Ja female; old men,dd wome„,C; 
 
 -\ u T? °^ *^^ door, was the very old woman 
 who ha*d,scovered his sacrilege, and had chZd 
 
 th^t IT^ " ""'u''^^^'- N""^ '"' '"'<' hoped 
 that ^e old woman had forgotten- him ; but her 
 
 appearance now was tenfold more terrible than 
 
 ever. Here she was -a virago -with a great 
 
 following, whom she was exciting by vifle™ 
 
 -haranguos-and ■i^:..,.u. . ..^j— ,...°. .f^- '°'ep' 
 
 ^'^^g"'^'^t* ^ '"gby^dgegt.culatfoi.s,todo 
 something or other which DUd cpnld not under- 
 stand, but which be could well imagine to be 
 
 «'.\,^- ^t^lk'n. «»»#j'iSU,'" s 
 
 
"■T,^ 
 
 
 i'T^'!>0lr*"^;i'f,\ , ^-^f^^^ < 
 
 THE TOWN BOUSED. 
 
 ^ ' h 
 
 lomething that had reference to his own humble 
 ^nwprthy, and very much terrified self. ' 
 
 ' Beford they had fairly grasped the whole of the 
 Icene that was thus so suddenly presented, they 
 krere accosted by the landlord and the drivel, who 
 Entered the room hurriedly, and in some excite- 
 »aent, m search of them. 
 
 "One -grand meesfortune haf arrive," sairthe 
 .ndlord. «De people declare you haf insJit de 
 Sambmo. Dey cry for vengeance. Howisdis?" 
 
 I « What ? " asked Prank j « insult what ? » 
 
 ' " De Bambino." ... 
 
 "Bambino?" 
 "Yes. It is de consecrate image — de Bam- 
 
 pno-does miracles, makes cufes; wonderful 
 
 inage de pride of Sorrento; an dis is de day 
 icred to him. What is dis meesfortune dat I hear 
 
 3 not take care." ^ 
 
 Multed anything whatever. They're crazy " 
 [Here David finding concealment useless, cou- 
 
 t:t ?,-7t' ^^^ "«'^°«^ '- astonishme^ • 
 ^e landlord shook his head with an expression of 
 pncem and perplexity. "^ , 
 
 (Then he had a long cbnversation with the 
 
 [Then they both left the room. The landlord 
 
 fch, -S "u"* "^^ '^ "?!«""« ^he crowA He 
 Mght possibly have enooeeded, had it not beenfcr 
 4 
 
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 ■TK* 
 
 
 60 
 
 AHONO THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 f 
 
 ■ i( 
 
 
 
 David's old woman, who shpok her fists in his face, 
 stamped, appealed to Heaven, raved, and howled, 
 all the time he was speaking. The consequence 
 was, that the landlord's words had no effect. 
 
 He then entered the hotel once more, an^ after 
 seeing the driver, and speaking a few words, he 
 hurried up to our party, who by this time were ,in 
 a state of general alarm. 
 
 " You must run — fly — leaf Sorrento '— new — 
 
 • widout delay," he cried, breatSlessIy. " I haf 
 
 order de carriage. I sail tell de people dat you 
 
 sain be arrest, an pacify dem for a few moments, 
 
 till you get start." 
 
 The landlord once more left them, and going out 
 to the crowd, he made a few remarks, to the effect 
 that the hotel was being searched now for the 
 offender against the Bambino, and when he was 
 found he would at once be handed, over to the 
 authorities. He urged them to wait patiently, and 
 they should see that justice would be done. 
 
 The crowd now grew calmer, and waited. The 
 landlord then went back, and led the party down 
 to the court-yard. Here the carriage was all in 
 readiness, and the driver was waiting. They all 
 got in at once, unseen by the crowd in the street; 
 and then, cracking his whip, the driver urged the 
 h0r8eB off at Jull s peed through the gates. The 
 
 crowd fell back'on either side, so as to make away, 
 and were not in a position to offer any obstacles to 
 10 sadden an onset. They also had the idea that 
 
 j«.i 
 
 ,>£4& 
 
TSWl-'*>^-'^>*i*'P'-3^?!*''''^"'.- -■"*''"'' '^■*" -*■{? 
 
 FLIGHT. 
 
 ri'\ 
 
 St 
 
 ihe culprit was inside tlie hotel, in the hands of 
 [the authorities. 
 
 But the old woman was not to be deceived : she 
 .aw It all m a moment, and in a moment she raised 
 he alarm. Raving, howling, gesticulating wildly, 
 lanomg, and jumping, she sprang after the cwr- 
 lage The^rowd followed. But the carriage 
 lad already got a good start j it had burst tbrtiiffh 
 ;he peo^e^ th^se who stood in the way were 
 T^ *?ai *° g*'* o«t of it, and thus, with thb 
 brsesipp speed they dashed up the street ; md 
 kfore long they h^d left Sorrento, and the holel, 
 nd the msulted Bumbino, and the excited crowd 
 ^nd the raving old beldam far b6hind. ' 
 
 David's a(^.enture in Sorrento had been a pecu^ 
 
 LL"""";? r?"'.*^"' ^^^ ^*« »«* without 
 ianger; but ,f ther^ was any satis&ction to be got 
 jut of It, It was m the feet .that the tassel which he 
 ^d acquired remaiU still in his possession, to b« 
 Wded to his httle s »ck of relics. 
 
 
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 63 
 
 f 
 
 
 AHONQ THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 ^4'.; 
 
 Salerno and the sulky l^river. — PastutH and its Temples. 
 — A great Sensation. — An unpleasant Predicament. — r 
 Is the Driver a Traitor? — Is he in League with Ban- 
 dits ? — Argtiments about the Situation, and vjhdt each 
 thought about it. , I 
 
 FT]|R a very pleasant drive through a 
 coHfttrjc ae beautiful as it had been ever 
 since they left Naples, the party reached 
 Sal;©r6o, "wl^ere they passed the night. Salerno is 
 a lovely pljice, situated jat the extremity of a bay, 
 like Naplesj, of which it may bei called a mimaiure. 
 It is protected from the wind by the high hills 
 that encircjle it, and its delicious climate makes it 
 a great resort for invalide. Btat formerly .Salerno 
 had a diffejrent character, and bne fai* more promi- 
 nent in th6 eyes of the world. Salerno has*^ his- 
 tory full of events of the mosti varied and stirrinjg 
 character. Fought for by Grejek, and Baman, and 
 Giermai^, and Saracen, and Norman, its streets have 
 witnessed the march of hundreds of .warlike ar- 
 
 rays, and it has known every extreme of good or 
 evil fortune. Two'things mal^e Salerno full of in- 
 terest to Jhe traveller who lov4s the past. One is, 
 
 ,ati... 
 
 mi 
 
 # 
 
 — -- -r— '^^'V 
 
/^ 
 
 ' '-^ 
 
 BAIEBNO KSa THB SULKY DBI^. 63 
 
 dll rifV ' " '"" "^ J«-™i''g during the mid. 
 l^r^ • r """^ ""'« *''« g'-eatest school 6f 
 moAcme m the world, the chairs of which were 
 thrown open to. Jewish ind Arabian L117 
 who nt tLo* *•„ r -araoian protessors, 
 
 tTeCh2- ^M ' °°*^*"PP<"1 the students of 
 the Chnstian world m scientific attainments. The 
 other thing is, that here the ereat nnJ T -^ 
 Va, found refuge, after his'lTj 7ug ^S? 
 flymg from Rome, obtained restliere S/^^e 
 Inendly Normans, for it was in SalernrS he '^ 
 uttered those memomble dying words of 'his'' 
 'I have loved righteousness, and hated mJ^u 
 and therefore I die in exile." .. "*" ""I""?! 
 
 Here at Salerno thev had n Iun.1.. ' • ■ 
 
 •landing with their ,1^'^^^ t^^lTr^ 
 
 fng more pay. A, they h^d'itready mad^i fon 
 
 contn.ct with him, this demand seemed"te a^! 1 • 
 
 fos.t»n and was rejected hy the.whole o^lm 
 
 ^ '" «»tf.4ther, J'Xr', ? X' 
 which sounded like Italian oaths, tbongh^T 
 
 RdSto ht d' ""yt"— v-d was inclld 
 
 jtired, Frank at length started to his feet and iYl 
 pe^mptoiy tone ordered him out If 'he C. " 
 Pj ^^ » t,nprep.red for this leS 
 
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 (-.V-»^.,^j.-.^.^»rT* i' 
 
 54 
 
 w- 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 I >■' -^V 
 
 p^ 
 
 conduct on the part of one who appeared to be 
 bu^ a boy, that he stopped short in the midst pf a 
 most eloquent tifade against them, in which he 
 vTas threatening to denounce tfeem to tjie authoyV 
 ities for sacrilege ; and having stopped, he stared 
 at Frank, and seemed unable to go on once more. 
 Frank now repeated his orders, accompanying 
 them with a threat that he would call in the police. 
 At this the driver's brow lowered into a sullen 
 scowl, and muttfering some expressions of rage 
 and vengeance, he lefl the room. 
 . Th^boys chatted a little about the mutiny of 
 the driver, as they called it, but soon dismissed 
 the thought from their minds. \ ' 
 
 After ^passing the night at Salerno, they pre- 
 pared, on the following morning, to continue their 
 journey. Early in the day, the driver made his 
 appearance. He was quiet, and not communica- 
 tive, and much changed from his former self. 
 Frank addressed a few remarks to him, but perceiv- 
 ing that he was sulky, he gave np all attempts to 
 appease his wrath. In fact, he began to think that 
 it might, perhaps, have been as well to comply 
 with his request, for the request for more money 
 had been based upon.his recent rescue of them 
 from the. hands of the mob at Sorrento. Had the 
 driver made his request a little more meekly, arid 
 -aab preseutsxt it with ilich an assertion of right, 
 there is no doubt that they would have cheerfully 
 given what he asked. But his tone ©xcited their 
 
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 * ' *Jfif ^ . -^- ^ ^^'^ ■ 
 

 fJBStJSU. 
 
 fH^ 
 
 55 
 
 resentment; and afterwards, when the\ driver 
 chose to lose his tenaperand scold them, theV were 
 more determined than ever to • refuse, md he 
 appeared at this time with his former good-nakred 
 expression, and h4d h& shown any signs of Tom- 
 punctiou for his insolent behavior, there isAno 
 doubt that they would have brought up the StTb- 
 ject of the'ir own accord, and promise^ hiib^ 
 handsome; a sum as hia.egploit deserved. But hia 
 continued sulks prevented them^from ihtroducinA 
 the subject, and so they concluded to defer it to 
 some other time, when he might be restored to 
 himself: .y , , ; > \\ 
 
 They now drove along the road m route foj- P»s. 
 [tum. At first they drove along the sea-short, but 
 -alter a few miles the road turned off into the 
 country. All around them were fields, which^were 
 Wered with flocks and herds, jvhile in the dig- 
 ^nce were hills that were clothed with vineyards 
 Id ohve groves, that adorned their sloping de- 
 hvities with mantles of d^rk green and lighf H • 
 he country, on eithersid^ they also saw some in. 
 lications of Italian life, whVch excitod strong feefc' 
 jngs of repugnance within them; for here and 
 .here, in m^ny places, women Were toilintf in the 
 »elds aust as the men, with heavy hoes, ^or with 
 'lo^ ghB; or w ith ^- ' -' 
 
 ; harrows. .:i&Bome :i^ eefr it war- 
 
 ^T' t''^'^ Baw women laboring iu the 
 5elds,while^the men lolled bn the fences, or sat 
 mokmg under the shade of some tree. The im. 
 
 ■m 
 
 
-> (^iftpT^sjf^i^l 
 
 56 
 
 AMONG THE B^Ain)S. 
 
 J)lements of labor used excited their surprise. The 
 hoes were as ponderous, as clumsy, and as heaVy 
 asjjiekaxes; the ploughs were miserably awkward 
 things -a straight pole with a straight wood- 
 en share, which was tometimes, though by ^o 
 means always, pointed with iron. These ploughs 
 were worked in various ways, being sometimes 
 puUed by donkeys, sometimes by oxen, and pn one 
 memorable occasion a donkey and a woman pulled 
 the plough, while a man, who may have been the 
 woman's husbandj^ guided it through the furrow. 
 
 The i*oad wfea good one, and was at first well 
 travelled. ;^hey met soldiers, and priests, and peas- 
 ants. The^ met droves of oxen, and wine carts 
 and large herds of those peculiar hairless pigs 
 which are common to this country. As they drove 
 on farther, the travel diminished, and at length 
 the country seemed more lonely. It was still fer- 
 tile, and covered with luxuriant vegetation on 
 «very side ; but the signs of human habitation de- 
 Pleased, until at length they ceased. The reason 
 of this lies in the unhealthy character of the coun- 
 try, which, like many places in Italy, is subject to 
 malaria, and is shunned by the people. This is the 
 nature of the country which lies around ancient 
 Paestumj and though the fields are cultivated 
 yet the cultivators live at a distance upon the 
 Blopes of the mountains. 
 
 "aS" aboiriSdd^^Tffi^y an-ived at' PfiBStum. 
 Here they descended^om th« carriage/and giv. 
 
 ' f^-'' 
 
'■' ' 5 ^3f?-«'S,Sfi»-'* '''P"^? /Vt- . ,*-- .^s",- ^'si"^ -,- 
 
 PiESTOH AND ITS BUISS. 
 
 '-Ut 
 
 ,:-(' 
 
 67 
 
 ing instructions to the driver to remain It tins 
 place „nt.l they should return, they startedloff to 
 explore the ruined city. It had been theirPe^: 
 t.on to make use of the driver as guide, to sh2 
 hem the objects of interest in-theUn bE 
 Iongco„ta„ed ,k3 drove this from the r Id 
 tad they concluded to .trust to themselveLna 
 the guide-books. The carriage ,vas draK 
 on the side of the road, not far from where the"e 
 stood an archway, still entire, which once foled 
 one of the gates of Piestum. 
 
 Towards this they directed their steps; Ue 
 ^gateway was formed of large blocks of stone K 
 upon each other without cement, and by tC 
 
 n either s,de of this could .be seen the foX 
 ta stones of the city walls, which have fallX 
 have been removed in the course of ages. lut 
 ►he o,r6u,^onhejsaU^^ be traced byZ fal 
 
 ents that yet remain, and from this circuit t£ 
 b of the cty may be judged. Beyond the 1 « 
 
 fcd wo'rld";'"^" *?' '"' ^^'' «- «"»« "^t 
 1^ and world-famed rums, some of which are liHfe 
 
 Hsa than masses of rubbish, while others are L 
 
 r" f'"'^""^. that they might now be used itr 
 
 tren^''''''''''.'''*^--<'"einaii;de:ot$ 
 
 niieatre, whfoh, however, are confused hears 
 fnd some public edificea in *i,« "oaps, 
 
 be foundatinn. „, "®' '". *« »«■»« conditio!., 
 ^ne loundations of some private houses maj- 
 
 

 '>r 
 
 
 68 
 
 AMONG THE BBIOAKDS. 
 
 be seen. But the mo8t noted and most inter- 
 esting of the remains of Paestum are its two Tem- 
 ples and Basilica— edifices whose origin reaches 
 ■f back to the depths of an immemorial antiquity, but 
 which still remain in a state of preservation so 
 perfect as to be almost incredible. For these 
 edifices are as old, at least, as Homer, and were 
 probably in existence before his day. Phcenician 
 sailers or raerchaints may have set eyes on these 
 temples, who also saw the Temple of Solomon at 
 its copipletion. Th«y existed in the age of the 
 Pharaohs, and rival in antiquity, in massive gran- 
 deur, and in perfect preservation, the Pyramids of 
 Egypt. In t|e age of imperial Rome, and even 
 of republican Rome, these temples were ancient, 
 and the Emperor Augustus visited them, and jfe- 
 ^rded them as remains of venerable antiquity. 
 
 -Of these three edifices, the most majestic, and 
 probably the most ancient, is the one which is 
 caUed the Temple of Neptune. The stone of 
 which it is built, is found in the neighborhood still, 
 and presents a most singular appearance. At a dis-' 
 tance it appears very rough andfull of holes, like 
 cork. A closer examination shows that it is really 
 composed of innumerable fragments of wood, com- 
 pressed together in a vast, solid mass, and petri- 
 . fi[ed. The stone is exceedingly hard and durable. 
 The "-"^ — ^ "' • ' -' ' 
 
 b l Qck g of this Btono-Wof^wbieh^iiiy temple, 
 and the others also, are built, are of such enormous 
 size, that they can only beVompared to those im- 
 
',^> ■J-'^^-S^jJ^^li!*^ ■*- '' 
 
 » J 
 
 fee 
 
 •'i 
 
 iV' «"."%?*. 
 
 Tian»LE8 OP P^ESTUlf. 
 
 i 
 
 59 
 
 m«inse masses that were heaped np to form the 
 Pyramids of Egypt and the Temples of Karnafc 
 Piled up hero upon one another without cement, 
 ^hgjr have deaed the ravages of time 
 "TThe Temple of Neptune is appn«i,ed by three 
 unmense steps, whioh e.tend around eve^ side 
 of It It ,8 about two hundred feet ik lengtMnd 
 .eighty ,„ breadth, while on every eide th^ereta 
 row ofe„on„„„3 columns of the-Dorfc order 
 th,rty.,x ,n number. They are airfl„^d?td 
 have an aspect of severe and massive -gra;d^^ 
 Ithat is unequalled in any other temple.^bove 
 hhese columns rise an enormous Doric frieze ^I 
 
 Height of the columns ; and these proportions give ' 
 uch vas „ess to the mass above,. that it heighSIs 
 
 ^und the Temple, are thirty feet high, a„d seven 
 feet m diameter at the base. Inside, fb^ piemen? 
 
 L "'"T"'^ • '^' *'»'6'' *e alter isCne :°t 
 Ihe place where it stood can easily beseea K 
 
 tne sky -a circumstance which made the Lk-. 
 C j! •'<*"«<" ""'Oh Easier, since it relie^^"^ 
 
 hitheatree, the blue sky could be seen overhead; 
 
 
i^ 
 
 r 
 
 * ^®w AMONG THE BBIOANDg. 
 
 * '^^ ' \ 
 
 l 
 
 while the too fervid rays of a mi^ummer Bun, or 
 the storms of winter, could be warded oflf from 
 ^se within by means of an awning thrown over 
 r thlS^ open roof, and stretched on cables. 
 ^ Near the Temple of Neptune is another, W'hich 
 IS called the Temple of Ceres. It is neither so 
 large nor so grand as the former, but it possesses 
 mor^ elegance and beauty. It is about a hundred 
 feet long and fifty feet wide. Like its companion. 
 It 18 surrounded on all sides by a cJolopnade, six 
 piUarf being in the front, six in the re^, and 
 twelve on either side. The altar here is gone, but 
 ;its foundations remain. Various signs show a 
 greater degree of splendor in the interior adorn- 
 ment of this temple, especially the fact that 
 the pavement was mosaic work. There is reason I 
 to suppose that this temple was turned into / 
 Christian church some time in the fourth century, 
 buch a transformation as this was common enough 
 throughout the Roman empire during that great 
 triumph of Christianity which took place under 
 Constantine, and after him, so that in this case 
 there need be little room for doubt as to the truth 
 oi the statement. .' 
 
 Not far from this -is the third of the. great ed- 
 ifices of P^stum. It is about ^s large as the Tem-^ 
 pie of Neptune, being nearly two hundred feet 
 
 It IS surrounded by a coloniiade,'but the architoc' 
 ture 18 les8 massive thag that of J^jrst temple. 
 
m 
 
 ,W 
 
 5b 
 
 
 IN tTNPLBASANT PREDICAMENT. 
 
 ei 
 
 these columns, nine are ft, front- ^n4 in the 
 rear and sixteen are on either side, makin«r fiftr 
 
 ee has led to th© 
 ^11, but a coui^ 
 the Basilica^ 
 18 to indicate a 
 ^sTde, the pavement 
 
 •f an altar ; and this circj 
 •elifef that it was not at 
 'f W. AccoJ^dingly, itL 
 I'hich term was used by t;h5 
 
 Jaoe used for public triate ,„..„„, ,„„ ^^^^^^ 
 et remain,, and there are the remain,, of a rol 
 ,V*'ri°ru'' i" """^ P"^'"'' »'™e *h« middle 
 Jo parts"^'"^ '""" *° ™"' "'^"'"S i' »to ' 
 
 rf/ZVIl^ «»-ee, the Temple of Neptune is th? 
 nmdest, he best preserved, and tULstfamou^ 
 «tthe_ others are fit companions, end the gian 
 ™s of these mighty relics of hoary antiquity 
 Bsurpassed by any other edifice, rise bSe tU 
 
 The party visited all these Carious objecfe S 
 re«t, and at length returned to the g^te. They 
 .d spent al,out two hours in their surTey of P»r 
 
 Id now nothmg more remained but to returt 
 :XS^£^-.ta« Of the\iver 
 
 u "::''':-^jjg;'HW»f> J. a ccounted for 41tiR tw 
 
 frgronnd that he was still maintainirJSfT^ 
 
 fd they thought that if he chose to n«Ae Xl 
 
 
 .w^' 
 
"»*■'■'•' -!!»,,,V*" 
 
 :%■-:■ 
 
 
 
 ■#^ 
 
 62 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 ^jr 
 
 
 \0f himself, they would allow him to do so as long 
 aS it was agreeable to him. 
 
 With these thoughts they approached the. gate- 
 way. As they drew near, they were surprised to 
 find that there w^re no signs of the carriage. The 
 yiew was open and tinobstructed. Here and there 
 mounds or fragments of stone arose in the place 
 where once had been the wall of the city of Pses- 
 tuni, and before tl^m was the simple arch of the 
 massive gateway, but no carriage or horses were 
 visible. » 
 
 This excited their surprise, and also their alarm. 
 They remembered that the sullen mood of the dri- 
 V0r made him quite capable of playing off some 
 DiiMicious trick upon them, and they recalled, also, 
 hps threats of the evening before. Could he have 
 cbpsen this way to put his threats into execution? 
 It seemed, indeed, very much like it. * 
 
 Still, there ,wji8 one hope left. It was just pos- 
 sible that the carriage had been drawn up mq^e 
 tinder the arch, so that^t was"' hidden from view. 
 As this was the last Jiope that was left them, i\iey 
 hurried forth to put fn end to their suspensenas 
 soon as possible. Nearer and nearer they came. 
 
 At last they reached the arch. '^ 
 
 They ruJIed through it, and beyond it. 
 
 There was nothing there 1 
 
 JiQ^hofsesI Wo driver! 
 
 , At this they ^] stopped, and stared at one an- 
 other in sileat cdftisternation. ^ 
 
 f 
 
 .1^' 
 
 ,.S- 1 
 
 X 
 
;■' i i 
 
 orses were 
 
 ^ 
 
 IS THE DRIT|;a«l[|^ TRAITOR? 
 
 63 
 
 f' 
 
 " He's gone,"'cried Clive. "He's left us here— ^ 
 to get back the best way we can." 
 
 " He swore last ni^ght," said David, " that he'd 
 pay us up ; and this is the way he's done it." 
 
 " Yes," said Bob ; *' he's been sulky all day. 
 He's been concocting some plan." 
 
 " I don't see what good it'll do him," said Frank. . 
 "He'll lose his fare. We won't pay him." r 
 
 "0, he'll give up that for the pleasure ofj-e- 
 vpnge," said Clive. 
 
 " Wal, wal, wal," cried Uncle Moses, looking all 
 around with a lace of dark and doleful perplexity. 
 " This here does beat all I ever seen in all my life. 
 An now, ^hafr upon airth we^ioan do — I'm sure I 
 can't tell." 
 
 " Whatever we do," said Fra©k, " it won't do to 
 wait here. It's too late now." 
 
 « Perhaps he hasn't run off at all," said David, 
 who always was inclined to believe the best of 
 people. " Perhaps he has driven up the road, and 
 intends to return." 
 
 Frank shook his head. 
 
 " No," cried Jie. ' " I believe the scoundrel has 
 left us. We paid him half of his fare at Sorrento; . 
 the rest was. to be paid at Naples; but he has 
 thrown that up, in order to have the* pleasure of 
 being, revenged on us. And where he's^gone to ' 
 ^HJ^w 18 a mysteryTome.'' . ' 
 
 " 0, 1 dare say he's driven off to Naples." 
 
 " Perhaps so. But h« may intend something ' 
 
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 ■j '^.fS 
 
 R^ 'J^mJ^m 1 1 1- < >T^* f %■ " 
 
 ^'M^^^MS^i^^'M^S^ 
 
w^f^*'-'"^' \* 
 
 -ft »'J. 
 
 
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 64 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 Z:}' ''■" '"'' "'^' *''«™ "- brigands, abont 
 " Brigands ! " 
 
 l\ « K '1 f " S"'"' '^^»' "f mischief." ^ ' f 
 
 ' hnr "^ ' ' " ""'"^ ^"'''^ M°«e», in a voice of 
 
 ^ZZ w "r -^ ^"^'y ''™-"«^. "no then koked 
 wi h mcstened eyes, upon the boys. ^' 
 
 O, boys," he sighed, "why did we ever v.. 
 toor out so far in .his here lllianZd, o ^ 
 
 «n a leeim it m my bones all day T f^u u 
 
 wtSv:;t-^:;^n:;ru'^™f '•■•"« 
 
 ,i I 
 
 '^ 
 
 ffiiwi. 
 
 
rigands- about 
 
 SITUATION DISCUSSED. 
 
 65 
 
 # 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 9 
 
 They discuss the Situation. — They i>r^.... . ^ 
 icilso^ Walk anaa ^'-PpMc^tl'Tl^'r^ 
 . 0/ Signs once more. — The Mnu^t^ • V- . ^^Hguage 
 
 '•onof the Donkey Bm — r^ .. ."— (-""tmui- 
 ~ " E Perdutol" '^""'^'"Vf 'fk. Cavalcade. 
 
 fm mention of brigands prodnced a stortlini. 
 . and powerful effect upon the who e f"/ 
 and after Uncle Moses' wail nf Lv • 
 
 ". wl"' tt' '"o™ *- "'"» & a tZ"' 
 VVell," said David " I rlnn'f i ' «* "me. 
 
 bei^^e in brigands altogether " Ml ITs of A "f 
 come to Italv wi'fhon^ cJ • <*«"iion8 of|feopIe 
 
 tod why sh uld we f P„T*' ''°^'""/ "^ *''« •"■'<'. 
 ver. lively Z^t d' eThL^'drir b ''^•' 
 «ome place on the road where he cI ^t *° 
 entertainment for n,.„ aT *" «** "'etle'' 
 
 P»«tum.'' "" """^ ''"'«' *«» « offere-fat 
 
 iWt^^™ ""^''^ ""^ «*■'>" »»id Prank.' «n.e» 
 lan t any m n f or in il e a." ^^^ - 
 
 ^om^'b^rofd":'! "Z:" If "?^''''- '"^-o -' 
 I T* ""y kern soon be back. Prom', 
 
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 66 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 , \ 
 
 what I've seen of the Italians, I think they'd stand 
 a great deal before losing aiiy money. The driver 
 would wait till he got his pay, and tl^n try to take 
 his revenge*" , , \/ -. 
 
 " Well, it may ^e so," said Frank ; " but in any 
 .case, it will be best for us to start off at once. 
 1]]iere's no use waiting here any longer. We can 
 foot itj after all. And we may como to houses, or 
 we may pick up a wagon, and get a lift." 
 m This was evidently the best thing thatt could bo 
 done, and so they all at once set off on foot, on their 
 way back to Salerno. 
 
 Fortunately for them, they were quite fr^sli. | 
 They had been driving all the morning; and for • 
 /two hours they had been strolling up and down' 
 within a small circuit, looking at temples, or sprawl- 
 - ing on the grass. They had eaten a good lunch 
 before leaving th.e carriage, and had not had time 
 yet to feel hungry. The weather was mild and 
 pleasant. The sun shone brightly, without being 
 too hot, and everything was favorable to a Avalk. 
 More than all, the road was very good, and nut 
 being much travelled, it was grass-groAvn to a 
 great extent, and this grass afforded an easy and 
 agreeable path for their feet. 
 
 They set out in high spirits, walking pretty 
 Vigorously, yet not too rapidly, for they wished to 
 
 ^ant^tTrmrsffmfffin^mvfmfg^^ 
 debating the point as. to the driver's intentions. 
 Frank maintained that ho had deserted them out 
 
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 )MiiMMMm^&' 
 

 a-r^ 
 
 '"""ife '" ""■"^1^^^" 
 
 _. i WAIK TOWARDS SALEBSO. g^ 
 
 «f WiSe and Bob coincided with tbV ^few ' 
 Dav.d, on the other hand, believed that !,„ V ^' 
 
 return and Chve sided with him. Bnt, as niile 
 after m,le wa, traversed, and still no signs of le 
 driver appeared, David's theory grew weak and 
 Frank's grew strong. As for Uncif-Mles he ^ 
 
 Cd, T ""'.'IT-'"""' ''"^'"^'^ "^^ti-g with. 
 
 V S, F -l ''"^"' """«^"' »''I«»"a" banditti ■ 
 vhich Frank's words had called up in his m nrf 
 
 h'T ""' "> *>« «^«ily got rid of. ^ """''' 
 
 pSd^-ed^dtt.:-™'- 
 
 i..;t miles bet^utl: .vt'f rrrr 
 
 oa "ow beoaipe wider, and <,,nt:ieX:JJ:: 
 living every indication of feeing a w»ll r-iT ' 
 I'orougWare, and exciting the hone twi," 
 huld find some wine cart at l„ , , ' "'^^ 
 
 ,• conveyance, By ni^LTofSX -.7°''' 
 fete their journey to dalerF ' '"'"'' ~"'- 
 
 Noh ehcited a shout of Jo^f^Bo?"^ ^'^"' °^ 
 ^^Oonkeys, Doukeys,» he «ried. "Hurrah, 
 
 eS^ ,reh:'„!:''^'"7'^«"<"""«--rld. 
 leino." • ' """' ">«">. a»d ■ido -back to 
 
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 lMOng the brig 
 
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 ic^m cne 
 
 
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 delight. " I h(^ to fiii^ne caS^, ^or ox carts j 
 but donkey^ ftrj^liifiniiel^^tt^-'' '^ ** 
 
 %rrymg 'iWi^^j^, thej^sl 
 .^u^.-, hdl-e were six or ei| 
 
 an ai^^.a bo^. •Filing' itog^ly a^ 
 pourse he could not speak Itfilian, 
 wigns he succeeded. in conveying 
 ^y's mind the requisit6.''idea, - On this 
 .^^ _, ^ i^^lelt most strongly the^^^nefit which 
 
 ' '*'^^^* hpd received from his intercou^ with Paolo. 
 *^ fT- Fratiic Urns pointed to his feet, and th|a backward, 
 apd then forward, and then pointing t^the donkey 
 •hearesst, he' made k motion to mountjaftfet which he 
 'showed the old man some money, *ind gapping it, 
 and poibtin^ to the donkey, he looked inquiringly 
 at him, as if to ask, " How-much ?" 
 . Tiie old man piade ^ome signs which Beemed to 
 Frank to be ^ question, " How far?" so he roared 
 out, in stentorian tones, ."Salerno." 
 
 Upon this the old man stood for a littlfe while in 
 silent thought. Then he looked at Frank, and 
 then, pointing with one hand at Frtihk's money, 
 with the other he touched the donkey, which 
 seemed to say that he would let the d^ey go for 
 
 that price.. As there was not quite a dpi 
 hand, in loose change, the charge s( 
 ~ton5©"'v^lrea8onable, and ev< 
 it, " ^^^wBmV" ,So thought alii 
 ap proqSS^d to^Jbring forth t^ 
 
 L Frank's 
 to him 
 
 tpressed, 
 fe,' and they 
 96 chdnge, 
 
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 / 
 

 THE LA1?GUAGB OP SIGNS. 
 
 ^"t"" ,'O'J. 
 
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 and pass It oveJ' to the old'maa. The hands of the 
 latter closed over the. silver, with a nervou« and 
 almost convulsive clutch, and after one long, hun- 
 gry look at each lot that was given him, he would 
 insert each very carefully in the remote corner of 
 an old sh^skin pouch that hung in front of him. 
 suspended around his waist. ' 
 
 But now arose a difficulty. The donkeys had 
 no saddles. That was ai small matter, ho^vever. 
 and was' not the real didiculty. The real difficulty 
 ^Jay m he factjhat they had no bridles. ^ 
 icould they guide them ? • ^^ 
 
 Frank tried by signs Jo express this difficulty to 
 [the old man and the latter understt.^ him, for he 
 Smiled; nodded, shrugged his ahouldert, and then 
 omted to his bpy, and waved his hand in the 
 ^recfon they wished to go. The boy also snliled 
 .nd nodded, and made signs of his own, by Mrhich 
 >e plamly showed tl^ thnt he intended to a(> 
 
 Jtllh ''°^ understood, the boys felt satisfied, 
 Pd each one now proceeded to select the donkey 
 mich was most ta hi» fjwUi*»t n u x. / """^®/ 
 
 iade his se^y^^^^^- ""^ ^^^ ^"^^^3^ 
 aae nis seMi^^nd^wi^ mmxted on the l?ack 
 
 M the bi^gf^nkey of th^lol 
 Me, bre#h. of chfi«* 
 
 an animal whose 
 
 Job h,s moant, but ine of them compS 
 Ink seared a «didanifflj,ti«i.ted a itS 
 
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 ■ 'I'M. 
 
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 70 
 
 ^ AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
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 -fact e?cpres8ioii, and looked as though he had \io 
 nona^nse in him. Clive choso one that had a 
 %ht sliade^of melancholy in his iace, as tiiough 
 he I^ad -knoivn sorro^w. David's donkey was a 
 shaggy, hard-headed, doWd-looking animal, that 
 seemed bent on havinf his own way. U„cle 
 Moses mount was rather eccentric. iTe chose the 
 
 . smallest an.mal of the lot, -a donkey, in fact,- 
 which was so small that its rider's feet could onfy 
 be kept, from 'the ground with difficulty. Uncle 
 Moses, indeed, if "he had chosen, might have taken 
 
 ' ^FM T A ^'"""'^' ""^ accelerated the motion 
 .- Pl h,s beast by propelling him with his own feet 
 .Great wa. the laughter that arose among the 
 . party as eadi one mounted his gallant steed, and 
 turned to bok upon his companion. Jeers, and 
 jokes, and light chaff arose, and the boys fouid no 
 end of fun m this new adventure. But Eode 
 3^08e8 wasn't ableHo see any fun in it at all5lle 
 6^t with an expression on his face that would have 
 done- honor to a martyr at the stake, and the boys 
 renpected him too mut^h to include him in their 
 good-natured raillery. 
 
 The Italian boy took David's donkey by the ear 
 and started. Davfd's donkey, in spit J of his ap' 
 pearance of obstinacy, fbllowed without resistance, 
 and trotted nimbly off, the Italian boy running 
 easi^byhHside.^ T ^ ^^^^^ 
 
 As tBey had no bridres a„rnoTddi;; s^rof. 
 the party had a iittle^difficulty in preserring.their 
 
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 vf/^ '* ■'i ^T 
 
 bob's ride. 
 
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 71 
 
 balance, but managed to do so by gral^bing the 
 coarse hair of the donkey's mane. The pace was a 
 rapid one, and it was wonderful to see how well 
 the Italian boy kept up with them Without losing 
 breath, or slackening it. This he c&fbr a long- 
 [^time. , , - 
 
 Among those who cared nothing for saddle Or ■ 
 bridle was Bob. On the bacjf'of a donkey he felt 
 as comfortably as though he was sitting in an easf 
 chair. As they trotted along the road, Bob sat 
 with his arms folded, and his legs now hanging 
 loosely, now drawn up in front of him, and at 
 other times pretending that he had a side-saddle. 
 At length he became discontented with thf sub- 
 ordinate position that he was occupying, in merely 
 following in the rear of t leader like David. He 
 was a far better rider than David, aYid his donkey 
 a far better donkey than the leading one. With 
 the ambitious desire to obtain the post of honor for 
 himself, he beat, pounded, and kicked at his don- 
 key. For a long time this had no effect whatever ; 
 the donkey not only was not stimulated by it, but 
 he did not even seem to be conscious of it. At 
 ^st Bob determined to resort to other methods. 
 Drawing a piarfrom his shirt collar, Where it was 
 filling the place of a lost button, he stuck it two 
 
 or three times in the donkey's flanks 
 -Thitf^Ws^rr^oft; The^patience of Bob>8 
 
 Thi*%ar=too= 
 donkey hadr 
 
 endure it no mor 
 
 its farthest limit. It could 
 
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 AMONG THE BBlOlNDS. 
 
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 Another lean anH j,o , u ", ^ay to the first. 
 MW leap, and he was beyond them. 
 
 smS"^- ""^^ '^"^ ^^' ^ race-horse, ms ^le^der 
 Bm^ hmbs seemed as fitted for runnin^n^^ f' 
 
 a^er the rlunawlr ah .i, ?, , consternatioq 
 X. . ^T"**"^/' All the rest looked t^i'+K «« 
 
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 bob's flight. 
 
 73 
 
 
 CItAPTER VL 
 
 Fbghi. of B^b.- Difference befmen a tame Donkey md a 
 ^ wild Ass. ~ Carried off to the Mountains. — The Head- 
 
 T^^Vf'^^^' ^^««/«'« Pass. -The Journey^ 
 EndrnkJll-omened Pla^e. - Confounded by anew Terror, 
 ^riga^ds. . - • \ 
 
 the donkf arst bounded off, the 
 ^"^^-^ of Bob were nothing but pure, 
 unmiHated dehght. As his spirited 
 animal, roused Ifrom In's indifference, burst through 
 the cro^d and reached the head, Bob's heart 
 swelled with triumph. As he rushed along tile 
 road, ^t ahead of the i^est, his triumph increased. 
 He turned his -head, and waved his hands to hia 
 Iriends. Then he waved his cap in the air, and 
 shouted "Hurrah 1" Then he rode side-saddle 
 fashion for a liftle while, then he drew both legs 
 'Y '^ front, and't^n he indulged in a series of 
 absurd and fantastic tricks. w i- 
 
 \ All this Bob did because he supposed that he, 
 wa^ riding aheadj)^hi8_friend^8,»^T^d that thoy Woro 
 
 T5nowing>m, and admiring him. He had not 
 made any oalculation as to the great rate of speed 
 at i^hicl^ his donkey was carrying him, and had 
 
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 74 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 prank, for the aZll'^^ fT """"'^'"e '"'' ''^ 
 r^fy be,ond the re:!,,':;;^':;:::;" ^^^"'^' "'■ 
 
 was an ass - s„wL r T ""' ^ <'<"'''«3' - l-e 
 a3 a race-horse '^Te'-'"'' "^'"y' ^^^ "^et 
 
 ' It seemed to h m tf f ^^'""'''^^^^ rider. 
 
 - "-eality this easy Bace w! T f- " ™"*'"'- '" 
 before long Bob Ts o^ of'' •l^"'^'^ "■'•"'""" 
 This disco,^ry burst ."nl h"^^^f '' ''" ^""•^'i'- 
 the intention of sCuZ , ? -'" '"™<"'. with 
 them, when to his T* ^ "'' ''*"' """^ense to 
 
 «". - r' no':;nT:f\rerrer -■"^'-- 
 
 He lookfd'In a „fd in aU '"^ P"""'"' o" « 
 
 theendeavortocomnrehendf ""! ™"°''"'y' '^»'' r 
 
 thought was; that eomr»'^'"'™"""- »''«fi"«' 
 
 to the party which waTd T"''™' '"*^ '""PP^-ed 
 
 he became aware 'f^ottr^ ''T ' •"" «"'» 
 
 "^d understood the tr^e state of^h""" P'"^™^'' 
 
 now in a place where tb^rf^"""*- ^I^was " 
 
 • »«e. it the en" 'of h s Tt ''"'f''°^ o^- 
 
 '• '""■had thi s turnl ng.ptee L I '^' T l ^* "" I* 
 
 faraway iust»f tif !.' °°^^^ hack again, 
 
 ^.justat the entmnce upon th^h" 
 

 BOB'8 flight. 
 
 75 
 
 piece of read, he saw the party coming. A few 
 Beconda and he was once more carried out of 
 sight. 
 
 And now Bob began to feel that his situation 
 was a serious one. It was not pleasant to be 
 carried away in this manner, in a strange country 
 on the back of an animal like this. Had it been a 
 runaway horse, he would have felt less troubled. 
 He would, m fact, have felt quite at home, for he 
 had been frequently run away with on horseback. 
 He understood horses, but of asses he knew 
 nothing. A horse was to some extent a sensible 
 animal. He would run away, and in due timi 
 would come to a pause. But an ass I Was an a^ 
 possessed of any sense of decency — any Con. • 
 science? Would the Well-known obstinacy of the 
 ass be shown on an occasion like this ? and wouia 
 this ass, merely out of that obstinacy, keep on 
 running for all the rest of the day? It was ^ 
 startling, thought. - • ■' 1 
 
 A Bob all this time had been making desperate ef- 
 forts to stop the ass. He was considerably em^ 
 barrassed by the fact that there was no bridle, and 
 no way of getting at the m^scf^f^o exert his 
 strength upon him. He tried ^l^^pvays. . First "^ 
 he pulled at his long ears. For M the ass qared' 
 
 / 
 
 -l^enT^ wounriiis hands about his neck, and 
 tried to pull his head back.. The effect was use- 
 tesfc Bob'a stren|th wfts unavailiDig. *H© could 
 
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 AMONO THE BMOANDS. kl 
 
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 no more move that bent and stubborn neck than - 
 he could straighten the crooked fluke of an anchoT 
 .Then he pounded wildly upon the neck, «hou"SerI' 
 a«d flanks of the ass, and kicked again t his Mes' 
 
 to affect the animal bo more than so many pufls of 
 
 right, and suddenly called, in a short, sharp pe^ ■" 
 emptory voice, "Whoa!" This he repeat^'over ' 
 - .apd over but without any su.eess, and atfeng h 
 he refleetea that «Aoa was English, 'a langu^ie 
 -h.h, of courae, an Italian ass could not ^del 
 
 tJ^^'^f^^^^ '""'" P"«'"g forth these efl-orts " 
 
 eatlier side. He passed long lines of trees by the 
 
 roadside he saw field after field.flit by and the 
 
 -distant hills went el„wly;%long ^t of t eTine of 
 
 ^ Vision. Hitherto he dad metlith no one at all 
 
 •k 7 ^^ T:''^ "^ ^^- -y Cttle of n" 
 
 Hie ffears, how^e 
 
 ver, were nnfounddd jK^r iow' 
 
 ev,nt occurred which mad« h^TuiTK" 
 
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 f.i/iiWi "v'-i>J^S:*m4*<^fcwlj ,'v (««'i;-' 
 
 

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 > > 
 
 BOB*S PLIGHT. 
 
 77 
 
 V 
 
 thoughts. It was a sudden change in the course 
 of hia flight. Tims far tWky had been going along 
 the main road. Now, how#ver, they came ■ to a 
 placd where a road led away on the. right,, ap- 
 parently to the piou^tains, Without the slightest 
 p^use or hesitation, but with undiminished spefed, 
 and ^e hea^ong flight of one familiar with the" 
 way, the ass turned from the main road, and ran" 
 into this side road. 
 
 The anjuety apd fear which Bob had thus far felt 
 were trifling;^ indeed, compared with the emotions 
 'that now sieized upon him. Thus far he had not 
 ' ^/elt altogether 9Ut ofi" from his fripnds. He knew 
 / *''4*^® ^'^'^ *M tbey were behind "hinvand that at ■ 
 th^. worst he-S^tild not be carried farther thaii 
 [1^.§aJerno, and th^t they wofeld come up with him; 
 Skir^"^ thuB'they would all bo reunited before 
 ?WlbP«t topw'he was suddenly carried ofi" help- 
 lesvsjyfrom the piain road, and in a moment seemed 
 sefvered from his frietods. Where was j^ going? 
 When would the aSs stop? -W^' 
 
 BeT(5re him arose thie mountainous coijntcy, not • 
 many mil©8 away, the declivities in some places 
 ■ slight aivfj gradual^ in other places abrupt. Cul- 
 tiwat|(i'%poSt appeared her^and there, and iWhite 
 yjjJi^jS^8> and 6ld: castles. It was not, however, an 
 JEnnting, fiw i ^tyy, and tho n»ar^r ho drew lo it th o 
 le^lieOiked/k. "" ' ^"^^^ 
 
 •■ai. 
 
 V 
 
 m 
 
 -, ^e road hero was n?)|.86^broad, 
 
 h.,W moo^, and eSly as tfte one l^e had^ just^e^, 
 t j%t ^as Mkfrow ifcd ipugh. At Jeligth h^. reached ' 
 
 
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 M. 
 
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 78 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 began tTJJt 'IZ^'^Cl ""' ^^ "- 
 
 f eeper, and decided ^ r™teV ^ J'"'"""'"'' 
 
 ™«<l,.to his immense Vl™/ ,"; i"*^ "'"' ^^''^ 
 
 l«»t beginning to tell „,,„„ 'tf ! P"''"' "''' "^ 
 
 *'•« fiery a„Ll wLh' he t "?'' "'""^^ "«■ 
 
 could not keep „ps„e, an , ,'"'''^''- "^''"a^B 
 
 . -ountai'n. olJSy,TlT^;^^T''n, the 
 
 Bob at length began to look abo.t ^ ''""''^' ™* 
 wl>«.-e he could jump "'" '^'^ " '^''ft P'ace, 
 
 «.ke : pi'tr/tir rnt™"^^^'^* '-^^^ 
 
 tlie hill rose, wooded i,rr'T ^^ '^"« ««« 
 
 -ok,, „a„e'on tic S it^trd" "''^^' 
 
 for about thirty feet- „!,» '''"" ^'^ep 
 
 . b-wled, and dashed 'olr^ "r "Tf "" '<'^'-^»' 
 
 about. here that the ass si. k V',"^"^' ^' ""^ 
 
 here it was i,„p„,"r- P f'"" '"« ^ffok ; but just 
 
 . I'.'-kiug .„„/:r! " b , r 'nir ""' "'^■"^- °'- 
 
 1'"te desperate enough to l,, """ ""' y"' 
 
 As the road went t„ b, , "f ' " "^^ "' *"at. 
 
 .Narrower and steeper o'r*^' "" P"^"' ■■' S^ew 
 
 ™ges,and only mfor\r'v 'I, ""''""'''"' '"' ^"'- 
 Tbe farther on [t wet I "f "" '""'"'''"■ ^o'- 
 beean,e,and.it weiro'^ tSr:^ ^ ^^ *^ 
 bouses appeared/except at * '^""''ng. -No 
 
 those which ,Jid tfas -annear If !"^ •^'"''"'««' "'"' 
 
 de e p 
 
 ^o p ttr a t od "^ 
 
 , . ""' bave easdy d.stnounteU froa, the 
 
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 AMONG THE MOUXTAINS. 
 
 ; 
 
 79 
 
 donkey now; but he hesitated. He thought with 
 8ome <ii8may upon the distance that lay between 
 Mm and the main road. He thought thkt his 
 friends mus^have passed beyond the place where 
 he turned otf, and that if he did go back he could 
 not hope to meet them. Besides, to go^o long a 
 distance ori foot Wi^s too formidable a task just now. 
 He hoped that the ass^ihad some aim indirectiiig' 
 his course here, and that ho wag seeking hfs home: 
 Perhaps^ that home was plose by. Perhaps it was 
 seme village in the mountains. If so, he might be 
 able toobtaip a mount for Salerno, and still re.ack' 
 that place before night was over. 
 
 He hoped thus to find help -to get a horse^or " 
 an ass, and also something to eat, an(] ^hus set • 
 forth for Salerno. As the road wound on, anA as 
 he traversed it, he looked eagerly at every plcQect- . 
 mg cliff before him; and as he rounded kch pre 
 jection he still looked forward eagerly in seat^h of- 
 the place, whetii^r house or vilhi^^e, wh^no ho ' 
 might obtain the help of which ho stood in need ^' 
 But the road continued lonely. He 'saw no hou.ses 
 no villages, in its vicinity. He mvl with no tiving 
 things, wh^ether men or cattle. It Was the loneliest 
 path he had ever traversed. 
 
 ^t last he rounded a/projecting l^pur of the,' 
 mountain; and here he beheld a sceno which was 
 JiK^ie pioiuising.' A./.t4e.distaiice off there was a 
 bridge, which Crossed" the toir<3nt Beyond t^is 
 the mounttrins ^lo|)od away in ap-^easy do(;lfvity,v • 
 
 'A' 
 
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 vt 
 
 g^Vuu)yy,^,^.,, 
 
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 I 
 
 (AMUNO the BBIffANDg. 
 
 '^here'ippeared several Jionses o„.i, ^ 
 
 of the bridee worn t» "oases. On the other side 
 
 take t i^to Ws St '^\^"»'gbi once more 
 •»he animal's b* k a^j ! T^' "* """o ''^»P«d off 
 The *ss, freed frn° V "'' '°"*^''' ">« bridge. 
 
