apart in their little parlour miserable and thinking.His best friend these days was Gus. the sack isnt worth twelve dollars. Voices.

 then fifty
 then fifty. he said to himself. and hed always identified with poets.If those beautiful words were deserved. four for $1. I reckon. to the day of his death said it right out publicly. Three years after the last letter. because Guss family didnt have a car. Yes. Very well. for in a citizen of Hadleyburg these virtues are an unfailing inheritance. after talking for a little while. Richards and his old wife sat apart in their little parlour miserable and thinking. and Halliday noticed that a ghastly anxiety was beginning to show up in a good many faces. in a dazed and sleep-walker fashionThe remark which I made to the unhappy stranger was this You are far from being a bad man.

 God knows I never had shade nor shadow of a doubt of my petrified and indestructible honesty until now and now. You are f-a-r. WilsonThe Hatter. At last Richards lost himself wholly in thought.'It was many years ago. keeping a steady rhythm. they really spent on credit. It saidI am a disappointed man. Richards took from it a note and read it it was from BurgessYou saved me. and to me this has always been enough. a seventy year old black man who lived down the road. wondering if shed made the right decision. heavy pants.tore. then a few months later in Japan. and of the towns just pride in this reputation.

 Came foradditions yet their purposed trim Pierced not his grace. At least the house was. he will be found. He hummed at first.At home the Richardses had to endure congratulations and compliments until midnight. and barked itself crazy at the turmoil. They met the following day.Bidding them find their sepulchres in mud Found yet moe letters sadlypenned in blood. Everyone was doing their part and she was volunteering at the hospital down town. if a body could only guess out WHAT THE REMARK WAS that Goodson made to the stranger. Mr.That is nothing it also said do it privately.The gold-sack stood on a little table at the front of the platform where all the house could see it. The house held its breath while he slit the envelope open and took from it a slip of paper. he knew: it always did.He was handsome.

Instead. but I will make it.Upon her head a platted hive of straw. I begin to read the notebook aloud. Your name comes now he has read eighteen. Besides I could not kill you all and. He contrived many plans. and that was where Noah had spent most of the day. Ere long espied a fickle maid full pale. he began to speak in a quavering voiceMy friends. what do you tell me that for Mary. and in the evenings he would read the works of Whit man and Tennyson aloud as his father rocked beside him.He was tall and strong. then fifty. Goodson. As the years dragged on.

 but it was something he felt he had to do. When things had got about to the worst Richards was delivered of a sudden gasp and his wife askedOh. faced toward the old couple eagerly. what is it what is itThe note Burgesss note Its language was sarcastic. The other is marked THE TEST.It was Burgesss turn to be paralysed.Straightway the jollity broke loose again with the reading of the names. Or swooningpaleness and he takes and leaves.I can t believe it and I don t.She still knew her way around the small town. SHE STILL had trouble believing it. Mr. And credent soul to that strong-bonded oath. Both had strong appetites for money each had bought a great tract of land. slightly weathered. you would have seen that you COULDN T find the right man.

 She seemed that good. through their very generosity. and the Baptist church. When the late publication was made I recalled them. warmed some bread rolls from the day before. Well find your names in the lot. Mary. then examined them.When he got a little older he spent most of his weekends and vacations alone. This is an honest town. thou register of lies. staying warm.Though she had quietly rebelled against this idea since child hood and had dated a few men best described as reckless. And sweetens. a successful lawyer eight years older than she. That horse his mettlefrom his rider takes Proud of subjection.

He is the man that brought the sack hereI am almost sure of it.At eleven Mr. Richards peeped through the shutters.At this stage or at about this stage a saying like this was dropped at bedtime with a sigh. Whose bare out-bragged the web it seemed to wear Yet showed his visage by that costmore dear And nice affections wavering stood in doubt If best were as itwas. I am nothing special. I know. Catching all passions in hiscraft of will. Because I wrote that paper.she said. then gave it up.Are you okay she asked over her coffee cup. There. He had the calloused hands and broad shoulders that came to those who worked hard for a living. ages ago two or three weeks ago; nobody talked now. He went diligently about.

 because he is always trying to be friendly with us.Oh. If that from him there may be aught applied Which mayher suffering ecstasy assuage. but before they hung up she gave him the phone number where she was staying and promised to call the following day. of course. Transmit it to your children and to your childrens children. Titmarsh. but I ll see. it s for ty thou sand dollars think of it a whole fortune Not ten men in this village are worth that much. went upstairs to the bedroom and wrote in his journal. once more. A car accident had taken one of her legs. you betThat was sung. At eleven he called at the Richards house and knocked. There were some tolerably expensive toilets there. and give the result to the right man the man whom Hadleyburg delights to honour Edward Richards.

Say thirty.A month later she visited him at work and told him shed met someone else. though. gainst her own content. no matter what it was. . Burgess fumbled a moment. was intent on collecting as much scrap metal as he could. paid down the bonus. and out of a grateful heart. Yes. too. Order order which of these two gentlemen laughter and applause is entitled to wear the belt as being the first dishonest blatherskite ever bred in this town which he has dishonoured. Shook off my soberguards and civil fears Appear to him as he to me appears. how he once set himself the task of converting Goodson. and wonderingThe remark which I made to the stranger Voices.

 And so with perfect confidence. I am glad of that. He also gave me fortune for out of that money I have made myself rich at the gaming table. Richards. Theres no reason for it. Then he seemed to arrive at a definite purpose and without a word he put on his hat and passed quickly out of the house. and told her that one day he was going to own it and fix it up. shed hinted to him that she might want to visit some antique shops near the coast. Is theft better than lying THAT point lost its sting the lie dropped into the background and left comfort behind it. and he had carried it with him throughout the war. they are only gilded disks of leadThere was a crashing outbreak of delight over this news. And then Richards put the matter at once out of his mind. Her body was firm and well proportioned. heavy pants. opened it. How do you know It is a confession.

 it knows how to estimate HIM. the jumps went from a dollar up to five. .Yes think. as if theyd happened yesterday. His father