 , trottiiiff over thp ht.?rf , ^® *^^ *^^e ass 
 
 ; :*«ey Sliced a^ots-^au'r^ o" '"™' ^"^ 
 . then heldhim and th, ,1.^ ^ One of them 
 
 ■:^.Asthe,at.";a^t:^:b::^^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 8hi.t,„Mcrwasnn '"■''^L''»"on8, a red flannel 
 
 « felt hat was onXl:; oT l 'S^'Th^ 
 Jar he was simnJv ^h^ ^ x neaa. iijug 
 
 other peasai'^n'. fil;™"t7:f °^ hundreds «f 
 •herds, drover? .W^^C, 1 T'''-'''"'^- 
 
 encountered d^rin^ h d Ivt 'Z '" '" ""^ 
 ; Portant rcpect h. las diffeL^t. "' '" °"^ *"■ 
 "e had a gunjK, his hand. 
 
 fpon Bob. And as t^tfl,..'^ °""^ '""f*'*'"" 
 
 ver, ^tnrai suspicion Z Z^,' ^ s^^^.Z' 
 Itsabngandi;hethou,ht, -g-mMrf 
 
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 THE LURKING-PLACE OP THE BRIGANDS. 81 ^• 
 
 CHAPTER m 
 
 TheLurkmg^lace of the Brigands. - The captive bJL 
 The htdeous Household.^ The horrible old Ha J^^ The 
 slattern Woman. - The dirty Children. - The% cjol 
 and the evil Eye, - I^spondency i,/ Bob -IseZZ 
 
 X;'^~^^^-~fn.prisonedL^l^tdJst^ 
 Outlook into the.Night from the Prison Windowl^ ^ 
 
 BRIGAND I . ) 
 
 ■Such waMhe appalling thought that ^ 
 ^ ^c|me to thf mind of Bob, as the Miau 
 advanced towards him. As he c^e closeifhis 
 face beqamiB more-distinctly revealed. It was not 
 a face which reassured him. Heavy, shaggy black 
 eyebrows, from beneaUi which gleamed black and 
 fiery eyes, a ^kin frowned by tl»e hot, Italian sun ' 
 ana white teeth, that glikened from behind a vLt ■ 
 maUed mass of tengled, beard ^nd moustaohe.-S.' - ^- 
 
 sud, w^ th^ face that appeared. ^It. seemedO^^^^^ 
 evrf and sihister face >-a f^ce that revealed^ ^ 
 crue and treachei^us soul. . No wonder that Bob^s . " ' 
 W sank w thin him ashe saw \.lrr...^.-..^,^^^. > 
 by one like this. "■ - — "^"Jnon r nniromoa • 
 
 ^ The Itelian stood looking at him with sharp and ' 
 close scmtmy^ Then he„ said sometlimg. ^ 
 
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82 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 ■'^ 
 
 •■ ' ,J,i- ., ""t """Jofstond him, and tried to ex, 
 
 P^a« by s,g„s thai he had lost hi, way, and that 
 the donkey had run away with hiai. He also 
 poimed a himseit; and said, " Amerienno,'- and 
 
 Zr^u'^. ^J""^ '" *•>« direction of the riit up 
 which he had come, and said, " Salerno." ThS was 
 very weU for Boo, especially when his anxiety of 
 •nindie taken into account, and his iigns seemed 
 
 fu Iv 'f Hr,,*' "^"»"- ^« '"<""='' »* Bol- -'e 
 
 lZh\ ''PP^'-f ' '"'"'='' ^'*'''fi'"' l"-™, after 
 which he motioned to him to follow, ^a„d walked 
 
 back towards the bridge. Bob's first' impuL was 
 
 to rush away, and run as fast as his legs could 
 
 carry him; but the thought of the Italifn's gun • 
 
 ' "kecked the impulse, and he followed. ^ 
 
 ^ Meanwhile the _other brigand, who had caught 
 
 the ass, stood stroking it and examining it. The 
 
 ammal seemed perfectly quiet and docile, alto- 
 
 gather a changed animal, different far from tha^ 
 
 ■^L^^'^y ^ '»™ «°'' «way from all h^ 
 .friends, and thrown him here among these dread 
 
 .^sociates. This other man h^ ve'ry Jch " e 
 same general appearance as the first one. His 
 bearf was reddish, and »is eyes'were smaller, the 
 
 Bob thought, and though he had no gun, yet he 
 
 PODe tb e Jcsg foi - HHikt ^ 
 
 «!'"• o™ fl """'' **^'?S together for. some 
 .too. One of thj,m seemed to be narrating to the 
 
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 CftW< 
 
 -M^ji 
 

 THE CAPTIVE BOY. 
 
 83 
 
 ncano," and. 
 
 other Bob's accouS of himself, as he -had under, 
 stood .t from tl» signs that had been made., AftTr 
 th,s they seemed to be discussing the subject of 
 Bob a^d the ass, for they looked at him and at thi 
 ammal from fme to time. during their converst 
 ■toon. At te„gth-41,ey seemed to have made Z 
 the.r mmds about the. subject, for' they sttoned 
 talkmg, and moUoning Bobto folio*, twtdkel 
 away, leading th9 ass with them «7 "»"=«<« 
 
 llv'^fnT.'' '*T^ ™P"'™ ™«« in Bob's mind t\ 
 Mm HeT" / '^T'* °^ """"S «•'«* at prfeveated^ 
 i"<n. He therefore followed as before. 
 
 There was in this place a ci^ular sweep of hills 
 enclo^ng a valley, through which the brook r^ 
 
 ZZ"! r"'^ ' '"''«<'' '''^ ™^d wou^d along a 
 gentle decbv.ty, arid net very far away were one 
 
 "ucrd rT; O"*"? "-esewas'two s'^orie high 
 raneh dilapidated, and looked as though it might 
 
 sTt iZ T ":■•"*«"'".»'■ -meth%g„f C 
 r;w V r ;° : "^^^ °' "'« torrent^nd the 
 STelL to r^' ""' ""''• ''•'« "«>- build. , 
 
 re,^; 7^ ^™''y '^^''""'y ^Pi-ead ajB^-till it 
 
 fist V f '"P'' """"''' ""d here <SZa 
 forest which cbvered the m„untain.sides. ^ . 
 
 A7f:^rr^^'"":;^ --'f''rM.capto.. 
 
 play, inlC et rrV^^''"'^^^ 
 oaiiM n„. <• II "'""'JP'^-^a}- boon an old woman 
 came out, followed by another, who was younger ^ 
 The old woman was a hideous old crone. Her 
 
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 AMONG THE ' BRIGANDS. 
 
 hair was a matted gray mass, her teethywere 
 gcjne, and her face was pinched, and so seamed 
 With wrinkles, that she looked as though she 
 might be over a hundred years old. The other 
 woman was very dirty and slatternlv. She had a 
 dirty baby, in her arms ; her hair was in disorder, 
 her face was greasy and smouched^ and a filthy 
 cloth, which might oncerhave been white, was on 
 ber head. The women and children were all bare- 
 foot. As. Boh approached, they all stared at him 
 with the most intense curiosity ; the two. women 
 stood still and stared ; tl^p children stopped their 
 play and stared; and. there wftTsomethint in the 
 glow and glitter of all these fiery, black, Italian' 
 eyes which seemed horrible to poor Bob, and made 
 his flesh fairly creep. > 
 
 The men then began to tiJk to the women, evi- 
 dently explaining about Bpb and the as^; and as 
 they talked the eyes of all of them wer^ mQ*t-# 
 the time fixed upon these two. As for I the chil- 
 dren, they glared for a time with very evil looking 
 feces at Bob; but at length the ass seemed to 
 ^er superior attraction^ to them, for they made a 
 rksh at it, climbed on its back, pulled at its ears 
 and t^il, and tormented it in various ways. Strange 
 to say, this animal, that had punished poor Bob's 
 little trick so^feal-fully, sh^ed 1»o resentment 
 whatever atiu s present tr o at'mcnt,^4rt-fc >f wd theie 
 
 no longer the fiery .wild ass, but the very living ' 
 ima^ of a patieni donkey. 
 
 
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 -<N 
 
 85 
 
 Bob stood there looking upon the seen; with Ilia 
 heart s.nli.ng within him, yet by no means de- 
 spa-nng. He had too high a spirit and too stout a 
 heart to g,ve up so soon ; and as he stood there, in 
 the power of this evil company, he turned over in 
 his mmd a hundred different modes of escape.'lf ' 
 he c<A.ldonoe effect his escape from these people,* 
 he might easdy go back by the mountain path 
 . Bu how could he escape? That was the difficulty. 
 Ihus far to his amazement, they had not inflicted 
 any cruelty upen him; nor had they tied his hai,ds: 
 but that was, no doubt, owing to their contemp ' 
 for Inm, and their conviction that he would not 
 venture to fly. All that Bob had ever hegd, about 
 the manners and customs of Italian briga now 
 came to hw mind -how thfey.detain'thftr pri«oI 
 ers subject to a ..nfcm, treating them^weU erfough 
 until the raasom comes, b^t if it faii<'then inflict, 
 ing upon tkem- the most" horrible crWes. To, 
 hou'hi^°T *'"""' °*'^'*' *"* they intended to ^' 
 
 wi, wrrnJ-T"' ""'' ****•>«>■ «'°«W treat, 
 him well tiirhe shoUId be freed. As he felt oo.v ■ 
 tain abou« obtaining hi, VanSom, he begiffijfijl ' 
 less^nxious, and his bold and enterprisKrrt 
 
 brtrbSr'^°-'^^^^'^-'^"^'''S 
 
 .un J? '?>.. ° °° "'' .^" """"A' '^^ft t Jli?. and tte 
 
 younger of the wxjnien wetit into t.i 
 brigand with the gun remained, ^n 
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 that he, was the subject nf *h.- *'"^' 
 
 him the old woman wat by fa tV?t"°' '^^ 
 of the whole crowd T^ 1. ^^^ «bnoxipus 
 
 fty,impishchi,dVe„;thItS 
 
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 he almost shuddemil <5i,„ • ■ . """"""y 'hat 
 
 ^uaaered. She reminded him of some 
 
 itches of whom he had read, who Z 
 
 Ijore superstitious ages, were supposed 
 
 Ny sustamed sueh a supposition. To " 
 
 and if she hi?:. 17^'"' "^''«^ »^ " ™tch; 
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 voluntarily shrank h..^ . *''P''°*"'' ^'''' '"■ 
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 i-oii\|ey a general assurance of gafetV >n. *u- u 
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 87 
 
 the ideaUhat he would be kept for a ransom. 
 Then the old woman came nearer,- and piltip ol 
 her thin, bony, shrivelled hands on his skoul^er 
 The touch was. like the touch of a skeleton, and 
 suggested horrible thoughts to poor Bob: A thrill- 
 of disgust and terror shot through him; but >» 
 stood'it, for he did not like to show his disgust, for 
 fear of offending his hideous' companion. The old 
 woman, then standing b^bre hini with her hand on 
 his -shoulder, looked at him for a long time in 
 silence. Bob looked back at her, and it seemed to 
 him that he had never seen, in all his life, s^ch a 
 hideous face. The wrinkles were now more plain- 
 ly visible, the jaws seemed to be more retreating 
 the cheeks were sunken, ibe cheek-bones project- ' 
 mg, the eyes, small and weak, showed tears that 
 slowly trickled down. 
 
 Suddenly the old hag gave a 'low groan, which 
 Bob attributed to some pain or cpth^, and turned 
 away. He noticed that she wab trembling, and 
 thQ^ght it was the weakness of het extreme old 
 age. He was puzzled by these movemei^ of hers, 
 and felt sure that the/ meant no good. After a 
 fe.w mmuted she turned agaioj and beckoned to 
 him to follow. She led the^way into the house. 
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 without lool^iDg in. He saw a l^r^^ »pnr.f^p„t 
 
 occupying aU the lower story of the old mill, with/^ 
 some rude seats androu^h beds. A long ladda^ 
 led up to the upper story. The old woman b^ck- 
 
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 tmered hun. Bob was ravenously hungry: bnt at 
 that moment an idea came to him-f s^p.cion 
 
 ve.y singular behavior of the old crone. The 
 
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 89^ 
 
 ^ that led to safety. Could he but escape foj a fei^ 
 I" moments from the eyes of his jailers, jMPinight 
 be saved. Aud why not? Two women, and eoto© 
 dirty children— why should he care for such 
 gnards^aft^ these ? One rush, one leap, and he 
 wouia^free. Willingly would he* walk all the 
 way to Salerno. Anything would be welcome 
 after such a captivity as this. 
 
 But 'Bob was doomed to disappointment; for 
 just as he had made up his mind to fly, just as he 
 was looking allaround to see if the coast was dear, 
 he saw, to his deep distress, the two brigands ap- 
 proaching from the outhouse. They were carrying 
 something which, on nearer approach, turned out 
 to be a sheep, which they had just killed. Of 
 course all thoughts of flight now departed, and 
 Pob could only deplore his own stupidity in allow- 
 ing that one chance of escape to pass away. -^, ^,* , 
 After this they began to boil portions of'& 
 sheep in a pot ; and soon the savory odor of a stew 
 filled the room, and came to Bob's nostrils. As he 
 was half starving, the delicious odor excited the 
 utmost longing to taste it, and he at once began to 
 feel rather satisfied that he had not fled. He felt 
 that a flight alter dinner would be far better. In 
 due time«.thy dinner was ready. It was a stew,— 
 mutton, wi^ vegetables, cooked deliciously, — and 
 Bob's hunger ^ w a»-w great tfaat"if Hriiad beeu 
 worse Qooked it would have been a banquet. He 
 had no fears of poi8<;ai, no suspicions of drugging, 
 
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 90 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 ternly wo„,a;,,and .fdl 7-,f '"■«' 'M slat 
 
 «as poured out into a l,^"f '!^''^"- '^'""^^^^ 
 
 «-<. no plates, but dipieXr.t" f «-' «-r 
 
 sight awakened a litn. h; ■ ""' ^"S""^- The 
 
 too Uungry ,o be 1 o,* 5," '." f"'^ ' ""'' '- -as 
 
 picking, out variouri"!- 'I, rr^^'^"''''' '" 
 
 touehodbythedirtywLnf ''"'' ■""• ''«'^'' 
 
 During the ronL P ' oompanion.,. 
 
 furtive glanees met his JtT ,' ""' ""'' "'C''"- 
 
 tl'om. The old voman^C'"""^<'--''«t>"„ed 
 devour hi,„ ,vith alreedvL ''""""' '» 
 
 tbat wa, very horrible i "^ ""■f ^'"^' 
 and Bob's appetite was sorae-wf Jfc Tf ^""^"^ 
 horror that he found inT '"""''"^ '^>' "'« 
 "nable.to have that free t°' '^'''', """^ ''« "'»'' 
 
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 >>'issed before. The dlrtv n M ^ ^ "'""'' ''« '""1 ' 
 
 too. The two brtend \ "'^T "'^''t °"t»'<'o 
 themselves with vS", "T'^' ""'' occupied 
 from such surn^undinrVH'^^"''"'™'" ^-«Pc 
 At length one of thl f ^^ "■''' ™P"ssible. 
 and ro°de aZ/so^ hf ""^ T""*^" *"« "-'■ 
 come. This cLumsU ::l'i' :"'"!' '" "'"'. 
 _B<^^first, but aftcrw^,.i. I. I suspicious to 
 
 /f 
 
IMPRISONMENT. 
 
 91 
 
 ''^ike of tlip 
 ag, tliQ slat 
 'i'ho j stew 
 'atter; they 
 ngers. The 
 
 but he Was 
 cceeded in 
 i not- been 
 in ions. 
 ^ thej all 
 
 and their 
 lie turned 
 eomed to 
 t of gaze, 
 '■'sh look,., 
 ^d by the 
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 »e repast 
 
 outside, 
 ^ he had ' 
 
 outside 
 >Qciipied 
 
 Escape 
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 orn. 
 
 After this, darkness came on so suddenly that he 
 was amazed. He had already noticed that the 
 twilight in Italy was vevy much less than that to 
 which he had been accustomed at home, but had 
 never been so impressed by it as now. There' 
 seemed but a minute between day and night. It 
 was quite bright, and then in a wonderfully short 
 time it became dark. 
 
 Upon this they all entered the house. Bob had 
 to go with the rest. The room was feebly ik 
 luminated by a small oil lamp. Bob noticed tlmt 
 thtey fastened the door with a huge chain. The 
 fastening of that Boor was ominous to him, and 
 the ijlanking of that chain smote him to the 
 heart," and echoed drearily within his soul. It 
 seemed to him now likq real imprisonment, shut 
 in here with chains and bars, within this stone 
 priijon: 
 
 Soon they all prepared to retire ; and the brigand 
 wh§^^d first met Bob beckoned to him, and 
 jtaki|^the lamp, climbed the ladder to the upper 
 story. Bob followed him. The upper story was 
 about eighteen feet above the lower one. On 
 reaching it. Bob savv that, it was all one apartment. 
 There was no bed here, or bedding, or furniture 
 of any description whatever. Sheep-skins hung 
 ffom the rafters, and dried mutton, and some 
 ^?egetable&. I«^ ©ne^ eorner was a^ptie/of straw.-- 
 
 To this the brigand pointed, and Bob went over 
 there. He understood that he waa to pass the 
 
 
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 92 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGAiqJs. 
 
 night on this pile cfafrnxxr n ^ id 
 
 an arouod as^he' s t*;;."^":^^''^^"'^"'' 
 . saw the liirther end nf ,< ^ ^^ ^'''H He 
 
 he saw the artis , •°'"" '" '^''''^ ^^^owb; 
 . He noticed, also ttt 7^"^ '""^ ">« 'fft''^^ 
 «- in front and't e t .Tn T '"» ''"^"o-- 
 Windows there were no sas es rr" '"/""^^ 
 
 -S:edttr;„:^tir '"r '^■"o" ^-"^ 
 
 «aid the same in eS, T ' k ' ^"'^ *'""'^ 
 
 and then deseendedt U ! ^T"' ^"■""^'^' 
 with him. ''^'^' 'a'^'og the lamp 
 
 tia'boofs/r t::; t,':V'^' "' ^^^ "- *^^« -"^ 
 
 to the front window it ^ '™^ "'""^ «'« wall 
 '■naide and o„ .tj' LV n^?:, -"'^""'^ ''"^'^ 
 ble. Beaching the'wi'tw fp '".^ T/'^'" 
 and looked down R« . m ^ ^ ^®*^ 0"t 
 was the .er, .^^J: o^tCs^Tt .^" 
 ^P to the sky. AH ih^.^ ™iRness. He looked 
 
 UA 1 iooked down ae-ain if i, 
 
 weK sheetrh::e ^r'i ^'^^rt"'"^;, '''''' 
 coujj n\ make a rope ou „f « ! *°^'"'"'' ''« 
 enouU t\bear his weiZ "^ ''"""^ 'tronj 
 
 T -^ougut of, for he knew very well that 
 
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 DESPAIR OF BOB. 
 
 93 
 
 ore Bob1;j,olced 
 he Btrawj He 
 lark shadows; 
 a the rifters; 
 two wiijdows, 
 'ar. In/tlwse 
 ey wer^ open 
 ced to show 
 
 : which Bob 
 ' very biviUy 
 md grinned, 
 Dg the lamp 
 
 s to take off 
 ^S the wall 
 tensely dark 
 ? Was visi- 
 is head out 
 thing. AH 
 He looked 
 38 also and 
 n'n. If he 
 I, he could 
 'g. There 
 rether; he 
 aw strong 
 down waa 
 
 well that 
 
 
 at least twenty feet separated him from the 
 ' ground. ; 
 
 He turned away from the window in despair, 
 and groping his way back to his rud» bed, he sat 
 upon the straw, and gave himself up t6 his gloomr^ 
 and despondent thoughts. ' • 
 
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94 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 The wom-out Captive. - IJ.kt Slumbers. - Fearful Wa- 
 
 ror. - The lone Boy confronted by his Enemy.- The 
 \"»SryEyes. ~ Is it real, or a Nightmare ? -The si 
 preme Moment. ^ ^nesur 
 
 t ■ 
 ^>pHE_ darkness of the night and the impossi- 
 M, hihty of escape filled Bob with tl^e most 
 * gloomy and distressing thoughts, which at 
 hrst quite overotime him. But at length other 
 thoughts came, which were of a less distressing 
 character. His mind once more reverted to the 
 Idea that he was Iield for ransom, and that for the 
 present, at least, he was m safety ; and notoritv 
 BO but well ca^ed for. These people certainly 
 had given him of their best. They had made him 
 Share at the common meal, and though this bed of 
 . straw was not very elegant, it was at least com- ' 
 Portable, and was no worse than they themselves 
 used to sleep upon. 
 
 He flung himself down upon the straw, and 
 
 ^undthat it was a soft ^and a refreshing couch. 
 
 ^tJeWer^ was this fresh straw than apy formal 
 
 bed could have been, for in such a hou^4 as that a 
 
m' 
 
 THE WORN-OUT CAPTIVE. 
 
 95 
 
 maitress or a bed would certainly have been some 
 liideotis things as dirty, as greasy, and as squalid 
 as the people of the iiouso. On the whole. Bob 
 was i)leased'^vith his bod of straw, and with its 
 clean, fresh smell. 
 
 I^scape being thus cut off for the present, Bob's 
 frame of mind groAV more placid. As lonj> as ho 
 entertained the idea of immediate flight, his mind 
 was constantly on the strain; but now, when that 
 idea had been dismissed, he grew calmer, and 
 thought oveAihis circumstances with more deliber- 
 ation. |Ie remembered that one of the brigands 
 had alr^^ady gone away, and, as he supposed, to .Sa- 
 lerno. 'If so, he would, no doubt, either see his 
 friends, or at least hear from them, some time on 
 the following day. 
 
 The more he considered his situittion, the more* 
 free from all immediate danger did it seem, and 
 the more did his hopes increase. He looked for- 
 ward with eager hope to the following day. ,TJiat 
 would, without doubt, bring him news of his friends, 
 or,^ perhaps, restore him to liberty. Under the 
 pleasant influence of thoughts like these, his mind 
 grew more calm and cheerful every moment, and 
 passed into a state of tranquil contentment. Be- 
 sides, he was tired, and his weariness brought on. 
 drowsiness. As long as his excitement lasted, he 
 could not feel the drowsiness ^. but now, as calm-- 
 
 ness returned, the weariness and sleephiess be- 
 came stronger, and by degrees overpowered him. 
 
96 
 
 AMONG THE BniOANDS. 
 
 Gradoally the thoughts of his mind becmo in 
 ™,ngled w,th the fancies of dreams, and b !m d 
 
 evLi: '"c t:: "nf . '^r ^°""' ""»'- 
 
 asWn Af , '" "^f"'^- ^he famiJj seemed all 
 His 8leep was not heavy Mnn^r ♦!>;« 
 
 «ven „ that slumber of his, and ho ivas in that 
 cond,t.o„ which is ealled sfeeping with o e ^e 
 open. The fact ,s, the extraordinary exciteraeni 
 onus donkey ride, and specially of hi, tTad 
 venture m thus falling i„,o captivity, had so rotsed 
 hs faculties, so affected his nerves and soZr ' 
 ened Ins senses, that even in his sleep there s.m 
 rktrrs.'''^"'""^'''-"''"-''-^"-"'^^' 
 
 J" ""««tate he remained for some time, sleenina- 
 
 ment'b'^: ^tl " """' ,^™'"« ''''' ""^ -S 
 ment but the wary soul on the alert, as though to 
 
 guard against danger. ^ 
 
 ntf r U°"^ t"l '^^'P «™f»"ed, whether min- 
 ute or hours Bob could never afterwards remem- 
 ber; but with a sudden shock through all hTs 
 nerv«a, he opened his eyes. Ho was lying, as he 
 I.«d flung h.mself on the straw, on his back, with 
 hif head elevated against a bundle of straw „ 
 juoh^away that le could see the lengthof the - 
 
t - 
 
 V A MYSTERIOUS SOUITO. * 97 
 
 Around him all M^as 'd-.i-t Tf ' • i.-*",- 
 
 tell. AlMvas still, outside and inside -tJi^ black 
 no., of darkness and the strllnoss of death . 
 
 let now, in the midst of tint i,hr.v ^ i \ 
 
 and that deathly stilln^.V I darkness 
 
 Bight and a sou.^/ "^ ■'' '^ '^^^"^^ 
 
 It was a low, creaking souml, which was re 
 peated at short intervals, accompaned hy a lie in'' 
 shuffl.ng noise. It sounded in thedirection of tlS 
 open ng by which th.. 1^1 , '^ "''ocnon ot the 
 
 n ss a S ?. ;;"''^^^ """^'» •■" tJ'^^t de^p dark- 
 ncss and as the grating, shufHing sounds sue 
 ceeded one anothor nf ^ 1 • "^Mims sue- 
 
 ■ a„d brighter! "'"'"'"■'S|l' °' ''Sl't g™w bdghter _ 
 
 As Bub looked at tliia and took \t Ml • 
 thought can,e to hi.n i„ a,. Z^ "' '"' °«^ . 
 ^■"^dH,d,j incoming up the ladder 1 ' 
 1 ho thought went through him wi„, a pang. 
 Somebody was coming up the ladder I ^ 
 
 What for? '• ,. .' 
 
 to come uno^iervod ^ "^ """^ ^^''" ^'*?f 
 
 On waking- out of slee^ suddenly,' the mind^ 
 
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98 
 
 AMONQ THE SniCANDS. 
 
 Often confused ; I,„t wl.e^,, after «„cl, a. B„,I,Ien 
 aw„ken,„g,.,t .s confn,„,ed l,y «„no l,o,-ril,le ^e " 
 
 dnrcd. So_wa8,t will, Bob M this time. His 
 awak.„g had been sudden ^ „„^/t,,„ ,,„„„, ,,J'^ 
 
 Zf„'" ■ ''° !'''J^'="I"" "'"v presented itself waB, 
 that t ,e Bl,„ffl,„g „„ft,„, ,|,„t „,.„^^ ,.^,,^ ^ ^ . 
 
 vas the, step of; Doon,, - „„., the n.v.steno,,, vis' 
 
 tTv'""' '"^ ^"™'''^ '"•'" 'o nuke him its 
 
 p.ey. There aro.se within lji,„ „„ aufol „,„ici, 
 pation. ir,s eyes fixed themselves npon the place 
 whe™ the light was shining;' all his 'soul aw.td, - 
 in dreadful expectation, the appearance of the 
 mysterious visitor, an,] as the stealthy step drew 
 -..e..rer an,I nearer, the. excitement grew stronger, 
 nn.l more painlul, and- more racking • ' 
 
 At length the figure began to'emerge jbovetho 
 opening. , ^ ^ 
 
 ^ Bob's <3jea wyre fixed tipon ti.e place. ' > 
 
 He saw first the light. It emerged above the 
 openmg-an akl oil-htmp held in a bony, grisl, 
 . skinny hand. Then followed an arm. " "^ ' 
 
 , Bob's excitement was 'm)w terrible. His heart 
 beat witl. wild throbs. Hi. who^c frame sec^nfed • 
 to v,brate under , that pulsation ^yhich was almost 
 *ike a convulsion. ■Z-- - t 
 
 The arm rose higher ! Higher ^till I ' ' 
 
 /^was Qoraing! \ , 
 
 ^I^ere ams. a i^tted .hqcic of g^^^^,,/^^ 
 llie light shone down upon it as it Va^ upheld in. 
 
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 V 
 
 -I? 
 
 THE APPARinON. 
 
 99 
 
 '.»ir wan/red. "lVX;r::^^ 
 
 ^t»MP«d about a foot abov.tl „' X h'"^ > ^ 
 that it mfh ith?'' ''«;' ^' «'^''' P--U«,«o 
 
 «"«Rl.t Bob out, fastened tbem^e/ves ™' ' "' 
 and seemed to devour l.im witl. the r L? T ' 
 'vas.a hideous eagerness in her look ^tL J " 
 a liorribie fascinatiori about it « K V[ ™' -- 
 
 a" iTower of mm J i r n •'^ ' s^eenas t^ Jose 
 , puwer or HTgiit, and flills a-victim fn flL ^ ' 
 
 Bt.o,e,so here, at this ti.e, Bob fdt^arl^^V:- ^ 
 
 
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 100 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 that basilisk glance, and lost all power of motion. 
 He could not speak. He tried to scream. No cry 
 came He was dumb with horror. He was like 
 one m a nightmare ; 'but this was a' waking 
 n,ght.mare, and not t|ie fanciful terrors of rfream 
 
 But the horror was too great to be endured. 
 He closed h.s eyes tight, and thus shut out the 
 
 But though he shut out the sight', he could not 
 Blmt out sound; and soon he became aware of 
 soniethmg which brought a fresh terror over his 
 
 It was a stealthy step. 
 
 It was advancing towards him. 
 
 and'sTn ?""""'' ""■'"!."«' y^' «t'«'dy, and nearer 
 and still nearer, came the awful step I Bob opened 
 
 . h'3 eyes, to assure himself once more of the' worst 
 Heope„edthembyaresistWip,pu,se. 
 
 The figure was now half wa^etween the open- 
 .«g and the bed. The old hag stood now full/r^ 
 vealed. Her bleary eyes were fixed on Bob. ole 
 hand upheld the flickering lamp, and in the other 
 was a sharp weapon. 
 
 . Bob closed his eyes in an anguish of horror 
 He was dumb. He could utter no cry. He eouTd 
 not move. The blow was coming. The destroy r 
 
 Waid off tliat blow. His brain whirled, his heart 
 seemed to stop beaming. 
 
of motion, 
 na. No cry 
 e was like 
 a waking 
 of (fream- 
 
 endured. 
 it out the 
 
 could not 
 aware of 
 r over his 
 
 THE SUPREME MOMENT. IQI 
 
 There was a terrible moment of dumb, motion- 
 less, breathless expectancy. 
 
 The old woman knelt by his side. 
 
 She put the lamp on the' floor. 
 
 Then she reached out one of her long, lean, * 
 bony skmny shrivelled ^ds, and took Bob by 
 the hair of his head, whXwith the other she 
 raised her sharp weapon. . 
 
 nd nearer 
 b opened 
 he worst, 
 
 the open- 
 fully re- 
 ob. One 
 he other 
 
 ' horror, 
 le could 
 Bstroyer 
 uiion -fcO " 
 is heart 
 
 
102 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 The Cavalcade in Pursuit.^ Hopes and Fears. — Theories 
 about the lost Boy. — A new Turn to Affairs. — Explana- 
 tions. — On to Salerno. — Inquiries. — Baffled. —Fresh 
 Consternation and Despondency. — The last Hope. 
 
 MEANWHILE the party on donkeys trotted 
 along the road after Bob. At the ex- 
 clamation from the donkey boy they had 
 all experienced a shock ; but soon they recovered 
 from it, and the shock only served as a stimulus to 
 make them push the donkeys onward more mpid- 
 ly. They rode on for some time without making 
 any remarks, each one looking eagerly forward to 
 see if Bob might reappear ; but he had vanished 
 behind a turn in the road, and as they advanced, 
 *there were other turns to be encountered, and so 
 they were unable to see him. This began to cre- 
 ate uneasiness. At first they all had hoped that 
 Bob would be able to stop the ass, or that the an- 
 imal, after indulging his paces for a short time, 
 would stop of his own accord ; but the farther 
 
 Wey went, the more tliey became convinced that 
 this affair had something serious in it. 
 
 At length they reached that long, straight piece 
 
THE CAVALCADE IN PURSUIT. 
 
 103 
 
 of road already mentioned. At one etid of this 
 was a rising ground ; as they ascended this and 
 reached its summit, they looked ahead, and there, 
 far away before them, was a single rider. They 
 recognized Bob at once. He was more than a mile 
 away ; but the sight of him filled them all with 
 joy, and they at once stimulated their donkeys to 
 greater exertions. In spite of the distance that 
 intervened, they all shouted as loud as they could ; 
 but of course the distance was too great, and their 
 cries were lost before they reached nearly as far 
 away as Bob. In a short time he turned in the 
 road, and passed out of sight. 
 
 They now rode on for a Jong time, and at length 
 came to the road that led to the mountains, up 
 which Bob had gone. This road was not even no- 
 ticed by them. They had passed other roads o^ 
 the same kind, wliicli, like this one, led to the 
 mountains, and attached no more importance to 
 this tlian to those. In the minds of some of them, 
 however, these side-roads suggested a fear, that 
 Bob's ass might have turned off into some one of 
 them ; but of course, as they were all alike, they 
 could not conjecture which one would have been 
 taken by the runaway. As they rode on, they 
 still looked ahead. At every turn in the road they 
 still expected to see the fugitive ; and it was not 
 »fltil4fee donkey s themselves gaveHM gna o f fatigufey- 
 that they were willing to slacken their pace. ' But 
 the nature of these dpnkeya was, after all, but 
 
 
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 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 ' ?jp,; ^gffr^K- 
 
 ^iheir pace to a t'^ ''""' ""' ^° '"^^ ^<"=«-<' 
 
 ,f Bob ^i^it ti':f;!o Jr; "^' 
 
 lived is simply absurd Tf^m \- u "" «''®'' 
 
 "It seems to me." said D^^riA 
 -jry thoughtful and obse^iTb.;^"--: « it 7 " 
 to me that the donkey may have^Lr '''"° 
 
 etraight ahead along the foS .1 '. t ' "'"' '"'"" 
 before him." ' happens to be 
 
 Baid'Dl;i:'«td''I„"rt'^''"^.«'« mountains-. ■ 
 bfanning'h„re^; *'"'"^^' "'-'""'' "-«'> 
 
 "I don't believe that," said Prank. « I hold f h.t 
 J a gnir o s some ttini..,4rf^fe."'^ - .V ^qold that_^ 
 
 
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 HOPES AND PEARS. 
 
 
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 : 105 
 
 " Not if a by-road leads to his l^me." 
 
 pZum ?"^'' ""^ ^^^ ^^ '^'^^.^"^^^ *^^^^ ^««' 
 
 « EasHy enough," said David. « I dare sav they 
 
 Xh^::^'^"^^"^*'^^Vti-weca„,eu^ 
 
 "Yes," «aid Frank ; " but, unfortunately, we" 
 couldn't understand aH of it." 
 David heaved a sigh. 
 
 • A^?Z ^ u'^y ^^^«^^^*'^ed,«thatlhad8tud. 
 led Itaian before I camel But from thiKtime 
 torth, I m determined not to rest till I've leajned 
 the language." \ 
 
 Unclb Moses was deeply distressed at Bob'l dis- 
 appearance. He had only one idea in his mind. 
 He told the other boys what it was. It was the 
 Idea of bri^nds. They had met poor Bob; they 
 had seized him. and had carried* him off to their • 
 lurking-places in the mountains. Even now he 
 was in captivity. And the heart of Upcle Moses 
 yearned over the poor prisoner. He expressed 
 these iears in a few words, for he was too agitated 
 to say much. ® 
 
 .f^^^:^*=^^Hd=to^=l^r^i^„„»uB over 
 this and thought there was something in it. Both 
 of them now thought that Bob might have been 
 
 -isj 
 
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AMONa/THE BRIGANpg. 
 
 106 
 
 ♦carried by hi^ donkeV to the mountains ; and, H 
 80, his capture by briWnds would be almost cer- 
 tain. To them, these n^untains seemed to be full 
 of them ; the whole population, in their opinion, '. 
 was a community of briga\ds. >. 
 
 Chve ha(J also another i(^ea. It was this. The' 
 driver had deserted them a^l haA^one off vow- 
 mg vengeance. He had gon^to the mountains, 
 and returned with a band of brigands to capture 
 all of them. They had met Bob, seized him, and 
 taken him off. 
 
 At all this Frank laughed. 
 
 "Pooh! "'said ho. "1 don't see whyyou should go ^ 
 out of your way to torment yourselves about noth- 
 ing at all. It all seems plain enough to me. The 
 donkey has run off, and intends to keep running 
 till he drops. There's a long, straight, smooth road 
 before him, and he'll stick to that without bother- 
 ing his head about by-roads or mountains. And 
 if he's obstinate enough, I don't see why he 
 shouldn't keep on running till he gets to Salerno. 
 And it's my opinion, if we don't pick him up on 
 the road, we'll find him at Salerno when we eet 
 there." ' ^ 
 
 "0, that's all very well," said Clive, " but think 
 ho^7^certain you/s^^ere abr)ut the driver — " 
 
 He was inte'rrupted by the sound of galloping 
 horses an d rolHn g wh eels. The sound came from. - 
 behind. At once they all turned their heads. 
 Emerging from behind a turn in the road, they saw 
 
 isaiya^'A^^'i/B. -A-r :,?rv . 
 
 
THE driver's EX?LANATI0N. 
 
 107 
 
 two horses galloping at full speed, and drawing a 
 carriage. The driver was whipping the horses 
 furiously, and calling and shouting. The carriage 
 was empty. In a moment they recognized the 
 trjith. it was their carriage and their driver. 
 
 They all stood still, and looked in surprise, and 
 the carriage rolled swiftly up. The driver at once 
 stopped the horses, and jumped to the ground. 
 Then, coming to the boys, he burst forth iftto a 
 strain of the most profuse and vehement apologies. 
 He implored them to forgive him, and began to 
 explain the cause of his absence from the place 
 where they had left Ijim. 
 
 It seems that he found this place an inconvenient 
 one, and had driven across the fields for about 
 half a mile-, to some trees. Here he had taken his 
 horses out, and aUpwed them to feed. He him- 
 self lay down in the carriage, and took a siesta. 
 'He overslept himself. On awaking, he was horri- 
 fied to find how much time had passed, and at 
 once proceeded to search for the horses. But . 
 during his sleep they had both wandered ofi", and 
 could not be found until after a long . search. 
 When at length he was ready, and had driven 
 back, he found to his horror that they were not 
 there. Thinking that they were still among the 
 ruins, he had gone over the whole place, which *^ 
 took- up still more tTmer""AfTaitt Re saw thatife^y' 
 must have left. He at once drove ofi". Knolving 
 that they were on foot, he expected every miinute 
 
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 108 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 
 to catch sight of them. He drove 6n for niilea 
 
 came to the conclusion that they had, perhap, 
 found the carriage of some other visitor , and hS 
 obtained ,eats.i„ that. He knew that they mtt 
 have gonej and could only account in that waHor 
 their rapid progress. ^ 
 
 This exianation of the driver was perfectly 
 . ^tisfactory Vo them all, and their joy at'^gettW 
 the carriage lagain was so great that they efcu "f 
 his unfortunate slumbers. The driver afso, on his 
 part had noi forgotten all about his sulks and 
 
 blr'' CT^°"" r -"'•-"■•-•'.e soil as 
 oetore. On learning about Bob's mishap he at 
 
 along the road, and that they would undoubtedly 
 soon catch up itith him eX »i, u ■ """"'■"o'y 
 
 into the carLle thl'^ u^''°'''P»'^ye<'' 
 
 carnage, the driver wh pped np the 
 
 Safte "71*"^^ -<=-' towards'salerno 
 Alile after mile Was traversed. 
 
 Still there were no sighs of Bob. 
 
 '• Something's hiippened," said Clive. 
 ^,^ He s been carded to the mountains," said Da- • 
 
 _■; It's the brigandl 1 " groaned Uncle Moses. 
 
 ''Th"; donte^' "4"/»''l J^™°k. confidently, 
 hila slS^ " 1^"'- --horse. We'll fin'd 
 
 ^^^^ '¥-' '"^ -^^ 
 
 %f'^jw.iiMV--ii.-'*^ ''^aj*'- '^f^ 
 
 
:.^. .--■<, 
 
 or miles 
 t length 
 perhaps, 
 and had 
 ey must 
 way for 
 
 erfectly 
 getting 
 sxcused 
 , on his 
 b, and 
 3oul as 
 he at 
 ve rnn 
 btedly 
 •ty got 
 p the 
 no. 
 
 THE LAST HOPE. 
 
 109 
 
 No signs of Bob I 
 
 Hurrying in, they made inquiries, and found 
 that he had not come. This filled them all with 
 the greatest concern ; and the driver, and the land- 
 lord, and all others who heard of it, asserted that 
 he must have been carried to\the mountains. It 
 was now dark. Nothing more could be done ; atfd 
 so they could only resolve to drive back on the 
 following day, and make a more careful search 
 after the lost boy. \ 
 
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110 
 
 AMQlto TflB BRIOANBS. 
 
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 CHAPTER X. 
 
 The captive Bo^ and his grisly Visitant - The NMndon his 
 Head. -Deriouement. - The BrigaHd Family. - The old 
 Crone.- Tj Robber Wife. -The Brigand Children. -A 
 
 ■ Revolution ^Feeling. - The main Road - The Carriage 
 — In Search of Bob. .„ >■ ^"'^^^*'^£^- 
 
 jAfiALYZED with terror, dumb with horror, 
 
 Bob lay motionless and ahnost breathless • 
 
 and the grisly old hag reached out her 
 
 'long, lean, thm, bony, withered, shrivelled hand 
 
 and took his hair, while with the other hand she 
 
 raised her sharp weapon. 
 
 She took his hair very lightly and tenderly ; bo 
 lightly, indeed,^aM3ob was just conscious of her 
 touch; and^th^iigh he expected that he would be 
 torn from his bed and struck dead the next instant 
 yet this fate was delayed. ^ \\ 
 
 She took his hair then in he^r hand very gently 
 and tenderly, apd in her other hand she raised the 
 sharp weapon. \ " 
 
 yoyi t h e shqp p ^eapon was apaip pf^ 
 
 Ihears. ^^ """ "^" "'"'" y. «nee|r 
 
 These shears she held forward, and with them 
 
\J^ 
 
 THE SHORN LOCK. 
 
 Ill 
 
 she snipped off, as noiselessly as possible, a lock of 
 Bob's hair. 
 
 She pressed the lock of hair to her thin lips, ^ 
 looked at it steadfastly for some time, pressed it 
 oi^ce more to her lips, and then put it in the folds of 
 "lier dress. %^ 
 
 Then kneeling by Bob's sidef she looked af"him 
 long and earnestly. She bent over him, and looked 
 
 ^^ down upon him. She laid the shears upon the 
 floor, clasped her withered hiinds together, and 
 gazed upon the boy. lie lay still. His eyes were 
 closed ; but the delay of his fate ,and the snip of 
 the shears in his haii" had roused him somewha^ 
 from his abyss of terrojv He opened his eyes 
 wide enough to see what was going on. He could 
 not see the old wonlan's lace, but he saw her 
 kneeling,. and he saw her thin hands clasped before 
 
 ^ her, like onfe in prayer, and tremulous. ' 
 
 The old womarf bcrit over him; and if Bob could 
 have seen her face he would have known that this 
 . old creatAre was an otjjject of any other feeling 
 rather than fear, l^ale it was, that face that was \ 
 over him, and wrinkled, arid emaciated; but there 
 was"upoij it a softened expression — ,an expres- 
 sion-of yearning arid of longing. That which at a 
 distance .had seemed to his frightened fancy a' 
 hungry, ghoulish look, was now nothing more than 
 
 ~~ tB¥ fearri^st, fi^^ ga^^f "S love thaf"Ioifigeff^o" 
 
 , satisfied — a gaze like that, of a bereaved mother 
 who sees s0me one who reminds hfdr of her lost 
 
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 ^i 
 
 112 
 
 AMOJJG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 f *■- \ 
 
 . boy, and looks at him with a \^ of unutterable 
 yearning. So, now, it was with this poor old 4 " 
 crepit creature. Perhaps in her papt life jom 
 son had been torn from her, of ,whoifl 'fififee. 
 minded her, and ^he had come now to f^ast'^Self 
 " with his face, which reminded her of her lost boy 
 to take a lock of his hair, to bow down over him in 
 speechless emotion. Here, then, she knelt, her 
 poor hands clasping each dther tremulously, her 
 aged breast heaving with repressed sighs, while 
 from her weak eyes there fell tears which dropped 
 upon the fa^-of the boy. 
 Those t«Srs had a wonderful effect. 
 As Bob's lialf-opened eyes saw t^he old woman's 
 attitude, his grisly terror left him; his heart re- 
 gained its ordinary pulsation; the tremendQus 
 pressure that had been upon his soul was re- 
 moved ; warm, and fresh, and free,, his young blood 
 sped through his veins, and ali; his frame was 
 quickened to a bounding lif^nd vigor. By the 
 force of this reaction he wa8«g^om his gt^y 
 lethargy, hil^aralysis of ho^^ffiliB pr JiSe 
 of miird w^^^restored. T^TOef? came those 
 tears which fell upjpn fiis face. This completed 
 the recovery of hi^ self^ommand. It did teore. 
 It assured him that he was an object, not of mur- 
 proufi fury, but of tender love, and that the o^e 
 ^«^Q^^^d feared had: coiMniof^mtB^^p 
 of cMfelty, but with yearnings of affection. Why 
 this should be he knew not; he was content to 
 
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 '\ 
 
. * '"'^Ip! ■/ 
 
 EFFECTS OF THE VISIT. 
 
 113 
 
 • t 
 
 jcnow that it was so; and iii this knowledge all 
 fear died out. But eve^n now he felt 8omewha^^" 
 embarrp,8seld, for the old woman was evidentty 
 only giving- way t\ her emotion because sHe 
 believed him to be asleep; and thus he was an un- 
 willing witness of feelings which she supposed to 
 be seen by . none. In this there seemed "to be 
 something dishonorable, and he, wished th«^»Oene 
 to end. 'He chose to do so therefore by making^a 
 few movements without op6tring his eyes ;'tiiat is, 
 he changed his position several times, turned hinir. 
 self over and back again, and thus gave signs of 
 waking. Upon this the old woman silently took 
 her lamp and shears, and left the apartmeM by the 
 way she had come. 
 
 So end^ the adventure. 
 
 The effect; produced upon Bob was a varied one. 
 He still felt the consequences of that horror into 
 which he had fallen, that spasm and convulsion <rf 
 terror which had seemed to turn him to stone, y«t 
 the relief that had been found was inexpressibly 
 sweet. Jn spite of the pain which still lingered 
 about his heart, tb©re came a calmer and happie^ 
 frame of mind ; the pain itself also gradually diec§ 
 out, and its only result was a generallanguor. Sc^ 
 commonplace a ^termination to what seemed a 
 terrible event made his whole situation and his^ 
 other -pTOspeotft Peem eommonplace, and he 
 began to think that his captors might turn gut to- 
 be as commoii|ilace as the old woman. 
 
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 114 
 
 \- 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 He fell again into a deep , sleep, and did not 
 wake till it was broad day. J On descending, the 
 people all respectfully bade him good morning. 
 Breakfast was rea%, consisting of black brea3, 
 stew, and some coffee. Outside, the view was 
 superb ; the rising sun had not yet ascended high 
 enough to shine down into the. valley, but the 
 glowing heavens, and the shadows of the moun- 
 tains, and the light green of the little space near- 
 est, with the darker green of the forests that 
 clothed the mountain-sides, all made the spectacle 
 a memorable one. 
 
 Bob's whole state of mind was more healthy, and 
 cheerful, and hopeful than it had been. Every- 
 thing appeared bright and favorable. The old 
 woman, as he looked at her this morning, did not 
 seem to be at all repulsive. Her face was shriv- 
 elled, it is true, and her„eyes were weak; but she 
 looked gentle and mild, and treated him with very 
 great favor and attention. The slatternly woman 
 did not seem worse than any other Italian peasant 
 woman. The children were dirty, no doubt ; in fact, 
 very dirty ; but then they were brown, and healthy, 
 and merry, hot inclined to mischief, and quite 
 respectful to him. In short. Bob found himself 
 surveying his situation and its surroundings with 
 much complacency, and he began to feel that he 
 Lftd luisjut^ed these^eople altogether the night 
 before. 
 
 But other things were yet in store which were 
 
 -x^ 
 
 ■:.<^i^^i.ihh 
 
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 .\ii>- 
 
 '%■ 
 
 THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 115 
 
 to redeem still more the character of these peojjid. 
 ^e was standiDg outside the house after breakfast, 
 when, to his surprise, he saw the second " brigand " 
 approach. He knew that he had not had time to go 
 to Salerno and return ; so he saw that he could not 
 have been to Salerno at all. He seemeii-toBobto 
 be going there now, for he was mounted on a 
 donkey, and led another by the bridle. The one 
 which he led was no other than the ass which had 
 carried Bob to this place. 
 
 JBob's only thought at seeing this was, that the 
 " brigand " was now setting forth for Salerno, and 
 was a|)Out to take the donkey with him, either to 
 sell if, or t6 return it to the owner, and get a 
 reward. But this idea was not left long in his 
 mind. I . 
 
 The first " brigand," pame out, and tWtwo men 
 talked to one another, ^fter which they turned to 
 Bob, and the first brigand explained to him that 
 he was to mount the donkjey. He pointed to the 
 animal, smiled, waved his hand towards the road 
 by which Bob had come, and uttered the word 
 "Salerno." "' 
 
 Bob's heart gave a wild leap ; he could scarcely 
 believe what he heard ; /but the laces of the two 
 men were smiling, and t(iey continued to nod, and 
 gesticulate, and repeat tlie word " Rak^rnn," They ^ 
 
 Tooke^^ like two benevolent farmers, and Bob won- 
 dered how he could ev0r have seen anything ma- 
 lignant in their very good natured faces. 
 
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'^'^i^*^f^MfAfi{^^"'^ 
 
 116 
 
 AHONO THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 ' ^^°"^®® *^^^® ^*® nothing to do now but to 
 hnrfy away to his friends. Yet Bob was not 
 willing to take too abrupt a leave. He remem- 
 bered the old woman, and thought with a softened 
 heart about her emotion. He went back into the 
 house, and shook hands with her for good by. He 
 even knew enough Italian to say, " Addi(K'^he 
 old creature was much softened, and buxsrinto 
 tears. Bob gave her one of his cuff-buttbl^s as a 
 souvenir,^ for h^had nothing else to give, and 
 the cuff-button was an uncommonly elaborate affair; 
 and he had the satisfaction of seeing that the old 
 woman took it as though it was of inestimable 
 value. He then went around among them all 
 shook hands with all of them, from the slatternly 
 woman down to the smallest of the dirty children, 
 and gave each one of them something — to the 
 woman, a pencil case ; to one child, his pocket 
 knife ; to another, a watch key ; to a third, a shirt 
 stud; to a fourth, a memorandum book; and to the 
 fifth, a handkerchief. 
 
 « Brigand " number two was going to accompany 
 him, and it was now evident to Bob that the delay 
 which had taken place in his restoration to his 
 friends jas probably owing to the fapt that they 
 had to wait to procure bridles, or another donkey. 
 It only remained for him now to bid good by to 
 " brigand " number one, which he did with gr^nt 
 earnestness, and cordiality, and fervor; presenting 
 him at the same time with his neck-tie, a very 
 
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 117 
 
 ' DEPARTURE OP BOB. 
 
 brilliant piece of satin, which the Italian receiWd 
 with a great flourish, and profuse expressions df 
 thankfulness. Bob had several . times regretted 
 his Ignorance of the Italian language since his 
 arrival m the country, but never had his regrets \ 
 beeQ more sincere than on this occasionr Had he 
 been able to speak Italian he would have made a 
 speech then and there, and have invited them all 
 from the old woman down to the smallest child, to' 
 come and visit him and his friends either at 
 Salerno, or at Naples, or in farK)ff America. But 
 alas I Bob's tongue was tied, and so the invitation 
 remained unuttered. He did what he could, how- , 
 ever, and utterly exhausted the whole language 
 of signs in the attempt to express to them his / 
 thanks, and his good wishes for their happiness. 
 The simple people seemed to comprehend him, for 
 .they were by no means dull, and gesticulated in 
 return many things which seemed to convey the 
 same meaning; and when at last Bob rode away 
 the humble inhabitants watched him uj|U he passed 
 out of sight. 
 
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 118 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 CHAPTER XI. 
 
 ^J'cXr^""^'''"""-^'"'"''^'"'r«o.~On 
 D,sZn L'-f^'^T ^'"■'-^•' -npUaZ 
 
 nZuslllZT'" ""■ "•' ''"'"'ion.- Various 
 
 .EARNING to the mail ^aj^^lih Us 
 guide, Bob traversed the same way by 
 which his donkey had carried him on the 
 preceding day. Hie progress now was very d f 
 ferent It would not do to dash furiously dowl 
 
 had toC T T'" """"''*'■" f^'^^-y-' ^ ">«y ■ 
 
 plain. '■Bob 8 animal also had changed. He was 
 »o longer the fiery, wild ass of th! day befr 
 which had borne him helplessly away from iX' 
 'SiVf": " *™'='*'"^ -i-ali with'surcie^ 
 S- A T'J"' "'* "" *« »■■«»« of subordi. 
 tou rof'L , T"'- ^« '"''y^'^ the slightest 
 Sin f^t ;. ' *"' ■"""""* """S after the 
 ■^^" '° ^'^°* -° f h'?. «» qu i e tly_4>»- thoug b he w ««— 
 »s most patient and gentle of the donlceytribe 
 In two or three hours' time they rei^hed the 
 
 
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 1^ 
 
 THE RETURN/ 
 
 119 
 
 mam road, and turning to the right, rode towards 
 Salerno. Thus far Bob had not noticed much of 
 his surroundings, but now his eyes gazed most/ 
 eagerly upon the road ahead of him, for he exl 
 pected to meet his friends. He rightly supposei' 
 that they would have driven to Salerno on the 
 preceding day, hoping^a,jPnd him thererand that 
 they would drive back in search of him at the 
 earliest dawn of another day. 
 
 Bob's conjecture turned out to be right He 
 had not ridden more than a mile when he saw a 
 carriage approaching, which he soon recognized 
 ^8 belonging to his party. In it were his friends. 
 - who had recognized him as soon as they had 
 caught sight of him, and whose joy at meeting 
 with him again, and amazement at the sight of his 
 companion, knew no bounds. The carriage stopped 
 and the boys flung themselves out, and tore Bob 
 
 and hustled him, and danced about him in their 
 
 *'''^' . .. . ^°'^^ "^^^ °°* «° 'i'^'^^ as the others, 
 and held back. But if his greeting was last, It 
 was not least fervent, as Bob well knew by the 
 moistened eye, the quivering lip, the tremulous 
 voice, and the convulsive grasp of that venerable 
 relative: 
 
 Then and therej on the road, Bob h^A t^ aiytiflfir 
 -the Bungry curlbsity of his friends, and giveth^ 
 some sort of an outline of his adventures. The 
 particulars he reserved untU a future occasion. 
 
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 120 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 Bob 8 account of his frienda in the mountains at 
 . once roused the enthusiastic interest of the whole 
 
 \ TJ u *^'' ^^'^^'' ^°^ *^^y ^" proceeded to 
 . Bhake hands with, the Italian.. Nor did they con- 
 . .. tent themselves with this, for" on the spot tJncle 
 Moses and the boys made up a handsome purser 
 which they presented to him, not because he 3e- 
 served it, exactly, but partly because they were 
 80 rejoiced at finding the lost boy, and partly on 
 account of Bob's urgent appeal to them. For now 
 iiobff.s€fi|timent8 about the humble people in the 
 -sequestered valley had undergone the last phase 
 which was necessary to complete a perfect revo- 
 Intion of feehn^,. and he had come to regard them 
 not^ by any means as brigands,-,far from it, -but 
 rather as a family of peaceful, innocent, hannless, 
 affectionate, quiet, benevolent, warm-hearted, good- 
 natured, hospitable, and virtuous peasants 
 
 The Italian received the gifts with a series of 
 gesticulations, by which he seemed to be invoking 
 the blessing of Heaven upon them, and vowing 
 endless gratitude J and after the boys and Uncle 
 Moses had one by one shaken hands and bidden 
 ; . hnn good by, he still stood there, smiling, bowing, 
 . anA gesticulating^, and as they drove away, they 
 saw him standing motionless in the road till thev 
 passed out of sight. ^ 
 
 Bob's adventur es jiad not beenLwithout Bome:„ 
 ^us^^onsequences, for the stmin on his mind 
 during the previous day, and especially the horror 
 
 $i&£ii^^iX^ ^4, s /J.'trtVli.sy^ tIj«.iS»J. . ■tfl^^aa.,^~A^-^ SSj.numJfctt!.'^ ' '-tsj 
 
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 0» TO CASTELLAMAIIE. v'l, 121 
 
 hi w/!?*"' "T!''""' "'"'' "'" f''«g«e8to Which 
 he had been subjected, had been somewhat t»o 
 much for hun As soon, therefore, as the first ex- 
 
 ttm " ""^ ^T"^ ""'•'"■"S -"« over, a reac 
 t.on took place, and he complained of utter weari- 
 ness and exhaustion. As Bob was a boy who 
 never complained except under sore pre'ssure, the 
 
 , boys perceived that he was now in /eed of quiet 
 and repose, and therefore tried to put a check 
 upon their .eager curiosity. On reaching Salerno 
 they put up at the hotel again, and gave Bob the' 
 
 ■ opportunity of a long rest. Had itLt been fo 
 
 hl\ r^T!^"^ ''""''' •'y «"^ «■»« have 
 been back m Naples ; for their intention had been 
 
 to go on from P^stum without stopping ; but now 
 they were forced to delay somewhat. Still they 
 were anxious to resume the journey back, and as 
 Bob seemed refreshed after a rest and a good re. 
 past, Uncle Moses thought they had better set ou^ 
 and go as far as they could before dark. The dri ' 
 ver mentioned Castellamare as a convenient stot^ 
 pmg.place, and it was thereupon decided to drive 
 on as far as that place, and pass the night there. 
 
 Ihey had passed through Castellamare before 
 when on their way to Sorrento, and again, when 
 eturnmg from that place, on their way I, sLierno. 
 ^ ""^ l^ °««°^ qq-tg familiar. JBut^ guittine - 
 
 ^A,^ -. i-T :^ -^^ "*■*■*"<*«' -"m>^>a mutti n g 
 
 fL w",T. ^°^ ^^"'^^^^ ^'^^^^^"^ *h« windowTof 
 he hote , they were siirfirised to find how much 
 the beauty of the place was enhanced by this new ^ 
 
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 122 
 
 AMONG THE BRICJANDS. 
 
 outlook. Before, they Id^olced at it as hasty travel- 
 lers, snatching a passing glance ; but now th^y 
 could take a leisurely surJey. Before them was ^e 
 Bay of Naples ; on the riiht,the city with its sub- 
 urbs, extending far along\ the shore ; on the left, 
 the isle of Capri ; in fron^, the shores of Baise ; 
 while in the rear was the ^^erdant landscape, with 
 a background of mountain^ over which reigned 
 supreme the gigantic forni of Vesuvius, from 
 whose summit was still floatiig the wrathful smoke 
 cloud. \ 
 
 It was decided to pass the\ night here, and go 
 on to Naples early on the following day. AH the 
 party were tired, and went tb rest at an early 
 hour. The night was calm, i^nd beautiful, and 
 bright ; and as they went to Isleep, they were 
 lulled by the plash of the wateVs as they gently 
 rippled upon the pebbled beach. \ » 
 
 Frank arose pretty early on th& following mo^ 
 ing, and found that David was already up, and had - 
 gone forth. The others were etillVasleep. Frank 
 thereupon went forth for a walk, Ld one by one 
 the others awaked also. They had brdered break- 
 fast at an early hour, and they wei^e to start im- 
 mediately after. When Uncle Mosek went down 
 stairs he found breakfast ready, and departed to 
 hunt up the boys. He found Frank! and Clive, 
 _aD d Bob, w atchiag the driver grOom t&B t orses. -^ 
 " Boys," said Uncle Moses, " breakfast's ready." 
 "All right, sir," said Frank; "we'll be\along." 
 
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 AH TOTLEASANT DBCOTEBT. 133 
 
 tJpon tl.is Uncle Moses went back, and after a 
 
 Where's Dav.d ? " asked Uncle Moses. 
 I don't know, sir." 
 
 "Well," said Uncle Moses, "Suppose he'U be 
 
 along ; so let's sit down and begin " "^ "^ ^^ 
 
 They all sat down. '* 
 
 When they were about half through breakfast 
 
 Uncle Moses began to wonder what L iSS^^ 
 
 1 )?-f ,7"^ f '^ ^' ^°' ^«^« ? " i^e asked. 
 ' 1 didn't see hirn," said Frank 
 "I didn't," said Clive. 
 "Nor I," said Bob. 
 
 "He was up before I was," said Frank -and 
 had gone out I didn't see him at all. I only saw 
 his empty bed, an^ found his clothes gone I da'I 
 say he's gone off- on a walk." 
 
 "0, he's all right," said Bob. 
 "Yes," said Uncle Moses; «I don't doubt it 
 Hes a very careful, quiet boy, I know; but he a 
 
 houS LirclC' '^' -^«-^-«*-^ about the 
 "Perhaps so," said Uncle Moses. 
 
 .^^^^m^st^ii^hing their l>reakfastr- 
 -^ut Uncle Moses began to fidget in his chair an,? 
 
 look around, and sigh, 'and gfve other stns of 
 
 growmg uneasiness of^bind." Feeling in SelJ 
 
 
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 124 
 
 AMONG THE BRIOANDS. 
 
 as he did, the care of all the boy8,^he never was 
 altogether free from anxiety; and the various ad- 
 ventures which the boys h^dencountered^fiad not, 
 in any way, tended to lessefi his unea^ vigilance 
 over them. Bob's last adventurej'^Jn particular, 
 had wrought upon him most paifiMy, so that he 
 was ten times more careful over.lK^ young and 
 somewhat flighty charges than heVaJibeen before. 
 The absence of David at such an important time 
 seemed unaccountable. If it had been any one of 
 the other8,ut would have been intelligible; biit for 
 David, who was the soul of order, regularity, and 
 method, to fail an appo^taent, was something so 
 extra^rdinailjr, that he could not but feel alarmed. 
 Still he restrained himself, for he felt a littk* 
 
 ashamed of his fears; and though he was evident 
 
 ly very restless, uneasy, and worried, Ke said not. 
 
 a word until the boys had finished their" breakfast. 
 "I don't know what to make of it," said Unclft 
 
 Moses at las^t, starting from his chair and going to 
 
 the window. Standing there, he looked uneasily' 
 
 up and down the street, and then returned and 
 
 looked earnestly at the boys. 
 " I don't know what \o make of it, at all," he re- 
 
 peated. " Did you say you didn't see him, none 
 
 of you? Didn't you see him, Clive ? " 
 " No, sir," said Clive. " When I waked, all the 
 
 ■b oys were up J^^ 
 
 "Didn't he say anythin last night about in 
 tendin to do anythin this mornin ? " 
 
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 DAVID AMONO THE MISSING. 
 
 125 
 
 " I didn^t hear him say anything" ' 
 
 bLkfalr/" '" "'"^ ™'». an<I he'd let all ;H,e 
 breajkfe^ts that ever^ero cooked wait befo« he'd 
 
 thrtIo'"S'"'.,'!"t *'°^^^' ""--'« ^omethinin 
 that too Dav.d'8 dreadful fond of old stones and - 
 
 , "W bones, and tumble-down edifices and „Th ^ t 
 an weeds. Why he's all th„ t ,, "^ ""•''' 
 
 if he too,.,. » W.ues all the time collect m : an 
 
 befor?,'-'^ ^!"' "'I' ">°»g''t. which brought np' 
 
 ^pon this Uncle Moses went onf nf fi, 
 and do.„ to the street. Reachin^rthe trLTTe' 
 
 lo S r :r it" *"^ ^"."^^ ■^" '"> °^ ' "»^- 
 
 the doL oT :„ e, stll "f""' P'^''™^ '"*" 
 
 about half an hour, he returned more troubled 
 
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126 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 than ever; and met Frank, Clive, .and Bob in front 
 of the hotel. -^ 
 
 " I can't find him anywhere^" said he. 
 . Thus far the boys had thought nothing of Da- 
 vid's disappearance : but the deep anxiety of Un- 
 "cle Moses now excited their alarm ; and though, 
 if left to themselx^es, they would have seen noth- 
 ing to fear in the fact of David's being an hoitr Or , 
 80 behind time, yet, after all, they began to see 
 that, in one like David, such conduct was most ex- 
 traordinany ; and in this foreign country, of whose: 
 ways they wene so ignorant, there might possibly 
 be danger in such absence. They at once began 
 'to comfort Uncle Moaes; and then all of them vol- 
 unteered to go sin different directions and see it 
 
 » they could find him. tJncle Moses again set out, 
 walking up the road in the direction of Sotrento ; 
 Frank went down the road ; Clive took a by-road 
 that led towards the hills; while Bob, who was. 
 rather weak yet, and not capable^ of much exer- 
 tion, said that he woufd watch from the window 
 of tlie hotel, and be at home, in case of David's. 
 
 ^ return, to explain matters. 
 
 In this way they began their search, and Bob 
 waited patiently in the hotel. After about an 
 hour Uncle Moses catfte back. On finding that 
 David had not returned, he looked unspeakably 
 dis^tressed ; and when, after a sh ort time farthftr^ 
 
 "Both Frank and Clive returned without any tidings 
 of the fugitive, he began to look quite heart-brokenT 
 
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 DEUBEnATIOM OVER IHE SITOATTOIf. 127 
 
 Then they Wked to the driver iaboat if but 
 he d„ve. M give the™ „„ iut^n^tio^t 
 ever Thoy sent him over the hotel to question 
 I the people., but^his search wai as-va.^as h" 
 Others had been. There wasno one in the hotel 
 from the big landlord down to the scul ion wh ' 
 could tell anything at all about DavM "' "'"' 
 
 . »y the ^meall these examinations and searches 
 had been made it was after ten o'clock. 87/^1! 
 had b,en served at seven, and seven was t he hou' 
 at winch David should have been, among them 
 He had been gone,therefore,more th^n thre! hour"' 
 Even the boys now began to feel uneasv IT„ 
 pie Moses and all -the boys began to " k tb^"; 
 h..s^to find some way otacooLing for Da'";::: 
 
 " No," said Bob, " never iZ Ti '*"'• 
 
 snchathing." ' I know he never did 
 
 J/n T^*^'' ''*™ *^^'"' « «'*'k anywheres" 
 - d Uncfe Moses, "or he'd been back long 'r-' 
 
 houri;'/ark:..'raiaTir'^'^^™--''- 
 
 he'd : ""'" '*''' F'ank,"he isn't fond of ridine- 
 
 he had to." 
 
 " ^'^ ^^ ^^y ^"ything about— about H?" . 
 
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 128 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 . Uncle Moses hesitated at the question which he 
 ^ was about to ask. 
 
 " About what, Uncle Moses?" ksked Clive. 
 "About — bathing?" asked Unde Moses, in a 
 faltering voice. 
 
 \ " No," said Clivo. 
 
 Uncle Moses drew ^ long breath.' 
 "It would be dreadful dangerous," said he. 
 " But, Uncle Moses," said Clive, " David would 
 never think of such a thing. He might go in if 
 all of u^ fellows went in too, just for company ; 
 but he doesn't care CLough about it to go in alone. 
 The fact is, he doesn't care much for any kind of 
 sports. He's too fond of books." 
 Uncle Moses sighed heavily. 
 "I wonder," said Bob, " if any of those Sorren- 
 to fellows have been about here, and seen him." 
 
 At this suggestion -every one of them started, 
 and stared at one another. 
 
 "Sorrento fellers?" repeated Uncle Moses. 
 ^' Do you think there's any chance ? " 
 
 " 0, J don't know," said Bob. " I only thought 
 it might be possible. You see Dave made no end 
 of a row^ there about that tassel that he took, and 
 you know how we had to run for it. Well, you 
 know Sorrento isn't very far from here, and I just 
 thought that some of the Sorrento people might 
 have seen us come here ye sterday. I f t h oy did, 
 
 w ; 
 
 they might have tried to pay up poor old Dave for 
 what he did out there." 
 
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VARIOUS THEORIES. 
 
 m 
 
 "Thl^r^T^ ^'"°'" '^'^ ^"^^« ^««««. with a ffroan 
 
 a little stroll +1. ^^'^°^^- ^e °iay have taken 
 been at hi„g all night for the 2Z Zly 
 
 we do / I II g^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^.^^^ ^^ 
 
 e„ followed. On sugge^ing tt S Ln^tl: 
 
 .« 'f tr;e'^;tt-^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 it only added! ^r ' '"' '""""^^M over 
 
 the b<^' '° *■■' '"'^'^•^of P"«'« Mose, and 
 
 at'lnce^iirCr^'H t° 1"™ ""^ '^ ^"^-*o 
 Dave is in their f'i fH" '^ *°° >'«• If 
 
 - ""}, "« mayn't be there it L" 
 
 wnere else is Tie ? " ~ 
 
 "I don't know/' 
 
 "There's no need for all of US 
 9 
 
 i.y.\^ 
 
 ^n," said Bob, who 
 
 to go," said Uncle 
 
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 130 
 
 AMONG THE BBIGANDS. 
 
 Moses. " I'll go alone, and you boys stay here till 
 I come back. But I don't know, either. I'm afraid 
 to leave you. If David's got into trouble, how 
 can any of you hope to escape ? No, you must all 
 come, for I declare I'm afraid to trust one of you 
 out of my sight." 
 
 " But some of us ought to stay," said Bob, " for 
 Dave may turn up all* right, and how'll he know 
 what's become of us ? " '' 
 
 " Wal," said Uncle Moses, " I'll leave word for 
 him here at the hotel." 
 
 " Yes," said Frank, " that's the best way. None 
 of us want to dawdle our lives out in this place 
 all day, and you don't want to leave any of us be- 
 hind, Uncle Moses ; so if we all go together,%e'll 
 all be satisfied." 
 
 A few minutes afterwards the carriage rolled 
 out of Castellamare, carrying the party back to 
 Sorrento* 
 
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 A GLORIOUS SCENE. 
 
 131 * 
 
 CHAPTER XII. - 
 
 ne Waking of David.— A glorious Scene. — A Tempta- 
 tion. — David embarks upon the wide wide Sea. — Youth 
 at the Prow and Pleasure at the Helm. —A daring Naviga- 
 tor. — A baffled and confounded Navigator. — Lost / Lost I 
 Lost / — Despair of David. — At the Mercy of Wind and 
 Sea. ->- The Isle of the Brigands. — The Brigand Chief. 
 
 N the-niorning of that day David had waked 
 very early, feeling refreshed with his 
 slumbers, and not at all inclined to pro- 
 long them. Ther c/thers were all asleep, and the 
 hoijse was silent. As he lay he could hear the 
 gefitle ripple of the water upon the beach, and 
 feel the sweet, balmy air of morning as it fanned 
 his cheeks. For some little time he lay enjoying 
 his situation, and then jumped out of bed and went 
 to the window. 
 
 Immediately in front of him lay the Bay of 
 Naples, a dark blue expanse, with its border of 
 green shores and white cities, overhung by a sky 
 whose hue rivalled that of the sea beneath. The 
 
 braaiy of thrscene was 80 exquisite that it caffed 
 him forth, and unable any longer to remain within 
 doorS; he dressed himself and walked (^ut. On his 
 
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132 
 
 AMONG THte BRIGANDS. 
 
 way out he met no one, for all /were still asleep. 
 f V, He had to unlock the door to let himself out, atid 
 ,^'* when outside he saw that t^ie street was as 
 deserted as the interior of the \ hotel. 
 
 Standing at the door, he saw tiie eastern sky all 
 ruddy and glowing. The sun was not yet up, but 
 these hues indicated its approach, and announced 
 - that it was at hand. The fertile plains, all covered 
 with vineyards, spread afar, extending from the 
 outskirts of the town to the slopes of the moun- 
 tains, whicli in the distance rose up grandly, their 
 sides covered with groves, and resting in dark 
 shadows. There, too, was Vesuvius, as ever, mon- 
 arch of the scene ; and the smoke that hUng over 
 its summit stood revealed in a black mass against 
 ' the blue sky. , 
 
 David left the hotel, and, after walking a few 
 paces, turned his steps towards the sea-shore. 
 Here the attractions were greater than on the 
 land, for the blue expanse of water spread itself 
 out before him, fencircled by shores and ■ inlands, 
 and all the congregated glories of the Bay of 
 Naples were there in one view befor^ his eyes. 
 There was a beach here of fine pebbles, which 
 sloped gently into the water,, and upon thi^beach 
 a number of boats were drawn up. After wander- , 
 ing along the beach for a little distance, David 
 
 "eiitered oHe oT these T)oat8, and saf down. It was 
 a small boat, with a mast and sail, the iatter of 
 
 . which was loosely furled. Here David sat and 
 looked out upon the water. 
 
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 J, / 
 
 A TEMPTATION. 
 
 133 
 
 The glorious scene filled lys whole soul with en- 
 thusiastic delight. Upon.that deep blue surface his 
 eye was attracted by several white sails far away 
 that moved to and fro. At that moment it seemed 
 to him that to move thus over such a sea would be 
 equal to a bird's flight in the blue of heaven: and 
 as he watched the boats he longed to be iirihem 
 
 Suddenly he thought of the boat in which he 
 was. Could he not have a little sail up and down 
 along the shore ? True, he did not know how to 
 sail a boat, but he could learn ; and this seemed as 
 good a tune to learn as any other. He did not 
 know the owner, but on his return he could pay 
 him what the excursion might be Worth. He 
 could float lover this glorious water, and move up 
 and down Within easy reach of the shore, so as to 
 land whenever it might be desirable. 
 
 D^vid was not at all an enterprising boy, or an ' 
 ad^turous one. He was essentially quiet, me- 
 thodica 1 and conservative. It was not because 
 this sail was a ri^y thing that he tried it, but 
 rather because it seamed so perfectly safe. There 
 fas a breeze, -he felt it, -and the progress of 
 ^he boats, afar off on the water,;iantalized him and 
 /tempted him on. The result /was, that without 
 taking much time to think aboiit it, David yielded 
 tojhg inci in^ t^Q^.Q£ th o^aem#tiir ftDtl pushing tfag— 
 boat from the land into the water, he let loose the 
 ml ; and then seating himself in the stern, he pre- 
 pared to glide over the wat^ri •' 
 
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134 
 
 AMONG THE BRIO ANDS. 
 
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 About sailing David knew absofutelj nothing/ 
 He was not eyen acquainted with the' theory of . 
 ^ BaiHng; nor did he know how, or on what princi- 
 * pie, a sail-boat moves. About steering- he was 
 equally ignorant, nor did- he know how a boat 
 obeys its rudder. But he knew that the one who 
 Bails a boat sits in the stern, and holds the tiller; 
 so David did the same, holding the tiller in his 
 right hand, and the sheets in his left. . 
 
 The wind was not very strong, and it happened 
 to be blowing in such a way that, as he unfurled 
 the sail, it filled at once, a^d the boat moved liglil> 
 ly and pleasadtly alpng. The motion filled Dkvid 
 With deKght. He saw himself- borne on past the 
 shore, at a gentle rate, and felt that the moment 
 was one of supreme happiness. Thus, holding 
 ^hfeet and. tiller, he resigned hims|#f to the joy of 
 the occasion. 
 
 The wind was moderate, and there was nothing 
 whatever in the movement of the boat to excite the 
 slightest uneasiness. The wavelets dashed pleasant- • 
 ly against the bows, and the course of the boat re- 
 mained sufficiently straight to keep her sail filled, 
 David 8^ that whatever the secret of navigation 
 might be, be had unconsciously stumbled upon it; 
 and finding that the boat was doing so admirably, he 
 was very carefuj^^o hold the tiller straight, and not 
 *o "ovejt tg eitj j ^ el^je^ SaJio l o aned b aok , and 
 
 luxuriated in the pleasant n^ion, and looked up at 
 the deep blue sky that bent above him, and around 
 
 'tiSiV^yteJs^sl"'' \k' "*.. 
 
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 A DAMNO NATIOATOB. 135 
 
 at the wJde^ expanse of water, the green verdur 
 
 that h.3 course ran along the shore, paraUel to « 
 
 nowfaX"'- ?r '"■'=^''' """-^'^Oatle Ul' 
 now farther awav from it than when he started- 
 bu .. yet the disjanee did not seem exoes^ ti 
 
 -oTnntr^ !""''"''^- ^'■o™ '•™ the ihorerao 
 tT„ . ,1 *"?"?»'«<» o" a headland, and DavW 
 
 tt!tri^tS^''«^--^--t^' 
 
 p.^pp^i:r::rranT^^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 any human being wore serenely unconscons of^^ 
 unfitness. Davids frame of mind was one of Im 
 ' „^;*f ". ''^ioy^-nt. He was quite uncons^S 
 of tl e increaee of the distance between h°s b„^t 
 and the shore, which grew greater every Z^^l 
 and equally unobservant of the lapse of ti^? In 
 times of great enjoyment the hours fly quX b l 
 
 tus fle?.T "t ^^""^*'"" "' feeKJ;^' 
 At length, even in the midst of his happiness ' \i 
 
 -Bmnk "4 '^ T T« Mtl M been oat? Be, . 
 
 ^^"* -OBld/ehaverHrfrhadhl 
 gMB7 He looked at hi* watch. To hie ntter 
 a»a.eme,t and consternation, he found thaUt^ 
 
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 136 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 seven o'clock — the time fixed for breakfast. He 
 had been sailing for two hours at least. As to dis- 
 tance, he could not grapple with that thought, 
 but turned hastily, and looked back. That look 
 gave him but little satisfaction. He could see a 
 line of white at the skirts of the sea ; but whether 
 It was Castellamare, or Naples itself, he was unable 
 to guess. 
 
 It was. a wide, sharp, and' painful awakening 
 from his bliss and serene delight, and it was an 
 effectual one. No more placid gliding now; no 
 careless voyaging. Two hours ! Seven o'clock I 
 Already they were at breakfast, aid waiting for 
 him. They were wondering about his absence. 
 And when could he join them again ? Two hours ! 
 If it had taken two hours to come thus far, it would 
 also take fully as much time to go back. Go back ? 
 And where should he go, or how could he get 
 back ? ; . ^ 
 
 Thus far, David's idea about his course, if he 
 can- be said to have had an idea, was, that it lay 
 alon^ the shore, and that somehow he could go 
 backus easily as he had come. But now that the 
 necessity for going back was upon him, he instant- 
 ly became aware of his utter ignorance, for he had 
 not the faintest idea how to turn the boat. 
 
 There was no time for delay, however, gome- 
 1^^"^ ^.^l^Q J_Q jffl^^^i^d that immediately, David 
 
 "tnew Ihis much at least, that a boat could be 
 turned by means of the rudder; so he began to 
 
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A BAFFLER AND CONFOUNDED NAVIGATOR. 137 
 
 .experiment upon this part of the vessel. He 
 , pulled the rudder towards him. The boat turned 
 and as it turned the sail began to flap, and toss! 
 and snap, in such a way that he grew exceedingly 
 nervous. Suddenly a puff of wind came, and the 
 sheets where whijiped out of his nerveless hand, 
 Vhile the sail thus loosened blew forward. 
 
 , David's heai-t quaked at this, and he. knew noi 
 what to do. With some vague idea of. bringing 
 thdboat back to her former position, and beginning 
 all (Wer again, he pulled the tiller first to one side 
 and then to the other ; but to his dismay he found 
 that the boat no longer obeyed it. Then he tried 
 to get\pos8es8ion of the sheets again, and, clumsily 
 crawliiig forward, he managed to secure them- 
 after w^iich he crawled back to the stern, and 
 chngmgUo the sheets, began, as well as his ner- 
 vousness Would allow him, to try a series of experi- 
 ments. First, he pulled the tiller towards him. 
 At this the\ boat came up to the wind, and resumed - 
 her former ^ourse. But this was the very course 
 on which hedid not wish to go ; so he pushed the 
 tiller from hiih. Upon this the boat fell away ; and 
 the flapping, \ jerking, whipping, and snapping 
 wh^ich had 80 alarmed him before, recommenced,' 
 and alarmed hiip more than ever. For some time 
 he continued this, until at length, as he brought 
 4be 4H»ttt up i;a i^e ^wmd oncelnor^^^^"" 
 
 ' \ •""•♦^, "loio came a 
 
 fresher puff than, any Avhich had thus far blown, 
 and the boat lay % over on her side. Terrified 
 
 ■-•*>■_..:,.-« 'i.fe.>rJjlfi. 
 
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 AMONG THE BRIGANDS./ 
 
 out of his Wits, David had just sense enough to put 
 her off, and then dropping sheets and 4iJler, he 
 sank back and looked all around in a panic. 
 
 This puff was the beginning of a somewhat 
 stronger breeze — a breeze which would have 
 rejoiced tlie heart of a sailor, but which carried 
 nothing but terror to the heart of David. What to 
 do now he did not know, nor for some moments did 
 ho even, think. The wind to his inexperienced 
 senses seemed a hurricane, and the wkveleta 
 seemed formidable waves. For a time he lay 
 paralyzed in tl>e stern, expecting every instant to 
 be ingulfed; but as the time passed, and his 
 doom was delayed, he began to recover himself 
 and.think about whaj; he should do next. ' 
 
 ^ To him, in his terror and anxiety, the first neces- 
 sity seemed to be to get rid of that dangerous sail. 
 As It flapped in the wind it seemed to endanger 
 the boat. At all hazards that must be furled- or 
 taken down. So once more, by a mighty effort, he 
 crawled forward, and gtasping the flying sheets, 
 he drew them in, and tied the sail to the mast, per- 
 forming the work in a manner whif(^ was very 
 clumsy, yet quite efficient. The upper partof the 
 sail still Remained free, bagging out a little, like a 
 balloon; but the lower part was tied up in a way 
 that would defy tlie tempest itself. After this 
 i^^^^'^ ^^^^ saf ej:,^^ d crawlin g back, iiedfewa lonff= 
 breath, and threw a fearful glance around. 
 Some time bad been taken up with these expert 
 
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David's anxiety. 
 
 139 
 
 ments m navigation, and as David l6oked, hfe saw 
 tliat the jresult had been not to- bring him nearer to 
 CastellatOare, but to take him farther out from the 
 Bhore. The nearest land to him now was an 
 island, but what island he could not say. As his 
 eyes wandered around, they saw nothing that was 
 familiar. A mountain appeared over the land 
 astern, and the smoke on its summit showed 
 that It must be Vesuvius ; but it had a diffef- 
 ent appearance altogether from that with which 
 he Avas familiar. He could form no idea of 
 th^^course which he had taken, and could only 
 guess, in a general way, where Castellamare 
 might be. 
 
 Some time before, he had been troubled at the 
 thought that he would keep his party waiting ; but 
 now he had no trouble whatever on that scorQ. 
 His only trouble or anxiety was about himself. He ' 
 felt as though he was in a position of tremendous 
 danger, and was being tossed about by pitiless 
 waves, which were hemming him in on every side, 
 ike ravening beasts of prey. In reality the piti- 
 less waves were scarcely waves at all,, the breeze 
 was only moderate, and there was no possible 
 danger; but David did not know this, and so he 
 suffered as much as though his imaginary danger 
 was real. ** 
 
 -"Meanwhile ar^tldTof the sail had been left 
 loose, as has been said, and afforded something for 
 the breeze to act upon. Th^ consequence was, 
 
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 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 had already not.'ced P °'' *•""'' ""^'d 
 
 with hiaeyes fi'd ,!"' T" ''"" ^'^ """•^'"^'i 
 Vesuvius. mf„ itTui , " 'r' ''^'^™' ""<» 
 
 see that he was innv.o i , ^^ ^^g^n to 
 
 Wore ,„„;trrrer''"''Tr '''''''''"' 
 excited in bis mind th^ , ■ *"' Prospect- 
 
 tention was now d" recL """ ^^^ "'"' "" '"•' "^ 
 time passed slowirbuU, r? ' """ P'"^<^- ^he 
 about tl.re«ToZ'afl \ , ^T' ""'^ "' '^"gth, 
 the boat, he found hi »■' '""^ ''^^' '"<"•*« t«rn 
 that he c'ouMtp'astr: " *" *" "'^ "-^'-d 
 
 rocks, above whi^h grltt/ot t h '"'"'''' "^ 
 the island he saw houses d peopl'" TT'"^ 
 were plain and etniU .„a .f*^ ''^ ''""'es 
 
 kboring in the fie Ms ' dTv d- t T^^'^ "^^""^d 
 ing all Italian peasants a^t ^"'''"'^ "=""«'''«■•■ 
 
 hi» mind a fear wh ch , '^"r'''' '""' '^'''^'^ in 
 On this lonelyl laid H '^'Tf '" ''^^'' ""^■'^"•''S. 
 
 be brigands, ^hot'ldtre'Itt ""'"t"™ "'s''' 
 and from whom hi could h„„et "^ '''"^■'' P-^' 
 than those early shinwrli-T, "'* "° ''<'««'• 
 
 seas about whom he 7 f"* T"""" '" 'hese 
 ■nnch. He conZtuLt^d > •'^"^ """^ »"""«d »<> 
 
 hft-l homo hiiu t„ u Z T " '""' *"" I'wt 
 mjgM_be secure from observation, and 
 
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 141 
 
 fset, and forced a g'^ve S ^""t'^''*"'^ ' 
 
 dense for David to ffoTr: c """ '"^'^'"'t'y 
 
 to leel secure from observatmn . 
 The grpve ran along the edffe of th» , °,f ''*'"">. 
 distance, but was of n^ ^ . i *"'' '"^ '°"« 
 
 as he peered tCugh L^IT "t" ^"^ ^-'d, 
 
 <!.oaded neighborhood of ZZ:^: I" !^ 
 island, and it was with Vf . ,Sands of the 
 tion that he rZgl^aiXV' %T '"K"'^ 
 shelter, the insuffid "ey of Ws^, °' ""f. t^^'^"' 
 
 be avoided 'ho W^a^v't '"T' •=-""»' '™S 
 Already he be^an tTf.!! i "" ""'"""S' ^^^ 
 
 his return to hiffrienda H^T"'"' '" '"^'"" ■ 
 
 ment^d learlulanspection of the scene, he beg^ 
 
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 AMONG THE BBiaANDSL 
 
 to moveTorward cautiously, so w to make a more^ 
 
 !fr!!?.. '""'^ "^'i" «P^" eround on the other 
 sjde ol the grove. , 
 
 Stealing forward as noiselessly and as warily 
 as poss,b e, and keeping himself carefully under 
 the shelter of the heavier foliage and denser 
 underbnish, David worked his way on, and al 
 length found himself on the other^ide of the 
 grove, where he could peer forth through the 
 leaves of a laurel bush upon th6 scene 
 
 » r„*i T ^"■?- * ^'■^'" '""*'^'"^' '^Wch ran up 
 a moderate declivity till it reached a house. The 
 house was a'sm«ll cottage, of simple and neat 
 appearance, and it stood not more than a hun- 
 
 we- fei; t! ^"S" "f ""e grove. Cattle 
 
 were feeding ,n -the meadow. To the right 
 was a vineya«l,pand on the left an olive grove 
 On one <^^ the olive grove there mn a 
 
 Zse '^'^"' "'^ *''°*" *' ''""'^ '"^"ds the 
 All tWs David took in at a glance ; ■ but he also 
 
 Baw spmething which made his heart beat quick 
 
 with excitement and anxiety. 
 He saw a man I 
 
 _!Phe man was standing in front of the house. 
 
 ^ffil" *•*. '^' T'^' '"•«»*shouIdered, bearded 
 juffian with a red shirt, and a slouching felt 
 Hat A short piDearaa.™ >-: — - ■• ■ 
 
 ., ^ ^-gEewas in hia mootb, stuofc-into 
 
 Wmassofhapbichcdiei^dThrrowtlTof 
 his lace. His hair was long, and dark, andt^ 
 
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 THE BRIGAND CHIEF. 243 
 
 and was engaged 'on /«'" t"** *"* *«^' 
 to be cleaning^ '^ """' "''"^'' •>« ^^^'"ed 
 
 thongh to avoid "oleCt; """'^'""^ '»'^' -■ 
 
 and tu'T' •„V'r'''''r.r''''' "'"««' ^---j. 
 
 stumbled up^^th^ T1 *^\'^">'"i«. he had 
 formidable fiZet "° ""• ^" "'at 
 
 style, and iafhlt belr; frer' ■«"'• '"'^ ''"^-<' 
 brows and slouohingtt he ,' T '"^''^ ^^^ 
 him, from that diSoe' iitTh! T 'r"''' "^ 
 in-plaoable Pra Diavolo himself "°"'^ °'' '""^ 
 
 couHrormtMXt'h' n; ^" .r- *- he 
 
 %• He started back dete™ " "'" '"""'^^ 'o 
 boat once more sTZ ''!"V™"""« '» ^^ek his 
 less oautior than hef^'""."' '"' """ he was 
 a long tendril of «^' ^""^ '"""'''°« ''i' <•«>* ™ 
 ing, he r"l , T' f '"P"' ""^ '■o'h In faU- 
 
 othrtho™ Plait .' r'"'' ^°"« "-'•" <" 
 flesh, cauZg tve™ pain*\ ^'""«, P'«^<""' "^^ 
 a ory burst \om h1m'^'''^,,^lfP-i« °f himself 
 -^mmw^ r^^ Jim, The cry wag iustaut ly ■ 
 
 ^ » retreat. But first he looked fear- 
 
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 fully around to see whether his cry had 
 
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 As he did so his heart sunk within him. 
 The brigand chief had heard him ! 
 
 
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 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 ^(i'vid Captured.— The biir hr,,ir I. , . 
 mSS"' 'y."'!":- David's Plea f or Merc, n 
 *"«— The Robber- s Hold. "" '-^ '"'^'''"""' *sfair. 
 
 consciousness of lii, „k„- u ■ , """'"y- ine 
 with desnair ^L ^- '"''P'<'«™ess filled him 
 
 out afl ' 'gnorance of Italian put it 
 
 h wra „7r; '" '''^»™ '"« '■"••y 0. depCe 
 mentsTw / T P"™"""- '" '^e few mo- 
 
 2"* "'at mtervened between the first diaooverv > 
 that ho was seen and the arrival of his enemy hZ 
 
 had left behind. Re thought of their grief sl 
 otaer. That^ ^.^Ae, those friends,,.that loving 
 
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 146 
 
 AMONG TBE BRIGANDS. . 
 
 , mother, he 'now might never see again. / Farewell ' 
 all dear ones I Farewell, bright past / Farewell' 
 sweet life, and glad light of day ! S^ch were thl 
 .thoughts, gloomy and despairing, that filled his 
 mind and tormented his heart; and>t the moment 
 that his pursuer entered the grove and stood he- 
 iore him, David looked up with pale face and 
 trightened eyes, and something like a sob escaped 
 nun. ^ 
 
 The bi^, burly brigand stood before him, and' 
 eyed him from head to foot. He was very tall, and, 
 indeed, to Dpvid he seemed gigantic, whi^e his 
 right hand held the rifle, like a walking-stick. He 
 looked at David in silence, and scanned him curi- 
 o^ly all over ; and David's e/eST^iich had at 
 first sought those of his captor in timid entreaty 
 : Dow sank before his stern ga;?e. , ' 
 
 '- "Cosa volete?^' said the brigand. '' Doiide ve- 
 nite?" in a deep voice. 
 
 "Mn capisco,'' Mtercd David, bringing forth 
 the only Italian that he knew. 
 
 At this the brigand was silent, and again sur- 
 veyed him. 
 
 " Parlate Italiano ? " he asked, at length. 
 
 « Nor said David, in a tremulous voice ; for 
 he understood the meaning of, those words well 
 enough. 
 
 ■ ■ n m - =_- .said the brigand, and then, " Pattez 
 V0U8 Franfais ? " ' ^ 
 
 "iVb/'gaid David. 
 
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 :5ahtEi 
 
 "itiia* \: 
 
 %^>:c -¥'•. ■'*5**^ J^tjffti 
 
\^, -^(f^^ 'ur,r ^'' 
 
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 'TOE BIG BULLY op' iBBioANB.. UJ 
 
 ">or«, apparently Ute curS^! t^T Z" 
 nationality of his prisoner ZZ / ' ""^ 
 
 -•3.f con,.unicatfon witX "' '°™ --« "- 
 David shook hjs head. 
 
 his looks "nTLZ IZt^''"^ ''' ^'^^'^r froM- 
 
 David, dress showed hi "to'hT^^ ""■^'" ""■ 
 youth, while his face JZlJ f ■•''■•'P'='=toble 
 
 a'ity ; for his con-plexSi^l'tk^ 7"' "^"'°"- 
 • sallow, his eve, rfLt i T- , *' ""'' somewhat 
 
 'and hi's fraJe'Xntr ' *""■■ ""'" ""^ ^'-^g''*' 
 
 more returning to the eiana" «on '"^'""•'"''"> 
 David shook his head. . „ . ■ 
 
 At this the bVigand frown«fl ^j ' ^ ' 
 
 \-Japsed n.to sil,n^ i^ 3^r At l" Tr 
 ^ade^ a further effort. " '^"^^^ ^« 
 
 ef vating his eyeS "■ " """-S^'ve to^, 
 , -David shook his head. V 
 
 
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 148 
 
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 /^ When Datid shook his head at this, the brigand 
 / turned away in disgust, and stood for ^ few mo- 
 ,^ ments meditating. David felt his fate to be hang- 
 ing in the balance, and stood in deep suspense, 
 watching with anxious' eyes* the facip of llis captor. 
 But the heavy beard and mustache, and the 
 slouched felt hat, concealed all expression ; nor 
 could David see anything there which could at all 
 lessen his anxiety. He thought, however, that if 
 he could only communicate 'in some way his mourn- 
 ful story, and let his captor see that he had came 
 here unintentionally, and only wanted to get back 
 to his friends, he might excite his compassion, if 
 indeed there was any compassion in' the gtern soul 
 of this awful being. It was David's onl^ chance, 
 - however ; and so, putting his hand timidly on the 
 brigand's arm, he pointed towards the shore, and 
 •^^ waved Ms arm towards Naples. 
 
 At this the brigand stared ; but seeing tljiat David 
 
 persistently pointed in that direction, hb walked 
 
 oflF through the grove for a few paceib, till he 
 
 reached the top of the bank, where the lj)each ap- 
 
 . jpeared before him, and the boat drawn up on it. 
 
 ' David followed him, and as they came ini sight of 
 
 the. boat he pointed towards it, and then touched 
 
 his breast, meaning by that to show that the boat 
 
 was his. This the brip -and at once understood 
 
 
 and after once more staring hard at D|ivid, as 
 though anxious to ascertain whether he wa^ speak- 
 ing the truth or not, he bounded down the bank. 
 
 
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 A TEBBIPIC INQUISITION. I49 
 
 and strode towards the boat, which he examined 
 
 narrowly, inside and out. During this time he paid 
 
 no attention.to David ; but tothe poor lost lad this 
 
 mdifference gave no hope. He knew that there 
 
 was no escape for him. He felt that on this island 
 
 the bnganji was f upreme, and any effort to fly ■ 
 
 would only be worse than useless. So, instead of 
 
 trying to fly. he followed the brigand, and came up. 
 
 to where he was standing beside the boat. 
 
 . The brigand examined it very narrowly outside 
 
 and mside. He inspected the bow, the stern, and 
 
 the rudder. He knelt down and looked under^ 
 
 neath. He stepped inside and examined David's - 
 
 clumsy fastenings of the ml These excited much 
 
 mterest, apparently, and caused prolonged study 
 
 on his part. To David all this appeared perfectly 
 
 mtelhgible, and very natural. The brigand was 
 
 evidently examining his plunder, tp see what it 
 
 was worth. David felt an additional pang of grief 
 
 at the thought that he had sequestrated the proper- 
 
 ty of some innocent Castellamare fisherman, and 
 
 diver ed It into the possession of brigands,- but he 
 
 consoled himself by the thought that if he ever 
 
 escaped he could hunt up the owner and make good 
 
 the loss. Escape for himself was the first thins ^ 
 
 and he tried to hope that the boat might prove a 
 
 ipgesuffic iently va lua ble 4^.^Ufyt\m . m iu d-o f-^ 
 the brio-an^ anA a: t- \ 
 
 the brigand, and dispose himlp mercy and com- 
 passion. So, as the brigand inipected the boat, 
 David stood watching the brigand, and looking 
 
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 AMONG XHE BRIGANDS. 
 
 earnestly to see whether there were |iny signs of 
 a relenting disposition. But the face of the brig- 
 and preserved an unchanged expression ;^and af- 
 ter he h^ examthed the boat to his satisfaction, 
 he once more confronted David, and the poor, for- 
 lorn, despairing lad saw that his aspect was as ma- 
 lign, as ferocious, and as truculent as ever. 
 
 David determined to make a further effort. 
 There was nothing else to be done. He felt that 
 he must pacify this ferocious being, disarrn his 
 hostility, appease his cruelty, and, if possible, ex- 
 cite his (?m»pdssion. To do all this, it would be 
 necessary to express himself by signs — for he 
 could not speak the language ; and though signs 
 seemed very inadequate, yet he had to resort to 
 them. He had heard, however,' of the skill of thrf 
 Italians in expressing ideas by means of gestures, 
 and he hoped that this man might gain some mean- 
 ing from his unskilled efforts. 
 
 So, first of all, he tried to tell the brigand that 
 he was from America. He laid one hand on his 
 heart, and waved the other towards what he sup- 
 posed to be the west. 
 
 The brigand nodded solemnly, and seemed td 
 comprehend what he wished to state. It gratified 
 David to see this, and to notice also^ that the brig- 
 and was very attentive, and fixed his dark, stern 
 
 iytsa upon 4iim with closeslr srcnitiny. 
 
 The next thing that David tried to tell him was, 
 that he had friendfa witli him. , 
 
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 SIGN LANGUAGE. 
 
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 This he did by pitting his breasl, waving his 
 arms around him, smiling, and touching four of his 
 fingers. \ ' A: 
 
 The brigand nodded. He bad ap^rentiy^ 
 the idea. . " V 
 
 D^vid was very much encouraged. 
 
 The next thing to be told was, that,h^ and his 
 friends had gone on an excursion into the Wntry. 
 
 This he did' by prancing along the sahd, an^ 
 snapping an imaginary whip ; after whiteh he " 
 pointed to the opposite shore, waving hi8\hand 
 along the country. ' \ 
 
 The l^^igand nodded again, and appeared de'^ply 
 interested. \ 
 
 The neVt thing to be told was, that he had ptit 
 off in this boat. • ' 
 
 He waved his hand towards Vesuvius. Theu 
 he lay down on the sand, and pretended to be\ 
 asleep. He then rose, yawned, and rubbed his 
 eyes. Then^^went to the boat, pretended to 
 puStr^Tand hoist sail. 
 
 The brigand now nodded very vigorously, and 
 it began to be evident to David that his story was 
 making some impression. *" 
 
 He now wished to explain that the boat had^ot 
 
 beyond his control, on account of his ignorance^f 
 
 navigation, and that he had drifted or been blb\^n " 
 
 -upon this sltore. 
 
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 To do this, he pointed <to the boat, then to ||im- 
 self ; after which he sigheld and looked dow|[ in a 
 
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 jfAilONO THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 
 
 melancholjr way. Then he got into the boat and ' 
 shook t^e|8ail. Then he jumped out and rocked 
 It as violently as he could. Then he sunk back on 
 one knee |irith folded arras and upturned face, in- 
 tending b^ that to indicate despair. Then he 
 waved hW hands all about, and pointed td the boat 
 ^d ta^he sea; and then, pointing alternately to 
 the boat and to the sea, he waved his hands, try- 
 mg to indicate the track over which he had passed 
 while approaching the island. After this he paused, 
 and turned a supplicatory look at his captor. 
 
 . Thereupon the brigand nodded vehemently, as 
 before. 
 
 And now one t|1ng yet remained for David to 
 explain, and that was, his own position. [Ee wished" 
 to tell the brigand that he knew he was in his 
 power, and that he would pay any ransom, if he 
 y would only restore him to his friends. 
 ^ To explain this, David took the big hand of the 
 brigand, and put^it upon his head, stooping down 
 low as he did so. Then he waved his arms all 
 around, and moui^nfully shook his head. Which 
 meant, that he yas in the brigand's power, and 
 would not and c6uld not escape. Then he drew 
 forth his purse, tapped it several times, held it 
 out to the brigand, waved his hands towards Na- 
 pies, slapped his breast, and jiointed to the brig. 
 • and and to himself. Which m>.ant, ihut h^ .vp^fd 
 
 pay any money; that he had ftiends in Naples who 
 would treat with the brigand for his release on his 
 
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THE CAPTOR AND ms CAPTIVfi.*" I53 
 
 and his concluding.offer '"' '''"■7' 
 
 eral times gravely and, thouffhtCnIlv ti t 
 
 looked at the boat, and then ft nl-:, f".^" 
 at the sea t:, n ."./'"'" ^t- David,, and then 
 "f '^*- ^° ^"""i It seemed as if the bri»„na' 
 wastry,„gto trace the boat's devious tLkter 
 
 toiheii^d^i'L— Stt;r '"•' """" 
 
 until at length he seemed Mi """"^ """«' 
 
 »l80 to have come t-f^ •'""''''"'"<'"• ''''<' 
 
 course of c::d„:r' •" '*'""°° «'"'"' •■'^ <""• 
 
 DaWd-rre'a^' " Afte" 'h"TT ''''"^' """ "^'^ '' »» 
 »d nodded '"'"' '^ P'''"'^'' t" ''^-15 
 
 thnncrK' *K <- . ' '^ ^^^" captive. Al- 
 
 t forma tl^nf :ft ^^.-'O-'. .^* 
 
 ^ff, WlBe cottage bejond the grove After 
 
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154 
 
 AMONG THE BIIiI0AND8. 
 
 pointed^ to the island and nodded, pointed to Na- 
 pies and shook his head. ; 
 
 By wjpch David understood him to say, " You 
 are my prisoner. I hVe in that house. You shall 
 ^e kept there. You can't escape." 
 
 Then the brigand raised his gun, and nodded at 
 
 David. Then he slapped the stock of it several 
 
 ! times, fixing his keen, glowing eyes gloomily upon 
 
 the lad as he did so. Then he waved his hand 
 
 towards the sky. 
 
 By which David understood the following: — 
 " You're my prisoner I You cannot escape I 
 If you dare try it, I will shoot you ! You can no 
 more escape than you can fly in the air I " ' 
 
 Then the brigand pointed to the boat, and 
 touched his breast. ^ ^ 
 
 By which David understood, — '' " 
 
 " This boat is mine, and I will keep it as my 
 lawful prize." ^ , 
 
 Then he waved his hand to the hciu^e, and then 
 pointed to Naples. After which he brought forth 
 a purse from his pocket, tapped it significantly, 
 pointed to David, and then to Naples. 
 
 By which David understood, — 
 
 " I will keep you as a prisoner up there in my 
 house till I cominunicate with your friends about 
 5^our ransom, and find out how much I can get for 
 
 After this the briganci pulled the boat farther 
 Tip on the beach, and thbn, beckoning to David to 
 follow, he strode off towards theiotise. 
 
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 155 
 
 Slowly and Badly poor David followed: and 
 hope, wl.,ch had fbr a »„„,ent revived, be^n to 
 d.e out w,tl.,n him. Ho had been decei^d bv the 
 demeanor of the Wgand, during his ow" de8cn> 
 t.on of h,8 «"'||fe«'anderi„g, and had mista! 
 «'"/";,"'""?'«»"'>« only ofdinary atten- 
 SL„ m'^';^^ brigand, when he had > 
 
 tear toN^spair,' Wfhiercilese allusion to David's 
 capfve state, the rude appropriation^of him as a 
 
 [hir' I !?' ^""'P °f '"■" "^-^ the ferocious 
 hreat w.th the gun , and, finally, the display of 
 
 rll ^^ '""'^''V'«'"''^o''«'«noeto^ money and. 
 ransom, all conv,nce\l David that he h,^ to do with 
 one who was a strang^fo compassion* a ferooioue 
 and ruthless nature, w^hout pity, and without"" 
 mor e. And now, as h^ captor led the.,vay to 
 tl,a honse^he felt that he ^ being conveyed to a 
 prison, frdra which his eseaW walindeeT m,«„,! 
 ^n; for, though he knew thi ullg:^?^ ^ 
 
 ,»;*u u- ^-1- — ?P1p to communicate 
 
 . ^. h,^m^r not. On the whole, WtKe^aflll 
 
 t!, f K-' '' ""'' *'■" ''"''o «<■*••« ruffian in 
 fi^^qf him-seemed like the march of i„evitabk 
 
 \^ ^° ' ' *^"'' J**" ';" ° ' '- ' "J " " '" w'A.t 
 
 waTw • 5 "i ^'^"''^'■"e '"'» t'"' field, they / 
 walked on towards the house. As they drew' 
 
 nearby D«videaw signs that were notl^S 
 
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 m keeping with the rough exterior of his eneiy 
 for m front of the cottage there were flower8\in' 
 bloom, which appeared to be cultivated bj soiie 
 ^ careful hand ; but a moment's thought showed dI 
 vid that this might be tlit3 work of the robber'< 
 • wife. Jhe -prospect of meeting with a woman al. 
 torded hope ; for whatever the husband might be ^ 
 the wife might be gentle, and pitiful, and woman' 
 ly; ai^ David drew hope from the flowers; for 
 the orffe that could have tastes like .these might 
 not be altogether hard and implacable ; and as the' 
 giants and ogres of the fairy books had wives who 
 ^ generally were willing to help the victims of their 
 husbands, so here, in^the wife of this Italian ogre 
 Pavid hoped to find one who might be as merciful 
 as those of fairy lore. 
 
 At length thoy reached the house, and the brig, 
 and, after waiting for a moment for his prisoner to 
 come up, entered the door. David followed, and 
 found himself inside. • 
 
 The' door ^pen(*d immediately into a room. It 
 was largG and low. The floor was paved with 
 red tiles, tnd the walls were of wood, varnished 
 Around the walls hung numerous pictures with- 
 out frames. In diff-erent places tltere were con- 
 •fused heaps of clothing and drapery. The clothing 
 was rich, though fantastic. In one corner was a 
 Wramevwit h H rm or ^apend^ ; while o ver th fg, off- 
 the wall, he saw arms of differ^it kinds +- pistols, 
 ^arbfties daggers, and blunder^Fusses. The fash- 
 
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THE EOBBEB'S HOLD. 
 
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 Dav rt nnV;! J • ■ '■ "'■namisr* which even 
 
 board anr? « «i ^"P°'^' ^ ^o"i8 Quatorze side- 
 board, and a classic tnpod, stood in a row Some 
 Chinese tables were in one corner. In th c^uTre ' 
 ot the room was a fah]« r.f ^ • ^estre 
 
 rockmg-chair, in which lay a ^uit-,r T^T ] T 
 Bcenfi sfrnnt rf -J , . guiC'ir. I he whole 
 scene struck I^avid as being perfectly in keeping 
 
 lvnf*i,„j •". >'^"""'»"<Ji^em]ndcdhra vivid- 
 ly of the descnptions which he had read of the 
 
 I^^te. the Pirate „/ the Jil^l^tart: 
 
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 158 
 
 AMONG T^ BRIGAIfDS. 
 
 CHAPTER XIV; 
 
 On /A^ IVay to Sorrento ttgain. — A mournful Ride ~A 
 despairing Search.^ A fearful Discovery.- The old 
 . ytrago again. - In a Trap. - Sorrento aroused - Be^ 
 Steged-All lost.-A raging Crcwd ~ The howling 
 nag - Hurried Consultation. - The last forlorn Ho6e 
 —Disguise, Flight, and Concealment. 
 
 *^^' ^^ ^ ^^^® ^^^^' ^^'"^ carriage rolled out from 
 Castellamare, along the road to Sorrento, 
 freighted with its anxious load. All were 
 silent. Uncle Moses was weighed down by an 
 anxiety that vvas too deep for words, and sat bent 
 forward with his head buried in his hands. The% 
 boys respected his feelings too much to say any- 
 tiling, and consequently they, too, sat in silence. 
 They were far from feeling anything like despair, 
 however, on David's account. Before they started, 
 Bob had as8ure(^ therij that ''Dave" was "all 
 *rtght," and woiiM Ju\n \^p before long somewhere 
 — an assurance which Frank and Clive accepted as 
 ^ a perfectly^ sound and reliable statement; and so. 
 
 F~*hey wem sitenT, iT wrslioOTTSm^hlht"^^^^ 
 of care or sadness, as of sympathy with Uncle 
 Moses. 
 
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 ON THE WAT TO SOEBENTO AOAm. 159 
 
 tor'To^ir ■'r''' "•' *'^ '™'" «- 
 
 in wagons, a„4ao^:rho rack 7„™«-';°- 
 with the earnest requesrof rTn > ^""^-^'"'^ 
 
 driver questioneaallTese^L?* T' "" 
 
 a^ked the same question Tf a^ "' ''""''"""'' "'"^ 
 
 yeirf:;: i^ir 12 d 'T r'-" •'"•^ "•""■' ««-- 
 
 gray dress?" ' '' '^'"'^ '"'"■' ^""°w face, and 
 
 • "No." 
 And at each fresh answer Uncle Mo.p« *. m 
 
 one was filled wi/j " 1,/^ r^^"'^^' ^"'l «very 
 one in tliat Hnl„ 1 . <«'hu8.asm. Then no 
 
 profoiraid : .sr„^xr ^^i'^ ", "-»- 
 
 addition to a bnv'J ..•■' w "'"'"'' ""''o- in 
 
 fonhaiithl^ol^elSf Xr-'^^^-S'-t 
 
 peculiarly his own ? , * "' "''"'^'' were 
 
 The nearer tev drew tts ""T' "'"^'■•' "^^ >>«' ' 
 and pressing id ^h ™'°' **" """•« "''Son' 
 
 Grad„;uy the spectljr:^ ;; ::: „7p"rr '• 
 
 began to affeof fh^ i / uncle Moses 
 
 fidLe theyb^a^ toT ^ '" '^'"' °^ ^•"''' »»• 
 iBg over dem, 5 " ''*' "^ ""P'^"'*"' ^^ »t«»l- 
 
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 160 
 
 AMONG THE BRipANDS. 
 
 A little way out of Sorrento the driver halted 
 and spoke to Uncle Moses. 
 
 He felt a little troubled, he said, about taking 
 the' carriage into the town. He reminded them of 
 the rec^t uproar of the people, and their narrow 
 escape, and warned them that if they were rec 
 ognizQ^^i they might again be assailed. 
 
 But this warning fell on heedless ears. Uncle 
 Moses was decided to go on. Jf David waa^ny- ' 
 whore, he _ might be in that very'tbwn, a piWer 
 in the hands of those foolish people who took of- 
 fence at nothing. If they wished to save him, they 
 must go into the very midst of the people, and 
 save him from their vengeance. 
 At this the driver drove on. -; 
 
 About a half a mile outside the town thej^ over- 
 took an old woman, and the driver stopped, and 
 put to her tli^^ulual question.' As the wamm 
 looked up they all recognized her at once. 
 
 Slie was their old friend, or rather enemy — the 
 virago herself, and no other 1 
 
 At the driver's question she stared at them, and 
 at once recognized them all. A dark and gloomy 
 expression came over her, and if glances could 
 have injured them they would have been blasted 
 on the spot. 
 
 She stood there, and after the driver h4d asked 
 
 -Iha question aim -glared at theinTor some time in 
 
 silence, looking frcJhi one to the other. Then she 
 
 fltretched forth a long, bony, skinny hand, and 
 
 ^<ilfei*4.i¥f ^« 1 -''**.( "^1 
 
 Mki, 
 
 .3^Ssu.i-' 
 
"^"•>4*rjt'^"^""->'y" 
 
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 SEAPPEARAHCE OP Tbf nr,> J 
 
 OP THE OLD yjBAOO. m 
 
 ™oek It at them Tho„ i, , ■ 
 
 ^shrill, veno.„o„s strnMof H ''' '■°'"' ■" " '""g. ' 
 
 • " What does she efv7" , ? ' ^^'"'"■'e'^'*"-'- 
 the driver. . ^' '^^^ Pncle Moses, of 
 
 • " 0, nothing," said the driver « si. , " 
 oirse ; and she say she willT * ' ^* ""^^ <'°«» 
 
 And once more th« 7 ' vengeance." 
 
 • to go back. "';*''" '^"^«'- "god Uncle Moses '■ 
 ■ But this appearance of «.^ • 
 
 threats only roused Uncle Mn '';''^° """^ ^-^^ 
 •-.,minktion. He w„= "'"^ *<* fresh deter" * 
 
 be-Sn seized LesIT'*"' «''" »-'1 h,^' ~ 
 woman was, perli ^r'"'™'"''V and that this .l 
 
 the driver assuf^d ht ^'7'.*° *""^ '° ^''' '"'t 
 she was crazy, and tiSff h ""' "'!^' *"' 
 '"formation tW „.U8 It ^. «'»»«e<^ gain . 
 
 They n«w Ed Th. '"'""""' *'''«^«™- 
 leng entered the tovtn T J"'°^^^^' "°* ''efore 
 Uuole Moses at once iTf, T")^^ "■« ''<'*«'• ' ' 
 appearance of th/cIrSl .'""•^'M- -^y^e ' 
 landlord l«>ked a litHe"?' "'"' P«*P'g«"*^he 
 ef Uncle Moses he Z^edslnr ""'' "' *''« '"I'^T ' 
 a' to David he knernnft T^ ''"'"''''ed. Bat 
 "Had hn hoaTj^l^! u°^ ''^''*^''°'^■ 
 
 where ? " ' 
 
 ■'"No — 
 
 arrested 
 
 any. 
 
 "H»Hi,"°u'''''^ "*»"•" ■ 
 
 H^tei^of any „„ebei„g arrested?.. 
 
 4^ ; 
 

 fgailist tiien) ? " 
 "0^ CM||lainly — for 
 
 l^reats- 
 
 &'whg\^^f^& iMlt day 
 
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 r|ti)ta8 nothing but tlir&ats against the sao 
 ^P^yi^gfotfe fbre\gnera j but tlje feeling had subsided 
 "' e. Still their appedlimce in Sorrento would 
 It^doubtedly rouse the poQple again, and the land- 
 : lord urg^d them for their ,5pivn sakes to hurry away 
 " as fast as possible back to ^stellamare. 
 ^ But Unqle Moses refused, to think of this. He 
 Was here, and here he Wouldi'Temain tintil he had 
 found David. He wanted the landlord to help him 
 ili'tflis tasl^. liei' him go out and mollify the peo- 
 ple in' ^y way, -and ^e if he coirid find anything 
 ' ab()ut;ithe lopt boy. He promised to pay any sum 
 to tile landlord, or anybody else, if they would only 
 effect his resque. . • 
 
 This promise acted powerfully upon the land- 
 lord's cupidity, and he thought that at any rate it 
 would be well to try. Sd he told Uncle Moses to 
 wait, and he wguld see what could be done. He 
 thereupon left them, and UiK^e Moses and the^bc^s 
 walked up stairs to that sf 
 had dined before, when 
 eached their ears4 
 aited in silence. 
 THjty did noF havt 
 
 If: 
 
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 not more than a qua 
 minutes, when hurried 
 
 oom in \vhi9h they 
 roar of the people 
 ey satL doWn and 
 
 
 ,Tt very long. ~ irwai" 
 n hour, or twenty 
 ps were heard, and 
 
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 the landlora rtshed in, followed hv th. 1, • 
 Both were agitated and disturled it tl ■"™'- 
 
 "::;i:rdtsr'"\-'"^ 
 '':'i>XrjeVi^:::i#^^-^^^^^^ 
 
 Af tu;\, TT 1 ,r "*^P®"Pie' J^»u are lost I " 
 
 though Prank could fnf ^ ^"^ ^^"^^'•' ^"^ 
 J^^tr«iJ?^ ^' ^° ^^"^ ^^"«®d all th^ 
 
 a t the huildJag^-a i K} 
 
 curses at thoste witWri "and^ mTT """ 7®**®^ out 
 
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 AUONO THE BRIGANDS. 
 
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 bold boy, but this sight was too much for him. 
 iHis heart sank within him, and he involuntarily 
 shrank back/ farther out of sight. 
 
 Soon thej people outside began to throw at the 
 party within something harder than words. Stones 
 came flying through the open windows, and one of 
 these misfittles came .very close to the head of"^ 
 tlncliB Moses. The landlord rushed forward, and 
 closed all the'shutfers, and bkrred them, while the 
 boys gathered around Uncle Moses as though to 
 'protect him from those savage assailants without. 
 
 "What shall we do?" asked Frank of the 
 
 driver. \ , * . 
 
 The driver shrugged his shoulders. 
 "Can't we drive 'through them as we did 
 
 -before?" 'v_ . 
 
 " Dey have put a guard aiwie gate. Dey pre- ^ 
 I pare dis time — an not let us go." 
 
 " Isn't there any hack way ? " asked Frank, once 
 more, of the landlord, who now rejoined them, after 
 X having barred all the windows, 
 
 '* Dere.is ; but de people are on de guard." * 
 *^Axe there no soldiers about — no police? 
 Can't B^qae one go and get help?" 
 • The landlord shook his head^ijespondingly. 
 
 " But there must be some way of gejtting rid of^j^ 
 thftni"^," ""^^ Fran W / Imp at lfiuijy . ^* C an 't yon 
 explain that it was all a mistake?" 
 The landlord sighed. ^ 
 
 "I haf try," he said, in a doleful voice. " And 
 
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 HUBBIED GOMBULTATION. 
 
 165 
 
 dey say I mus put yoii out of de house. Dat I 
 can not- do -^ so I sail haf to soffaire. Listen I " 
 And at that momeDt the crash' o^ glass below 
 interrupted him, and formed a striking com- 
 mentary on his remarks. « Dey vill bre^k*rie vin- 
 dow," said h^ « an dey vill try to break de dbor; 
 but I haf bar^ricade as well as I can." /- 
 
 " Are we at all safe ? " asked Frank. ^^ 
 
 The landlord shook his head. 
 
 "Not mooch. If dey get enrage enough, dey 
 break in, andMen" — a significant shrug ended 
 the sentence. " m 
 
 " Have you any arms'— fire-arms ? " aske 
 Frank, after a thoughtful pause. 
 
 " I haf a small shot gun." 
 
 « Give me that," 'interrupted Frank. 
 
 " But I haf no powdaire," said the landlord. 
 
 At this Frank turned away in despair. 
 
 *^ Can't we get to some other room than this ? " 
 he asked of the driver. " Isn't there a place where 
 we can have some chance of defending oursel 
 
 The driver had been silent for sbme tim^ 
 buried in thought. ; He did not hear Frank's 
 Words, but as he spoke, he looked earnestly at him 
 and said, — , , 
 
 " 1 haf a plan. Ifemay be no good — but it is de 
 
 Ah," asked Frank, eagerly, « what is that? " 
 You must all disguise." 
 "Disguise?" 
 
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166 
 
 iUONO THB 
 
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 " ^®8 " T ii ft Bi h A''^'^^' ^ ^^^^ *^y *° '8®t some." 
 ^'Bvif^mH^WBm r&d^nj^e us all the same." 
 1 « No ^— de »pian * is dis. You all disguise — ^|tay 
 below — I sail sit iti de carriage ; de hor||e ari* all 
 , ready now. Ef de peojile do brealfc in, 1^ will all. 
 rush up stair to here. You sail be down stair in 
 de stable. De moment de crowd com?, I will hul" 
 de gates opened. You sail spring in — an den n 
 whip up, an make a fly for life. You ond'stan?" 
 
 The di^iver spoke hurriedly: Frank understood 
 him, and at once approved, .j^this the dr%pf 
 went off to get the»iandiord to prxjcure^ fem(^ 
 .dresses. That worthy hurried away, and^soo! 
 % returned with about twenty gowns, bonnets, and 
 ,; petticoats. These he threw upo^j.the flodr, and* 
 : ^™Pte^*^^®"^ *° ™^^® ha^e, fbr^e people out- 
 side ^fea-d^^ talking dl getting a beam to battel in 
 ' Sfel^^iS^'®^* ^® ^^^ ii&aplored them nortoi buTthey 
 scorned his prayersi ^-^--^ 
 
 Upon this, the boys be'gan to put pn the dresses, 
 ^Jguising ti^mselye^as well as they could. It 
 was yery <Slu^jr#6fk,,ftndi«i»e uncer- 
 
 jtoin abm^ tlllji^ro|rer way of feftening them; but 
 diM^and'tha landlord assisted them. The 
 ^esse^Wr^hose of Italian peasant women, and 
 require^ no very elaborate adjust|ftent. Some 
 cbatse bonnets, of an antique type, were stuck on 
 
 -# 
 
 *^' '■'W- 
 
 ^BBeir Beads; and served to cbiicefl tteif^short^air 
 and faces. 
 
 With Uncle Moses they had very much trouble. 
 
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 PBEPABATIONS FOB LEAVINO. 
 
 At first he refused positively, and only con- 
 sented when he was assured that the safety of thQ 
 boys depended upon his 'disguise^ So he yielded 
 reluctantly, and allowed the driver to officiate as 
 lady's maid. ° ' , 
 
 No sooner iNras this task concruded,'than the 
 landlord and driver hurried them down stairs', and 
 through a passage-wlay into the barn. Outside, in 
 the court-yard, was the carriage, with the horses 
 reiady. The hostler tvas sent to the. gate to fling it 
 Open at the driver's signal, and the landlord, 
 stimulated by a promise from Uncle Mose.? of a 
 large reward in case of his rescue, returned to the 
 hotel, to operate upon the crowd from that quarter. 
 
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 AMONG THB BBIOANDS. / 
 
 \ j CHAPTER XV. . . 
 
 < <«■.■■' 
 
 In the Robber's Hold. — The Brigand's'^^ Bride. — Sudden^ 
 amazing, overwhelming, bewildering, tremendous, as^ 
 founding, overpowering, and cn4shing Discovery. — The 
 Situation. —Everybody confounded. — The Crowd at Sor- 
 _ r^nto. — The Landlord's Prayers. — The Virago calls for 
 Vengeance. 
 
 |HE brigand put his gun down upon the sofa, 
 and motioned to David to take a seat. He 
 then left the room, and David heard his 
 Toice calling, — 
 . " Laura 1 Laura 1" 
 
 A light footstep sounded in the n^ room, and^ 
 the brigand returned, followed by a woman.- - 
 
 This woman's appearance astonished David.i 
 She was a lady. She was young, beautiful, bright 
 as a vision, dressed simply, but in the modem 
 fashion altogether. She had a very sweet face, 
 and a bewitching smile, and as she entered she 
 looked at David in some surprise. ' 
 
 Then this great, big, bluflf, . bearded, broad- 
 Habouldered, beeUe4wnvtj4, brusqtifrHbully-no^ 
 brigand; this fierce, ferocious, bloodthirsty, re- 
 lentless, ruthless ru£^n ; this hard-hearted, im- 
 
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 THB BBIGA^'S ACCOUI^ OF DAT^. 169 
 
 placable, inexorable villain; this cruel, vengeful, 
 vindictive, griping, grasping, scowling fiend; this 
 demoniac miscreapt, without pity, and without re- 
 morse, opened his mouth. > J 
 
 And this is wl»t he said, in fipsirate English I —. 
 
 "See here, Ldiira; I've picked up a poor wretch 
 of a Bohemian — can't speak a wordmf an^^ lan- 
 guage, and had to explain by signs/ /Well, yuu 
 know I'm gl-eat on gestures ; so I worked his story 
 out of him. It seems he came to Naples with his 
 father, mother, and two sisters, and they all went 
 on horseback up Vesuvius. Well, somehow they 
 were captured by brigands, and wer^ carried off; 
 but the father, who, I believe, is a- medical man^ 
 managed to drug the food of the scoundrels, and 
 carried off his family. Well, they ^ot to the shore, 
 found a boat, and set out for Naples. After sailing 
 a little distance, a squall struck the boat, and it 
 upset. All were drowned except this poor lad, 
 who managed to cling to the boat, and drifted, or 
 was blown, ashore here on the cove, just down" 
 there, last night. 5e was senseless all night, and 
 .only came tohimself a little while ago, and I 
 picked hifl^^.j^st as he was reviving. He says- 
 he 18 alonei^^B jfR^e world, and has appealed to me 
 ^ help him, Pbpr lad I my hewt feirir aches ibr 
 hii fl. flejsftys heh^sn^t jot a penny o fmnri fty, 
 
 U> 
 
 ISdimpl^^ ine to help himT Of course I've tried 
 to comfoijlr him ; for I've told him thit "be may 
 a»ke my hofuse his home, and I've promised to 
 
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 170 
 
 AMONG THE BRIOAl}pS.i 
 
 give him whatever money \4 wants,, and move 
 heaven and earth to get hina Iback to his friends, 
 if he has any." ' - 
 
 During this astounding, speech <^e lady had 
 . stolen over to David, ;^nd sitting hf hia- side, she 
 placed a soft hand tenderly on hia" head. As jfeie 
 story was being told, her" eyes filled with tears, 
 and leaning forward, she kissed the poor boy's pale 
 brow^ When it ende'd she murmured in English,* 
 that was even better than that of the " brigand," -.- 
 
 " Poor boy ! poor boy 1 5} Walter, dearest, how 
 I do wish I coijld speak Bohemian^ so |^ to tfeij 
 him how sorry I feel ! " 
 
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 What did David think - 
 • Nothing. Nojt a word I 
 
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 gasped* for brelih. / 
 
 And 80 this was his brigand-r- the brutal^ the 
 beetle-browed, the cruel, ^;he bloodyvjjamded.i- thp. 
 inexorable, the demoniaif and ajl the r^st of'itl 
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 remarked ; .and as the ex-;brigaii^ want on vriti^ 
 narrative, David listened ix a dazed wa^, _^ 
 iDega'n to undorstand that Jhe language of g^urea 
 has its Httle uncertainties. But wheti the. lady 
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 The lady ^^art^d back in wpniier, and looked at 
 David, and then at her husband. The e^rigand 
 started back also, and stared at David in utter ' 
 bewilderment. 
 
 " What 1 " he roared, in a deep, thunderous bass 
 vpice. " Say that again." 
 
 " O, I'm an;^AmGrican — and I'm silch a fool 1 " 
 said David. " Why didn't I tell you so ? " • ^ „ .. 
 
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 Upon this he burst into a perfect thunder-peal ^^'^ 
 
 of laughter. The laughter came forth, peal after 
 
 peal, in long arid deafening explosions, till the 
 
 house vibrated with the sound, and till at last the 
 
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 Qne— hft, ha, ha 1 — and speaking every* language ' 
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 think of us two Am'er^<»ad^ — Ha, ha, ha I —after ♦ry. 
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 AHOKG THE BRIOANDS. 
 
 ^ an hour in making signs' to each other — ha, ha, 
 ha 1 — but 'pon my life it's too bad in me to-be 
 howling out in this fashion, my poor lad, when 
 you're in the midst of such deep affliction, vl 
 Bwear I'm sorry. I forget myself." 
 
 " But I'm not in any affliction at all," said David, 
 "Whatl What's that?" cried the ex-brigand, 
 " Didn't you lose your fa.ther ? " . 
 
 " No." ^ . * 
 
 "But your father, and mother, and the rest of 
 them—" 
 
 "No," said David. "You didn't quite under- 
 stand what, I wanted to say." . And he then pro- 
 ceeded to tell his story in plain English. He was 
 listened to with deep attention J but as his story 
 turned out to be so different from the first report 
 of the ex-brigand, the lady stole an arch look at 
 her husband, and her eyes fairly danced with fun 
 and merriment. But the ex-brigand bore it ad- 
 mirably ; and as David ended, and showed himself 
 to be in no such deep affliction as had been sup- 
 posed, he once more burst forth in a fresh peal of ' 
 riotous langhter. • # . 
 
 Upon this David ventured to hint at hJfe own 
 *late fears, and on being questioned by th^ lady he 
 confessed frankly what had been the intirpreta-V 
 tion that he put lipon the signs of the ex-brigand. 
 
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 Well," said thai, worthy, " I'm not a brigsmtl T 
 jll. I'm an artist." 
 
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 "You dress yourself up in such an absurd fashion 
 — and I've always told you that this room looks 
 like a bandit's den." 
 
 ^'Nq, no, ifeura^^ay ^n artist's studio. How 
 ' could I get along without my furniturer-^ As for 
 my dress, it^s quite. in keeping with the place and 
 the people. Its picturesque, and that's all aa/ 
 artist is bound to consider." 
 
 Further explanations followed, in the course of 
 which it appeared that this ex-brigand was % 
 Walter Ludlow, an American artist, who, for the 
 time being, was living here with his bride. They 
 had been married th^eie months. The island was 
 Capri. They were enjoying love ^in a cottage, 
 which cottage was furm*»hed iri an artistic, rather 
 than a fashionable s^lray. They lived here quite 
 free from restraint, and" the artist occupied the 
 time partly with his ar«, and, partly with general 
 ehjoyment. Neither of them felt at all inclined to 
 leave Capri for some tiij^e to come, but thought it 
 the pleaaantest place in the world. 
 
 Ludlow happened that day tp be qleaiiing his 
 gun, with the intention o^ going on a shooting 
 excursion. The noise which had been taade in 
 the wood |>y David had startled him, and he had 
 gQfte to see what it was; x^th the idea <liat some 
 cattle had strayed along the shore, and werA 
 "Coming anto^Ee fields and gardeirt. 
 
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 from the ftin-loving artist, in which his wife joined, 
 and David plso. Jjudlow, as soon as he was in a 
 •condition to speak, proceeded to explain what he 
 ,. really, meapt. His gestures werii all ii^tended by 
 him to express the- folio wing id^s;-r-' 
 
 1.. I'm an American. " , . 
 
 2. I don't live here — I only lodge. 
 
 3. I'm an artist. ^ 
 
 4. I'ln very sorry for you, and I'll take care 
 of you. . ■ . J ' ' 
 
 5. I'm ^oing out shooting stwn. ^ " *" „ 
 
 #. Don't fret. 'I'll take care of you, and thq* 
 boatitoo, as long as you like. 
 ' ..lit I live in that house up thei^, and you can 
 8t»y ther^ till you hear from your friends. . '* 
 But ^rs. Ludlow now retreated, and before long 
 
 ,,«.he had a table set for their young ^uest, at 
 
 "* ^hich David took his seat, ajpd ate with an- appe- 
 tite that had l^een sltstrp^ned by his long fast. 
 While at the table Ludlow^ questioned hi to more 
 
 - particularly about his friends, and where h^ had 
 left them. 
 
 ' « Well, David, toy la<^," skid- the artist, at length, 
 "I should like ^ery mucl* ^ htfVe you stay wilb 
 us for a time; ad(i if you coul^, I feel Confident 
 that I could show you what would well i*epay you. 
 Are yuu. aware ilmt on rllift island is one of the 
 WondiiFs of the world --*ihe famous grot^? I 
 ^Jiould like to take you thefie—butlfco hof M: 
 
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 ifl. As you say, your uncle will be wild with 
 anxiety about you, and wJU have no. peace till he 
 hears from you. So I su^ose the best thing I 
 cm do % you, is to restore >ouNto him^rst of all, 
 and then arrange for a visijfrdm you ail on some 
 future occasion." ■ 
 
 David thanked him very earnestly, and dwelt' 
 i^ngly upon the anxiety of "Uncle Moses under 
 the circumstances. 
 
 :" Well,, my lad," saidv Ludlow, "*! think, you'd 
 •Best go off at once, and I m\jan to gd with you. 
 Unibrtunately there is a heyd wind, just now, so 
 #at we cannot go to Ca^tellamare without taCking^' 
 too long a time. The beit way will be to go oye# 
 to Sorrento from this plaft^ and take.a carriage, or 
 horses, to Gastellamare." v ' * 
 
 ; This, ijroposal pleased David, .glreatly, And as 
 X«dlaw Was r^ady to start, ',|ie ro«0 to go. Mrs. ' 
 Lu<ilow baSe him good by, and pressed him aH 
 fe«ti'onatuly to come back with hi^nViends. 
 
 fojjtt short iime they were fikthe boatWnd afloat. 
 Lttdlow wa« a.;^ood sailor, and^ tlie wind ^as favor- 
 able-^fijr a passage to Sorrentd:!: ^Jhe distance-was 
 traversed- quickly and pleasgntly^ a^d then, leav- 
 ing ,th© boat, they walked up iirto the town towarcjs ' ' 
 the hotel, to see about gottijtig a cdnVeyance to ' 
 Castellamare*' 
 
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 aware of a great tind unusual crowd «in front of it. 
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 " What's the^ matter ? " igked Ludlow. - / 
 
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 it's safe to ventui^ among them ? " 
 
 "^afe ? Pooh 1 why not ? " 
 
 " f hey appear ' to be excited. Hark ! how they 
 shout." 
 
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 woman, and the mob, and their escape. 
 
 At this story Ludlow laughed heartily, and then 
 |>roeeeded to reassure David. 
 ^" Don't be alarmed," said he ; " they won't re- 
 member you. If they did, I've got something 
 that 11 make them keep at a respectful distance ; " 
 and he touehed his breast significantly. " A six- 
 shooter, David, my boy, is a very - convenient 
 tfjing to carry abput one in this country, and it 
 ia' surprising how ^e native mind respects it. 
 So come alo^g, an3 ^i^e— that is, I and my six- 
 shaoter'll — take care of you. Don't be uneasy. 
 They've got something else on their minds now." 
 
 With thes e wor ds Ludlow walked on, and David 
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 . shutters, ^thich had been closed by the teSSfied ^ 
 landlord; others were standing atadi;(:anco,andHrr.- 
 . . ang to fend stones to throw. Fortunately H^re wtere 
 / >io loose stones of any size, few bcing'larger tlian 
 a pebWe and tKere'fbre, as yefe, no yery great^ daW- 
 ^ age had been done. But the crowd was eyidentl 
 capable of any amount of kiischief. * Eyery onl 
 was howling, and yelling ; andV the midst of them\ 
 was an old woman, whose shouts and/shrill crie8\ 
 made her conspicuous in the sq^ne. ^She was^n- \ 
 courag,ng\and stimulating a niimber of men who ^ 
 . were carrying a beam to the hou.se, Which they " 
 eyidenty purposed to use as a battering-ram, soaa T 
 to burnt open the door. .' 1 
 
 The momeht that Dayid caught sight of this 
 woman, he shuddered, and falling behind Ludlow 
 caught at his hand,, and tried to pull him back. 
 Liudlow turned in surprise. 
 
 "It's the same woman," said David, in an 
 agitated voice, " who^hased me." 
 
 "Is it?" said^lrtfcllow, with a smile. «0. well 
 youve got me with you now. So be a man-' 
 cheer up, my boy. It's all/right." ,, 
 
 Saying this, Ludlow again walked forward, this 
 time keeping his left hai^ on David's arm. David 
 felt that It w a s not " a ll Vight," but h^ had to to l- 
 
 low Ludlow, and so he followed him into the 
 midst of the crowd. Working their way tm 
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 were carrying the beam. , They had laid it ori the 
 ground, and^ wefB hesitating^or a naoment. Over- 
 head Ludlow heard the voice of the landlord plead- 
 ing with them in pitepus tones. 
 
 " O, gqfod citizens 1 O, dear citizens I Don^ 
 destroy my furniture ! Don't ruin me ! There is 
 a miajtake. On my honor, the strangers are in- 
 nocent." ' " 
 
 At this the old virago howled out some insane 
 maledictions, and njged ^e crowd on. Some on 
 the outskirts yelled, and the old hag, whirling 
 around in the midst of her tirade, found hereelf 
 face to face with D»vid. The terrified lad shrank 
 back, and tried to hide himself ; but the old woman 
 recognized him at once, and with a howl sprang 
 at him. 
 
 Ludlow saw the movetiienl 
 ' He put himself in front of DaVid*, and, seizing the 
 old woman's arm in a grasp like a vice, held her 
 backj and asked her steml5^, in Italian, — 
 . " Accursed one I what do you mean ? "- 
 
 "0, citizens of Sorrento!^' shrieked the'ji^g. 
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 the tnsulter'of the Bambino ! the — " 
 
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 ien who had brought the beam but a few min- 
 lites before. They now edged slowly aw^ay, and 
 began to think that they had done a. very silly 
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 nearest. . 
 
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 that desecrated the church — some boj's — ■- " 
 
 " What — boys ? " said Ludlow, with a smile. 
 " Who says so ? " . 
 
 The men shrugged their shoulders. 
 
 " She says so." 
 
 Ludlow thereupon shrugged hik shoulders. 
 
 " Seize him ! i?eizo him 1 seize him ! " yelled the 
 hag, who all this time had kept up her insane 
 outcry. 
 
 •' Somebody had better seize lier^'' said Ludlow, 
 with a laugh. " Why, gentlemen, she will give 
 your town a very bad name." 
 
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 revulsion of feeling. The assault of the old wo- 
 man on two harmless strangers seemed too want^ 
 to be tolerated. Ludlow's easy manner and calm 
 language restored them fully to their senses, and 
 the s j^lxt of h j g rgyo l yer effectttaJly^jyeri^ ■ thfl 
 more excitah|i»t>r reckless. They were also jealous 
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 Mare Troubles f orpoor David. _ Onset of four Women. - 
 
 HorrorofDavtd.~A new Uproar in the Yardoftft, 
 Inn. — Uncle Moses bent double. 
 
 
 
 UDLOW beg^in to talk to the landlord about 
 " a conveyance to Gastellamare, and David 
 walked through the house into the yard.' 
 Davui 8 only desire now Ws to hurry on and join 
 his friends as soon as possible. He had not the 
 remotest idea that they Were in Sorrentd, and that 
 the trouble had arisen about them, but- fancied 
 that they were in Gastellamare, full of a^iety 
 .about him. Sympathizing with their anxiety, he 
 longed to go^ to' them, so as to put an end to it • 
 and seeing a carriage in the yard, he naturally 
 walked m that d^ection. Reaching, the yard he 
 noticed that the houses were in it, and that it was 
 a barouche, like the\one in which his part^ had 
 been travelling. Not\ for one moment did hi sup. 
 pose that it was the sUe one, nor did he notice 
 
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 -It very closely j but giving if a careless djanceT 
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 ^ As David weht out into the yard, the driver" had 
 just gone into the barn to tell Uncle Moses and the 
 boys that the trouble was over and the crowd was 
 dispersing. Their joy may be imagined. They 
 were just hastening from the barn to return to the 
 hotel; and had just reached the barn door when 
 David approached. 
 
 ^ David was walking alon- towards the barn 
 looking around to see where the people were' 
 when suddenly ho heard a wild cry, and saw a 
 figure rush straight towards him. It was a wo- 
 man'^ figure, and she appeared quite old. Like 
 hghtning, the thought flashed through him that 
 this was his old tormentor, the hag; and with a 
 gasp he started b^ck; and was about to run. But 
 the other was' too quick for him,- and David felt 
 himself seized by his dreaded enemy. This 
 dreaded enemy then behaved in a frantic M'ay, 
 hugging him and uttering inarticulate words. dJ 
 vid struggled to get free from her* and throwing a i 
 frightened glance at her face, which was but part- 1 
 ly visibfe, beneath a very shabby bonnet, he saw \ 
 that she was quite old, and that tears were streak, 
 ing down from her eyes. This frightened David all 
 the more, for now he was sure that she was insane. 
 But now, to David's horror, he found himself sur- 
 rounded by three more Women, in coarse dresses 
 and horribly shabby bonnets. They all made a 
 ^m i i lt a n e oufl mah at h i m, Bei z ing fafg^^g^rair- 
 
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 ONSET OP P6m WOMEN, 
 
 ^^m I^e strugg!^" ^o Vas helpless A onM 
 
 was David wifh nff i ' ^"'' ^P-^.^erwhelraed 
 even ;r :',,:"" ^',';-;; '"f •>« couM „ot 
 
 opbn, and was jut a W ^^^ .^ ^;V'''""""' 
 y«« for holp,w„o„ the wort ^:r™,~F 
 h.3 mouth, a„,I his voice sfoppcl an 1 »T ^ 
 greater ..prise created withiif ht "' ' °°" "■"' 
 
 tbefi"::oM.t:r ^'^^°^■'"'^'^°^"•--d■ 
 "Dave! Old boy ! What in iho world i'J' 
 
 "Where have you been?" "Where did v.„ 
 come from ? " " Whon ^;^ x , ^^ ^°" 
 
 _ J "^" "'^ jou get here ? " " Who* 
 
 made you go off? " " n.Vl ♦L • "** 
 
 if fKo ij ■ ^^ ^"^3^ seize you ? " " Was 
 
 It the old woman that did it? " Ti • 
 
 and scores nf o*i " ^'*^^® questions, 
 
 ;*^, 
 f**" 
 
 __^^ ,„ ^ the boys gxhftusfeJ^ 
 
 „^ „„„ ^„^^, released th 
 lowed David to extricate himself. 
 
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 186 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 Thereupon David stood off at a little distance, 
 and gazed at them in mute amazement; The sight 
 which they presented to his astonished eyes was 
 one which might have excited strong emotions in 
 the breast of any behold^'f . *' ' 
 
 There stood Uncle Moses, his figur^ concealed 
 under a tattered gown, and his venefabfe head en- 
 folded m a battered bonnet of primev^ style ' 
 There stood Frank, looking like a strapping 
 . peasant woman, with a bonnet that was stuck on 
 the tQp of his head like a man's hat. 
 
 There stood Clive, looking like a pretty peasant 
 girl, quite Italian in his style, with a dress that 
 was a trifle neater than the others. 
 
 And there was Bob, an utter and unmitigated 
 absurdity, — with a dress that was tangled about 
 hia legs, and a bonnet that liad no crowns Th^ 
 four of them looked more like escaped lunatics 
 than anything else, and no sooner had David taken 
 in the whole scen«, than he burst forth into a per- 
 fect convulsion of laughter. 
 
 Thus far the disguise had possessed nothing but 
 a serious character in the minds of the wearers 
 By means of this disguise they had hoped to es^ 
 cape, and the costumes, being thus a help to safety 
 had been dignified in their eyes. But now, when 
 the danger was over, and safety assured, there 
 was nothing to hide from their eyes the unutter- 
 ^eAbsurdity, thA JncQiiceivaW^ 
 
 ^^ David's laugh burst forth, 
 
 their appearance. 
 
 
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 mouth. 
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 each turned his e,es upon the other, and saw how 
 
 of hughfer''' tL'^- ' '"* ' '' ^' " -""-'y^ 
 
 ward, fn^dan^el 'ranTrt'rdT' '"''''''• 
 yeHed with laughter Dn.u « ' "^ *''*'""'' «■«» 
 
 ffivin J o euccegsion, and then at himself 
 
 the Kround in !„.? * ' "^'"^^ '"''"=«"" "Pon 
 
 o.e prolonged and upro^rilraohS '" 
 The uproar aroused the house. 
 
 inltoaT" '"""'""' of tto bam and joined 
 
 The hostler followed him 
 Jhe servants came from the hotel, and lent their 
 
 ^^t^lT" ""'' '"<' ^'^ »' -- -•-<• 
 
 After the landlord came Ludlow Ha dl^n-f i 
 
 had been tellbrhfj; k t "^ "''*' *"" ''"'«"<"d 
 
 The sight re^whermeri^" flf'o^lr^'^r 
 mouth. Ho burst forth u P^"^'' •"" 
 
 .mmortals. It was a thunderZ, i; ^""f ' 
 
 

 188^ 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 on. the stone step., and burLg his face in his 
 hands, gave way utterlv. f 
 
 ' Thus it was, then, that Dafid, the most solemn 
 of boys, returned to his dis/racted Anri 
 friends. "iSBiactea and anxious 
 
 we.e eet aside, and thovall sit in the dinine-room 
 fpll *K^' 1^ " n , . P' ^"" Ludlow had to 
 
 «, pressed them all^ to come over to Tanr,- 
 at one,, ,„, ^^^y ^^ ,^ ] ^ or to Cap 
 
 who had fallen in love ml Ludlow at first si^h' 
 were more eager to go thJn they could tl 1 tt 
 Uncle Moses den,„rred. He felt af«L of Jv 
 ing trouble, and thought thov had h„» . 
 
 back to Naples. Lndlo-t, . owevTr, pooh-po edfj 
 scruples, answered every l.bjectioi.^and would ^ 
 teke any f„,,, ^^j^^^V ^^ ^^^. ou d t 
 
 the final departure of the party for Cipri. ' 
 
 Bat before they went, aevoral things had to be 
 
 d ™^th 'th^' "' 1 ''"' '•'"' '"'-^^^^^^ 
 
 ^^i=r r , ^ ^ "•- - - v v y ^^ u u, w ni8 suifcr at Prog- 
 .turn, he had behaved a&y.and had been of 
 
 imme 
 of nei 
 gave 
 outbu 
 the fu 
 
 The 
 of the 
 ever, y 
 knew i 
 with tl 
 explan? 
 a suffic 
 of it. . 
 They 
 Capri, 
 tervenir 
 artist's j: 
 them '-all 
 ■ cordiah't; 
 . wards th 
 near and 
 cottage I 
 museum 
 was of la 
 
 accommoc 
 
 able to fe 
 
 ^^ay on th< 
 
 I'ndlow 
 
 them all tl 
 enthusiasti 
 
 0k 
 
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 VrSif TO CAPRI. 
 
 189 
 
 . ^"e other business wi- f^ , '^-V 
 
 onUe boat wl„-e,Xw^L7,^''°".'"'« return 
 
 over, wai, arran<-od J,l Vf ""• ^'"'^ '">'"■ 
 
 a sufficient Vum to rorZ u ■""'" ""^^ «<">' 
 
 of it. , \ "'t'.V the owner for the use 
 
 Tliey engakd- another t,oa* t^ *>, . 
 Capri. A geStle breeze n-ft^ /,"'"' """" *" 
 tervening wateV an i H '^ """" "'™'-fi'« ■"- 
 
 them '-all with hW brio-Iifflte • '''"^'"''«"' 
 
 • cordiality, and tlip bovslTJT " ""'" ""'™'^'' - 
 ■■ wards the artist arid h? T "**" '" ^oel to- 
 near and del; rS.io;, " Thr 'Tf '"^^ '™- 
 cottage a perfent A,' ^ '^""'^ '"'« artist's 
 
 was of large dimenXnl Z ""'"' "'"'' ""at it 
 aoco„n.odatons for iht !'.?'* "°"""''"''' ^""i-o"" 
 able to fee, that '^l^ ^ '^^a b'"^ ''"^ ^^ - 
 -a, on t„eir war„..heltrfrie:;i^, '"""« '" ^^ 
 
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 AMONG THE BBIGAlh)8. 
 
 mean attainments; and whjle he could point out 
 to them the most beautiful spots on that loyely 
 isle, he could also taHc learnedly about the ancient 
 Capraea, and rais^ out of ancient ruins theories 
 •about the pleasure-groulids of Trberids. 
 
 But the most wonderful thing which they found 
 there was the famous grotto, so familiar to all 
 from the accounts of tourists, and from the well- 
 ^ known descrifition in ilans Andersen's ImprOvisa- 
 I tore. »After that glowing, poetic, and enthusias- 
 tic narrative, no other need be attempted. Here 
 they passed three or four days, and -Avhen at length 
 they bade adieu to the artist and his wife, it was 
 with many sincere regrets on both sides, and many 
 earnest wishes that they might meet again. 
 After which they all went back to Naples. 
 
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 CHAPTER xVlI. 
 
 Vesuvius. — Ponies nn,i ^/,\-t.. c :. . 
 \ /. r. sticks. —Sand and Lava — Th* 
 
 ^ HE sight Of Vesuvins frori,, a distance had 
 hllcd Dav,,! Avith an .ycknt ilesiio to visit 
 It, and all the rest shared tl,is iivling. 
 Vesuvuis was before them al«.ays. The eref 
 .loud of de„s9< black sn.oke, which h„ng ovT 
 
 ko^a pall was greater, and denser, and blacke* 
 were "" 'r '" ■''"""'" ^™' '""^'''rt.ed. There 
 
 and all around and all beneath t.ho volcano gave 
 ^ns of an approaching er,jptio„. Sotoetimes the 
 ™oke as .t ascended fron, the crater, would tower 
 
 al sides, g,vmg to the st,eetator the vision bf a 
 tZ^S^^ -the ^.apeand.the ^gn-Whioh 
 -Jfl tlw. inevit^B -foreruniier-on.n approtShing"" 
 
 would hang low over the crest of the mountain. 
 
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 K * I :^/tf 
 
■soil, 
 
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 AMONG THE BRIGANDS, t 
 
 and roll far down its sides, and envelop it in its 
 dense, black, voluminous folds. / 
 
 ' tn,Vl7f ' '"^ ?'^^ '^*' ^^^^^'^PPea'-ances, the ascent 
 tnig ht be made m safety, though every day lee^ 
 
 . -^d the c .nces of an ascent by incrLing IS 
 danger. 1 his Ihey learned from Michael 4ngelo, 
 their guide, whom they had engnged to make the 
 ascent; so they determined to go without any 
 , further delay. Accordingly, two davs after their 
 excursion to Baia., they .,et out, going first to 
 Poitici ^vhere they hired poni^ -to take them to 
 «ie foot of th^ cone; each one supplied himself 
 with a good stout stick to assist his ascent, and 
 Michael Angelo went with them as general man- 
 ager of the expedition. 
 
 On riding up they fomid the road good atlrst, 
 but soon It became somewhat rough.- It left the 
 fertile meadows and vineyards at the base of the 
 mountain, and ran fev- a wild, rocky country, 
 which looked, as |rncle Moses said, likeUhe 
 abomination of desolation." No verdure ap- 
 peared,no houses, no flocks, and herds -all was - 
 . wild, and savage, and dismal. After passing over 
 • these lava fields, the party reached what is called - " 
 the Hennitage»-a kind of refreshment station-f^ 
 near the foot of the cono.:' Resting here, for a little ^ ' 
 way they proceeded on foot. %e path was now 
 
 an|re tTiat it became^ rather climbing than walking. 
 After a toilsome walk th^s path ended at the foot 
 of the coije. 
 
 
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 VESUVIUS. 
 
 193 
 
 ascending from whe^ 1 T^ ^'r """• 
 vie>v was lost in amoke M. "^"^ *» 
 
 surface of loose 8and».'^ ' ^^ """■' ^^"'' ""^ « 
 ordered heans „f " ' n^*' ''"°">«'- "'W, dis- 
 
 these last Shae,T„lt^#r, ''"1^ °^- 
 
 the ascent. A nurabifr nf ™ ° "a*^® 
 
 chairs and strao^^l I ? "^'^ ^"'^ ^^i* 
 
 but they alldSed evf u;!*";? "^'^'»"'=«' 
 torel.onhiannassi^:;::^!'''*"'-'"'--^ 
 
 iavl W:e*&" --- r the cone. The 
 
 ,«^own the s":;iid ;'iTCa 'rr"^^^'^ 
 
 «"g. rough stairway, wherall tl ! '"^ * 
 irregular. It wn<, IoK • "'® *teps are 
 
 the/ had t/'stira d'r: ' vL^'r- ^^^^ 
 
 ■uost, and the boys had frl , *'™™ '^" ''' 
 on his account Rnt ^^-^''^ to stop rather 
 about two Zds of L ''"^ '""^ ^^-o^sed 
 
 -ore excited and n BoT'tK"'^ '"'^^" '° ^^o- 
 most evident Thlt .v. <"""'ement was 
 
 take suffic eni cal of n^ ""t '"" '"'■«" "ould 
 alone, and soo'n w <• "^'^'' '«' started off . 
 
 -^3',i,e'ar«nnh:i- ^"•''"''^"■"« ''- »•■« 
 
 Usually there is. nn . - 
 
 
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 194 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 On the present occasion, however, there was little 
 or no wmd ; and the smoke, .^ich was far dens 
 than usual, gathered in thick, black folds, and 
 pometime. rolled down the sides of the con; and 
 h,d the crest from view. Michael Angelo ex- 
 pressed a fear that they ^.«u Id not be able to 
 reach the crest ; and as they drew nearer, every 
 Btep showed that this fear was well fbunded. At 
 ast, when they were within easy distance of it 
 there came rolhng down a cloud of smoke, so' « 
 dense and so full of sulphurous vapor that they / 
 
 cLhes. "'"^ '°^ """'' '''''' ''''' ^^^^ ^J 
 It was now evident that they could go no farther. 
 
 ^moke It rolled away at last, yet still hovered 
 near them every little while moving threateningly 
 down, as though to drive them back, and prevfni 
 the crater from desecration by human footsteps. 
 Ihey had evidently reached their farthest limit 
 and could go no farther. ' 
 
 But where was Bob? 
 
 Scarcely had they discovered the impossibility 
 ofgbwg farther than this thought came to them 
 Where was Bob? He had left them some time' 
 previously, and had gone far ahead of them. They 
 had expected every moment to come up with him. 
 But there were no signs of him anywhere. 
 
 _^,E r ^x ^ ll e d outwitfr^tfs^t rength.^^^^I^^^^ 
 tna thve joined in the cry. 
 
 '>V 
 
 last. 
 
 - ,^£,teJ.itvilK ',i»Ri>i»i ?„!,:. y 
 
 *;i«iS*ii, .•* ... 
 
V; ,• i»,^-- 
 
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 IBE LOST Bo£ 
 
 195 
 
 There was no response. 
 
 *ear came to them o • i_ . 
 All shouted- the bo^rn T^^"'"?- ""-f"! fear. 
 Angelo. ' ^"y'- ^""'-^ Moses, and Michael 
 
 StilUhere was no response. 
 
 ».. trceitn :;;„r r' "t- '""^ -'k 
 
 all these cries the «1 ^ i apprehension; but to 
 "ot one ansTeritgr^d "' ^""""^ ^''^''-'t 
 
 them, and over II!;^ "JT"'™,:"' ■"-'•"« Cose to 
 them in that dread fl ?^,^ "'''«"' *° '"^"'ve 
 over,,heln,ed the tt bV ""^ '"'^"^'l '««1 • 
 
 "I can't stand this any lono-er I " • j „ 
 
 . ..w'V'g"'"™-! David. ■ / 
 
 --'rn^ert^^r-'^'''^''"^'-^ 
 woods. We can't teU whte "eT " r,"" ''" "'• 
 Ime, an walk as nigh abre^t j ^"'^ '°™ » 
 
 "an get, an yet for ennTu "^ ""<'"'«'■ «« «■« 
 
 pound. In Z wly weTbe"""'^ >°, "°^«' «>« 
 him." •'^ ** " "8 more likely to find 
 
 f «t:ttt^;^^«-e,.s in 
 
 tween each. The fiv« f h ^ ^* ^^tervened be- 
 
 next to him was UnoJv ^®''*''^™«'''gl>t, • 
 
 David, while Frank Won r' '''" '^''^^.' *^«« 
 
 *' ^^'^ «^treme left, i^ 
 
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 196 
 
 AMONG THE BBIOANDa. 
 
 this way they d^t«rn,ined to go as far forward 
 a^^the smoke would permit. The prospect was 
 gloomy enough; but the situation of Bob nerved 
 them all to the effort. Besides, they were en 
 couraged by the fact that the smoke would som"- 
 times retreat far up, exposing the surface to the 
 very crest of the cmter. So they advanced, clam' 
 benng over the rough blocks, and drew nearer 
 and nearer to the summit. At length a heaW 
 "ass of black smoke came ro«in| down. U 
 
 Zf T ^ *" '"'^ "'"'"' "'«"• Each one fell 
 flat on h,s face at Michael Angelo's warning, and 
 covered his mouth and nostrils with his hSker- 
 chief, so as to keep out the sulphurous vapors. It 
 
 painful, and it seemed a long time before the 
 Wackness of the darkness was mitigated. But at 
 last the smoke withdrew itself; and the whole 
 party stood up, and looked around painfully for 
 one another, panting heavily, and drawing labo- 
 nous breaths. ° 
 
 ^_ " You can't go any further," said Uncle Moses. 
 
 I ain t gom to let you resk your lives, boys. 
 Ton must all go back, an I'll go for'ard " 
 
 " No, uncle ; I'll go," cried Prank. 
 •" And I," cried David. 
 
 « And I," cried Clive. 
 
 "Noneof ron shall 
 
 ly. 1 tell you I'm gom. I order you to stay 
 
 fc^',4-i.'.'**4w'.,-.--.l!\ • 
 
A FEARFUL SEARCH. jg^ 
 
 " Go back," he said ; "ril M Tb > '''™"''^^- 
 there, fio back. D'ye h!ar?^' '•"'*'' "'^^"'^ 
 
 JdVrbo/rButrk'Hr,*" -^^^ "'= 
 
 upward, swiftTa^d 1^ X^ ""^^ ^'^<'fj «P™ng 
 
 going first to^he left^and' tb? 7 .u*"* "^■"' 
 David and ri;v„ . . ^^'^ *° '^e right, 
 
 lu anu Olive also rushed forward rT„ i 
 
 withafaceo/LXllSr^''^^^^^^ 
 
 All this had not taken many minnt,.. I. 
 act of desperation on the ZrT^f p It was an 
 wa. determined to Je B bCUirt'rt "' f 
 ly the smoke did not descend jnTtTt thaf "^ 
 but was floating „p fr„„ thlCmmitt 2^^' 
 edffe of thfi rrof^^ ij 1 °"'""3"> so that the 
 
 Frank had seen a prostrate figure If l.^ 
 -^^ .beyond the edge of the ^0 ^3 ^" 
 first feehng was one of surprise that RAKi % 
 oeeded in penet^ting so fa^ /his tlf ^1'!':^ 
 
 .'..ifei,-li.ViJiiu;i.'.-, 
 
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 NG-THE BR;GAND9. 
 
 198 
 
 ^°^^°^*for fear thatV might be beyond the reach 
 of help.. With frantic haste he rushed towards 
 him, and reaching the spot, he raised Bob in 
 his arms. 
 
 He was senseless I 
 
 And now, as Frank stood there, close to the 
 perilous edge, the treacherous smoke, which had 
 thus far held back, rolled down once more. To 
 face it was impossible. Frank flung himself down 
 and buried his face as before, looking up from' 
 ^me to time to see if the smolce was lessening. 
 • The time seemed protracted to a fearful lepgth. 
 The dense fumes which penetrated through- ^he 
 thick folds of the clothes which he held over" his 
 mouth nearly suffocated him. He began to think 
 that he, too, was doomed. 
 And where were the others ? 
 Scattered, apart from one another — and thus 
 they had been caught by the rolling smoke. They 
 could do only one thing, and that was what they 
 had done before. Uncle Moses alone refused to 
 yield. He tried to toil on so as to get nearer to 
 his boys. He had a vague idea of getting near to 
 Frank, so as to die by his side. But physical pain 
 was stronger than the determination of his soul, 
 and at length he involuntarily flung himself down' 
 arid'tSovered his face. ' 
 
 But ftt last even that ordeal was passed, t Tha„ 
 smoke TTfled. It rolled awav. There wa^ 
 
 away. 
 
 . -" 'v^"v.vi ainuy. iiiere was air 
 
 again for them to breathe. Frank roused himyelf 
 

 THE SLIDING BANCS. 
 
 199 
 
 before the smoke had all passed, and lifting Bob 
 
 in his arms, carried him swiftly downward. He 
 
 reached the place where Uncle Moses was stand- 
 
 ing, gasping, for breath; and the other boys who 
 
 had seen liim hurried towards him, and tried to 
 
 help him carry his senseless burden. Uncle Mo- 
 
 8es also tried to take Bob in his own arms,' and 
 
 prayed Frank, with tears in his eyes, to'let him 
 
 carry him ; but Frank refused them all,' and ip. 
 
 Bisted on doing it himself A few paces more, 
 
 however, over the lava blocks, showed that Frank's 
 
 strength would not be sufiicientfor such a journey. 
 
 He sank down exhausted by his excessive exer^ 
 
 tions, and waited a few moments to take breath. 
 
 While he was thus recovering his breath 
 Michael Angelo reached the spot, and explained 
 that there was another place of descent not far off, 
 and led the way towards it. Here tT^dy found 
 the side of the cone all covered with loose sand. 
 Down this they went. At every 8tep,t|iey sank in 
 up to their ankles, and the sliding soiivbore them 
 down, so that for every step they took they were 
 carried the length of two or three steps. 
 
 Frank clung to Bob till he had got beyond the 
 reach of the smoke, and then he fell backw^fd 
 gasping for breath. The others scrambled towards 
 him, eager to help him; and Michael Angelo, who 
 =.had exerted himself fee^ bast of aH, and wag -" 
 fresher than any of them, raised Bob in his arms 
 and said that he would take cajte of him now. At 
 
 
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 i. 
 
200 
 
 AMONG THE BRJQAJSfta. 
 
 this Frank gave up his precious burden and 
 of tTe'cone " "'""'' *''^ "'" ^~° ■*'*« ^' 
 
 sand With trembhng hands they felt for hi, 
 heart, and found, to their. unspeakable icy that 
 ^s still beating. There was'^no water^^e'a bu 
 ^ey^chafed his foet«„d hands, and did Xt'tlt; 
 
 mg but aWast Bob opened his eyes, and drawing 
 
 anir::;^^^''-""^'''-"'''^^^-^"" 
 
 "What's — the matter?" i,» .„ 
 
 feeble voice. he murmured, in »■ 
 
 Motes*''iL*'hr f '°'' """'"' '""'*<' "y^ °f UiScIe 
 
 pmverfnl V'f .°"'™"'«'' >«^"diWe words of 
 prayenul gratitude. 
 
 JL^l T^^'"^'" ""'' ^''™''' '''''» ^y this time had 
 completely recovered from his fatigue. « Nothing 
 
 thmk He lay there in silence, and with an ex 
 
 Eto" .^^T'^.^™^"' - "- f-e, elid n% 
 trying to collect h,s scattered laculties, so as to 
 account for his present situation. 
 ^ And now the question was, how to get Bob 
 
 away,, «n that tbk modi /r "1 ^ ^lad gone 
 
 TemedThprT AA^ ^ cDirveyance seemed 
 
 denied them. After waiting a short time, however 
 
 JiLu 
 
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 .^4,1, 
 
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 ' ARRIVAL AT THE HERMITAOE. 201 
 
 abit tV2arr T? "■"° ^-'-^ «^'-^-*'^ 
 
 cha.r and strap men. Seeing Bob and his frieZ 
 they made .nquiries; and on learning wha had 
 happened, the ladies refnsed to make^he aac „t 
 on «o unfavorabre aday, hut preferred po^ponTg 
 
 and settmg h,m upon it. they earried him towards 
 
 t,f :™5: '"'-« '"«^ --" Without an; 
 
 telfrsty "■"^ -P'dly better, and was able to 
 
 He had felt very anxious to see the crater and ' 
 equa ly anxio„s,to see it first. Taking adval"e 
 of a fme when the smoke had retrefted heZ 
 made a rush, and had jn.,t attained the ve'ry ed!^ 
 of the crater, when suddenly he found Lllf 
 relr t oTt' '': ^---^^--'oud of smok " T 
 
 n^XnToTfliirir'T'T''''''^- ^ 
 
 Iv nr.A . . ^ ^® turned mechanical- 
 
 »ind TTai" ' "r."^" "^"'S'" alone in hi 
 "' That was all he remembered. He must 
 
 and fL 1 T ^^'"^ ''»y ''«"'««" the summit 
 and the p ace where he was found. 
 
 MichaoL Aiigelo started of and gotra cB ri ao. h^ 
 means of which Bob was tiken to NapleT^R^dTd 
 «ot seem to have suffered any veryT^^'^s ^ ' 
 
 
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 /^WONO THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 to for some dJ^s he was quite languid and miser- 
 able and comp amed of a taste of sulphur in his 
 mouth ; hi8, coat, too, which on going up was of a 
 ff -blue color] had become quite iald' from the 
 action of the pi,werful sulphurous fumes. 
 
 nartv f/^T' ^'^' "' ^''" ''' '^^ ^««* ^^ the 
 party, had.am^le reason to feel thankful. 
 
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 POMPEII, THE 
 
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 OP Tins DEAD. 
 
 203 
 
 CHAPTER XVIII. 
 
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 Pa ' T Jf "fl'^^^'-^'-^The MonuLnts of the 
 Past. - Temple., Towers, dkc^ Palaces. - Tombs and 
 
 "^^-"^f-ts.^ Theatres and Amphitheatres.- Streets 
 ana i^ares. 
 
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 FEW days after th|ir ascpnt of VeBuvius 
 the whole party started off to visit^ Pom- 
 peii. The prospect of this journey gave 
 them unusual deh:ght. Bob had ^ovv completely 
 recovered his health and spirits, dive's poetic 
 interest m so renowned a place was roused to the 
 highest pitch of enthusiasm. David's classical 
 taste was stimulated. Frank's healthy love of 
 sight-seeing was excited by the thougiit of a place 
 that 80 far surpassed all others in interest { and 
 Uncle Moses evidently considered that this was 
 the one thing in Europe which could repay the 
 traveller for the fatigues of a pilgrimage. Thus 
 each, in. his Own way, felt his inmost heart stirred' 
 Withm him as they approached the disentombed 
 city; and at length, whgn they reache d thA gn- 
 -— n^ce to t5e place, It is difficult to say which onT" 
 k lelt the strongest excitement. 
 
 :Threy found a number of other visitors there. 
 
 V. 
 
 ^^^#2.M 
 
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 204 
 
 K; 
 
 I' -. 
 
 1^- 
 
 AlfOKO THE BRI0AND8. 
 
 consisting of fepresentafeives of all nations- Rng. 
 sians, Germans, Americans, French, and Endish • 
 ^ ^dies gentlemen, and bdPT*. Michael Angelo was 
 with them, and was more useful to them thflfeafe*. 
 mere guide-book eould have been. ■ 
 
 The first emotions of awe which filled their '^ 
 minds as they entered the streets of thi m ysteri- 
 ous city gradually faded away, and they began to 
 examine everything with great interest. The first 
 thing that struck their attention was t|,e extreme 
 narrownpss of the streets. There was o«ly room 
 lor one. carnage to pass at a time. The sf^e walks 
 were a foot higher than the oarriage-way. There 
 . were.crossing.tones|^,stood high abovethe pave- 
 ■Z^''^' V'^ «^dewalW were paved with brick, and 
 the carriage-way with lava blocks, which were very 
 neatly joined together. Ciive took a piece of brick 
 as .relic, and David broke off a fragmenlirom one 
 of the crossmg-stones ibr; the same purpose. - 
 
 chll I 'T T? *° "^ ruined edifice, which Mi- 
 chael Angelo called the Basilica. It was twc^ hun- 
 dred ^t m length, and seventy in widtkk, JoZ 
 end still remained the ,^ibunal or Seat ^^^ 
 seven feet above thefavement; and^|^K«e 
 the^ walls were columns formed of , bri^^^d^ 
 w^hplaste. The bpys picked off some o/^e 
 tplaster as relics. - 
 
 ^ they went on an^ came to anntheiv 
 
 ^ Which Michael Angelo called the 
 ^^^ -It was built round a court- 
 
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 THE MONUMENTS^ OF THE PAST. 205 
 
 yard; |ith porticos. Hero David and Clive ob.' 
 ^W^ ^"!" more relics. 
 
 p this was an open square ^iirroun^ed by 
 ^ irs, of which only tlie lower parts remained. 
 Hs .was the t^orum Gi^^ilo ; an^ beyond this stood 
 the Temple of Jupiter, which they visited without 
 •finding anything that was particularly interesting. 
 After this Michael Angelo took them to a place 
 which he said was the- Public Bakery. - Here they 
 saw millstones, ov6n>, water^-esscla, and sohia 
 other articles of winch the)^. cbuld mjt^uess the 
 use. Not far away were 6omobakera^iops. In 
 .thaee shops loaves of bread were found by the^ 
 diggers. Of course they Avere burned to char-' 
 coal; but they retained their original shape, a^nd 
 showed marks upon" them which were probably 
 intended to indicate^Iie bakery from which they 
 came. Heaps of corn\eie also found. 
 
 Going down the street where these were situ-' 
 ated, they came to one of the gates of th« city. 
 Beside this was a niche in the wall, used as a sen- 
 tg-box, upon which all the party gazed with a 
 Vofound interest; for in that sentry-box those 
 who disentombed the city found a skeleton, in the 
 armor and with tlie equipment of a Roman soldier. 
 Evidently the septry had died at his' post. 
 
 They took a good loc^ at the walls here, which 
 tli^y fou » ' ' ' — ' ^- 
 
 "f^^^ty-five ieet HgH, and^ 
 formed of huge stones, that were joined together 
 without cement. The gates had evidently been 
 double. 
 
 
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 'i^y 
 
 206 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 Passing throDgh tins gate, they fonnd them- 
 cabled he "Street of Tombs." Looking dow^t 
 
 eharacter, I,„,ng ,t on either side. These were 
 
 the tombs of wealthy citizens. They visited sev 
 
 eral of them, and found them all alike. The iX 
 
 . nors were all simple, the walls being p,e' "Id 
 
 ^'h mehes, in which were deposited thf urns that 
 
 t * !.r'''' °^ ""^ ''■'^'^- '^'"•» was the first 
 me that they had seen anything of this kind and 
 they e.a(„,ned it with deep andsolemn interest 
 Here, too, Clive and David succeeded in find „s 
 
 Thranref^^''^''^''^--'^--^-^ 
 
 ^onf r 'i"' ^'"^^"^ ^°S'='° '<"» "'«'» to what was 
 
 rZ V nl '"/t""!;" " "'■ "■"' ^'*^' "o- known as 
 ^ the Villa of, D.omede. They entered here and 
 \ wandered through the halls, and rooms, and c'o. ^^ 
 yards. They saw nch mosaic pavetnents • the 
 basins of what once were fouhtains, the lower 
 parts of marble pillars that once belonged to state 
 colonnades They saw some roonfs that o^ce 
 had been used for cold baths, and others that had 
 been used for vapor baths. Dining-room rece,> 
 t.on-roams, bed-rooms, kitchens, libmrier'epened 
 «P all around, and told them of that vanished pTst 
 
 bu«y hu*„a„ We. Far more than bas7lic„s,"orte^" 
 Pl.», or streets, or wall,,' were they affected by 
 
 t^A Jt^*'-' 
 
'<' 
 
 BKELETONS. 
 
 207 
 
 this glimpse into the home of a household : and 
 
 Bilence After going through all the house thev 
 descended mto the cellars. These were ver;,pi^ 
 ^ous and extended beneath the entire Wll 
 He e, at one end. they saw what is called the W in^ 
 Cellar. Many wine jars were standing «e e!! 
 
 wide mouths and round bottoms, which made it 
 brs t&r ^'"° """" '"PP"^'- I" these wine 
 
 £!„:;;;: '^"'^""-■-''--.h."' only 
 
 Here Michael Angelo had much to tell them. 
 
 He told them that several skeletons had been 
 found inthese vault,, belonging to hapless wretches 
 who had no doubt, fled here to escape the sto™ of 
 ashes wVh was raging above. On of t , seTk el- 
 etons had a bunch of keys in its bony fingers a„d 
 this circumstance led some to supposf hit ^t 
 r T.f ''''™ of Diomede himseff'Tut othe s 
 thought that it belonged to his steward Whoever 
 
 anVr'leaV'f ":" '"^'^ ™'^ '" W hTs doo" 
 and to leave his bones as a memorial to ages in 
 the far distant future. " ■ ^ 
 
 Leaving this place, they visited another house 
 
 ::!:;!!i'!; !:!!^-^''ofcaiussaiiust, mZ.,,, 
 
 «H ««r^«fth^imse tey saw something WW hal 
 once str„«fc them all as being rather singlla t 
 W.3 noth^ig else than a shop, small in sotted 
 
 
 l^i * 
 
208 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDa. 
 
 «P w,tt shelves and counters ; a row of mrs was 
 fixed on one ,ide, and in the rear were CnacT 
 W.chael Angelo informed them that it had once 
 been an eatmg-honse. The boys thought it « 
 
 should o'l ; u"'" ™"'' " """^ "^ «"»»«'- 
 
 8^.ould tolerate such an establishment ; but there 
 was the undeniable fact before their eves IZr 
 wards their surprise diminished ; for" man v.' 
 
 verj wilhng to hire the fronts of their houses to 
 other part.es who did wish to do so. In Ss 
 house they saw the traces of very ele^nT „rl 
 ments, and learned from Michrj t^^ °Z 
 
 The elegant house of the Dioscuri was visited 
 ne:ct It „ ,„ the Via dei Mercurii, and is a 
 
 some 'Zr'^'r" ^""'"^'^o ™'"' -""J -"<» - 
 visited many other houses, a description of which 
 .8 not necessar^; tj,ey were all like the Villa of 
 Djomede, though less interesting ; and among hem 
 
 d" ^■ "tl"'. '"""^ g e''e">l c haracter. Tn, u ■ 
 tZ r' *" *^«'°«e--"ained, thou^^^ 
 . few a small part of the second story ^^ visible 
 
 '«:■ ■ •!■ 
 
 V .V,. 
 
ars was 
 irnaces. 
 td once 
 i it ex- 
 t house 
 lust — 
 t there 
 
 After- . 
 
 many V 
 of the 
 peians 
 id not 
 ••least 
 ses to 
 Ilust's 
 orna- 
 
 that 
 1 that 
 rious 
 
 sited 
 is a 
 tains 
 they 
 hich 
 a of 
 hem 
 
 TEMPLES, TOWERS, AND PA^cES. 209 
 
 •not make any pa;tic„Vr 1 fflt, V '""Z *' 
 -d nearly two h»ndred- feet wide intili?^ 
 
 t..em to one of the greatest c„ r^ti ttK*^ ^; 
 
 The bu,ld,ng to which he led them was in m„I' 
 
 fis\'r "'*"."» '^^ majority of the edt 
 
 wMe, and a .Lie t ^ h^ ^X' sT^t 
 
 « wh:" isT ^T''"^;;"^ " """p'« »f --"U! 
 
 What IS this ? " asked David 
 An'glw' " "" '■'"''"•' "^ '-•" -W Michael 
 - "The Tempkof Isis I " exclaimed David in ea«r 
 
 jHon.hau:Lt:^irr:nir;nterytr 
 
 cal i«rt quitv h "t 1 connected with clasd. 
 
 that^J h,^' ""'■'' ^'P^^Wly from the feet 
 
 that he had very recently read Bulwer's Last 
 
 ■.,■1 K It 
 
 „U.' . ^i 
 
u. 
 
 210 
 
 *-*/ 
 
 ^- 
 
 AHOHG THE BMOANDS. 
 
 Days of Pompeii ; and on this occasion that Ihole 
 rt9r?,w,th all its descriptions and all its incidS,,' 
 was brought vividly before him by the surrrni 
 mg scene. Most of all was the Temple ofTs.t 
 
 ftm,har to him than anything else that he had 
 • f""""l;° '^ "ty- Glancus and lone, the Chri^ 
 
 ZntZr "t '"" '"•^ Arbaces' seemed : 
 haunt the place. In one of the chambers of this 
 very temple, as Michael Angelo was now tell ng 
 7JIT r,''''^ '«\*"g the way to that chamber,-!:- 
 had been fonnd a huge skeleton, with an axe bes de 
 .t; two walls had been beaten through by that 
 -e, but the desperate fugitive could^go no far 
 then In another part of the city had been found 
 another skeleton, carrying a bag of coins and some 
 ornaments of this Temple of Isis. David listened 
 to MichaelAngelo's account with strange in erest. 
 
 realty ty Michael Angelo's prosaic statements. 
 Alter mspecting the chamber just mentioned 
 
 had once been the pedestal of a statue. Here 
 M^hael Angela showed them a hoUow niche 
 
 himself there and speakswords which the ignorant 
 
 '^f!.,"^^"'^ ^to o y iip«- ^hls one IhinF^ 
 Bhowed the full depth of ancient ignorance aSd 
 
 Cfei^V-iji -^ »*t-«tii„i.. 1 
 
 , .•-■ !*.* . ' 
 
>'* 
 
 
 
 ^^ AND AHPBITHE.TB^. 
 
 «,. 211 
 
 .'^uent volubility pe^uH." V'!,"""'"*^*'"' that 
 
 -"■■'A These moral ^Ls !' '" "" ^'•'» "^ *<.« 
 ^"ge'o's regular route "".?"'"' "'«•«»«' 
 he found himself here in this T . '"'"""" *■"" 
 «*■■«»» of wisdom .oumZIITJ' f '«'■«' ^h* 
 
 1 'e next place to which Sh i ^Z" *° ^°«'- 
 ^-^ to take them was th« t^^^^'o'-tend- 
 -;.W be s,en from wh re th?'""'^'''™' -'"ch 
 A" this time David had hi ^ '""""^ ^tandin^ 
 "fths others, and far "'"'^ «»g^' than any 
 He felt his soul stirred toT' "^'"'"""''^ ""v^d 
 nlhng scenes through wcVhTr^ f""" ''•^ «>« 
 • It seemed to him as ?hou»h ;^ *'' been moving, 
 here to his eyes, in one 1 n''^'^r^« "sealed ' 
 heen laboriously acquli.fJT' "" """ he had . 
 »^dy of years. ^Bu 1 "^ttt '"t "^ "" 
 These Roman houses in,„ 1, t"?"' "'an books, 
 '"ore far better than an" II '"' """'"^ '^'^k. 
 
 -'graved prints, howeverTccunr""/' P'""' "^ 
 temples afforded an insiX ^V"""' These 
 -'■gion better far than tll° ?/'" P^^a" ' 
 These streets, and shops IndTu,"'^ description. 
 
 ""to the departed Ror„ , ^'""' '""' "" '"B-Kht 
 fresher, and more WWd a^nd ""'"' "'" "- ^ 
 
 v,v,d, and more profound, than 
 
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 212/ it • AMONG flTHB BBIGANDS. 
 
 any that he had ever gained before. It seemed L 
 him that one day was too small for such a place. 
 He must cdme again and again, lie thought. AH© 
 was unwiljin^g to go on with the rest, but lingeVeci 
 ■ longer thah any over each spot, and was always! 
 the last toi quit any place which they visited. \ 
 They stopped on theif way at the Tragic and 
 / Comic Theatres, and at length reached the AmphI 
 / theatre itself. This edifice is by far the largest' 
 / m the city, and is better preserved than any. It 
 '^h built of large blocks of a dark volcanic stone, 
 and constPvcted in that massive style which the 
 Romans lived, and of which they have left the begt 
 examples in these huge amphitheatres. As this 
 Amphitheatre now stands, it might still serve for 
 ^ one of those displays for which it was built. Tier 
 Btter tief those seats arise, which once had accom- 
 modations for fifteen or .twenty thousand human 
 beings. On these, it is said, the Pompeians were 
 seated when that awful volcanic storm burst forth 
 by which the city was ruined. Down from these 
 seats they fled in wildest disorder, all panic-stricken 
 rushing down the steps, and crowding through thj 
 doorways, tramjling one another under foot, in that 
 mad race for life ; while overh«id the storm g^th- 
 ered darker and darker, and the showers of ashes 
 .fell, and the suifocating sjulphuric vapors arose, 
 and amid the vo lcanic storm the lightning s -pf the 
 Bkyiiashecl fortl, illuminating all the surrounding 
 'gloom with ^ horrid l&stre, and blending with the 
 
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 MEAI8E8 AND AMPH^eilTBES. 213 
 
 What little ha, been Sd of tT*' '■''/°"'P^""- 
 gather around this p1.ee id .1 ,V'''^ ""^ 
 "Pon those seats there .•»!'' him who sits 
 
 of that awful scene th ""« ^"'^ realisation 
 where else. *'"° "«" ^e obtained any. 
 
 -■^r'r^f':rt"''''<^ -ted then..: 
 
 -ole ^ sea; and each rn'et"" """ '^"^ "^ «>« 
 ing3 that filled him Th^ f ? "*^ *» ""« '^^l- 
 lours, and all of ^em fcif "^ T*"^'"' ""^ f"' 
 that the rest on'ttre tts'^'lTr^' "■ 
 ttey sat and rested. ''^'^j^*^ grateful. Here 
 
 ^ ^iS%hf»li^»!- ^3laK'^ S%' 
 
■■■f 
 
 2U 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 'I 
 
 CHAPTER XIX. 
 
 Lofy classical enikn^Usm of David, aHd painyuftack of 
 feeling on the Part of Frank. -David, red hot with the 
 flow of the Past, is suddenly confronted with the Present. 
 ^The Pr^esent dashes Cold Water upon his glowing En- 
 thusiasm. — The Gates— Minos, JEacus, and Rhada- 
 manthus. — The Culprits. 
 
 S they thus rested on the seats of the 
 Amphitheatre, the classical enthusiasm of 
 David rose superior to fatigue, and his 
 enthusiastic feelings burst forth without restraint, 
 in a long and somewhat incoherent rhapsody jabout 
 the fall of Pompeii. Full before them, as they sat, 
 rose Vesuvius; and they saw that which helped 
 them to reproduce the past more vividly, for even 
 now the dense, dark cloud of the volcano was 
 gathering, and the thick smoke-volumes were roll- 
 ing forth from the crater. Far into the heavens 
 the smoke clouds arose, ascending in a dark pillar 
 till they reached the upper strata of the atmos- 
 phere, where they unfolded themselves, and spread 
 outafar--^he east, and the west , and the north^ 
 -*iid tho Buuth. Some Buen appearance as this the ^ 
 mountem may have had, as it towered gloomily 
 before the Pompeians on that day of days. Some" 
 
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 a^ ..>.;■> 
 
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 ^*-, 
 
 ENTHUSIASM OP DAVID. 
 
 215 
 
 Buch scene as this may have appeared, only deep- 
 ened into terrors a thousand fold more gloomy, to 
 \ the population of the doomed city, as they gatb 
 ered here on these seats for the dasi time. 
 \ Such were the ideas of DavidWrk ; and these 
 ideas he poured forth in a long rhap&ody, full of 
 wild enthusiasm. At length, however, that ©nthu- 
 Biasm flagged, and he was compelled to (stop for 
 want of breath. ^.^ #*^1 T^ 
 
 "0, that's all very fine," said Fratit, suddeWv, 
 as David stopped, and breaking the silence which 
 had followed his eloquent outburst, — « that's aU 
 very fine, of course. You have a habit, David', my 
 son, of going into raptures over old bones and old 
 stones, but alter aU, I'd just like to ask you one 
 question.'* ^ 
 
 « What's that ? » asked David, a little sharply. 
 
 " Why, this. Has this pkce, after all, come up 
 to your idea?" And Frai^k looked at him with 
 very anxious eyes. 
 
 " This place ? " said David. « What, Pompeii ? 
 Come up to my idea? Why, of course it has. 
 What makes you ask such a question as that? I 
 never spent such a day in all my life." 
 
 " Well, for my part," said Frank, in a very can- 
 did tone, " I'll be honest. I confess I'm disap, 
 pointed ." ^ 
 
 And saying this, Frank shook his head defiantly, 
 and looked at all the other boys, with the air of 
 one who was ready and wiUing to maintain his 
 po9ition. 
 
 .'•4, 
 4 
 
 
 \ 4&.*j«Vl 
 
i^^:.^' 
 
 2ie 
 
 AH%0 
 
 IBB BBIOANDS. 
 
 aoribable tone, m which reproach, astonishment 
 •^ disgust were all blended together.- ' 
 
 t^rW '" Tf f"'"'^' fi™'y. " disappointed -«i 
 terly, completely, and tee-totally. I'll tell-;^„ 
 what my idea w,s. My idea was^ tha the "£ 
 would b<,^reet,, in the first place Well, tK 
 no streets at all. they're mere lanes. rZil 
 
 was, tha{ the Jiousea would be hoJe^. Well 
 
 tonef^-T'" '^,*f":°P'«^ Davi<]Hn- .indignant 
 tones. "How could the houses be standing after 
 beng buned for so many centuries? You w^^. 
 what a tremendous weight of ashes, and sto^s*- 
 tod earth, lay upon their roofs. Housri Why • 
 
 wTrlwhoIe 7' ^°''^°" '«•'' ^^o" if «'eho£es 
 were whole and uninjured, what would they be? 
 
 f:;h'"r"?l— "--^^^ 
 
 /■ 
 
 ^^J^T^^Tfound? Nothing butshams- 
 pillars built of bricks, and ptetawd over to re- 
 
 i'l0li-*tAli^!l* i!t. 
 
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 DISAPPOINTMENT dp FRANK. 217 
 
 eemble marble. Do you call that the right ^tyle 
 
 past: S' I ""'" ^'^"^' "^ ^^"^'- ^"- 
 
 plaster Greek because it's in Pompeii? Then 
 
 thS f f /^^^^''^-^ - ---able little placel^ 
 that 11 only hold ab(|ut fifty people " - — 
 
 ^^Poohr' said David; "as if tliey didn't know, 
 •what was large enough I " 
 
 enoughjor them, what * poor lot they .u«t hlf^ 
 
 Jaf T "rr""'' "^^'^^ "P<""P«''' -«« not a 
 •tTfilT" ""^'""'y'' -a" city. You expect/ 
 t8 find here the magnificence of Rome " / 
 
 thtl^'IV In""''- ^ "'^'■'''y «^Pect to find eon^e- 
 thing that'll carry out the promise of thbse pi<> 
 tures tha they make of scenes in Pompeii. Why 
 there .sn^t anything in the whole town, except' , 
 perhaps, th,s place, that looks large enough for an 
 ordinary person to move about in. Look at the ' 
 wa Is -^miserable thmgs J^wenty feet high. Look 
 Loot' f^^-r'y wide enough fora sbgle cart 
 Look at the sidewalks - only wide enou|h for a 
 
 Taf o„r- ^"l" °"'^*'>-8^" «'o whol town 
 that comes up^o my idea isl the Amphitheatre. 
 T^ IS i^sigctoble. It c orteapond^^ritMA.^-. 
 TOre , and the descriptions of travellers. BuTm 
 to all the rest, I have only to remark that they ar^ 
 first, mean; secondly, smaU; and thirdly, in out^ 
 rageonsly bad taste." • 
 
 
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 T pjr^:.-,'---!^;K^jf, 
 
 216^ 
 
 AMONO THE BBIOANDS* 
 
 - n™"^ f»f«<Jff nd leaked eteadfaatly ,t David. 
 
 Davd looked at Frank, but his feelinge were 
 
 too strong for utterance. His indignatiofat this 
 
 desecrafon of a place that was so hallowed in 
 
 ■ feceTw "° " T '""'^P-.«»««»- He turned his 
 
 They waited a Lg time, and when at length 
 they prepared to leave Pompeii, it was late in the 
 •day. All the otter visitors had left long before 
 »d they were de lapt in -the city. They walked 
 
 rZl T^l"^ T'"' *"""" ^^' '■""' ""d "t length 
 re,^hed the e,^t,unce. Michael Angelo went «ff 
 
 tekf» . r', ^'- 'f''«y"'"'«<i " little while to' 
 teke a last look, and then passed through the gate. ' 
 Here they found themselves confronted by three 
 officials, the custodians of the place 
 
 Engfoh."'' '**'', '^^':''""^ '^"^ '" ^«'y/«- 
 "Messieurs," said h^.'< before you ieave, Tfiaf 
 
 iJ-'^*''! *"y"""8'" 8«W Uncle Moses, in an 
 indignant voice. "What do you mean?" 
 
 ' u/'i^ ^TT^ P"'^'"''' »"«. " «aid the other, po- 
 litely. -It ees a fonnaletee. I mean de leetle 
 stones de pieces oS steek, wood, plastair. Hal 
 "'L''~'^°°°' "^e Bonvanira"^ 
 
 was raiher an unpleasant looking man, with 
 a veit^ow &c», high cheek-bone., md a heavy 
 
 "Sfe^"- 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 lJs'3«!' Wlaest, 
 
^r 
 
 
 
 BELICS PBOH THE BURIED CITT. 219 
 
 Soatee on the tip of his chin, which wagged np 
 and down as he talked in quite a wonderfol way. 
 '-eours::;*."'"*^' P-asterr-said Uncle Moses. 
 
 th Jt* "^"'^^J^"^^^ ■■»»«»% at him, and then at 
 the boys After this he converted witl. his com- 
 panion m Itahan. These companions were quite as 
 unprepossessing in their appearance as himitt 
 i hen the 6rst speaker turned to the boys. 
 
 _ You, sare," said he to Frank, in rather an un, 
 pleasant tone, " haf you de stones or de bones ? !' 
 
 , .^°' * f<»>«. "Of a bone," said Frank, smilingly. 
 
 aiay." " ''" "* ''"'' ""' ' ^''^^ ^^^^ 
 
 " Arid yon, sare ? " said he to Bob 
 "Don't deal in such articles," said Bob, with a 
 grm - not m my -line -not my style." 
 
 Pardon," said the official, with a sicEly smile, 
 bBt I must put de Usual interrogatoree. Tou 
 sare?>; and he addressed himself trDavid 
 David turned pale. 
 He hesitated for a moment 
 ' " WeU," said he, "I believe I have got a few 
 
 rllf "™''; J"^' '"^o »■• three, you know; little 
 relics, you know." 
 
 "Atl ver good, ver nais," said the official, ,vith 
 
 «aIIo«r featofres. "AndWon «aro9» i.. ^ V 
 turning to Clive. '""'y""'»"«' he continued, 
 
 "Well, yes," said C|ive, « I've got a few, I 
 
 I jf >i!^;« |i&§''i f. y <*' ^ 
 
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 9'^ Mb ^* ^^ 
 
 Af** 
 
^ 
 
 ■&£ 
 
 ^ 
 
 'r.t^ 
 
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 220 
 
 f 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGAIIDS. 
 
 ^ "0 no not at all," said the Italian; "dly don^t 
 
 -one,.„..ee.,:::^Xr:::sfc- 
 
 David, ,n a heart-broken voice ' Pp*" 
 
 o„ A 1- , * "• ^^" tousand, twentv ton 
 sand, hnndred tousand come here eieryyX. 
 all take away hnndred toueand pocket ftnTh 
 
 t carlT:Jayn\lTd\t"i f V" ""^ 
 bad, hey. ha. yL otdttanf IT nX^ dX 
 all oop into my hand." ^ T 
 
 bat the official was obdurate. He pleaded the la 
 He .nested on the fall restoration of eve^ hW | 
 
 I piece Of brick from the Sidewalk. 
 1 bit of stone, sreet 
 
 : «*"<^^«> Bisilica. 
 
 ■-fi 
 
 doT 
 do. 
 
 Fort^m. 
 Temple Jupiter. 
 
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 ..fl 
 
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 ^.^.'il'.';-^^^ 
 
 ^# 
 

 i^-, /• «r<*i*i 
 
 % 
 
 ftELICS fBOM THE BURIED CITY. 
 
 1 
 1 
 1 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 1 bit of stone from 
 
 221 
 
 do. 
 do. 
 do. 
 do. 
 do. 
 do. 
 bon^ 
 do. . 
 
 1 package dust,' 
 
 1 do. 
 
 1 do, 
 
 1 pebble, 
 
 1 do. 
 
 If bit of plaster, 
 
 11 
 
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 do. 
 
 do. 
 brick, 
 
 do. 
 stone, 
 do. 
 
 the Public Bakery. 
 Sentry box. 
 Wall. 
 Gateway. 
 Street Tombs. 
 Villa Diomede. 
 do. 
 
 Sepulchre, 
 do. 
 do. 
 
 Villa Sallust. 
 do. 
 
 Eating House. 
 House of Dioscuri. 
 Pantheon. 
 Temple Mercury. 
 
 do. Isis. 
 Tragic Theatre. 
 Comic Theatre. > 
 Amphitheatre, 
 do. 
 
 
 Slowly and reluctantfy tbltwo ^ .'""' f '"• 
 
 those precious treasure, Z\ ^\ '™'"' °''* 
 r treasures, badly and mournfully 
 
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 222 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 V. 
 
 they laid them on the table, under the stern, the 
 inflexible, the i-elentless gaze of the three inex- 
 orable custodians, who. to David's mind, seemed 
 the impersonations of Minos, ^acus, and Ehada- 
 manthus. Yea, all these, and many more, - frag- 
 ments from houses, bits of mosaic stone, little 
 chips, -all were seized, and all were confiscated. 
 Not a word was spoken. It was a sorrow too 
 strong for words ; and Minos, ^acus, and Rhada- 
 nla^thu8, stood, individually and collectively, in- 
 flexible and inexorable. The rueful counte- 
 nances of the two culprits excited the sympathy 
 and pity of their companions; but it seemed a case 
 where no help could avail them. Frank and Bob 
 looked upon the scene with a strong desire to 
 interfere m some way, and Uncle Moses looked 
 quite as distressed as either David or CUve 
 Suddenly a new actor entered upon the scene. 
 It was Michael Angelo. 
 
 He came in with a quick step, started as he 
 noticed the sadness on the faces of his party, and 
 then threw a rapid glandte around. One glance 
 was sufficient to show plainly enough what had 
 happened. He .saw the table covered with the 
 stones and bones already described. He saw the 
 heart-broken expression that was 'stamped upon 
 the faces of David and Clive as they gazed u^ 
 their parting treasures. He saw the attitude wid 
 
 , - y ^ ""•" ""« ttiLuuae and 
 
 ^^^^^P^os^vf-mm^mmr^nd PrankTimr 
 Bob, as theji watched their friends. 
 
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 . ^ '"DOES coxcaiAijEg, . 223 
 
 U^lZl/Tt ■"" °"'y 4la»e J ^11 to 
 Michae Angelo, but suggested to him.» course of 
 conduct upon which he instantly procifded to act 
 
 Its all right," said Mtehael Angelo " n«. 
 onderstand. I haf exnl^Jno J v "^*^'^- ^©7 
 
 BhadtinThu,'"™ "'" ''^^''^'«<'' -<» 'ooM at 
 
 £!=|Sn^=thi;t^s 
 
 « 1 11 . •", *^ dismissing a case, 
 plainedr"*" ''" "" ^^'"'-""-thus ; "he haf ex- 
 
 nat tuere was tg Fe Bifr>.,„oj .i.-L .? "10.= 
 
 Vhat U.„. °"": . ' '"°'e''" at uni 
 
 irom i-ompeu, no amoant of « explanation " 
 
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 aJs ■,''i&4i,':i<l-tia'*»./n...vj'^ .»'. 
 
 \* ^i-«<At*t 
 
 Caife^CjiV 
 
 ; 
 
2^4 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 I* 
 
 * • 
 
 could give them a claim to their unlawful posses- 
 sions. But neither David nor Glive was at a|l 
 inclined to hesitate about the legality of tlieir pps- 
 sessions, or to make any inquiries about the nature 
 of the explanation whi^h had been made by Michael 
 Angelo. It was joy enoagh for them to know that 
 the difficulty was over, and that the relics were 
 theirs once more. 
 
 So the pile of relics went back from that table 
 mto thA pockets of David a^d Olive with a 
 rapidity that is inconceivable. Away from their 
 faces passed that heart-broken expression which 
 had been upon them ; the shadows passed away 
 from their brows, the sunshine of joy and exulta. 
 tion overspread them, and they looked at Michael 
 
 Angelo in silent gratitudor 
 
 A few minutes more and they were in the 
 carriage. 
 
 Then David asked Michael Angelo how it was 
 that he had changed the «tern resolve of the in- . 
 exorable Rhadamanthus into such easy, gracious, 
 and good-tempered indulgence. > 
 
 Michael Angelo laughed. 
 
 " I gif him," said he, "just one half dollar. Dat 
 was what he wanted all de time. Aftai're dees you 
 know what to do. All r-r-right. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha 1 " . 
 
 And Michael Angtflo burst into a peal of 
 daughter. 
 
 r---i- 
 
 TTpon this UncIeHoses began to moralize about 
 
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 TO NAPLES AGAm. 
 
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 225 
 
 ten thousand otter thll^'^' ""«««»«««. ""d 
 And tte carriage rolled back to Naples. ' 
 
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226 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 
 
 > CHAPTER XX. 
 
 nt Gbrus of JVaplts. - Tk, Museum.- The Curiosbi,, 
 -Ho^ tkey unroll ,ke Carrel ManuJcHf^s'^^tla 
 « . f'-H'-culaneum anU Pompeii. - On ,o Soie. - c^f 
 
 ^(irshes. — The AppiiForum. 
 
 IpHE party remained in Naples some t^me 
 longer, and had much to see. There A^as 
 the Royal Museuta, filled with the treasuLs 
 of antique art, filled also with what was t^hL 
 for more interesting -th« numerous articles 0x. 
 burned from Herculaneum and Pompeii. Here 
 were jewels, ornaments, pictures, statues, carvings 
 kitchen utensils, weights, measures, toilet requi-' 
 sites, surgical instruments, arms, armor, tripods, 
 braziers, and a thousand other articles, the ac- 
 companiments of that busy life which ha^ been so 
 abruptly stopped. All these articles spoke of spme- 
 thing connected with an extinct civilization, and 
 told, too, of human life, with all its hopes, fears - 
 joys, and sorrows. Some spoke of disease and pain! 
 !f!^ l'^'^^"^^"!!^J^y ' ^'^^^^ <^Aeace,,tLe 
 
 war ; here 
 
 were the- emblems of religion, there 
 .the symbols of literature. 
 
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 - TT ig^Si g Sg 
 

 yi« 
 
 'Curiosities, 
 exhumed 
 — Capua. • 
 ^ Pontine 
 
 ne time 
 er&, AJiras 
 •easujres 
 ^hbm 
 sles fex- 
 H^re 
 irvings, 
 
 requi- 
 tripods, 
 the ac- 
 )een so 
 f sQme- 
 >n, and 
 
 fears, - 
 d pain, 
 tjbhosa 
 
 I there 
 
 .HEKCCLASEAN AND POMP.uk KANUSCBIPOB. 227 
 
 in the libraries of tK« I ?/ f ^^^ ^^^"^ ^^^^^ 
 
 were baffled • but Tf i . ?* ^^'^ ^^°"*« »* ^rst 
 might be doriA Tk^ . ■'^ wnicn the thing 
 
 were Dot over eirf>r,V?. """"^ " "''o"^' »»<l 
 
 teen feet in e„X Thr;°,r'.f' ""'' '""'»* "«• 
 the cases hid Shed bVtlh; ^^ «™amenta,and 
 Its nature was about tL„ ^P^™' rem'&ined. - 
 
 scroll of panrr nZ '™* ^ *''« "»'»" <>' » 
 
 through .rfiiTaar " ': -^^ ^^--^^ 
 
 ro.Ied,^ouIdcruJeltttt;nClX""" 
 was arjfestfid hv ««**• • ■^''"w>«'ni8«runlbhnir 
 
 «eIatin;u11bS7j;:,f„-»f "f f '»"«'•' 
 was niaoed tt.-. ,',? ™'"='"' "heet of muslin 
 
 unrged slowly and ^S- ?_'^'! "f^ '' "<" 
 
 «me;>maou being \.nrSTfe7-r^^^^ 
 atince made. Of co»r» t^ ''" "^P^ '^ 
 
 pr^«ervethomanus:;LTtlS:ert::S.e1 
 
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 228 
 
 AMONG THE 6RIGANDS. 
 
 and after a short exposure, just long enough to 
 admit of a copy being made, they shrank up' and 
 crumbled away. 
 
 There were other places of attraction in this 
 beautiful city— the Villa Reale, the chosen prom- 
 enade of the Neapolitans, which stretches along 
 the shore, filled with trees, and shrubbery, and 
 winding paths, and flower-beds, and vases, and 
 statues, and sculptures, and ponds, and fountains, 
 and paviHons. There was the Castle of St. Elmo 
 with its frowning walls ; the Cathedral of San 
 Francisco, with its lofty dome and sweeping colon- 
 nades ; an4 very many other churches, together 
 With palaces and monuments. 
 _ But at last all this came to an end, and they left 
 Naples for Rome. They had a carriage to them- 
 ee^yes, which they had hired for, the journey,' and 
 the weather was delightful. The road was smooth 
 and pleasant, the country was one of the. fairest on 
 earth, Jpd as they rolled along they all gave them- 
 .^^Ives^p to the joy of the occasion. Thev passed 
 .^ thresh a region every foot of which was classic 
 gro^d. Along their way they encountered amphi- 
 thej^res, aqueducts^mbs, and other monuments 
 of Jie past, some m ruins, others still erect in 
 stately though " melancholy grandeur. Capua in- 
 vited them to tarry — not the ancient Capua, but 
 * he mode rn, which, though several milea r1.-«tftnt _ 
 
 •bin the historic city, has yet a history of its own, 
 /and its own charms. But among aU these scenes^ 
 
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 TEBBACINA. 
 
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 229 
 
 ',^n ''^'•'\T'"* they encountered, the oL that 
 nspressed them most was Cicero's tombl It 'is 
 bmlt on the spot where he was assassinate J, of im- 
 ■ r°«e stones, joined without cement. In Lpe it 
 IS square but the interior is circular, and I siLle 
 column rises to the vaulted roof. Of-Com-re whl^ 
 ever contents there may have been have lolg since 
 been scattered to the winds; no memoril of ?he 
 great orator and patriotic statesman is visiL now • 
 but the m.me of Cicero threw a charm aLt the 
 place, a^d It seemed as though they weJe drawn 
 nearer to the past. ,The boys expressed tLr fee" 
 
 2ve'^T""" ™^%'""* David, who ^as most 
 alive to the power of classical associations, de- 
 vered verbatim, about one half of the Lt or^ 
 tion of Cicero against Catiline. He would have 
 dehvered the whole of it, and more also, hojZl 
 doubt, had not Frank put a sudden stop io Us iiow 
 of eloquence by pressing his hand against David's 
 
 "Ip itT "*''""« *°.^«*-e "^'^ "« ^^ 
 
 On the afternoon of the second day they arrived 
 
 shore with the blue Mediterranean in f™nt„stretch. 
 mg far away to the horizon. Par out into the se« ■ 
 run the promontory of Circ»um,-flvniliar to the 
 
 .■>^ 
 
 -wMe-erer^hBwi^tef the white sails of & 
 f«>vmg ves«,lB passed to and fro. th^ y^Z 
 broke on the st.»nd, fishing-boats were dr.^ up 
 
 
 
23Q 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 -^' 
 
 on the b'oach, and there were wonderful briaknem 
 and animation in the scene CTisimew 
 
 Terracina, like aU other towns in this country 
 
 thl Tlr ""^^^'^'^K where thft waters of 
 the Mediterranean rippled and plashld over the 
 
 ^:iT:^.'''7o t rtoiiir- t- 
 
 th. surrounding heaut, th'e^y^el: ^^ 
 and wandered, and scrambled, and raced »nH 
 chased one another about the sl«mbe™„s 'town 
 
 the long roll of the Mediterranean waL aTthev 
 
 dashed upon the beach, and on the fouS^X,^ 
 
 ttg resumed their journey The tr^ ^ "" 
 
 .though the Pontin^e Mars^tdXiteS 
 
 PoI«*"Shlst':ne'^;L'^ *''%''^^ o' «-« 
 
 *«Haa in breadth i^i)^::::^^:^'^^ 
 
 
PONTINE MAB3HBS. 
 
 231 
 
 . origm of these marshes is not l;nown. In thei 
 early ages of the republic of Rome ntimerous^ 
 cities are mentioned as existing here. But all 
 these gradually became depopulated , and now not 
 a vestige remains of any one of them. Prom a 
 very remote period numerous efforts were put 
 
 AninM!?"" '""'' ^'"^- ^''«» the famous 
 Appian Way wa» constructed through them thev 
 
 formed which ran by the road-side? and of this 
 canal Horace speaks in the well-known account of 
 brs journey to Brundusium. Julius Ca^sarintend- 
 
 task of reclaiming them ; but his death prevented 
 Lni ™T"' recessive emperors, the aO 
 
 tempt was made and continued, until at last, in 
 the reign of Trajan, nearly all the district was 
 recovered. Afterwards it fell to ruin and Z 
 
 neglected for ages, down to modern times. Varl 
 ous popes attempted to restore them, but without 
 Bnccess until at last Pope Pius VI. kchievedthe 
 accomplishment of the mighty task in the year 
 1788, ever since which time the district has been 
 nnder cultivation. u-»8oeen 
 
 The road was a magnificent one, having been 
 S°^^S!!!°-lfthe4ien.i^^ 
 
 • V *_7«» Jixed on essh siTe with tre^ef^ 
 was broad and well paved. It is considered on, 
 of the finest m Europe. Alottg this they rolled. 
 
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 >» 
 
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'*''"';-lv-: 
 
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 232 
 
 AMONG TH^ BRIGANDS. 
 
 ""atics/'and took L. . """"P'^'-ed of "rheu- 
 
 --^y:-. As the, went o„XTw frowTs tf "'^ """" 
 
 , com ng to work in the fiTll Th„ "^P'"^*'"'' 
 
 lived in thB I..II „ "'" °eias. ihese peasants 
 
 women, and even children w„r„ "P"*'™"- "en, 
 pale, sickly faces and h. ! ? "■*' *'"' ""^ir 
 deaclly were :: effects of Thl' '''°'' "'"'''«<' """^ 
 from this marshy soil ''°^'°"" ^^'alations 
 
 Bto^rarttf^rr-r'"r-« 
 
 roadside. David bZSJL T''*'^'' ^^ «"« 
 this place might orS. J°°t " '» "'"««'«' 
 mentioned fn the booT^5 f ''* ""^ ''°™»> ^PPii 
 of St. Paul on his war to 1° ■" " "'"PP^S-P'-^* 
 were too hungry toUtT' """ "-e others 
 the question. Thev^J?^ T^"'' *'''"«^»' '» ' 
 
 their journey. ^ ' '' *''*'' jesumed 
 
 
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 fiand the 
 as damp, 
 
 particu- 
 ' " rheu- 
 
 against 
 pwarm- 
 
 >easants 
 easiants 
 ! had to 
 f labor, 
 • Men, 
 d their 
 )d hotv 
 lations 
 
 which 
 5y the 
 lether 
 Appii 
 
 place 
 thers 
 er in 
 two 
 imed 
 
 PONTIlfe MABSHE8. 
 
 233 
 
 'fi 
 
 CHAPTER XXI. - 
 
 The Pontine Marshes yl rj.^^ 
 
 n, foul EMSicnsJ^T^^""" "'"'"" '•orfy.- 
 
 |0R the first half 6t the day the boy, h»a 
 been ,n g„at «p,rits. Laughter^ noisy 
 
 -.s ha7rcitC;SrAr"^°- 
 
 ^a.iniat«.eBedia.. B^a^:",! t -^|^ 
 
 Wan^. actVn thet ^Thtt^Tt^h: r 
 and chill, and unpleasant. A ceneml fJv ^ % 
 
 I T!^" ^^ nonsense mnr^ „*„^.-j. f . 
 
 
 
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 234 
 
 AHONO THE B^fGANDS. 
 
 T^eeks older than DavM^^t ^ "'^/"'^ » '«'' 
 
 and more „>at„re in J^ rltt^ fet""^"" 
 hard student anri r^ , -^ '^^l^^^^s. i»avid was a 
 
 and had a a^er sha'/ofTh T °f "^ '»*-°™. 
 be gained from btks -but ^'""r'^'f ''"''' "ay' 
 
 of the world and i^ »n *K T^ ^ '^«" ">-»•« 
 
 ' cal affairs of com^riifo . "'*''' *'' ""^ P™<=«- 
 
 ««perior to Dav.T For 1 ""' ■«"»«as„«bly 
 
 -assumed, and vlrv J f ''"^™ F™nk often 
 
 , of the pkr'f and so "'■'"'°' ""' ^ardianship 
 
 •hearted Lin! Sf* ''?;'""'««■'' and simple, 
 from them ^' T ^'""'"'^ '•^l-'^ed protection 
 
 selves go to 2;n p u :^'"°S'' "»' '» '«* them 
 %Pontin "Ses W a '^"l «"'"*'■« air of 
 send one t<?8leen »ni^ r P^""'""' ^^n-^ene^ to 
 
 * the corise?„enc?s'mil't ?";:';""•' ''"'^ "> '^'^' 
 -would be sure to Zt , ***'• *'"^«'-' "-^ ^aid . 
 dnlged in under suehT "'^ ""*' "'Sht be in- 
 et/whichwaT created """T'^'"^''- "^ anxi- 
 aense of res;:n M % ZZ 7% '^'^J '" ''" 
 keep him awake, and left him f^ "'®"'™* *«*- 
 
 awake also; and thn's l^Z^S^^^^ 
 fag danger. . '™"' 'he impend- 
 
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 tr /•uTt-^-'y^. 
 
 V 
 
 it J of tho 
 3I7 a i'ew 
 
 stronger 
 i^id was a 
 ok-worm, 
 that may 
 >en more 
 e practi- 
 asurably 
 ik often 
 lianship 
 
 to him, 
 
 Uncle 
 
 as their 
 
 simple- 
 
 tection 
 
 'arning 
 i tliem- 
 
 air of 
 ncy to 
 this, 
 3 said,- 
 be in- 
 
 anxi- 
 >y his 
 nt to^o" 
 [I_hi8 
 
 A CHANGE COMES OVER THE PARTT. 235 
 
 was not a very strilrin., -^ut the smgmg 
 
 Up. • -^ . . -^ strikmg success : there was a l«Pt 
 
 l^nt whether it was thf. .,. . f '^" "''^^P' 
 •riade him more Uahl! f '"\ ""'"'« '^-Perament 
 
 "Come, Bob," said Prank, " this won't do Yn.. 
 .don't mean to say that j^ou'^ sleepy7 "" 
 
 yawt!"' ""!'"'«• ^^ ''^''^ his eyes, and 
 
 ;;Bob -«rid p, k, „ t,t^ ^^ ^^ ^^ 
 
 *'- I" »" "ghy -aid Boh, with u d»wl 
 
 "r-'^^'t'S^-Tn.wideaX'; 
 
 Scarce ha4 he finished this when hie eves cIn.,H 
 •gain, Mid his head fell forward. ' ^ 
 
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 3end- 
 
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— 1 «PB- v^'iu tmiv I ' mat 
 
 236 
 
 /I 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 ^ 
 
 Frank shook him, and Bob raised himself np 
 with an effort at dignified surprise, whi«h w» 
 however, a feilnre. ■ x" was, 
 
 kv" Jr ''^^^"''' ''"'" * ^'"°<' ^^ »aW i" a has- 
 fcy, sldepy voice. 
 
 « But I will shake you," cried Prank. 
 
 «oddi:g~ag":in: '""'" "'' ^'"'' '° " •^'^ ""'^p^^' 
 
 rI^'^CL """^ F™k;"tWll never do. Bobl 
 
 Boblw^ke , Bobl B0*0KHMHM>0<«KM.b 
 
 wa-a-ara-ara-arake u-u-u-u-up ! " 
 
 he^hnhlf "JT".'''"!' ""■'" "P- O-the contrary, 
 W» H P ? '''"'' '" " ^°°^''^ -^d ™becile way 
 towards Prank, as though seeking unconsciously 
 to find a place on which to rest it. But Prank 
 wouldn't ^llow anything of the sort. He ml! Bob 
 «t erect, and held him in this way for some fW 
 
 uavid and Clive were a little roused by this and 
 Burveyed ,t with sleepy eyes. Uncle Mose "hot 
 ever was as wide awake as ever -he had his 
 
 and th,s made sleep out of the question. He now 
 joined h,s entreaties to those of Prank; and thi 
 two, umtjng their shouts, succeeded iL maJng 
 considerable uproar. "iai"ag 
 
 Still Bob would not wake. 
 
 rZl n""^^^ ^"°" g^* °"^ ^°d walk," said Vro^jnk. 
 
 "lL..m uever do. IT Be sleeps here, he may 
 never wake aimin » ' ^"J' 
 
 never wake again." 
 
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 it<* \s * -J ''rf- ...fei^it.^,it, 4 "1^" «„.M\i,^w^ 
 

 
 'V. 
 
 limself up 
 'hioh was, 
 
 I in a hus- 
 
 r whisper, 
 
 0. Bob I 
 o-o-o-o-bl 
 
 contrary, 
 cile way 
 isczously 
 it Frank 
 ade Bob 
 lie time, 
 ng him. 
 his, and 
 es, how- 
 had his ; 
 
 e boys, 
 He now 
 and the 
 making 
 
 Fraaka 
 
 THE SLEEP OF DEATH. 
 
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 may 
 
 '*■' '^CA.w^^^k 
 
 237/ 
 
 Saymg this, Frank turned to onen iha . • 
 door to call to the driver A ! V^!",' , ""^"^^S^ 
 his hold of Bob who b!j^ ^« he did so, he loosed 
 
 that side^eU ;ve^o' Ffank' T' '"^^'^ "^ ^° 
 downwarT °^ ^ ^^^ ^^^^ h'« ^oe 
 
 him as hard as he conld, he veiled ;„ 
 
 sleepily unwilling to submit to tV . ^^ 
 
 his teeth. " *' ^^ ^^^^ed it in 
 
 « B0K)^0b I Bo^D-O-O-OKHMJ-b I » yelled Fmnt 
 
 ilut Bob wouldn't ""upi 
 
 Dl^Ih''t^ "u**" *'■«'''«''"■*•'•'« teeth. 
 
 held in hifl teeth. ^ "^"^ ^^'^ '°°"**»' **»«* 
 
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 'it'. t*vii 
 
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 238 
 
 
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 It 
 
 t\-* 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 ^ZT^ ^''''^^^ ^* ^^ dismay, and then looked 
 
 He gave -a cry of vexation. • 
 
 Bob had seized Frank's trousers in his teeth 
 and as he was pulled up, he held on tight. €onse' 
 quently tI^e cloth gave way, and there was poor 
 Frank, reduced, to rags and tatters, and utterly 
 unpresentable in any decent society. . 
 
 He |ave up Bob in despair, and beg^n to in^ 
 vestigate the extent of the ;uin that had been 
 wrought m his trousers. It was a bad rent, an 
 
 ' Z t"^ V T' ^? ^■''* ' ""^ "^-^ that/4m^ia da 
 wag to fie his handkerchief around his leg 
 
 'Bob now slept heavily, held up by Uncle Moses. 
 
 Ibe other boys grew drowsier and drowsier. 
 
 Frank was just deciding to get out of the carriage 
 . and make them all walk for a time, when a snd- 
 
 den event occurred which brought a solution to 
 
 the problem. 
 
 It was a sudden crash. 
 
 Down sank the carriage under them, and away • 
 
 It went, toppling over on one side. A cry oiT 
 terror escaped all of them. Every one started up, 
 and each one grasped his neighbor. ' 
 
 There was something in this sudden shock so 
 dreadful and so startling, that it broke through 
 even the drowsiness and heavy stupor of Bob and 
 penetrated to his slumbering faculti««, «n^ f^ „n 
 His^nt roused them all. With a wild yell he flung 
 his arms i^ound Uncle Moses. Uncle Modes feU 
 
 ,'ra.,»&i 
 
 S^f^ 
 
 
N \i 
 
 en looked 
 
 his teeth, 
 t. Oonse- 
 was poor 
 id utterly 
 
 '^TL to in- 
 had been 
 rent, an 
 "Cbuld do 
 
 le Moses, 
 drowsier, 
 carriage 
 n a sud- 
 lution to 
 
 nd away 
 
 cry of 
 
 rted up, 
 
 hock so 
 through 
 •ob, and 
 i Jp-an 
 
 
 \ 
 
 A BBEAK-DOWN. 
 
 239 
 
 
 " AM right," 8aid he, ih a cheerful voice "W„ 
 have^^,o„e„ver quite.. The horses haZtopp!^! 
 
 '<Vn«v. °"'f\°^' eJtclaim^d Bob's voic» 
 
 Toare smothering Un^le Moses." Prank wh^ 
 was uppermost, disengagea himself, and helw<riff 
 the other, ; and finally Bob scrambled^war S 
 ev«ry.indicationbvthia tim^ V""»'"8way,gm4g , 
 perfectly wide aw/ke ' ''''' •" "" "' ^' 
 
 This restored Uncle "Moeea 1T= ™ v. 
 take a long breath. »« was ,bl6 jj,. 
 
 ca^^Zaf il^rir'-tfof: \°T J-^ 
 V underneath, a shat^Ired wrick: ^ '^ '"" '"'^^"' ) 
 Now all was bustle and confusion.^ ' -f 
 
 enough to traverse the larshes Th» H n 
 '■"'.pod, and their efforts dl. ^''' ^^^ "'• 
 
 '-x 
 
 t 
 
 ^« i «e ot dro;;;;ess ° ""''^ "''^ "■ ° ' - " t 
 
 .^ "W". binding H upon the fore axle, and 
 
 le flung 
 tea feU 
 
 
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 240 
 
 -t,-^ 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 lett»g its otherend dragon the ground. Now as 
 were then hitched on l,y the Tm!!; .1 '^' 
 
 ; •■ 1 ■ 
 
 if-'??:.' 
 
 
Ik- 
 
 id. Now, as 
 rested upon 
 to keep the 
 ich supplied 
 The horses 
 without any 
 I along the 
 
 ;'r/;^|.%-5i#i?S^^p^:- 
 
 \ 
 
 THE MARCH ENDED. 
 
 241 
 
 ^PTER xxuj 
 
 Peace Prepare pr IVar^mfr ^'^'''''~-^*^ ^'^^ o} 
 ^ ^^e Garrtson arm themselves. ' 
 
 - - they all went „n''7T^' '""'this time 
 of Pncle Moils, net weff ' t' *■■* «««?«»» 
 -one: first, because iZZ71Z'''TJ°' '""> '«<- 
 . to p„J, them all when oZ rfT""' '? *''* '«'"«» 
 since it was as m„ch aT^K ''''*«'» '^«» gone ' 
 
 a walking pace ";en\^tb ^^ """" "^ '» "^ ' 
 the other reason wiTt ht """f,'^ "'"■™«o ! »<« • 
 be^better able to TgbtVi ''f '"« '^"y '^""M 
 ^d menaced them. In Ch » Z™"'""'' '^"o'' 
 " concerned, there did »„/' ! '^^ *' ^''O'^^ess 
 particular dai^ffer-L*i, ^ ""^^ "=«» to be anr 
 '""J been suffi^e^fl ' ^''^^'-ob^afcrZ 
 
 ;?' ^- ^» " t th at^^ ,'; : ^ "" . " ^t °"'^' ""'' t^ - 
 
 "■ewever, on accouat of h °'"*- "^"o'e Moses, \ 
 >-<• Us tenden^^t" rhtl^";,'"'' '■'"'™'-"4 
 • 16^ '''*""»t,cs,. together with 
 
 
•^ 
 
 ■ 
 
 
 242 
 
 AMONG THE ^GANDS. 
 
 his freedom, from drowsiness, was installed in ^he 
 , carriage, with all due honors, as its sole occupant, 
 / Walking on thus, Jjiey did not regret, in the 
 / slightest degree, the hardships of their lot, but 
 rather exulted in them, since they had been the 
 means of rousing them out of their almost uncon- 
 querable tendency to sleep. Frank felt the high- 
 est possible relief, since he was now freed from the 
 responsibility that had of late been so heavy. In 
 Bob, howeveay^ere was the exhibition of the 
 greatest liveliness. Bob, mercurial, volatile, non- 
 sensical, mobile, was ever running to extremes; 
 and as he was the first to fall asleep, so now, when 
 he had awaked, he was the most wide awake of all. 
 He sang, he shouted, he laughed, he danced, he 
 ran; Jie seemed, in fac^, overflowing with animal 
 
 spirits. I 
 
 • ,1 
 
 Fortunately they wej-e not very far from the 
 end of the marshes whep the wheel broke, and in 
 less than two hours the^y had traversed the re- 
 mainder. The driver could speak a little English, 
 and informed them that tWy could not reach the 
 destination which he had jproposed ; but he hoped 
 before dark to get as far\a8 an inn, where they 
 could obtain food and lodgiiig. He informed them 
 that it was not a very gooS inn ; but under the 
 circumstances it was the byst that they could 
 hope for. To the bbys, fao^A^everrit made 
 
 TJttiraf^rence^jMtTsort of aVi inn they came to. 
 As long as t]^could get soiethiliig to eat, and 
 
 ij &' 
 
 toy.-: 
 

 ' i 
 
 / 
 
 LONELY iW. 
 
 243 
 
 any kind of a bed to lie on, tL were Lf . I 
 80 they told the driver. - ' ""^^ "^^^^ P^t«nt ; and 
 
 Leaving the marshes, the road bein f 
 ^nd after about a half houi^s Wh J^^ 
 came to a place which Cdrit'fc 
 was the inn. • ^ ^^iver miormed th<^ 
 
 once been covered wth ?"'' '"«''' ''^'"'^ ^ad 
 had fallen offTn 'in, ""r' '"'* ""« »'»««<> 
 stones underneath ?„/""''' '^"'''°''"« t""* ™"gt 
 
 A door opened iaZ/LT'" ""^ *'"" ^'««'-»'d«- 
 Which wasVllCdiSr iTth "'' "^ 
 
 ,third in thTaTt7^ nteVeV if '"^7' '^' » 
 matr-Sonre srlh^^ h.^! T *" ""*" »°d die- 
 had sashes wi t X'tLr'f^''' """'" 
 sashes at all. . ^ ' *'"'* °*''«" had no 
 
 whtSed'h^ aTthe:r^ *^ '"°™''"'» »' 
 There was somethinLt k "«' "' '* <'™'^ °«ar. 
 
 their dirtv swarf h,, <-o ^'P"'^*^® to the bovs; 
 Mblack be:X'thn«r"' -** shag^, 
 beneath which their M t ^^ «y«hrows, from 
 
 . ^e^^^w^e^nanevi^aspect^a. 
 
 ^fcS^i 
 
 ■•i 
 
244 
 
 1 
 
 . 4 
 
 
 AMONG TH^ BRIGANDS. 
 
 vnoked simster, auspioioM appferance, by which 
 
 ' nl . ^' "*■■* '1"""y ™P'««8ed. They said 
 Dothmg, however, and much m theV disliki^ th„ 
 
 that there was no help foHt, and so the; madeul 
 ^err inmds to pass the night here as we'u ^\^ 
 
 teaving the carriage, they waited a few mo- 
 
 ments to ask the driver about the prospecTs f^ 
 
 •rLTV!7; ^' ''"^' '""' ev'rytMng a^ 
 
 rSfte^dX^C:^^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 ■f^tt^lw.^X""'''^'''''"^*"'---^^^^ 
 
 .Jt'' r!r""'^l«'«»' somewhat, and though thev 
 aT w„„|d have been willing to walk to Velletre 
 
 would n„r^ ^ f^'^"" '"'"• y«' ^-"'^ MolTs 
 wo»M not be able to do it, and so they had to make 
 np their minds to stay. " wmage 
 
 On entering the house, they found the interior 
 q« to ,n keeping with the exterior. The h^l w« 
 
 were infonned, was to be theirs. The door wm 
 fragUe, and without.any_fe,tening, The rZZ" 
 
 ---.:• ^ : -y-jjywning , me room was 
 
 -rtarge one, oontainin^g a tebie'and three be^t 
 inth one emaU waah^tand. Two windows looke ' 
 
u 
 
 M 
 
 THE INN. 
 
 245 
 
 open to the air * *"' ^"* ^as 
 
 ■oom at alt^ '' """^ '""«?!? Ughtedthe 
 
 While they were Z,- "^^ ^^ •>«»»«'• 
 
 browed villlL ^Ted „;?r;" .f '"«*'«'' '»- 
 
 pl*ed down each dish in '"' """* "^ ''« 
 
 roind upon the .L .^"''ce'sion, he looked 
 
 hpngry than ihese bT ^ese "^ ^"'''"*''' 
 eiai^ation to be affe^twi ''*'"* *°° "«« 
 
 ^oaeioD. "« **" "i^arksfor afotnre , 
 
 So the dinner passed. 
 
 -they al. looked tl'fte^^^t^'T^t^^ ''°'''' 
 th.ir he«i. togethTrand tten fl "" """^ '^ P"' 
 
t::'ii, i<(.iiniMi 
 
 24d 
 
 1^ '-' 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 -'^SV^?' 
 
 " Adon'^ like this," said Prank. 
 * V \ do. said Clive. 
 
 do. saidLfavid. ^ 
 
 \do- . said Bob. 
 
 Cnri/r' ''"°^^*!^ ocfortable iere," said 
 
 " I>id youy otice that scowl ? " said Bob 
 
 ^""'X saidCHve. 
 
 ' f' \ sai* David, h 
 
 '-*.TT«'.*?* ,. «^'d Frank. 
 
 Moses. I ve been expectin somethiii o' this 6ort." 
 nhJ ^'^'x,^"°^^ "" ^^""^' ^«^ fearof,l,eink 
 
 do r TH K ^'' "P ^"^ closed the rick t? 
 door. Then he resumed his seat. ^/ 
 
 Then they all put their heads together again. 
 This IS a bad place," said Frank! 
 / ^^- said Clive. 
 
 / do. said David. 
 
 / ^^ , do. said Bob. 
 
 "I distrust them alf," said Clive. J 
 
 do. said Frank. *' ' ^ 
 
 do. gaid David, 
 
 do. said Bob. :" i ' 
 
 I don t like the looks of ttiat ^re driver," said 
 yPcie Moses. " I blevflJ ig - ' ^^^ 
 
 tvy^yc^, - - 'y; "^gmmiriv o g^ tfaat the re 
 
 ^«^ a purpose, so^r^;;^^;'^ 
 
 here den." 
 
 ^^/i^j, ;JM ;.v;..-A 
 
 "^ 
 
 

 ^ 
 
 Vi5 I •• 
 / -V.I 
 
 - ,.nr'- 
 
 SUSHGIOUS APPEARANCES. 
 
 247 
 
 Hr wH?r' rr Lri '^-H !"*L»''« -•-a- 
 
 of all. Who was thQ^ 
 down was certain! 
 all pre-jirranged 
 men bfelow. Th _,, 
 " There are a dbz 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 , after all? That break- 
 'US. It might have been 
 ^ suspicions. Then the 
 
 manyofiheml 
 lem/' said Bob. 
 
 spd Frank. 
 
 «iaid David. 
 
 /said ChVe. 
 
 ««,-/n 'i' .? '^ ^ gatheriVhere altogether" 
 said Uncle Moses, "an it's m^ idee that^heyVe 
 come for no good. Didn^t Zou notice how they 
 stared^ at us wUh them ^Xked-looking eyes <J 
 
 ' ' ■ \ ' ' / ' ' ■■ ''' 
 
 " I wish we'^ gone on,'/said David. 
 
 ^^' \ I said Bob. ■ 
 
 do. .^,- ,7 said .Clive|fe / ' 
 
 ^^^ d°- '^ r saidFranC^ 
 
 «.-A^'', T' *^**'Tb^* we'd ort to hev doni" 
 said Unele Moses. ^Why didn't some on ye thii^k 
 
 ^rt:^r ^"^^*^-'<^ be W4ed," 
 
 nvV- '^r '^'''''^' "^^'^ And he paused, 
 all l^e ravm/distrafted I Me tired I Whylx'm ai^ 
 
 "]^!f^ a>fcket] a^though^th^r^^ 
 
 ilT r ""'^ '^'^' ^"^^^^' narverand sinnoc, 
 ^Wnall on ye put together." • 
 
 //^ 
 
 
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 m. 
 
 w ?■::■ 
 
 I'\ 
 
 a 
 
 
y,. 
 
 
 248 
 
 AMONG THE BRlQj^s. 
 
 At this little outburst fho l^« • , 
 
 . regretted that th J had It 7^ ""'^ °°*^^'°^' ^"t 
 ing on. , ^ ^^^ ""^^^ ^* ^east, proposed go- 
 
 " We're in a fix/' said ChVe. " 
 ^^ ' said Bob. 
 ^^- said Frank. 
 
 ' .do* ^^^^ ^avid. 
 
 - ^^* said Bob. 
 
 " It's ihl I ^^'^ ^^^ve. 
 
 Undo Mot; °''"°"'"' P'"- I ever see," said 
 
 "It'a too dart to leave now," said David. ' 
 do. ®^^^ ^^'ve. 
 
 do* ®^^^ ^ob- ' 
 
 "Yes,anc| they'd an be arC'^'f 
 
 Theyreth,^orstsortofbriganda,"«SJdBob. 
 
 do. ' «aid Frank. -^ 
 
 do. Bai4 David. 
 
 "Y^, reff'Iar hW^fi,- . said Clive. 
 
 JJncIeMose/'''^^^^^^^-^*^ miscreants," said 
 
 "mdoorhas no lock," said Frank. 
 
 ,% said David-j^ ^ • . 
 
 ^^^ ^--^ oaid Co b. ' 
 
 Jjt 
 
 ^oT 
 
 ^ 
 
 said Clive. 
 
 ■iiaS*.&r.'.i..., 
 
i nothing, but 
 proposed go- 
 
 ^ncle Moses. 
 
 ■ see," said 
 
 vid. 
 ve. 
 
 b. t; . " 
 
 nk. 
 
 fore we'd 
 
 su3Pieioua appearances. 
 
 ^ — -ri-EABANCES. 249 
 
 "O, yes, it's a ree-'lnr f^« ^ 
 
 «ure," said Uncle Zis «T' '? T''*^ ^'" '^^ ''' 
 out of it." ^- ^ *^°^>' hope we']I get 
 
 ^ « That window's open, too," said David. 
 
 do* said Frank, 
 
 do* saidpiive. 
 
 "Yes nn+»,„ • ,. said Bob. 
 
 Mose! C^^^^^^ \-^ - iV'said Uncle 
 
 " ThL'li ! ^^'"''^ *« P"t agin it I " 
 
 . ^fa^^^jj^ come to-night," said CJive. 
 
 • /' ^ said Frank. 
 
 ° said Bob. 
 
 selves." ' ^''^®''^go* to preparour- 
 
 . "Wliat shall we 40?" said Frank. „ 
 ^*^- said Bob. /. 
 
 , °°- saidClive.^ ' 
 
 stances ? ^^^sX; is °^ '" "°'" *"« «~ 
 
 He closed it again. 
 Thenhawe^t«oeachoft,h.w.ndow„u. 
 
 =^^88fon7 
 
 He looked out of each. 
 Then he resumed his seat. 
 
 -»ttCi~ 
 
 i"!2|Al'f|<-,^'rf','. %,. . ,' 
 
 
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 i'jAi. 
 
250 
 
 %* 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGAND^. 
 
 J^^fValr- asked tinoie Moses, in an i„,„i„.„g 
 under the end windlw" ' "'"''' ^'^'^P^^^. just 
 
 - wk;ra:o„:trhef:-:r' -^ *wan 
 
 "It's a solemn time I - '^ ''''™<'^' ''''<=«s. 
 
 *':e%*::Lr;ra;s:tTt^^ "^ '^--^ 
 
 remark. ^^^^"^ *o ^ucle Moses' 
 
 ^^At^ length, after a sHence of some time, F.„; 
 
 P«' the largest tar^ie^'^'^''" 
 opens inside : if th^ h.^ . ^i^'n^t the door. It 
 
 be opened." ' ^'^^'^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^t it, it can't 
 
 ;^' But the windows," said Clive 
 
 And now they M set ZT,' '=°f<'«P"y- 
 "aking^repa™^;': fo ho nij^t't '" ^"'"^ 
 t'ons consisted in making It '' P'^P*™" 
 ahouM offer resistance to ,h ""'"'" *'"■="• 
 bloody-minded, mn de rous h H T"""' "^ '^'' 
 ■•ng, and diabo ieal br Ss ^^f "''T*"'' "">^'- 
 
 ^ the bedstead; Z Z^ T" '*"'• . «■« 
 " "*' '»W. ponderous, olifash. 
 
 iV. 
 
«iU 
 
 ' an inquiring 
 
 I Frank; "but 
 whispers, just 
 
 and thej all 
 earnest faces. 
 Uncle Moses, 
 
 ^ut by their 
 ^ucle Moses' 
 
 time, Frank 
 
 ?/' said he, 
 ^ idea is, to 
 e door. It 
 ' it, it can't 
 
 wi^dow8, 
 sntly. 
 
 ly to work 
 h prepara- 
 de which 
 ;8 of the 
 'd, scowl- 
 ^nk's sug. 
 
 m 
 
 rsi. 
 
 One 
 oldVash- 
 
 BARRICADES. 
 
 251 
 
 loned, and seemed* canahlA ;^ i 
 
 doorway, of withstaS 11^^? '^T' « 
 
 cannon ball ThU ,^ "s.^yning less than a 
 
 bodily f J^hl*^ tT; ;:r'r\''-'*'"« " 
 
 fast against tlie door Th„ ^T'^ " ''"'^ """l 
 -the highest dtJCto'ailTrr^ ^'"'^^'■"^ 
 
 seareronTInr:::;"!:- '-P-t'the roo», to 
 invasion. As to Ih! S' "* "" *" ^"a'-d against 
 their heigl^VoV the^ "^' *'"^ »'«'»e''rthat 
 
 one Who might be ab ovl F^TTT' '" "^^ 
 
 an too. thi:rn r iS :a'xfg& "^^ 
 
 opening into the attic Th^ <"|deme«th the 
 Porhaps, a trifle more e'cur?^^"^ . ^« ''''• 
 to close up the daT ^ ^ ''*'^ ''««'' able 
 
 removal of^the stenll:""""* "^^"^ '"" «>« 
 j -^doingthe^af lTT'^ -?"-». and 
 
 =5f 
 
 ay. 
 
 TOr^acfi fron, an^ possible 
 
 quarter. 
 Frank drew 
 
 attnieana 
 enemy in that 
 
 a long breath of relief a« he look^ 
 
 .■\:MiM0i:fA: 
 
 M- 
 
 lih&a)4i-'iiJlf¥»^t* 
 
#^,: 
 
 '^ 
 
 252 
 
 
 AMONG THE BBIGAND8. 
 
 
 placency, .and to the annrl '*'' "J"*' <"""- 
 
 . deteons «enae of seclitj ' ""' '"'="<'«'»«'' » 
 
 - • ^«'^e«»featla«t,"sa,dCl*e 
 _ ^°- said Bob. 
 
 , ; :^^<>- said David. . 
 
 ' "Tfc. k °',. said Frank. -- ' 
 
 i"« an»y of them bldv-L,,,!'", -"^^ "'"' ''^'^ "^ 
 /hem oifall right, and b^molnt th mT''' "«"" ' 
 / wagons passin by, an JZn , .^ f ™ " ''* '<^'« °f 
 ^0 go, let's see wh "t weepL^l •"""• ^'" ''««>™ ' 
 «a«e o' need. It's riluT ^ ? "*" "kearupJn 
 h^y.„ alius best to have things 
 
 " Well," said Prank "I'm 
 "othing but a knife ■ " Ld " """Z ^ '"^ I'^« got 
 
 « ordinary jaokknk,„l7a;"r.'''^.''''^'''''^«<> 
 not particularly sharp.' " u ^"'"'"'f 'a-'go, aud 
 
 io opened it, and flourished 7- T.""*"' ""''' ''«'a» 
 something." """shed it ,n the air, « but it's 
 
 " Well," said Clive « T i. , 
 
 ""'.I've heard tL\herernor *^*'''''^''''^<'-- 
 ohair, if you ^„t . .. "^ » nothing equal to a 
 
 M take this,7nd knorr'"'' \'""-^'''' '" """I «o ^ 
 ttat shows hi; noseS JT '"^t '""' '•"gand 
 «* oh air from the flooV f " j !1_''° ■"■'^. «■.». he lifted 
 
 "^^^^^^^^^'SSr'iand 
 
 Sil/'^f ^ \».i . ^ 
 
■t^j-n 
 
 3ouId be done. 
 ^ equal^ com- 
 » which they 
 succeeded a 
 
 ^©'re jest, as 
 > can defy a 
 reants, fight 
 •i be lots of 
 But before < 
 *kear up in 
 ive things 
 
 ^y I've got 
 
 displayed 
 
 Jarge, and 
 
 3aid he, as 
 
 " but it's 
 
 to 
 
 I a knife; 
 ual to a 
 ; and so 
 brigand 
 he lifted 
 airi ~" 
 
 J, "and 
 
 
 
 WEAPONS OP THE GARBISON. ■. , 353 
 
 > don't see the necfiasif tr «<• 
 
 - how we.e ;^r.^b"/ir 'if ^ ''"''i 
 
 . " Well,"> said Bob «rv' *^'^°''" 
 
 "Wal," said Uncle Mo8ea'«T'„. i 
 .t's pooty i,g,y weepin r he handf / "^"' "" 
 ".an -a desprit ngfy^^^X" " """«' 
 
 And now let's go to bed," said David 
 ^°- . said Bob. 
 
 ■ ^°' eaidCIive. 
 
 ^ "Yes, boys, that's , bout thetifr*- 
 
 do," said Uncle Moses, decisivd^;'' """« """^ 
 
 f'i •"", 
 
 >i§i. 
 
 4^ 
 
 II&S. 
 
 ^jihAJi>a>^,, .1.-,. . Zi,^....;^ ■ '■^JtA-'^ »■« 
 
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 I^^APTER XXIII. 
 
 ^.-^^^l-^s^L 
 
 
 7%tf /(jjp 
 £c^rs.- Omet of, he Brigands! "~ l ^'"""S 
 
 eSK^ ^oy a" went to bed. '■ . i . 
 
 ' alltif i:\r "" "-fi''™- -liich they 
 
 danger remaih^d t It " ^^'f'^^' ' "•«"»^** "f 
 to create alarm with th. « < *"^ ""^ ''^ t'""" 
 
 W^ at this «metha„ to^'etrr'T'" 
 been that this was his nat„r» I -f "''^ ''*^« 
 that his nerves wer« ' ' " "^^ '^^ ^'^^^ 
 tremendous adten Itl! JTJ!. ^.f^''!- --e his 
 
 n« 
 
 *«^ , — ^*" "wre sene 
 tremendous adventures during the 
 
 naar P^stum ; but whatever was 
 
 awake ^jncapable of sleep-, i 
 ^,'^««a|""g the sleep ofthi 
 ,*le afflTFrank/^ad the same b« 
 
 tad been placed in such a wfv th 
 
 % '- 
 
 of horror 
 se, cer-' 
 
 led wide 
 the othert 
 ht. 
 
 was the 
 
 oor. It 
 lead of 
 
 • '>. 
 
 'JiJBi*«' *^^^^-s. t' H\^ ^^*' -V*,t ' -'14*» 
 
W::m 
 
 % 
 
 M- f- The low 
 Tk^ Garrison 
 ^e feleaguered 
 — The Scaling 
 
 which they 
 )r^caution8, 
 thought of 
 ne of them 
 >n of Bob. 
 ore excita- 
 may Iiave 
 have been 
 since his 
 of horror • 
 puse, cer-' 
 ped wide 
 ;he otherii 
 ,t. . 
 t wad the 
 
 foor. It 
 f^ead of 
 
 
 V,,. 
 
 . ■ SLEEPLESS WATCH. ^ £55 
 
 occupied'by David and CHv« I t '""'' ""^ 
 ^d disposed of tberete^;''" ", ^''^ ""^ "^^^ ' 
 
 soon fei, ::[:«;'■ tbTs:"- 't°""°^' '"^^ 
 
 He fnpri oii k f'oiie»i^maiijed awake. 
 
 •ooL J^;^;rtd^"rt„-^ :;;^-ands. He 
 
 He L^C W^^^"^ '^''^^ *■" »'-P • 
 rollinffl,^ Th^, '&*? "g'""' ^""^''''« ''"''» of 
 
 mif > . ^- ^'"**'90w^aau8eles8. 
 
 «ien he tripd another Be «„;i«. j a • 
 
 ^/v 
 
 m e thod flL 
 
 Wavi 
 
 / 
 
 gram, 
 idiers. 
 
 
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 ■■"".'■'"'"'^ws-. ^'■^.■■■;: 
 
 / 
 
 256 
 
 AMONG THE PBIGANDS. 
 
 J 
 
 Funerals. 
 
 ' A shore covered with sea-weed. 
 An illimitable ibrest. 
 A ditto prairie. 
 The vault of heaven. 
 
 The ^ wide, shoreless ocean: 
 A cataract. . 
 
 Fireworks. 
 The stars. '^■ 
 A burning forest. 
 Looking at his nose. 
 Wishing himself asleep. 
 Rubbing his forehead. 
 Lying on his back. .. 
 ^0: do. right side, 
 do. do. leftside. 
 '. ^o. (Jo, face. 
 
 they were all equally u^f ^" '*"'"" *''** 
 
 «af onM'''r*", ? '■" ''^^P"^^' •""! """6 "P he 
 sat on the srde of the hfirl wrifk u* /• , © "P "" 
 
 d.wn, and looted around ' ^^t d^glmg 
 
 The moon had risen, and was sUninir' into thi. 
 
 ^-^cotstrr-X^ef::^^^^ 
 
 '4^ 
 
 fe^ie^PThye^sepuIchrai dron. fS^ef 
 In sp.ta of h« vexation- abou^ hi. wakel^e.Va 
 
 . * 
 
 v5it''-Wi<N ?-' ■' 1 
 
/ '• 
 
 , * 
 
 *^ 
 
 ods, which * 
 reason that 
 
 sing up he 
 t dangling 
 
 MTSTERIOUS STEPS. 
 
 257 
 smile passed oyer Rni < 'i 
 
 those astomshi«g voices of 7' ^}^ ''''tenodto 
 
 Suddenly a sound caul, h '"^'^• 
 "'■•acted Lis Wtenln and , ' T' '^'"■'"' ''* »°«e. 
 'n^anotl,er direction^ ' '""'<' ''" •"■« th<«.ghts 
 
 front :;ut:::if/-''"'pi™".ediatei, in • 
 
 Ho- much ti^o haC Tr"^/' "" "--^y 
 i!-^ felt Bure that it S^ 'T, "^'^ ""' "^"o- J b»t 
 
 noj perceived that there we™ '"*"'^''*- ^e 
 "'ho, had not gone to I ^"""^ '» the house 
 
 «h"ffl.-ng and irregn,!?!'- ..^'"/-tsteps Vere 
 
 r-^ trying to wtik ;,tl .ff .-'""'^ "^"P'^ 
 
 The sound attracted Bob T . *""« '^ ""'^e- 
 -him. ^»b, and greatly excited 
 
 Jn addition to ihr. r . 
 , -"nds. There we : [r,''"^ "">" ^^^ »ther 
 .. .n a subdued tone, anVhe ^J "."7"" "^ ^-"«« 
 !;« "t least a haJf a dLen wh ^ ""' "'«'^ "">«' 
 ■' To this noise Bob sat list ",''"'/''"' """^ '^"^'"g- 
 
 '«™a.-«^ in the same Ze±f '"""^ '™«- " ^'^ 
 ""I'ke nothing out of it b '; > "°"™<' '"<' «<>»><» 
 £l the fears of briwl . l'"'"'''^'' '" '«»-akon 
 
 ■ w The ^^ent w "" T'^'"^""* ^''^"^ ^elow 
 
 ^'s excit^ent 
 
 Witlking with tfi^ 
 
 / 
 
 17. 
 
 increa^d. 
 
 
\ i •* 
 
 
 / • 
 
 ''^■. 
 
 'M 
 
 ^MONG THE BRjCGANDS. 
 
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 . At last he heird tTie BountJs more'plainly ■ 
 They were evidently at the foot of .he stairvvay. 
 Bob hs ened m increasing excitement: H» 
 Then, there came a creaking sound. It was 
 from tl,e stairway. They were ascending, it, 
 
 I, waft.' ^"^ 01- waking Frank, but decided to 
 
 m The sounds draw nearer. There must have 
 jbeen e.x or seve* men upon the staifcay, and 
 they were walking up. ^^ 
 
 ,. What for? 41 
 
 V HeMd no doubt what it was for, ^nd'^ he waited 
 know,ng that they were coming to this room in' 
 which he was,,^ -'-^j, 
 
 _They triefl. t* walk softly. ThJre wew low 
 I^'wCary "' *"''"^' "^^^ ceased, as tteT 
 Neafer and nearer 1 . - . t / 
 
 Ai1^bknew|totthey%re outside of/the "' 
 door, an*as he 8at^)rt llje Ud, l,o kn«* thSt &re * 
 
 could^ot be .mor, thjglfc^d o'f distanorUtween 
 r rJ "^ "|4woody.,pinded, beetle-browed^ 
 ru^less^ ,demo.a| agd fiendish a,rig.„ds. 
 
 J,s^tldod r.f oolTinW veins at the. ver, 
 , He did not dare to move. He sat riVid, with 
 
 rf,irr„;" «■"""-■ "'-^-^^^o" the 
 
 Then -came sTslight creaking sound -the sound 
 of a preaSBre agjinst the door, which yielded 
 
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THE LOW WSrsPEBa. 
 
 25d 
 
 ?"^Zr'^:' 'y ">« w, Hed fro, 
 
 They were trvin ' J'j*^''" """'■•-takabje soipd 
 
 •«'««?, and- they wisld 7„ '"" ''"'"">» were all 
 -;o acco,„p„.,^,,::X^-e n „o,-,„,e.i,, .„ 
 JPora mompnf ;♦ ^ errand. „ 
 
 -m anguish ine^press/ble tt 1^ "'°"^'>* e"*-' ' 
 ' was not 80. Then he ;!n , 1°°" '^^'^ 'hat 
 f t''« door from the baffled l,H 1-" '"'"«« P"'''' 
 f '^ey would drop aTatteT,"'''- ^' "'""Sht- 
 •'"^nopen attack """'' "' ^«'="<=y, and 
 •But they did not do 80. 
 
 ">S, 88 yet, to resort tl ^'- '^^ "'«'"« "» 
 Wished to «ffe„t ;^^ ' '° ""'V violence. |_ 
 
 ]" - ence. Such weVe Brb'''T '" '''"'^^ 
 tho,iht8 were 8treng,henfd 1''°"^'"'' >^'"<'t 
 slowlyaove away and H /' '"' ^^""^ 'hem 
 
 W'th^ whioh^ they' J^^1^''^LJ.J?A 
 ^Ji^e. are going to try the Windows,/ thought 
 
 «^««P. He determined fn "^^^ "° ^''"^ ^r 
 
 «« iaid his hand rF^^n:^ff - 
 
 cranks forehead, ind shook 
 
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 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 
 , his head. Then, bending down close to him, ho 
 hissed in his ear, -^ " ' \ 
 
 " Wake 1 wake I Brigands 1 Don't speak I don't 
 speak! silence I" . \ 
 
 Frank was a light sleeper, and a quick-witted ^ 
 lad, who always •retained his presence of mind. 
 At Bob's cry he became wide awake, and without 
 a singjie word sat up in bed and listened. 
 AH was still. 
 
 " What's the matter ? "he asked. 
 Bob told him all in a few words. 
 Upon this Frank got up, stole noiselessly to the 
 / Window on tiptoe, and listened. Bob followed. 
 As they stood close to the window, they heard the 
 sound of murmuring voices immediately beneath. 
 Several of the panes of glass were out of tlii^ 
 window, so that the voices were perfoctlyaudiWp '' 
 though of course their ignorance of the langu^e 
 prevented them from understanding what was saii 
 As they listened, there arose a movement among 
 them. The voices grew louder. The men were 
 evidently walking out of the house. The listeners 
 heard the sound of their footsteps on the ground 
 as thoy walked away, and at a little ^distance off 
 they noticed that the voices babame more free and 
 unrestrained. 
 "They'll be back again," said Frank. " \ 
 " Lfil'a wak o tho otho r o," suitl Bob. 
 
 Upon this suggestion they both proceeded at 
 once to act, waking them carefuUj^, and cautioning 
 
 
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 agamst noise were so earnest, that nota word was 
 spoken above a whisper; but Clive and David, and 
 finally Uncle Moses, stepped out upon the floor and 
 th^^whole |,art| proceeded; to put theirhU 
 
 " I've got a chair," said Ch've. 
 
 " I've got a knife," gaid Frank. 
 
 "I've got a chair," said Bob. ■ 
 
 M've got a knife," said David. 
 
 "An I've got my razor, which I shoved under 
 my pdlow," s.d Uncle Moses; "an «o let em come 
 on. But where are they now?" • 
 
 Frln^"'*'*'*'*'"'''*'''*'"'"'*'-^^'-^'' ' " ^^ 
 
 from Without the sound of footstep, approaching 
 the house, and of low voices. ^ 
 
 "They're coming back again," said Bob. • ' 
 , Ihe rest listened. 
 ^ Jrank stole to the window and looked cautiously 
 
 fnn^J*" "r'^e'^^^'V plainly the figures of 
 Wse . i'^ -^«W4.'ug from the «»d to the 
 house, and the«r were carrying a ladder. The 
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 ladder had never entered his head at aU. Yet he 
 now stw tl^t this WS3 one of the mofl>»mj5e 
 
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 He came back and told the others. All felt thi, 
 same d>smay which Frank had felt. Non" of hit 
 :Mui_a word,„but they all stole „p /t" wtS 
 and oobng out they saw for thebselves ^' 
 
 i he brigands approached the house/ carrvm^ 
 
 ge«d «,"" "" '^'•'■^^■"'-eathen-nff -lo«e to- 
 
 dri:d:::peVfiv'^„:f'-;'''^'r^'"^^'-'' 
 
 . whisper. *' sa,d, word, not even a 
 
 ■ Wed'bTaT"'™ ?*""'^ th"^ brigands was fol- 
 S „'•":?!,?! °" "'± P-' .-"-» brought 
 
 .*ings nearer to a climax Th '^ . , ""'''"S'" 
 
 once more »„. 1! ."'„'•_.. ^bey raised Ae ladder 
 
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 once more, and moving it I 1, t e f ,C aTJ . 
 , they proceeded to n,.t ;t' ■ '""^ aw^, . 
 
 i TP,„ 1 jj P ' " 'JP agairtst the housS . 
 
 '. The ladder w,s put up at the fquth «nd of tht ■ 
 
 house, and as it was being carried there fSAh 
 
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 Frank his knife. ^ 
 
 Bob his' chair. " ' ^ 
 
 David his knife. 
 
 Uncle Moses his razoir. - i 
 
 " Be ready; boys," said Uncle Moses, in a firm' 
 voice, as l,e grasped his razor. "The honr S^ 
 . come, and the decisive moment air at hand I" 
 
 .rept It tevlr" " '''"''''' ^"'^ *"'= "^"^^ ^"^ - 
 ■» «nf It ""^'*'""'*'' "neamvhile elevated the ladder 
 
 ^^^ . thri!. ^, •"''" '"'" " "'«" '» the hearts of 
 
 ■' • the br^ r' '•" '"'^ ™'""- ^^ "-y -- on« of 
 .the brgands seize the ladder in order to monnt 
 
 l^they all involuntarily shrank back oneTtep "'' 
 
 ■in a wh'S.:' ^'"'""": "' -"^^ ''^■'^' ^-pfe. 
 
 .: This remark encourkged- the# for a moment ' 
 
 • ■ tt^m'S!"!^ *5 '•T'^ '""^ ^™'"' that announced 
 
 _»,«.em»sjfcey stepped in through the window.- * 
 .^, V°^ brigand! 
 
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 experienced at seeing that" the attack waf' n^ ' , 
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 hare overhead. 1^1 h^jehwly wL open tL"*'! 
 that .^nmg t„ey conld drop'do^Trb/ot"^" 
 The same thought came to all nf ih T * 
 
 4 one common i„,^,3e ZXlf'^Z"^'' :'''' 
 : the step-ladder lay on the^o^^ffi^^ 
 |4.^^*«»' first , the other, Mo^eP ^' '^'^ 
 
 rmt, frank, with his fcnifei 
 
 Second, Bob, with his chair. ' : 
 
 ^ Third Clive, with his chair.. . 1 
 
 K^th, David with his knife. .... ,. 
 
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 The brigands bad lighted a lamp I ' 
 
 The excitement grew stronger. ,, 
 
 The suspense was terrible i 
 
 that surrender wonld W \ , ^ ^"^ "?' '•''"t 
 
 , minded- AiscrearwouIdTh "^^-yoody- 
 
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 them_of sdlinr-t^L if *?''' ^Posed upon 
 
 An<f-so1t waS*as thrbriI';"'lS P°^^'"- 
 the opening, L ''"^anda can* nearer to , 
 
 • "^nlt grasped hia knife „orefi4dy:.;, -,' 
 ^ <^o- " chiir d„ ■ -^' 
 
 David ^. •'\^t. -' :- 
 
 While trace Mftqpo i,„ij 1 . . ' - 
 
 -way, that the fiSn-«^nd l*" r "'"il ^"°^'»-^^ 
 ^ an full u,^pn its k3;e "^''■^*"^"''*^ «'•»>)•<• 
 
 .were immediately aboL .1, m.- ^ bnggnds ,,• 
 
 down into the room ' """■ ^''^'''«''t ^^one : 
 
 ; " "^'^'^^^ crMn. a M strong, stern, '' 
 
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 "Who's rHEEE?"pri.,i p i *' 
 
 loader, sti-onger L/Z ^T •"''^"^^ *i»e, in a 
 No answer ' ^"^ ?*"« "^^'^g voio^ 
 
 -A.1I was still. «» 
 Wliat did it mean ? 
 " WHO'S THERr? n • ^ T, 
 ^ in the loudest, sttnLr:! ^-"^ a third tiu^o, 
 «oi„g tone tha hTeS "'''''"^"^^«*«^-n- 
 TLL FIRE ! f f j j , , j '"n '""^P"^^' " ^PEAK, QR 
 
 This tremendous thrpaf ^^ li ^ '■ 
 
 carried out, of course „U,^ t ,e In"' 'T •'^^" ' 
 ja^or of thi part^ below h,,^ ?'' "'""'•'' ""^ 
 brought a reply. ' ■"" *' ""^ mte it 
 
 " Alia raight ! " crip,! „ • 
 
 . onalee me. Alia safe r"'™-."^'^'"'''- I''« 
 .'traps for de vettum I^r "","'""' ^et some ' 
 
 instantaneous and iLli ?. ""™ '^^^ «° 
 The dark terror of T^Cnt bef'"" "' ^"'"'"e- 
 fransformod to an absrat^' TwZ'r"''^"'' 
 
 • - « *^'*'' HUietiy upon the floor : 
 
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 , ^ND OF TROUBLES. . 287 
 
 O I "said Frank, trying to Rn»»t • ' • ' 
 careless 4;terK>t:,act Ll "-Te 'l.rV"^' 
 Shall we I^ave in ihe morning »" ^" ' '''"'«'• 
 
 . " O, yais Alia r-r-raieht " saM .1 j • 
 
 . remark whatever Thev " n "' "■*"*« "» ^ 
 
 rather sheepishly back T. ,. ■ T^' "'''"'">'' »"<! ''^ 
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 found a-»ood Zlu ,^ "''"''^'^ refreshed, and 
 fc^n^'i:- ■ "reakfaat waiting foF*h.™ ^1 
 ftrand ahtonother carriage in ti!-^ ^^^^ 
 
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 AMONG THE BRIgInDS. 
 
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 CHAPTER XXI7. 
 
 olog) versus Appe^^^Tln^^ f ''' ^'^^ - ^rchl 
 ranean Channel. '^'^ ^^^^i^nt subter- 
 
 onn shone ^ri,Ulyfror,TLliTZ'V ^'s 
 was pure, and brilliant, and ZZ aM -r f '^A 
 had such a wonderful t,n„ «*""*'' "nd 'I also \ 
 
 objects seemed -t t^L rer err/' T- ***"' 
 with which their o,„ "'® distinctness 
 
 /road was amj ifi^ ":i ""^ 'r"*"' "^"^ 
 ^well g«ded,^tnrtho„7f~ rf' "?" ^''■ 
 steadily ascending vet fhl » T "''^' " '™» ' 
 swh an ^asy slope' hat it '^°""*,'^''^ """I* hy 
 b.e ; and^ CCwlTd' 1'^ r ITa^ '" 
 "■emiy as If on level ground C ^ ^ ,*" 
 scenery around «»s of thf ^ , *'"'«<"'«'•. "» 
 agter. Thev ^.^ f "" T^^ "tractive char- 
 
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 ', they were 
 ti ta Rome ! 
 8 day; the 
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 ind it also \ 
 iat cjist^nt 
 istinctness 
 lied. The 
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 made by 
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 ON TO ROME. 
 
 269 
 
 lofty peaks lost amid the clouds, still the lowering 
 " forms tjiat appeared on every side were full of 
 grandeur and sublimity. Amid these the road 
 wound, and at every new turn some fresh scene 
 ^f beauty or of magnificence was disclosed to their 
 Admiring eyes, Novv it was a sequestered valley, 
 with a streamlet running through it, and the green 
 of its surface divocsified by orle or "two white cot- 
 tages, or the darker hue of olive groves and vine- 
 yards ; ag^in it Was some little hamlet far up the 
 sloping mountain-side ; Again some mouldering- 
 tower would appear, perched upon some command- 
 ing and almost inaccessible emintfttye — the re- 
 mains of a feudal castle, the monurn^^of lawless 
 power overthrown forever, Sometimes they would 
 pass through 4he Itreet'of a town, ahd have a 
 fresh opportunity of contrasting |;he Ij^zy and, easy- 
 going life of Italy with the busy, energetic, >rest- 
 iess, and stirring life of the'r own far-distant 
 America. ^ * i , 
 
 Oij to Rome! 
 
 Tffls day was to>nd tfiem in the " ^rlial City ;" 
 
 >and though thejr enjoyed the drive, still they were, 
 eager to have jt oter, and to find themselves in 
 that place which Was once the centre of tlie World's ;: 
 rule, and continued to be so fjMLjQ ma# ages.^ 
 Their impatience to* reach tl JiMfe stination waa 
 
 not, however, excessive, and diME^l all |)revent 
 then! from enjoying to the utm3|^ ^ journey sa 
 loag as it lasted. Uncle Moses ^aS*li&.qnly ex- 
 
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 --l. so^e p,::: 7:^ -«- '» <.»<« .-t „ve, a»d 
 
 happened^ but he had /nn„ h'""' "" """"''^"t 'wd 
 '»'»». both in bo^TSV °T''""''Shlnbn. 
 -"king „,ater,al for tf do."""' ' ""■"»'-''' ".« 
 •"d-^nts indeed; and the '^r" /""^ "'"'"'' ««■ 
 «Pon hin, waa ^recisej Xt": i .m'"' P'"""-'' 
 frorn^ really Perilous jCn^ '"'^'" ''"^^ ^-^^-Ited 
 
 ■i* length they arrived rff i^ 
 
 H they .-..tended to Ivwl'" """P "^ ^'b-o, 
 
 "^-ds re.un,e their „,ne? tT f°""' """^ 
 ' "deof 3 hill and trY'. . ^i'"'"" «tood 
 
 -, "P -as so situated tl, ^*!' ^' rhieh they 
 boundless view *''*' " eo^imanded a 
 
 ^'^I^'S^lir^:;:;-- 'oca, iide than 
 '«»« " place, than Alba L^f; ""I *°'^» -'"' "o 
 Ko^an legends; for thorn! t '° 'T"' ?° "^arly 
 aooount Tullus Hosti, u fc:' 5 '°^ "^ 
 
 aocounts, Tullus Host it !,X''"°'''''"e *» I'he old 
 
 «^ of Alba^onga; 3^ " ftl? T'' *''« "*^ P^oP" 
 e'f^ on. its ,if,; ,^,, ^"^'•"'ards anothe,J, Ln 
 
 , !P^"d'd villas of ihXit?"^ "'^ "P «■» 
 / '^'''«"« and Domitian Tad "°''''''^- ^«4 .o«, 
 
THE MEDITERBA'NEAN.^fc 271 
 
 «op of the' hill. He informed them Cit stood en 
 the site of n famous temple, and thA it was visited 
 eve,y day by large numbers of travellers. On 
 ;f;"''g *<> th^ir guide-book, the boys learned 
 
 As they had nkhing else to do, they set out for 
 the convent, and soon reached it. Arriving there ' 
 they found spread out befor^ them a view which 
 Burpassed anything that they had ever seen in 
 their lives. Par down beneath them descended 
 ■ u2v ""'o "' *f"»»'*" hill, till it ..rminaLd t 
 the Roman>mpagna. Then, far away before their ■ 
 eyes^it spread for many a mile, till it was termi- ^ 
 mted by along blue line, which it needed not thl 
 explanation of the monk at their elbow toTec g! 
 nize as the Mediterranean; ^ this blue li'ne S 
 d Stan sea spread far away, till it terminated in a 
 
 was the, Cape of.Terracina. But their attention ' 
 
 z:^'V' "v'r' ^"■•''" -^ --" -" 
 
 gray hue the resultTof waste and barrenness 
 seemed also to mark its hoary age, - through tiS ' 
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 »d ,0, now coming full into view, and deam- 
 
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 now had grown slightlXv k « 7^"" •""*' 
 
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 feel at all s„re about it " ' ''"' ''"«'' »"' 
 
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 can see it aJI plain " *'°^® ^'® 
 
 «n-e!t;^g :;^rscer":r "''*-'•■•'' 
 
 might have .tirred the sou s of even TT "'"''"' 
 
 4{t e i jt dri e d. Past Th^o^ -" ' "^«>imacted with 
 
 .. • * 
 
 f4". 
 

 \ 
 
 
 
 listoric name, 
 
 1 them. The' 
 
 around that 
 
 in a dark, ir- 
 osphere jiwt 
 direction,^ 80 
 8 was, exact- 
 own ; but it 
 ilarities and 
 es- Promi- 
 arger mass, 
 formed the 
 
 t hesitating 
 It does not 
 
 S' and dat 
 
 ch of St. 
 
 time we 
 
 stood ip 
 >ne which 
 east emo- 
 ere were 
 to enthu- 
 
 'd Clive, 
 now felt 
 
 EITHC8IAS1. OP THE Bom ~ 278 
 himself profoundly moved bv *l,;. . . 
 
 David's enthusiasm was Ihat „r. ^ ■ "P^"**"'*- 
 was that of a poet- v^-„tl *'<='«''»'• ! CJive'g 
 
 ceptibility, and ;,oqfientt^' '''"">'''' »"»• 
 feelings. *'0"l»eM m the expression of his 
 
 asm of 'thi own tt ft^ ':' ^'''"'r^ ""'«'»- 
 very violently by dfher le^^ f"".* "'*"' ''"'''^ 
 reminiscences Th! '"""'''/^^•"'g or classical 
 mov^d theTrfeeCX;- J«f- '"em certainly 
 
 "How magnificent I" r^li m* 
 i^es.' eaid David, chiming in « o„oi, , . 
 
 trc-r^.ShXjr^^"^''"' -^^^ • 
 
 » whore the StvXi "" .°'''''"'*'°"- Hire 
 
 dowi there ;. ,1, SS and The consul.; „d 
 
 that lonXu" ^t"""' '^I'T **"' '■o-K''' "« 
 ages.'.!* ! ?" """god the conrs. of fotar. 
 
 * IN 
 
 
274 
 
 - J ■ 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 -rtel legend, that tof "::',' /"l;^ ''" "•« <- 
 of Borne. What a niZ « • ^"""'^ growth 
 
 Maca„V. wfo/A^'o-rnttjr- ^^ '» '^^ 
 
 " ^^'^ *o the great asylum I 
 ■ Hailtothehill-topseerenl 
 Hail to the fire that burns for aye I 
 And the shielda that fell from heaven • » 
 
 some silver watpr flock ;3 i *"® '^^^en of 
 
 .00 j;;!': ||:'' "» -^«^ »' the"u -it 
 
 ytisdeAWLake." 
 
 "The Alban Lake I" ori,>A n -j . 
 
 the .l^ke that the ^2n ^ ^" ^^^^ ' ^^^at, 
 VeiiT" ^°' ^'^'^^^ ^t the siege of 
 
 rj*^'^'Tf«^id the guide. 
 
 existence V^'' ' "' '' „*^^ ^^^^ - funnel stiil in 
 "It is." ' 
 " Is it far away ? " 
 ^' Not ve^ far." 
 "Boys, we must so therA n • xi. 
 
 But ho. ,ong wiU it taJ^e f: : !:iZ^:"''''''- 
 
 SSflt.JivKii .»'.,. . » ..i'"9 ■• 
 
THE ALBAN LAKE. 
 
 275 
 
 guide. "■■" "" "">- "» o- ^o„r," .aid the 
 
 th:tt:./dr^evr'';r^ ^^''"^- "^»'- 
 
 get our dinner. ItV r^„T„\ J° ^''"'' "* """^ *» 
 we must leave forij^^'' '^""^ ""^ ^"'^ '^en 
 
 «.S^::d\riiK :t^^^^^^ "^ 
 
 to see that wonderful tunnel " °"' ""^ "''""''. 
 
 tu:nils:„"r;v:^^"':-"*-V-.otforanthe 
 * "Nor should I," said Bob. 
 
 wirredVrtt-f/Sd'cr '^^f.'"- 
 
 • And „e„, A„.„„., ,.^^_^^ _j.^ 
 
 OfirirHUnn. "'® ''*"« where yon bar ™ 
 
 was tilled, the weary baM's delight.' '• 
 
 for'K fi:'?hr;:et" •;*' -^■'^^ p*'-% 
 
 x o«» ,^^„„^ ^^-eggtical^otatioB,-. you'tt - 
 rSr^^ Come where?" 
 Wh;., I .aut to visit the tunnel of th. Albaa ^ 
 
 
 S: 
 
 't^/Jitd'.'i>e'9r .■,. 
 
 ^;/^ 
 
 ••C" 
 
 »&>itt',w- ' ■ 'f ^ fc*?x » 1 '■ 
 
 -w'«....A,rt»*P *.«■ 
 
276 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGAND8. 
 
 ^ake, and it'JI take an hour tn rl. v t..- 
 ^ve'll lose our dinner What dn * ^^ ^' ^°' 
 don't think a dinner's the mf. ^'" '"^? ^«" 
 the world ? " ""^'^ important thing in 
 
 " Of course not," ' said Cli ve « Bp«J^. 
 P;ok up some scraps when we relurl ' T '" 
 them in the carriage!'' ' ' ^"""^ ®^<^ 
 
 - "That's right," said David. "Bovs" h« 
 
 t^nued appeahng to Frank and Bob "iju'd h T' 
 come." "' you'd better 
 
 "What I and lose our dinnprs?" • j t, 
 'comfully. .Catch „s at ," nI T' '^""'^' 
 more substantial fn^^ +1 ^^® require 
 
 I>on't we. Bob ? » ^^'" ^'^'^^ ^°^ ^^^ rnins. 
 
 ■ '; Certainly," said Bob. " For mv n. . 
 
 ™.« HoC and V- ,' \""' ^ <^™'' ''■'<"^. I'™ 
 
 awa, in sHeooe, a„S .poke to Z'^J^ '""«" 
 ^_^_^.o„^ not co.i„g.bao.tfdi:err. said 
 
 -i|^)favM7«wBwroTOseelh at tunnel." 
 ' ^™ 5 '»«« yo<"- dinner ; that's all." 
 
't. If we go, 
 )u say ? You 
 rtant thing in 
 
 sides, we can 
 urn, and eat 
 
 ys," he con- 
 you'd better 
 
 'ried Frank, 
 We require 
 ^ old rnins. 
 
 part poetry 
 
 'e. As for 
 
 farm,' why, 
 
 1 detested 
 
 whole lot 
 
 urn round 
 
 know, I'm 
 
 »er Horace 
 
 and ChVe 
 ^y turned 
 
 r 1 " said 
 
 i tunnel." 
 
 THE ALBAN LAKE? 
 
 277 
 
 " ^f course. We don't care "/ 
 
 tban we can hel" '"'"' ''Y'"-^ »'■"« ^^ere 
 
 Mo.s wU, fidget and lo:?aX;„r,""^""'« 
 
 O, no; It's all ri^ht T«iH • ^i . V 
 i« 'vith us; you know^' t™ "'"^ T ^^'de 
 
 After a few more words, Frink ani r1 v 
 
 truth, e,;l„;L'';^^ Teltirr"' *° '^"^*'>« 
 
 well as they were Tbiri! l "PP^^'*^^ »» 
 guide to the^Jke Albano ' T""''''"'' '"^'^ 
 
 AibtuUr brfo'n;"'';; "'«" ^'"' ^'-^ "^ *« 
 
 not hav^ heard i/ 1"^' "^ '^""' '''«' »»>' 
 
 of the famous tLr,.)lI'l ^ ^nef account 
 
 to CliveTnd David! ' ''•""' "^ '"'^'^ ""^-"je 
 
 The city of Veii had been besieged for n£ 
 
 years with out success, V the B.Zn„ T... i!! 
 
 in the sLare of th ''L'' " ^'"" P™"?'^^ ««"""«<!. 
 
 the^llTk??' ' ''"' "''"^ *"■ '•■« "»*«" of 
 Altan Lake to an extraordinary fceight, with- 
 
 \ 
 
 \' 
 
\ 
 
 t 
 
 278 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 DelDhi . ; '"'.'^°' » messenger to the oracle of 
 
 books in Veii, which declared t ,at VdrcouMT'"' 
 perish unless the waters nf tl,. aiu r °^^®'' 
 
 reach the sea. NoUol .ft i*"" ^"'"^ '^""^^ 
 
 retntned from DMm ^^. ^''"'*''* "'« mes8<jnKer 
 
 from the or^le if t J , ''"^''' """"^ "" -'"^- 
 Upon this ^1^.1' ^rolfd tr' f^'' 
 waters of the lake so J J?. ., '''''"'' ""^ "-e 
 
 Such «n unde ^king Z^J: "fT """ '" "'« '^-• 
 kind, especially in a^^ag! C th t 'iH ' p"™" 
 entered upon it, and worked aV it •.'.^'"''"' 
 traordinary tenapitv „"^°"'®<' "»' " «"th that ex-. 
 
 tinguishedtler If 1 ""'""""''"'' "''^V^ dis. 
 
 toroagh Coit^i~Ts 'oVtr r r' 
 
 possible description But T ^ '"""'^^«' 
 
 the excavation rfothef tor '"""' "^^ ''*'' ^^«° 
 larger than this and in ttT'" """'^^^ '^' 
 en,inently the Grotto of PosiliritT"^ "'^ 
 tM of the Cumasan Sibyl andaM .^?'''' '"'<* 
 complished. The peonle oJv • u"^^ " ""' «•=■ 
 WerefiUedwithaLr ! V " ''^*'"'^ "''"*. «nd 
 
 Rome,withrh:hir^i„,t';grr '^^^ ^^"* *" 
 
 to some other terms less seyer! fhan^r"" '" '"""' 
 of t he city ; bu t they werX^'t^d J r^ "'l^ 
 
 ™gtoihelegend,"co«id onl/S^' th^TT^ 
 By aiwounoinir to tl,„ p f^o^'ort themselves 
 
 fcyawouncini to'theB. ^ "°""^''' themselves 
 Hu ncmg to the Romans a prophecy in the 
 
 ■>.jSfi3wi.'.\*-?-,.i "'-''-t 
 
 
 t*- t.1i ^ ifjA 
 
... ,■ ^*. 
 
 "■^fW* ;r "'■".*^"i:i 
 
 ;^ '• 
 
 THE ALBAN LAKE. 
 
 lans, in their 
 the oracle of 
 ns messenger 
 le priest, wfio' 
 tain pracular 
 ' could never 
 Lake should 
 e messeng^er 
 5k an answer 
 same effect. 
 Iraw off the 
 V to the sea. 
 at laborious 
 the Romans 
 th tha,t ex-:» 
 always dis- 
 ut a tunnel 
 ihe hardest 
 e had seen 
 issages far 
 mtry, pre- 
 aples, and 
 it was ac- 
 of it, and 
 re sent to 
 ?8 to coniG 
 surrender 
 'd^sccor^'"^ 
 emselves 
 Jy in the 
 
 279 
 
 oracular boj)ks of Veii, to the effect that, if this 
 8i^ge should be carried through to the capture of 
 the city, Rome itself should be taken by the Gauls 
 soon after. This prophecy, however, had no effec 
 whatever upon the stern resolution of the Romans. 
 The subterranean passage tp the lake was also 
 ' «"PPlemented by another, which led to the citadel 
 or veil. As the. time approached for the final 
 assault, the Roman Senate invited all the Roman 
 
 fhZ f /''."'^P''' ''' ^^"^ P^?°^^««<J them a 
 ^^r.1 i.^'^'j- ™^ P^^'"^^^ ^"duced a vast 
 multitude, old and young, to go there. The time 
 at las came. The water of the Alban Lake was 
 Kout into the fields, and the party that entered 
 the subterranean passage t^e citadel were led 
 by Camin^^hile, at theme time, a generai 
 assault was made^on the walls bv the rest of the 
 army. At that moment tl^e king.of Veii happened 
 to be sacrificing m the Temple of Juno, which was 
 in t*ie citadel, and Camillus, with his Romans, were 
 immediately beneath, close enough to hear what 
 be said. It happened that the attendant priest 
 declared that whoever should bring the goddess 
 her shaare of the victim should conquer. Camillus 
 heard the words, and at once they burst forth upon 
 the astomshed Veientans, seized upon the alter 
 offered the, sacrifice, and thus perfor med wha t hi. j__ 
 ~W declarer to be the conditions of victoiy. 
 Afte^ this they held the ci^del, and sent a detach- 
 ment to open, the gates to the assaulting army 
 
 r, u^fcv*,"'!!!'-'' . "'i0. 
 
 ■^>'M*^«*>,-^ 
 
 t^j^ s^« #*ia*^A.^ ■. 
 
I ^V^ 
 
 \ 
 
 280 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 miles long, six feet Kir^l, *""' F^e«- It is about two 
 Fide. ^' ^* ^^^^' ^°^ ^^'^^ and a hajf feet 
 
 To this place the ffuide Ipri n. • j , 
 entertained them oft fei^'^^^-^'^.*'''' «''«.-<! 
 "ts origin, >»hich aocopH.Tl ^^ account of 
 
 -Xx«»t),hioL is 2en abo' '" Tl' P'''"''"''"-^ ""b 
 
 ?»pleasant to l,ear TLl tddT ''' " ""^ "»' 
 «> the neighborhood of T„ > ^^ °°^ "''<' "™J 
 J"-s life amW the fsc * ItTe '"'.'^' '"^-'' 
 
 ^;e^a certain degree o^an^e:-;^rttrofd 
 
 -sses.andg^sses.aldlrbriZrr'^r 
 •t Having seen it, they wars Jf- f7^ "°"°'' 
 
 «o 80 back to the hote^ Aft '^"'^''"'^ ""•»«<» 
 
 tte gu.de showed theL' wht^Ver: "' ''■■^'»"''«' 
 
 turmng off throng), tlie fi!ll I ."'" * P*"- 
 
 Bbort cut back. uL 1- !?' '^'"* *"-'ned a - 
 
 tn.«b.e, and he Jnt b^^'^"!^ ^' "'■« ^or hi* 
 
 ^e.wenta,o„gthepatht:^t\:S-:^ . 
 
 i0^'^'-J4^H^:f:--~ r;, ;-r^ ' * . 
 
 sl^l 
 
 
v. 
 
 'lie legend*, 
 
 riy Boman 
 h. 
 
 the chief 
 
 about two 
 
 half feet 
 
 ^Iive,ttnd 
 icount of 
 lars with 
 th of .the 
 was not 
 ho Jived 
 passed 
 them to 
 the old 
 
 ningin 
 '68, and 
 around 
 turned 
 stance, 
 » path 
 ned a /"« 
 ■or hi^ 
 while 
 ected 
 
 THE ^LO^/ELY PATH. 
 
 281 
 
 CHAEaiER XXV. . 
 
 Bay. ^ The Wild BeasfsJ^?^ J^'''^''y^-^* 
 great Bore/ Latr ! - What is Itf-A 
 
 to the hotel, went down a slope of the 
 
 hill into a vallev nnri i ^ 
 'hill, beyond which J^lXl ^h^^''- --"d 
 houses visible, for th. t^:iJ^mZZ 
 h.ll except, of course, the convert thlhVom 
 .t^mp,c„ous position, was ncver'ont o^'sST 
 A«ey descended into the valley thev c!L f • 
 
 smce deserted.. It was two stories in beiglft b„f 
 the stones were high, and it looked as tlfongh " 
 
 ^.4l m idf ^w]mt 4t^baat,een/^^3 ^ ^ 
 
 "No doubt," said ChVe «i/{« ♦», ^V*^- 
 med^val cas^e.^^ ' ' ^^^ '"^' ^^ ««°^« 
 
 ir%'s:» J/ , 
 
 ■J*. J, 
 
^- K^.-^^jjw^i^y^^-rw' 
 
 282 
 
 jlMONO THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 ^ 
 
 '-' It ddes not have.rnuch of the lo6k of a castle " 
 "Why not?" - ' ^ . • .' ■ ; 
 
 : " 0, why; there ate no architectural features in- 
 - it ; no battlaitients ; it has, in fact^ a. ratiier modern 
 air." . . 
 
 "Not a bit ofit," said Clive. «^ee those oW 
 
 stones grown over with moss ; and look at the." ivy.'' 
 
 "Yes, but look atr the windows.* They didn't 
 
 ^. haVe such large windows in castles, you know." " 
 • " Yes, btft these windows were probably made 
 afterwards; The place wa^ once a castle ; but at 
 length, of course it became deserted, and began to 
 
 . fall to ruins. Then somebody fixed it up for a 
 dweliing-house^^and made these windows in the 
 walls." ' , 
 
 " Well, that's not improbable." , • ^ 
 
 " Not improbable ! ^hy, I'm sure it's very nat- / 
 ural. Look how thick th« walls are ! " 
 " They do seem pretty thick." 
 J* 0, they are real castle walls ; there's no doubt 
 ^ at>Jl about that" said Clive, in a positive tone. 
 "Why, they are three feet thick, at lea&t. And, 
 _ you see, there are signs of an additional story 
 I having been above it." . 
 
 " Yes, I dare say," said David, looking up. *' The 
 edges there look ragged, as though .eome upper 
 portion has been knocked oflF." " f 
 
 „," And J daresay it's^b^a ^g r eat p l ace fotb rrs^ "' 
 ands," said Clive. / ® 
 
 "0, bother brigands/' said 'David. <'For my 
 
 Wi ■^ 
 
 %J. 
 
( ■■'. 
 
 
 A FEUDAL CASTLE. 
 
 283 
 
 - part^ begin to think, not only that there are no 
 brigands now, but eveti that 'there never havo 
 Deeti aQy such people at all." . 
 
 ^ *' Well, I won't go bo far as that," said Clive, 
 " but r certainly begin to have my ^oiibts about 
 them." ^ 
 
 " They're all humbugs," said DavicT^ 
 
 " All of our brigands have been total failures," 
 said Glive. « * 
 
 "Yes*," said David; "they all>turned ©ut to be 
 
 - the most amiable people in the world*' But come; 
 
 suppose we go inside, and explore this old ruin. 
 
 It may be something famous. I wish the guide 
 
 were bere." ^ - • - 
 
 ." 0, well look at."' it first all over, and then ask 
 at the hotel." '^ ', 
 
 "Yes, that's the way." ■ -, 
 
 " But have we time ? " 
 
 " 0, of courso ; it. won't take us five minutesi*,! 
 
 Upon this Clive started oft* for the ruined struc- 
 ture, followed by David. - 
 , Jt was, as hasl5een said, two stories in height. 
 In th© lower story ifag a small, narrow d<5or\Yay. 
 The door was gone. There were no windows, and 
 it was quite dark ih.side. ^it was about twelvB 
 'feet wide, and fifteen feet long.' At oae emi were 
 -Bome piles of^agotB hea ped toge ther. The height 
 was aT)out fifteen feet. Befofe them they saW aT 
 rude ladder, running up to the story above. Tts 
 feet rested near the back of the room. There was 
 
 ^- 
 
 I 
 I. 
 
 /■ " 
 
 * 
 
(> 
 
 284 
 
 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 no^floor to the house, but only the hard:packed 
 
 ■ ,Zt''' ^"'^"^ 'r" -d "-i<>. looking 
 " Lef s go into the upper story,'' said Clive 
 10 this proposal David assented quite readilv 
 and accord nelv thpv h^n, . " 4"«e readily ; 
 : towards thoi^«t ^r, *°'"'"^' »»<» ™lked 
 
 »pper stl; """"'""' ''^^ "^'* •» «>« 
 
 in front '*Tr "^''*' ^o"- '''-«-«- two windows 
 
 Mastered I ""' " """'' ^"^ ">« ^'^'b were 
 plastered. Fragments of straw lav abnnt ;„. 
 
 ^J^ wonder what all that can be for," ajked 
 
 "0, no doubt," said Clive « it's snmA ^f^u 
 sive wood-work of the old loe:» ' °' *"' "J'^C 
 
 It;, a waste of Lber.'^ """' "" """'" »'<»'•• 
 
 MplWiliiii iiiiiiiiliii li I -^itMH^s. >.,*if i. ^m. ^ ' w t^H c 'l> ^ £ayk 
 
A BARONIAL WINDMILL. 285 
 
 " 0, well, you know you mustn't expect the 
 .same ingenuity in an Italian builder that you would 
 -jn an American." , 
 
 " I don't know about that. Fhy not? Do you 
 mean ^ say that the Italians are inferior to the 
 . Amerft«sm architecture? Pooh, man ! in America 
 there 18 no architecture at all ; while here, in every 
 little town, they have some edifice that in America 
 would be considered something wonderful." 
 
 « 0, well, you know they are very clumsy in 
 practical matters, in spite of their artistic^uperi- 
 ority But apart from .that. I've just b^ri think- 
 ing that this is only a part oPsome large castle, 
 and this lumber work was, perhaps, once the main 
 support of a massive roof. So, after all, it would 
 have its use." 
 
 David said nothing for some time. He was 
 looking earnestly at the wood-work. 
 
 " I'll tell you what it is," said he, at last. " IVe 
 got It. It isn't a castle at all. It's a windmill." 
 
 A windmill I " exclaimed Clive, ^contemptuous- 
 ly. What nonsense 1 It's an old tower -the 
 Keep of some mediaeval castle." 
 
 Mt^ a windmill ! " persisted. David. « Look at . 
 that big beam. It's round. See in one corner 
 those projecting pieces. They were once part of 
 ^^^^^ whee l. Why, of c ou rs e, I f B^ ;- 
 windmill The other end of that cross-beam goes 
 outside for the fans to be attached to it. This bijr 
 cross-beam was the shaft. Of course that's it." ' 
 
 
 i;^ijf4ii|bL»ji*>^« li'iLi.lvt^ 'W M-C-^SsM 
 
 AtlV j1^S\ *-^ 
 
286 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 jas unable to disprove a fact of which the evi- 
 dences were now so plain, but he strugried lo 
 
 rdrae«e';*'™^-''"«-P--^'%o^^^^^^ 
 
 n«I7 » '" ™.^ ■""' " ' '^'"•^ ^y i' ""y have been 
 used afterwards for a windmill; but I am surtrt 
 
 durvigthe middle. ages. Afterwards it besan to 
 go to r„.n; and then, I dare say, some mill fH" 
 
 turret rrT" °^ *'"' ■^''"P- •'"^ t°™ off thi 
 
 wi h the be "r'!' ''"' "^^^-^ "P this roof 
 
 wfththe beams, and thus turned it into a wind- 
 
 ^idtugir"'"'"^^'""^^'''-"-'^- 
 
 " p. then," said he, « in that case, I've eot noth 
 ing to say about it at all " ' ^ '^e got noth- 
 
 niircasl' or'''' '""'"'''"' '""'"°«''» ■■■> 'he baro. 
 ma' oasUe, Chve was unable to prevent an expres- 
 
 .e^on of disgust from being discernible on Ws fine 
 
 ^^^, and without another word, he turned I ^ 
 
 David followed close after him 
 
 of If l^dr?'- ""' "^°"" <'° ""e nearest rung 
 of the_Jadder, he was startled hya noiso belm^ . 
 
 itrmme Iroin IBe pile of fegots, and was of th» 
 most extraordinary cha^ctar^ Itwaaa Iffi^^^ 
 
 .!i . 
 
 
 ♦^^ 
 
'•'•I'^li.'t' 
 
 A BARONIAL WINDMILL. 
 
 287 
 
 scraping growling, snapping noice ; an indescriba- 
 We medley of peculiar sounds. 
 
 Clive instantly drew back his foot, as though he 
 had trodden on a snake. 
 
 "What's the matter?" cried David, in amaze- 
 ment. 
 
 " Didn't you hear it ? " 
 "Hear what?" 
 
 " Why, that noise I " .. 
 
 "Noise?" 
 
 "Yes." , • 
 
 "What noise?" ^ - 
 
 •Clive's eyes opened wide, and he said in a low, 
 agitated whisper, — ' 
 
 " Something's down there I " 
 
 At this David's face turned pale. He knelt 
 down at the opening, and bent his head over 
 
 The sounds, which had ceased for a moment, be- 
 came once, more audible. There ^as a quick, beat- 
 ing, rustling, rubbing noise among the fagots, and 
 he could occasionally hear the rap of footfalls on 
 the floor. It was too dark to see anything, for the 
 narrow door was the only opening, and the end of 
 the chamber where the fagots lay was wrapped 
 m deep gloom. 
 
 Clive knelt down too, and then both boys, kneel- 
 ing there, hatened eagerly and intently with 
 
 tiieir eaPK" 
 
 ^alL 
 
 .,,<,, 
 
 liati8it?"58kedClive. 
 sure I don't know," said David, gloomily. 
 
t 
 
 I.- 
 
 288; 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 1 don t know, I'm sure," said poor David tfbo in 
 
 spite .f h.s recent declaration of his belief that'aU 
 
 brigands were humbugs, felt sometLing like h^ <iM 
 
 ■ tf«P>dat.on at dive's suggestion. ^"^"""'^ 
 
 They listened a little longer 
 
 a Jin* ^t* r""^:" '"■■ " *™«' »«' f^n began 
 agam. -This time ,t was much louder than bef^e 
 
 Th*e was the same rustling, rubbing, crackTne 
 
 »^pp.ng sound made by something amtg he feg! 
 
 bW th !."■* "*' " ^'""<'''' reiterated Pub- 
 
 e^aftWrr r/^'P^^""" "Of-, whioh sounded 
 exactly hke that which a dog makes when shaking 
 hunself v,o t,y after coming out of the 3 
 j^er this there was a low, deep sound, midwl^ 
 between a yawn and a growl; then all wasT^l ^ 
 David and Clive raised themselves softlyV and 
 looked at one another. . ^' 
 
 "Well? "said Clive. 
 "Well? "said David. 
 "I don't know," said Clive. 
 "I don't know," said David. Y"' 
 
 " What sliall we do ? " said Clive 
 David shook his head. Then, leaking down the 
 opening once more, he again nused hi? eyeTand 
 J5|;^anawfu,lo„konCUve,Ue^:in^ 
 
 ~^IP8 not a brigand I " 
 "No," said CUve, '■ I don't think it ie, either." 
 
 
•H , . 
 
 o.'.» .'. ,^,% 
 
 %*> 
 
 AT BAY. 
 
 289 
 
 -me dismal tone atbeZ"^^^"' ^^ "^^ ^ '^- 
 "Clivel" «wre,— 
 
 "Well?" ^ 
 
 " It's a wild heast ! " 
 
 ^^iye looked back at David WifK 
 
 pressed equal horror an^ ^ ^ ®^^' *^»* ex- 
 « n««u "orror, and said not a word 
 
 i>on't you think so ? " asked n«..-I - 
 
 "Yes," said Clive ^^^^^^^»d. 
 
 Then: — 
 
 " How^can w^ get down ?" said David. 
 
 "Idon't'knowI-saidDavid'"^""'* 
 do. eaidpiive. 
 
 -such aoises at- """ ^"'"' "'"«''«'J 
 
 Snapping, ^ja, variations, 
 crack in a- 
 
 -1 
 
 cracking, 
 
 deep-breathing, 
 
 scratching, 
 
 sighing, 
 
 yawning, 
 
 growhng, 
 
 grunting, 
 
 sm * " 
 
 thumping, 
 
 jerking, 
 
 rattling, 
 
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 tt 
 
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 u 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
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 do. 
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 '•# 
 "''it 
 
 ^m^^'^^^^'mimi 
 
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 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 pushing; with variations. > 
 
 shding, 
 
 shaking, 
 
 jexking, 
 
 twitcliing, 
 
 groaning, 
 
 pattering, 
 
 i-olling, 
 
 rubbing, 
 
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 tt 
 
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 do. 
 
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 together with .many more of a similar character, 
 all of which went to indicate to the minds of both 
 ot the boys the presence in that lower chamber 
 and close by that pile of fagots, of some animal! 
 ma state of Wakefulness, restfessness, and, as they 
 believed, of vigilant watchfulness and ferbcity. 
 
 "I wonder how it got there," said David. "That 
 ohve grove - that's it - 0, that's it. He saw U8 
 come in here, and followed us." 
 
 "I don't know," said Clive. "He may have 
 been among the fagots when we came in, and our 
 coming has waked him." » 
 
 " I wonder that the guide didn't warn us." 
 
 " 0, he never thought, I suppose." 
 
 "Noj he thought we would keep by the path 
 and go straight to the hotel." 
 
 " What fools we were 1 " 
 
 " Well, it can't be helped now." 
 
 :!^ wo nde r wh a t it iV aaid€ 4iTe, after another- 
 
 anxious pause. 
 "A wild beast," said David, dismally. 
 
 <lA!&ui$t^xitdffi^T^^^.a/<-t,', 
 
 *u 4„"I->VU». Ill 
 
->>' 
 
 r 
 
 THE WILD BEAST'S LAIB. 
 
 291 
 
 It may be a wolf." ' 
 
 " ^SI thlTei ,.t'?t;' '"" <" «>-•" 
 
 hear what a noise h«iT '^ '^'"- »»»'* you 
 feet? A wolf^ feet ar^r^ 'T^*™^' ^''^^i^ 
 
 ^''r-'^hi„,eJr!Ceta''S-.^''»^^™'<' 
 "Sometlimg worse?" 
 ,"Yes." ■ , 
 
 " What can be worse ? " 
 " Why, a wild boar. Ih.1^ ;= ♦!, 
 fy in the world for wild b^a^ ", ""* «™'"?»' """n- 
 
 and "det; '''"'^^'' ^ '-^P-o-^ of silence 
 
 '^<''4'::c?bejL%fxr"r'^-<'f'He 
 
 " What are yon trvfn "^ j' l^f - "" '"« """gl"- 
 
 ■•' o..t o'f one of'fhe w^I:' ''*' '^'^''''"'^ P"' 
 out that wa>-4: j;",^:;:; yo" know, and get 
 
 "I don't know," said David. « w« „,; , ' . 
 
 Ppon this both boys sei^.H .i. ,*\^.""g'" try." 
 *o pull it rrorniZZ B^'':'.''^Y''^Mea 
 entirely fn vain ■nTt^f^ *''^"' **"•'« '^ere , 
 
 '4 
 
 .btiiJ skllS»i^ii8fe.'< ■ 
 
 V j»si<,»i ii<,ft'-"?tj. 
 

 292 
 
 AMONO THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 David shook his head. 
 
 " ;t'8 nearly twenty feet from the window led^e " 
 
 oL« f \"k ''" ^'^^^^ '-' of us might brelk 
 some of oiir bones." . 
 
 u V '^V""* "'' ""^^y ^^'*'" '^^^ Ci»ve. 
 
 Us no use trying," said David ; « that hnrr,M 
 w.ld boar waked up when we enter;d wf dtn^H " 
 
 gerous m the extreme. From f hio r.T-« ^u 
 
 
oked out for 
 somehow ? " 
 
 dow ledge," 
 light break 
 
 wild boar 
 
 t." 
 
 rned away. 
 
 horror, 
 it horrible 
 i den. He 
 hing ever 
 
 the most 
 if all wild 
 I from the 
 'd pouiice 
 far as the 
 
 » despair, 
 d staring 
 was DOW 
 Qied dan- 
 thej saw 
 
 tOIlM nnf 
 
 the hill 
 how far 
 
 A GBEAT BORE. 
 
 293 
 
 - >»' would approtTwari' ;t''''r''"^P»-«'- 
 " Well," iaid ClFvr . Z f *'' ""'^ "<'"''' '«"• 
 , it W firm belief ;:\ ^^y? J"'' <>" ^nner, and 
 David made no rep^ '* °" *«"' *«>•" , 
 
 'ie ""L^'f "'''''^'^ -- '» him. ' 
 
 Pirate" V; a ':;a'; m 'd 7 " ^'"' ^«"'"^ <>- 
 
 ■« q-ietlr as/oa^Cand t: ^ '7" ""> "^^^^ 
 " Nf^ ^ ,^ ^-oiwie, and then run for it " 
 
 "W^lKTo^V-ed David, :';ltl,: 
 death," s'aH cC'^ ^^ *" ^"'^ ''«'« "»<» ^^-^e to ^ 
 
 wait a little longer" '^' '""^ /«»<»«* »»- Only 
 
 ^•u'Sirt 'r Jl '■'"^ ''-''-- -". 
 
 way. Then there wl . • "^'" *'«'"' half 
 character that hTJd „ ,rtrL" ''^""""^' " 
 remarked to DaWd, who il 2 * '^ l^'"' "■* > 
 watching him in intense ^.itvanf." ^^ ''"^ 
 to come h..,lf ■ , "aiety, and begging fiin. 
 
 So the two prisoners wai^d. 
 
 The/ 
 
 
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m^^^.f' 
 
 7>:,..'ft',- 
 
 294 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 V' <■ 
 
 CHAPTER XXVI. 
 
 Des^ir of Uncle Moses. — Fran^ ami Bob endeavor to 
 offer fonsolation. —The Search. ~ The Discovery ah-the 
 Convent. — The Guide. — The old House. — The Cap- 
 tives. — The Alarm given. — Flight of Uncle Moses and 
 his Party. — Albans! to the Rescue .' — The Deli-Verim 
 Host/ . ' 
 
 ^N leaving the convent, Frank and Bob had 
 hurried back to Albano, where they found 
 dinner ready, and Uncle MoSes waiting for 
 them in anxious impatience. This anxious im- 
 patience was not by any means diminished wten 
 he saw only two out of the four coming back to 
 hi|»j~iior was it alleviated one whit when they 
 informed him that David and Clive had gone to 
 see some subterranean passage, of the nature or 
 location of which they had but thevag^uest possible 
 conception. His first "impulse was to go forth at 
 once in search of them, and bring them back with 
 him by main force ; and it was only with extreme 
 dfficulty that Frank and Bob ^ssuaded him from 
 
 « Why, they're perfectly safe — as safe as if they 
 were here," "said ^rank. *«It isn't possible for 
 
 ^^^Mi 
 
 
"■(»*> 
 
 ' (1 
 
 x^ 
 
 DESPAIR OP UNCLE M03ES. 
 
 295 
 
 anything at all to happen to them. The convenj/' 
 guide — a monk — is with them, an(J a very fide 
 fellow he is, toe. 'He knows alfabout ti?e country." 
 
 " 0, yes ; but these monks ain't to my taste. I 
 I don't like 'em," said Uncle Moses. 1 ' 
 
 " It'll take them an hour ftT^et back here from the 
 place. There's no use for you to try to go there, for 
 you don't know the way ; and if you did go, why, 
 they might come back and find you gone, and then 
 we'd have to yait for you. So, you see, "the best 
 thing to do. Uncle Mos^Sj is for us all to set' quiet- 
 ly down, get our dinner, and wait for them to 
 come back." 
 
 The numerous frights which Uncle Mosers; had 
 already been called on to experience about 'his 
 precious but too troublesome charges had always 
 turned out to be groundless ; and the result had 
 invariably been a happy one ; yet this did not at 
 all prevent Uncle Moses from feeling as anxious, 
 as worried, and as unsettled, on this occasion, as he 
 had ever been before. He sat down to the table, 
 therefore, because Frank urged it, an(l\ he hardly 
 knew how to move without his cooperation. He 
 said nothing. He was silenced, but not convinced. 
 He ate nothing. He merely dallied with his knife 
 and fork, and played listlessly with the viands upon 
 his p late. Frank an d Bob were both as hungry aa 
 
 hunters, and for some time had noT eyes but for 
 
 their food. A* last, however, they saw that Uncle 
 
 #Jlo8es was eating nothing ; whereupon they began 
 
 ) 
 
 s?'-'ia*^,'«<«»jy 
 
 
t^' ' 
 
 k! -* 
 
 *% 
 
 0« f " 
 
 /^J 
 
 296 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 to remonstrate with him, and tried very 
 to induce him to take something. Tn ^n« 
 Moses was beyond the reach of pe^sSjiil?'' His 
 appe,tite was gone with his »^an Aing^^s, .and 
 would not come back umil tht:^j^d come also, 
 Ihe dmner ended, and then Uhcle MCsdft grew 
 more restless than ever, He walked out, and 
 paced the street up and down, every little while 
 commg back to the hotel, and looking anxiously in 
 to see ^f the wanderers had returned. Frank and 
 Bob felt sorry that he should feel so much un- 
 necessary anxiety, but they did not know w«hat to ' 
 j#^'or to say. They had done and said all that 
 ■ thejr po&sibly could. Uncle Moses refused to be 
 comforted, and 8«r there was nothing more for- 
 tnem to do. 
 
 At length the hour passed which Erank had 
 allotted as the time of their absence, and still they 
 did not come. : Uncle Moses now came, and stared 
 at them witi, a disturbed face and trembling frame 
 He said not a worJ|^«pituation w^s 6|iQ.whicb; 
 ,%hi8 mmd, rend^gH^ ""^^^^0^ '' '"^ 
 <*fh^'. 'T 0(^5^^ Moses,- said Frank; ' 
 ^'they're all. right. What's the usa of imagining 
 ftU^sopts of nonsense ? Suppose they are delayed 
 a tew mmutes longer — what of that? They 
 couldn't reckon upon being back in exactly an 
 ^ur._The^uide said, ' about an. hour^ .. You'lt-^ 
 nave to make some allowance. "" 
 
 Uncle Moses tried to wait "longer, and succeeded 
 
 
 5itf»'iij«pi'W;9 
 
 -"tikJfciJtrt I 
 
/ 
 
 His 
 
 )ys, .and 
 Q« also* 
 ■So- grew 
 'ut, and 
 e while 
 ously in 
 ink and 
 ich un- 
 wSiat to * 
 all that 
 I to be 
 ore for 
 
 ik had 
 ill they 
 stared 
 frame, 
 which, 
 
 P'rank ; 
 gining 
 elayed 
 They 
 fely an 
 ¥oa^it=^ 
 
 eeded 
 
 
 m. 
 
 THE SEARCH. 
 
 . mm 
 
 297 ' 
 
 in controlling himself for about half an hour m6re. 
 Then he found inaction intolerable, and" insisted, 
 on Frank|nd Bob accoiapanying him on a search 
 for the lo^ ones. Frank suggested the necessity 
 of going to the convent first, and geftiog anothto 
 guide. / He left word at the hotel where they had 
 gone, and why, so that David -apd Clive might 
 , Mlow them, or send word ; and then they all three - 
 .^et forth for the convent. % ' ''' 
 
 On reaching the place, the first man that they 
 saw was no other than the guide himself. At this 
 sight even Frank was amazed, and a Ut^e dis- 
 turbed, tie asked him hurriedly where the boys 
 , were. ..•'•, 
 
 ^ "De boys f'' said the guide. " Haf dey not com'e 
 X^ de hotel ? " 
 
 " No." ; ^^~ -^ . 
 
 "But I did leave dem on de road to go back, 
 and dey did go. Dey must be back." .. . 
 
 "But they're not back. And I wit to hunt 
 them up," said Frank. " Where was the road - 
 where you say you left them ? " . 
 
 " 1 will go myself and show you de ver place," 
 said the guide. « Do not fear. Dere can Come no 
 harm. It is not jiossibilev" 
 
 With these words the guide set forth to take ' 
 them 4o the place. These wor ds of tl>g^ guide 
 
 added, if possible, to the deep distress and disfnay 
 of Uncle Moses. He was only conscious now tUat 
 the boys were without any guide in some unknown. 
 
 -«i'»Sfe^^^Lv=r X 
 
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 KM 
 

 1/ 
 
 298 
 
 ■M4:' 
 
 AMONG TB^BRIGANDS. 
 
 perhaps dangerous ptace. If ho fearoj wl.ile he 
 ,B..pposed that they had a g„ido, his I^M 
 der^those new and worse circ„n.stances were Z 
 
 f„M " k''\T ""^ 8uide explained all about it fe 
 told about the tunnel, about the path which he had 
 recommended as a short cut. h! declared bat^t 
 was perfect!, straight, and that it ^1 ^^ le 
 for any one to get lost between Albano a^d 2 
 pla e where he left them. There was no place 1 e 
 
 open_a little valley — that was all. 
 
 Kut tins gave no comfort to poor Uncle Moses 
 He wa ked along looking ten years older, luhZ 
 face f„„ of, net. At length the gnide ca^e to th. 
 path along wh.cb he fid sent Batid and Clive^and 
 
 where he had seen them go 
 
 " We haf now," he said, "to walk to de hotel at 
 A lano, and yon sail find dey did come back nd 
 will be dere at dis moments." ' 
 
 " What a joke it would be," cried Prank " if 
 they have got back, and have started off after us I 
 
 be .eve it. They're starving, and wiU think of 
 nothing but their dinners." 
 But poor Uncle Moses refused to see any « joke " 
 
 At length thB,- came within sight of the house. 
 
 J.jLL.t. '^ V ^e> 
 
 "^^ \.^d 
 
1 vvliile he 
 
 fears iin- 
 
 3 were far 
 
 »ut it. He 
 icli he had 
 ed that it 
 mpossible 
 » and the 
 place, he 
 vas quite 
 
 le Moses, 
 witli his 
 ne to th^ 
 'live, and 
 direction 
 
 hotel at 
 ack, and . 
 
 ink, "if 
 
 fter us 1 
 
 I don't 
 
 bink of 
 
 "joke " 
 
 house. 
 
 THE SEARCH. 
 
 
 299 
 
 As they walked on, there came to their ears a Ion- 
 shrdl yen. All of them started. At first they dS 
 notv^detect the source of the sound. 
 Then it was repeated. 
 " Hallo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o ! " 
 
 They looked all around. Frank saw two figures ^ 
 one at each window of the old house. ./'' 
 
 " Hallo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o I " 
 
 The cry was repeated. It came from thesfe two 
 figures. Those must be David and Cli/e • but 
 how in the name of wonder had they got ttlere, and 
 wh^t were they doing? But he said jrot a word 
 He merely pointed, and then started oFkt a full 
 run, followed first by Bob, then by the gu^de, and 
 last by Uncle Moses, who did not yet comprehend 
 why Frank was running, or where. 
 
 A emart run of only a few minutes brought them "^ 
 to the place. There they saw David at one win- 
 ^?5i and Clive at the other. Both of them ap- 
 peared to be tremendously excited, and ^^e 
 shouting to them most vociferously, both together 
 m an utterly cfonfused and unintelligible manner' 
 At length some words in the midst of their out- 
 cries became distinguishable. 
 
 "Keep back! 0, keep backl The wild boarl 
 The wild boar I Run for help! Keep back I You'Jl 
 
 JPeigrn to p^c es^L^^Kee p b a ck ! ^ Run A>f h^^ 
 
 At this Uncle Moses shrank back in spite of him- 
 self, and the guide looked much disturbed ; but 
 ± rank and Bob stubbornly stood their ground 
 
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P5J '.• >• -f \r:' 
 
 I 
 
 300 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 "What do you mean?" cried Frank "Dnn'f 
 t^ck^upsucharow. What wild boaf? ZZe 
 
 " Underneath I » bawled Clive 
 " ^®'' watching ns," shouted David 
 ; ile was hid in there, and wg^ cam« in ^ 
 waked him Wp o-^f V Jlr ™® ^° ^"^ 
 
 us out] » ^'* "P here^^e won't let 
 
 Bh^G^ '* ^°" '' '^^^^^ -7 nearer,'' 
 
 ig',^''^ "' ^"^ ^°°"'" --d Clive ; « we're starv- 
 " J^eep back I " cried Clive. 
 ^ do cried David, 
 
 ^o and get help I '> cried Clive. 
 
 « n , '^''' ^'"^ed David. 
 
 Get a gun I " cried Clive. 
 
 ,,„ , ^^' cried David. 
 
 Help 1 " cried Clive. 
 do. cried David. ' \ 
 
 ^ " Take care I » cried Clive. 
 ^ do. cried David. 
 
 He'lUear you to pieces I " cried Clive. 
 
 "cfiedlKtVia. 
 
 Etc., etc., etc. I 
 
 "Come back," said the guide, in evident anx. 
 
 !J^' 
 
 .,;..r^'f y,Ji,-i 
 
THE OLD HOUSE 
 
 301 
 
 f. "Don't 
 ? Where 
 
 ae m and 
 won't let 
 
 ^ nearer/' 
 
 im now," 
 
 et a gun 
 
 re starv- 
 
 iety. " Wq are too near. We can do notin' We 
 mus get arm." 
 
 tL:r!r'tk^r^^^---"^^--^^^^oar 
 
 The guide said nothing, but shook his head 
 solemnly, and looked unutterable things. Mean- 
 
 lo 'nn^'f^r^ *' retreat, watching the small 
 door of the old house, and the rest followed him, as 
 they thought he knew better what ought to be 
 done than they did. The guide took up that line 
 of retreat which led towards Albano.and as he did 
 80 he watched the door of the house with evident 
 anxiety, as though fearful of seeing at any moment, 
 the formidable beast bound forth to rush upon 
 them. But at length, after he had placed a con- 
 siderable distance between, himself and the old 
 house, he began to breathe more freely, and to 
 think about what ought next to be done 
 . "Do you think it really is a wild boar?/ asked 
 J^rank once more of the guide. 
 " Dey did say dat dey did see him,"/^aid he 
 "Yes; but how do they know/rhey never 
 saw a Wild boar," objected Fran] "^ 
 
 "Any man dat sees a wild>5kr will know him" 
 said the guide. >^ ' 
 
 he'r?"'^''^'''* kn6w ^t>«rftherg were any about 
 
 y 
 
 nu 
 
 "About here' 
 
 "Yes; 80 ne^the town, and public roads. I 
 thought that;^ animal like the wild boar prefers 
 
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 Vft^i^^'^^ it'Oi *W.. 
 
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 'kswj 
 

 302 
 
 U.WV :.,\ 
 
 ^KOm THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 yoong-orsomraatinlikfdJ" r"""^ '™« d«>- 
 wander, an if day happen ,„'' ''"^ *='" ''"■'''' ""d 
 are terrible." '^'^ '° """"^ "«" a villa, dey 
 
 . dis." ' "'^^'"-'^''J' wander about like 
 
 ;;BuUhe^li.e.„fa,„ff,, 
 
 [- dar„,rj:rd:x^»trn-not 
 
 his den." "® ^^^'®J^; just de place for 
 
 "ffair of the previous Lt ^V"' '"*«"'^''- The 
 
 «■' effect on hi. Jnd ifd . ^""''''^ " P^'^^r- 
 
 -■"'ng to allow l..«,self atnoV^"'"'"*^'^' •'"• 
 
 « belief in any danger tiZT ^ ■"'^"''"d ^"fo 
 
 P'de not beheved^; ' r T "^'- "«" «>o 
 
 " «o strongly, he wou d have 7f ' ""^ '"'''''" <>» 
 
 a»"»al in the house was sol! ' "''""■» "«" 'he 
 
 8 goat -a doK-aTvtl °"'""'"P'*<'«one- 
 
 boar. Howevef asitw 'f- ™*'"'^ "'«» « wild 
 
 to believe what C I'd ' ' """^ """""S '«« but 
 
 As for Uncle Mosph i.« 
 «^'-n. .The bo,"r; ':,7 --.^"He hi„self 
 
 with a^rocZrw^Jd bla t ; '' '^"^'^ ^^^^^ 
 
 ^^ beast barring the wajr to 
 
 i4!y|l»i3*!5iru&*,.Ji ..!:5#i>* feto. 
 
 r..;»ilr*j*V1f -^X 
 

 er come near 
 
 "Dat is so. 
 ey Jose der 
 go wild, and 
 ' a villa, dey 
 
 here ? " 
 about like 
 
 itain — not 
 3 place for 
 
 ', although 
 ^iQt Tiio 
 I a power- 
 Jj'igly un- 
 iiiled into 
 Had the 
 sisted on 
 that the 
 'e one — 
 1 a wild 
 left but 
 
 himself 
 
 house, 
 w&y to 
 
 THE CAPTIVES. - gQ^ 
 
 liberty; but then he refleotpd H.a* *u- r 
 
 -iM beast could not J^ta; „ L"' ^tut"'- 
 
 a bear, the affair would l.nvo k ^ ^^^"^ 
 
 onl^ way of delivering ,I,o boys, wl o " ,ld n / 
 rescued without some „K,re formidable 1 1 'i^ ''" 
 the,r own unassisted strength. """' 
 
 In a short time they were Uol- ;„ j.u 
 -on the news flow ab'out , « toln In ' ""f 
 ance with the invariable rule tlost'orv '^' 
 
 Bderablv eiihr,r„^ „ 'uie, the story was con- 
 
 hf^hly re:p^;tab;: dTmen^ri" '"^ ^°"°'"-^ 
 
 down there they had X covte ''[he" "Jrc a'llt 
 
 '*j' inejnad then made frood thmV ».^+ f 
 
 /«^ng their slaughtered viotigr ^ i tfr W 
 wnd hoar had re(lurnedi»ith th„ „■. j ™° 
 
 -nting their yoZ'^y^^lZt^^T^ 
 «.voa chase to the murderers. These , alt 'h:^ 
 
 iS#^ 
 
 
 i^^J^^iSiki^^s,\:, Ur'>> 
 
304 
 
 AMOlfG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 . their destruction They hid alrelf? "" V''^'" 
 week. One of th» „ '^^ ''^^° *''«'-^ a 
 
 Anton; tLldetr,- ^"'r'''^'^' ^^o"'^^ 
 Vision ,i nUr^L';: ,rv"r, ;;;o;' Ji^^s in a . 
 
 Ws in\o'clos'e ^roxi^^ /fiTe d'n"' "" "'■"' 
 desire to capture thero?;^!™ "Se"'!"' "^ 
 that was eeneralJv K^r j "^ -inestorv 
 
 -e briefly dZS asrir r,."!^'-" ""y 
 - where atenr midway le^^T" r*^"" "^ 
 
 ^fioUon.andthetrnt^tctlttjIttdtr 
 
 
 ^'-t. J.'» ■ !>'..« 
 
 j^ ^ L ^ -A^iixht St^^tii.\m^iiU.^ 
 
ucceeded in 
 J in climbing 
 nimals came 
 just vanish- 
 had leaped 
 rtion of the 
 Qj in sullen 
 'k up their 
 ^ the other 
 , and effect 
 >en there a 
 
 from the 
 other was 
 ') Brother 
 t this in a 
 surviving 
 
 distance, 
 now come 
 '^ the un- 
 
 ijectured 
 tin. The 
 sited uni- 
 the wild 
 n with a 
 'lie story 
 ich may 
 Mi some^- 
 Jtartling 
 had the 
 
 THE DELIVERING HOST. 305 
 
 effect of drawing forth the population of Albano 
 
 ^^ the whi %^r^:zrL^ 
 
 feo they now marched forth,— 
 » ■ Men with scythes.' 
 
 ' hoes. , \ 
 
 ' rakes. .^ 
 
 ' shoveisi- " \ 
 
 ' tongsi 
 
 gridirons. 
 
 brooms. 
 
 bean-poles. 
 
 carving-knives. 
 
 umbrellas. 
 
 stones. 
 
 earthen pans. 
 
 bricks. 
 
 charcoal. 
 
 chairs. 
 
 spits. . 
 
 bed-posts. 
 
 crowbars. 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 ^ do. 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 do. 
 do. 
 20 
 
 ^ugerss- 
 spades, 
 stakes, 
 clubs. 
 
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 iii'&A'* 
 
 'j.si»f!jiLS>l ., ►.j>.,,t'^„4!i';«f 
 
 ,'^. ^^^'i '^S^^J^jA^^tA 
 
306 
 
 <( 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 ^ Men with staves. 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 . do. 
 
 ■ ^ do. 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
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 u 
 
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 opera-glasses. 
 
 sickles. 
 
 colters. 
 
 ploughshares. 
 
 wheelbarrows. 
 
 pitchforks. - . , \ - 
 
 posts. , 
 beams, 
 bolts, 
 bars, 
 hinges. ' 
 
 .pokers. '' 
 
 saucepans, 
 mallets, 
 hammers. 
 
 saws. \ , 
 
 chisels, 
 ropes, 
 chains. 
 . gi'appling irons, 
 
 together with a miscellaneous collection of articles 
 Bnatched up at a moment's warning by an excited 
 
 Znl wt' "^"°'JT^°' ^°d children, headed hy 
 Frank who wielded triumphantly an old fowlin^- 
 pH.ce loaded with a double charge, that couM d'o 
 no damage to any one save the daring individual 
 that might venture to A\^nh^rzfs it 
 
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 THE CHASE OP THE WfLD BOAB. 
 
 307 
 
 ^ - 
 
 CHAPTER XXVII. 
 
 A Salamander. Smokmg out tkcMomta-.- 
 
 BMA poerosque cano 1 
 
 pie "„" ett'"'^'''^''^'^' ^^^ -««ed the pec 
 
 % nearest, wh;theTb!ff . **" """P"" "".t 
 ehanic, or implemlf f 1' f ''"' °'" '"o' »f >>>e- 
 
 -e their f"SrwenffLtT'7'*l"'''''^"'J»- 
 the Pell De8troy;r *° ''° ''**"« ^g^-st 
 
 ""gfity aeEverm. hosTTn^t^?. f^'"' "P"" tho 7 
 
 mieRty aSEveriae host !„/ i.""^ "^'' "P"" ^e 
 "Pon their heads ' °''°'"«'' «"' Weeeings 
 
 How the sight of the palUd Viet.-™ Chared the 
 
 !&»*^'v\jH f *- ''-k 
 
 i.|^^^i4!!ilkM>ib'.'&'V^A//i<J 
 
 M4i iiJL^t^'■3Atlt mt. 
 
■■i<'l 
 
 308 
 
 AMONG THE kBIOANDS. 
 
 bold deliverers, and drew them Wer to the lair 
 ot th6 moi^ter. 
 
 And go forth. "; *" 
 
 Very weU. ° i| 
 
 To resume. ^^I^j 
 
 ^^ stationed at the Wjndw, David and Clive saw"" 
 the,r fnends vanish in^he diVection of AlbZ Z 
 
 80 cheered them, that ipspite of a somewh^sl p,J 
 
 tte tt rr'il'''^''"^^ "P well, and diversified 
 . the time betw^, watchings at the window, and 
 hstemngsat thSiead of thNj«Jder. From the 
 w,„dow nothing was visible for a long time" bnt 
 from the head of the ladder there came upatil 
 tervals such sounds as indicated that the fier^ 
 
 ^^andl"" Tr '"""^^^' "' ™*"«-' - t'n! 
 gry, and as vigilant aa ever. 
 
 Then came up to their listening ears the same 
 tones of a more pronouncedly grunting descrip. 
 
 ^ v;r; tnth^^^^^^^^ T" '''''' '''' *^^'-«* -- 
 n very truth a wild boar. But Clive did not veii 
 
 ect""flrT°' °" '•' '^-^^° --*-- ti? 
 
 subject. His former attempt had been most satis- 
 
 r^K.^u X«t* °^- I" spite of thi,s, however 
 
 of mint ^i^^'"" ^ °^^- J--^'"^ ^- 
 ot mmd. Their futlhie began 4e^ 
 
 fe^ hrighter, 
 served to put them 
 
 b^t "t.T''"'""'" g'"'"^<"-- tbe only draw- 
 , back t6 which was their now ravenous hungeft 
 
 „_ TJ- 
 
 ; ift 
 
 
 ^' 
 
I 
 
 ' to the lair 
 
 Clive saw 
 ilbano, and 
 is tliought 
 3 what pro- 
 iiversified 
 idow, and 
 From the 
 time • bijt 
 up at in- 
 the fierce 
 IS, as hun- 
 
 the same 
 
 I hoarsef 
 
 descrip- 
 
 •east was 
 
 not ve^i 
 
 tion th 
 
 ost satis- 
 
 attempt 
 
 lowever, 
 
 ill frame 
 
 mght&r, 
 
 ut them 
 y draw- 
 
 ~«. 
 
 ! '^ 
 
 THE PBISONEBS AT THE wmpow. ' i^ 
 
 The deh'vering host drew nieh anr? ii. . 
 
 the guide PrSfc wCk 1,^^'' "'*'"■ ^^"^ ^''"■e 
 with a phchf„rk^^^^M °''' '■"''""^^^^^^^ '• 
 
 to do waa doubtful -W *^T ^*'^'' ™« P>0PP8ed 
 been ^'^^^^^^^^^'^ ■'^- . .: 
 
 «rhf;:.°'"'™^"'='""^'"'"eh to speak. 
 Xs he there yet ? " was hw fire* / 
 
 ,,-"Tes," said Clive. ^"^ '"^ ^'^^ ^^■""fc- 
 
 i " Wliere ? " 
 
 cf%"ts>'^""'"'''^<''°""--.-'l-apae 
 
 l>P.Mishi„g his weapon. , "'"'^' P™"^'^ 
 
 r ?' ".": ^« <=«°'t do anything." 
 I wuhyou could," said Prank. 
 
 •IP 
 
 
 wSTi^ili* ifi- 
 
 A^. 
 
:yr'' 
 
 810 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 ir<'. 
 
 "I wish we could too/' said David, fervently. 
 
 Upon this Frank talked with the guide. The 
 question Was, what should they do now ? The 
 most desirable thing was, to draw the wild beast 
 out of his lair, so that they might have a fair 
 chance with him; but, unfortunately, the wild 
 beast utterly refused to mpve front his lain 
 
 After son^e talk with his guide, Frank suggested 
 that a large number of the crowd should go to the 
 TQar, and the left end of the house, and strike at 
 it, and utter appalling cries, so as to frighten the * 
 wild boar ^nd drive him out. This proposal the 
 guide ex{>Iained to the crowd; who at once pro- 
 ceeded with the very greatest alacrity to-act upon 
 it. Most of them were delighted at the idea of 
 fighting the enemy in tha.t fashion ; and so it hap- 
 pened that the entire crowd took .up their station 
 in a dense mass at the re^^r of the "building ; and 
 then they proceeded to beat upon t1ie walls of the 
 house, to shout, to yell, and to utter such hideous 
 sounds, that any ordinary animal would simply 
 have' gone mad with fright, and died on the spo|. 
 But this animal proved to be no ordinary one in 
 this tespect. Either h^ was accustomed to strange 
 noisesj, or else he had such nerves of sfeel, that 
 the present uproar affected him no more than the 
 sighing of the gentlest summer breeze ; indeed, 
 .David and Clfve^wef e fer more aflected, IbTWtliF^ 
 first outbreak of that tumultuous uproar, they 
 actually jumped from the floor, and thought that 
 
 ^/^■it&i', 
 
 .?,.,. 
 
 .* -mtf- 
 
■«.'*•• .■-^-'•.■f^-f.'^ 
 
 'r-^s''' "'t'-z' 
 
 THE ALBAN ABMT. 
 
 311 
 
 the rickety old house was tumbling about their 
 ears. ^ 
 
 During this proceeding, Frank stood bravely in 
 front of the door, ahont a dozen yards oflF, with his 
 rusty fowling-piece ; and close beside hira stood 
 Bob with his pitchfork. Uncle Mosea with his 
 scythe, and the guide, with his rope. 
 
 " He doesn't care for this at all," said Frank, in 
 a dejected tone. " We must try something else. 
 What shall we do?" 
 
 And saying this, he turned oijce more and talked 
 with the guide. 
 
 Meanwhile David and Clive, ^who had recovered 
 their equanimity, rushed to the opening, and began 
 to assist their friends by doing what they could 
 to frighten the wild boar. '^ 
 
 " Shoo-o-o-o-o-o I " said David[. 
 
 " Hs-s-s-s-s-s-s ! '* said Clive. '' 
 
 " B6-P-0-0-0-0KM) I '' said David. 
 ' " Grr-r-r-r-r-r ! " cried Clive. 
 
 But the wild boar did not move, even though 
 ^e uproar without still COB tinued. - | 
 
 Then Clive went down the ladder a little dis- 
 tance, far enough down so that by bending, his 
 head was below the upper floor. Then he took his 
 hat and hurled it with all his might and main at 
 the pile of fagpts. 
 
 "Then Be w^nt lip again. ~ 
 
 But the wild boar did not move. 
 Thereupon David went down, and he went a 
 
 4'»4V >>'*^ 
 
 ':S-.m- 
 

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 ■ J* -^ ' t ' T -/ 
 
 
 K 
 
 1 v'* \ 
 
 jrii 
 
 AMONG THE BBI0AND3. 
 
 little, lower. He took his hat, and uttering a hide- 
 0U8 yeU, he threw it with aU his force at the 
 fogots. 
 
 But even this failed to alarm the wild boar. Da- 
 vid stood for a moment aifter this bold deed and lis- 
 tened. The only satisfaction that he had was, the 
 sound of a low, comfortable grunt, that seemed to 
 show that th^ present situation was one which was 
 rather enjoyed than otherwise by this formidable, 
 this indomitable', this invincible beast. 
 
 They came back to the windows in despair, and 
 by this time Frank ha4 finished his discussion with 
 the guide. He was looking up anxiously towards 
 them. 
 
 "Look here," said he; "that miserable wild 
 boar won't come out. The guide thinks the only 
 way to get at him is to smoke him out. The only 
 trouble is about you. Will the smoke bother you, 
 do you think?" 
 
 « I don't know," said Clive. 
 
 " '^ ou stop up the opening ? " 
 
 «No, 
 
 dows?" 
 
 Can you keep your heads out of the 
 
 win- 
 
 u 
 
 Well try. But I wish you'd only thought of 
 
 before 
 
 
 1 wish we had," said Frank, thoughtfully. 
 "But never mind," he added, cheerily, "there's 
 no nae gping baci? for one, because, you see, we'll 
 
 wmm. 
 
 bringing a ladder, so as to get us out first, 
 smok ing him." - , ' 
 
M 
 
 ^i^. -i- 
 
 f 
 
 
 
 , « 
 
 WILD UPROAR. 
 
 3ia 
 
 have you out of that long before a ladder could 
 be brought here," . " 
 
 It was only by yelling at the top of their voices 
 that they were able to make themselves heard by 
 one another, for the cro>^ behind the house still 
 kept up their yells, and knockings, and thui^piugs, 
 and waited to hear that the' wild boar had fled. 
 As the time passed without any such news, they 
 were only stimulated to fresh efforts, and howled 
 more fearfully and yelled more deafeningly. 
 
 "There's an awful waste of energy and power 
 about here, somehow," said Frank. " There ought 
 to be some way of getting at that wretched beast, 
 without all this nonsense. Here we are, — I don't 
 know how many of us, but the whole population 
 of a town, at any rate, against one, — and what's 
 worse, ^we don't seem to make any impression." 
 • Meanwhile the guide had gone off among the 
 crowd, tod while Frank was grumbling, he was 
 busying himself among them, and was engaged in 
 carrying out a very brilliant idea that had just 
 suggested itself to him. In a short time he re- 
 turned with an armful of something, the nature 
 of which Frank could not quite make out. 
 
 *' What have you got there ? " he asked. " What 
 are you going to do?" ., 
 
 " Poy~w« r^ handk ercfaiefa"- :— -^ 
 
 "Handkerchiefs?" ; :,.' 
 
 " Yes ; de handkerchiefs of de population of A1-. 
 banc, Dey are as many as de days of de year." 
 

 i- 
 
 314 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 ■■:*#■ 
 
 ^^ "I should think 80," cried Frank, in amazement. 
 
 " But what are you going to do with them ? " 
 " Do wit dem ? I am going to make a smoke." 
 " A smoke ? What ? Are you going to burn 
 
 them up ? " . 
 
 "Dere is notin else to burn; so I must burn- 
 what I can. See, I make a bundle of dese. 1 set 
 fire to dem. Dey burn — dey smoke — and de 
 boar smoke out. Aha! he suffocate — he expire 
 ' — he run ! " 
 
 "Well, if that isn't the greatest idea I ever 
 heard of I » cried Frank. " Handke^iefs I Why, 
 you must have hundreds of them in that bundle." ' 
 
 The guide smiled, and made no answer, It was 
 a brilliant idea. It was all his own. He wks proud 
 of it. He was pleased to think that the number of 
 them was equal to the number of days in the year. 
 Three hundred and sixty-five handkerchiefs cpl- 
 lected from the good, the virtuous, the self-sacri- 
 ficmg people of Albano, who were now yelling and 
 howling as before, at the rear of the house, and 
 diversifymg the uproar by loud calls and inquiries 
 about the wild boar. 
 
 The guide smiled cheerily over the handker- 
 chiefs. He was 8o proud of his original idea 1 He 
 went calmly on, forming them into a rough bundle, 
 domg^it very dexterously, so t hat the bundle might 
 J>*4tght enough ttrhotd together, yet loose^nough^ 
 to burn. Frank watched him curiously. So did 
 Bob. So did Uncle Moses. So did CHve. So did 
 
 .I'j'ji 
 
 
 m. 
 
 
ttazenaent. 
 n?" 
 smoke." 
 ■ to burn 
 
 lUst burn- 
 )e. I set 
 - and de 
 e expire 
 
 I I ever 
 
 I I Why, 
 mndle." 
 
 It was 
 as proud 
 imberof 
 ;he year, 
 liefs cpl- 
 elf-sacri- 
 ling and 
 ise, and 
 nquiries 
 
 landker- 
 Ba! He 
 bundle, 
 e might 
 
 enough 
 So did 
 So did 
 
 *■ — .- ":,<r'""^ 
 
 'y -■*^''-' ''^ *. ' 
 
 FLAME. 
 
 
 815 
 
 David. XJiree hundr^, an(i sixty-five handker- 
 chiefs I Only think of it 1 / 
 
 -At last the work was finish^. The handker- 
 chief^ were rolled up into a big ball, loose, yet cq- 
 . hesive, with ends hanging out in all directions. ' 
 
 « You had better be careful what you do," said 
 Clive. « The end of the chamber below is full of 
 dry fagots. If they were to catch fire, what would 
 become of us ? " 
 
 "0, alia right," said the g^ide. "Nevare fear. 
 I trow him so he sail not go nearde wood. He 
 make no flame, only de smoke. Nevare fear." 
 
 At this the trepidation which these preparations 
 had excited, i^ the minds of Clive and David, de- 
 parted, and they watched the subsequent proceed- 
 d inga without a word. 
 
 The guide now took the bundle which he had 
 formed out of the handkerchiefs of the population 
 of Albano, and holding it under his left arm, ho 
 drew forth some matches, and breaking off oue, he 
 struck it against the sole of his boot. It kindled* 
 Thereupon lie held the flame to the bundle of 
 handkerchiefs. The flame caught. The bundle 
 blazed. The guide held it for some time till the . 
 blaze caught at one after another of the projecting 
 ends of tie rolled up handkerchiefs, and the flame 
 h ad e a tei i its • ■ • 
 
 way m t o the masBy^tod theB^^eatu»>- 
 ing neare* to the doorway, he advanced, keeping a 
 little on o^e side, and watching for an opportunity * 
 to throw it\in. Frank followed with his rusty gun, 
 
 Jit 
 
 
 / 
 
316 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 / 1 
 
 Bobjith his pitchfork, and Uncle M0868 with his 
 scythe: All were ready,,either for attack or de- 
 •fence, and aU the while the bellowing pf the crowd 
 ^ OeJJind the house went on uninterruptedly. 
 
 The guide reached at length a point about ten 
 feet from the door. Theti.1^ poised himself and 
 took aim. Then he threw th^ bul-ning ball 
 
 But his aim was bad. The ball struck the 'side 
 of the doorway, and fell outside. In an instant 
 1 Frank rushed forward, and seizing it, threw it in- 
 side. It fell on the floor, and rolled towards the 
 foot of the ladder, where it lay blazing, ^nd smoul- 
 dering, and sending forth smoke enough to satisfy 
 the most exacting mind. 
 
 Then Prank drew back a little, poising his gjn. 
 whde Bob, Uncle Moses, and tha guide! took^ip 
 their stations beside him. 
 
 The smoke rose up bravely frpm the! burning 
 mass; but '^fter all, the result wa», uot What had 
 been desired. It rolled up thrbugt the opening 
 above, and gathered in blue masses in^heVoom, 
 where Chve and David were imprisoned. They 
 lelt the effects of the pungent vaporf verV «uickly 
 more especially in their eyes, which stilL and 
 smarted and emitted torrents of tpars. Their only 
 r^luge from this new evil was to thrust th^ir heads 
 fh/r^?"^"!' _*!'.!, ''^°^^^." ^^ ^^'^ POBBib l e ; and this 
 
 ,^ey xM V^i tti n g on the window ledg e, clinging 
 to the waH^and projecting their bodies fai- forward 
 outside of the hpuse. For a time they were bus- 
 
I'^TV"'' 
 
 SMOKING OUT, THE MONSTER. 
 
 317 
 
 8 with his 
 ick or de- 
 the crowd 
 
 abont ten 
 tDself and 
 ,11. 
 
 r the 'side 
 n instant 
 rew it in- 
 i^ards the 
 id smoul- 
 to satisfy 
 
 his gijn, 
 tooktip 
 
 burning 
 'hat had 
 opening 
 he room, 
 . They 
 ttickfy, 
 g» and 
 leir only 
 ir heads 
 Eind this 
 
 tamed by the hope that their enemy below was 
 feehng it worse than they were/and that he would 
 Boon relax his vigilant watch and fly. But alas I 
 that enemy showed no signs of flight, and it so^n 
 became evident to them and to those outside, that V 
 all the smoke went to the upper room, to oppress 
 the prisoners, and but little spread through the 
 lower room ; so little, indeed, that the wild boar 
 did not feel any inconvenience in particular. 
 
 "Can't you do something? » ^sked Clive, implor- 
 mgly. \ ^ 
 
 "We can't stand this much longer," said David 
 despairingly, with streaming eyes, and choking 
 voice. ° 
 
 Their words sounded faint and low amidst the 
 jejlmg of the crowd behind the house, who still 
 maintained their stations there, from preference, 
 and kept up their.terrific outcry. Amid the yells ■ 
 there came occasional anxious inquiries as to the 
 success of their efforts. At times messengers 
 would venture from the rear to the front to recon. 
 noitre. These messengers, however, were only 
 lew m number, a^d their reconnoitring was of the 
 most superficial description possible. 
 
 The latest experiment of the ^uide was the 
 cause of more freq^ent and more urgent inquiries. 
 So JPany„ h andkerc|iieis hod been iaves i ed in thia 
 
 -S?" 
 
 f 
 
 ilingmg 
 forward 
 )re BUS' 
 
 last venture, that it was brought nearer home than 
 before. Each man feltihatlie was concerned peiv 
 Bonully in the affaii-; that, in fapt, he, in th^e shape 
 
 •'■Tw ■ 
 

 318 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 of a representative of so important a kind as his 
 own handkerchief, was already inside, and assailing 
 the . obstinate monster with a more terrible arm 
 than any which had yet been employed - smoke 
 and. fire. \ 7 ". 
 
 But the clamor of the crowd had not so much 
 effect on the little band in froni^ as the sight of 
 poor Clive and David, who, clinging to the window 
 with their feces flushed, and their.eyes red, swot 
 len and streaming with tears, appeared unable to 
 hold dwi much longer. 
 
 ^ !! ?n something or other, quick," cried Clive. 
 I II have to jurtp down," said David. 
 
 _ And both or them tried to push themselves far- 
 ther out, while thei^j^s w^re turned down, and 
 they seemed anxiously measuring with their eyes 
 the distance between themselves and the ground 
 
 I" > 
 
 
 i 
 
 
id as bis 
 assailing 
 ible arm 
 — smoke 
 
 so much 
 sight of 
 window 
 3d, swot 
 nable to 
 
 ?Iive. 
 
 Ives far- 
 wn, and 
 3ir eyes 
 round. 
 
 
 THE LAST APPEAL. 
 
 ,J%- ■<^' 
 
 319 
 
 •V 
 
 CHAPTER XXVIIL 
 
 7^e Salamander inaccessible to Fire. — The last Appeal. — 
 Frank takes Action. — He fires. — Casualty to Frank 
 and Bob. — Onset of the Monster. — Flight. ~ Tremen- 
 dous Sensation. -^ The Guide's Story. — Another Legend 
 ofAlbano. — On to Rome. 
 
 p|OR some time Frank had felt an intolerable 
 impatience, and had been deliberating in 
 his own mind about the best way of ending 
 a/cene which was not only painful to the poor 
 .prisoners, but humiliating to himself. In spite, 
 however, of the immense odds in vfavor of the 
 attacking party, Frank could not think of any way 
 of making those odds available under present cir- 
 cumstances, when the last plaintive appeal and 
 the desperate proposal of CHve and David came to 
 his ears. He saw that they were suffering tortures, 
 from the smoke,, that they could not endure it 
 much' longer, and that they would have to ma'ke a 
 descent from the window. To prevent thi« ,^nd 
 
 the danger that might result from it, Frank 
 solved upon immediate action. 
 So he grasped^his rusty fowling-piece with 
 
 re- 
 
 a 
 
 ^. 
 
 44 J. ■ 
 
 fe/ii. ^Kk ^ \ 
 
y; •p-'_^- i^^.-flF^.,-,-' 
 
 ■■'";v,':i'jf'si'^;^>'iM^ 
 
 320 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. ' 
 
 ■fir 
 
 ilc' 
 
 deadly purpose, and rushed to the narrow door-^ 
 way of the old house. Bob followed at once with 
 his pitchfork, resolved to go wherever Frank leid 
 the way, and to stand by him at all hazards. The 
 guide stood looking on. Uncle Moses also stood 
 still, and made a. feeble attempt to order the two 
 boys back ; but his words were neither -heard nor 
 heeded. At this David and Clive stopped in their 
 desperate design, and looked down at Frank and 
 Bob. - . 
 
 Frank stood by the dootway. , 
 
 He put his head inside, and looked all around, 
 cautiously, yet resolutely. The interior, howeyer, 
 was always .a dark place; and now the fumes of 
 blue smoke made it yet darker. But though jhis 
 eyes saw nothing of the fierce beast, his ears cottld 
 detect the rustle and the crackle which wfere pro- 
 duced by the motion of something among ,ihe 
 xfegots. This noise showed him plainly where' it 
 mlist be. - ' 
 
 Thereupon he hesitated no longer. 
 
 He raised hip rusty fowling-piece to ms 
 shoulder I ^^^ 
 
 He^jtooic deadly aim 1 
 
 He fired ! 
 
 Bangui 
 
 The flash illumined the dark interior, and t|ie 
 smoke from the gun Jinited with t h e sm ok e 
 
 was already there. But simultaneous with the 
 bang and the "flash, Frank felt hjmsell* hurled bac 
 
 
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 f 
 
 CASUALTY TO PRANK AND BOB. 321 
 
 ward and to the ground, knocked aown by the 
 recoil of the gun, flat on his back. 
 
 Up rushed Bob, full of the deepest anxiety. 
 
 F.^nl ^T ^' ^' '"^"''"^ *^" P'^^t'-^te form of 
 Frank there was a hurried clatter fro^ within 
 and then -down healso went- head first -over 
 thl. r;-^*^"^^^ down by some rushing figure 
 
 th ough the doorway, and was now careering 
 wildly over the fields. »reering 
 
 Uncle Moses saw that figure, and then hurried 
 up to his two prostrate boys. 
 
 David and Clive from their stations at the win- 
 dowsawit,and then instantly hurried down the 
 ladder, and out of the house, where they stood 
 panting and staring wildly at vacancy. 
 
 The guide saw it, and as he saw it there came 
 over his ace an expression of an. utterly inde. 
 Bcribable kind. He clasped his hands together 
 
 th« '^TuT^ ' '''''' '^' ^^^'-"^ations for which 
 the English language, or indeed any other Ian- 
 guage but the Italian, can afford no equivalent. 
 
 vooTf^ . "'V^'"' '*"°^^°^ with clasped I^ands, 
 vociferating and staring, in company with David 
 
 8prun.rr'/'r T\"^ fig-ef Frank liad 
 sprung to his feet, and soliad Bob; Uncle Moses, 
 
 
 ~X 
 
 tT' "!.'."; *" "* "'*■» "'»»'' »««"■"& with 
 
 feohuga that defy description, at the ecene before 
 
 21 
 
 »• 
 
 
 -iK-4 
 

 / \ . 
 
 / 
 
 322 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGAND3. 
 
 
 '■\ 
 
 What was thia scene that thus held their gaze ? 
 
 Well, in the first place, there was that valley, 
 already so familiar to David and Clive — a smooth 
 slope on either side, some olive trees near, but 
 beyond that all bare, and no houses visible in that 
 direction. Now, over this open space there was 
 running — so swift and so stVaight that it was 
 evidently iippelled by pain or panic — what ? 
 
 A little black pig I 
 
 A pig, small, as has just been said, an ordinary 
 domestic pig — of no particular breed — the com- 
 monest- of animals. Moreover, it was black. It 
 was also, undoubtedly, as has just been remarked, 
 either suffering from some of the shot of Frank's 
 rusty gun, or from the terror that might have been 
 excited by its report. And now this little black 
 pig was running as fast as its absurd little legs 
 could carry it — far away across the fields. 
 
 « O, holy saints 1 "j cried the guide ; « it's the 
 little black pig, that w,edpis8ed Rom the convent 
 yesterday morning — the pig — tba little black 
 pig — the pig — the pig I Is it possibly ? 0,-i8 
 it possible?" 
 
 Every word of this was heard by the tKiys. 
 They understood it all now. It seemed also th^ 
 the little black pig, having accomplished as much 
 mischief as any single pig can ever hope to bring 
 abottt, was evidently making the best xjfitrway to 
 its home, and steering straight for the convent. 
 Tj^a they eaw^ ^d they gazed in silence^ Nothing 
 
' i '."Si 
 
 / 
 
 r gaze? 
 t valley, 
 i smooth 
 Bar, but 
 ) in that 
 lere was 
 it was 
 It? 
 
 )rdinary 
 the com- 
 ack. It 
 marked, 
 Frank's 
 ive been 
 le black 
 tie legs 
 
 it's the 
 convent 
 e black 
 ? 0, is 
 
 THE guide's story. 
 
 323 
 
 wa« 3aid, for nothing could be .aid. Tl.ey could 
 not even look at one another. David and ('1^^ 
 were of course the most cre.tJe : 't^ 
 others had equal cause for humiliation. liLm 
 
 that If ,t had really been a wild boar, Flank's act 
 
 tit , r.li"''" ""' ^^"^ """J ^ he acted u^der 
 the belief tb^t it was ao, it w«s imdoubtedly'darin/ 
 
 and pl„ck/and self-sacrificing , but; .u^^^^^ 
 he conclus,on of the affair did not allow himlo' 
 look upon It m that light 
 
 matled T''^ "•' "'"''' '^«'"'«' '^^^ house 
 maintained their ehouts and outcries. Under the 
 
 circn^stances, this uproar became shocking^ 
 absurd, and out of place ; so the guide hastened ^ 
 p/t an end to it On the whole, he-thought it was 
 ±,7:"" "■"■'" '° '^" '^^ •^"*''. for the truth 
 
 I L r '" *^^""' "'* ^"'^ P™P'« of AHia. 
 90, that they would, undoubtedly^have taken ven- 
 
 geance on the strangers for such a disgrace „ this. ■ 
 
 guide's atory became an idgalized version. ' I 
 Itjas so«,ething to the following effect:- ' 
 1^^!;^ » y ;''' ■ ' o ' Vhe >>id, had been lam^^ 
 
 beeh^^fraid fo come forth and fece so mSny I^ ' 
 
 H 
 
 ■ ' '« ; : 
 
 r^^-^xi . , — "^" "" many ene- 
 
 I^the guide) had therefore determii^a 
 
 fe^t-rs^.*"'"**"". 
 
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 ^.,. 
 
 \ 
 
 324 
 
 AMONG THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 to tr}' to s^ioke him oilt, and had borrowod their 
 handkerchiefs for that pulrpose, as there were no 
 other combustibles to be had. Of this thejr were 
 already aware. He had tied the^haridlTerchiefs 
 togetheir "in such a way that they would burn, and 
 after setting fire to them, had hurled the blazing 
 tfiass into the house. There it emitted its sti- 
 fling fumes till they confused, suffocated, fright- 
 ened, and confounded the lurking wild boar. Then, 
 in Jhe midst of this, the heroic youth, armed with 
 his gi:n, rushed forward and poured the deadly 
 contents of his piece into the' body of the beast. 
 Tad it been any other animal, it would undoubted- 
 ly^have perished ; but the wild boar has a hide like 
 sheet iron, and this one was merely irritated by 
 the shot. Still, though not actually wounded, he 
 was enraged, and at the same time frightened. In 
 his rage and fear he started from his lurking-place ; 
 he bounded lorth, and made a savage attack upon 
 the party in frbnt of the house. They stood ifcheir 
 ground firmly ahd heroically, and beat him ofi"; 
 whereupon, in desj^air, he turned and fled, van- 
 quished, to his lair inN^e Alban tunnel. -'» 
 
 In this way the guide^ vivid imagination |aved 
 the travellers from the Julw of the Alban peopleyr 
 by preventing that fury, andWjplying in its' place 
 self-complacency. The Alban popple felt satisfied 
 
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 ^^08 tttitt with thi s s iu ^ y^ They a u - 
 cepted it as undonbted ; they toqk it to their homes 
 jfld tQ theii^ j^^El^rts; they e^plargad, a4orned,im- 
 
 
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 THE guide's story. 
 
 
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 325 
 
 proved and lengthened it out, until, finally, it 
 assumed the amplest proportion, and became one 
 ot the mosf popular leg^ends of the place. What 
 18 still more wonderful, this very guide, who had 
 firs created it, told itsooftento ptl^iesof tonrS 
 that he at length grew to believe every word of it 
 himself; and the fact that he had ^eeh an actor in 
 that scene never failed to make his story quite 
 credible to his hearers. / 4 "« 
 
 At this time, however, he had not advanced so 
 tar, and he was able to toll the actual facts of the 
 case to the boys and Uncle Moses. 
 Th«y were these : — 
 
 At the convent they kept a number of^igs, and 
 on the previous day, early in the morning, they 
 had missed the very animal which had created this 
 extraordinary scene. He had escaped in some 
 way from his pen, M had fled for parts tihknown. 
 They had searched %^, but in vain: He must 
 have wandered to this old house at the first, and 
 ^aken up bis quarters here iintil he was so rudelv 
 
 t^71 "^ r. ^ **''^' ^^ ^^^^« ««"ld ««ly hope 
 that the httle_J)Iack.pig would le^ a lesson from 
 
 this of the evils of running away from home. 
 
 To all this the boys listened without toy ihterert 
 
 whate^r, and did not condescend to n&ke any * 
 
 remarks. The guide. himself benam. ftjngnlnrlj 
 
 -TfQIn-teresting lu^tEiTr eyes; tod the^g^ rid of 
 him as soon as possible, paying him hberally, hov- 
 eyer, for the; additional^ tpjuble to "which ^hey had 
 
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 326 
 
 AlCOKO THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 
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 put him. Uncle Moses also had some words of 
 remoiistrance, mingled with congratulation, to offer 
 to David and Clive ; but these also were heard in 
 silence. They might have found ample excuse for 
 their delay in this ruined house; but they did not 
 feel inclined to offer any excuses whatever. 
 
 The fact is, this reduction of the great wild 
 ^oar to the very insignificant proportions of a little 
 black pig — Commonplace, paltry, and altogether 
 contemptible — was too much for their sensitive 
 natures. It had placed them all in a false position. 
 They w«$re not cowards, but they had all been 
 alarmed % the most despicable of animais. Frank 
 feltyWfoundly humiliated, and reflected, with a 
 W^fupon the absurd figure that he had made of 
 ^imself in hesitating so long before such an ene- 
 y, and then advancing upon it in such a way. 
 Bob's feelings were- very similar. But it was for 
 David and Clive that the deepest mortification 
 was reserved. They had been the cause of it all. 
 It was their vivid imaginations which had con- 
 jured up out of nothing a terrible wild beast, 
 which had'^ept them prisoner^ there for hours 
 in loneliness and hunger, and which had thrown 
 ridicule upon the population of Albano, by draw- 
 ing them fortli to do battle with one poor Tittle 
 harmless runaway pig. 
 
 ^ 
 
 -il they walked Backlo the hotel, they kept fer^ 
 in the rear of the citizens of Albano; and Uncle 
 Moses began to "improre" the occasion, and 
 moralized in a solemn strain. 
 
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 UNCLE MOSES REMOXSTBATES. 327 
 
 " Wal," said he, "my dear boys, I must say that 
 you hev one and all the greatest talent fbr gittin' 
 yourselves into trouble that I ever see. Ever 
 senco we landed on these ilLfated shores you've 
 ben a-goin' it, and a dri vin' of me wild with anxiety 
 and the only thing I can say is, that thus far your 
 misadventoors hain't turned out so bad as I have 
 feared m each individdool case. In fact thar's 
 alius ben what they call a anticlimax ; that is, jest 
 at the moment when thar'd ought to be a te-rific 
 di^ster, thar's ben nothin' but some trivial or 
 augherble tummination. Now, I'm free to confess, 
 boys that thus far my fears hev ben gerroundlessi 
 Im free to say that thus far thar hain't ben what 
 we can conscuentiously call a accident. But what 
 of that? The incidents hev all ben thar. Every 
 individdool thing that can make a accident has ben 
 thar — It's ony^the conclusion that has somehow 
 broke down. And now I ask you, boys, what air 
 we gom' to do about it ? Is this to go on forever ? 
 Ib It perrobable that advuss circumstances air 
 gom' to alius eventooate thus? I don't believe it. 
 The pitcher that goes often to the fountain is broke 
 at last, and depend upon it, if yon go for to carry 
 on this way, and thrust yourselves in every danger 
 that comes in your way — somcthin'll happen — 
 mind I tell ^-" " ^^ 
 
 This, and much more of the same sort, did Uncle 
 Moses say ; but to all of it the boys paid verylittle 
 - •i?*"* ^^^ ^*''^' *^® ^''^J®^* was to all of them 
 
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 BO painful a one, that they could not bear to have 
 it bi*ought forward even as the text of a Sermon. 
 They only wanted to forget all about it as soon as 
 possible, and let it sink into complete oblivion. 
 
 On reaching the hotel they found that it was 
 quite late ; but they were eager to go on. Albano, 
 the historic^ had lostvjall its charms for them. They 
 did not wish to remain a moment longer. They 
 could not hdpe now to see Rome to advantage, lor 
 the daylight would be over long before they could 
 enter the city ; still they were determined to go on 
 to Rome, even if they had to enter it after dark. 
 Accordingly, the carriage was made ready as soon 
 as possible ; Clive and David procured some frag- 
 ments of jfood, which they took into the carriage 
 with them, to devour on their way ; and thus they 
 left Albano, and drove on to Rome. 
 
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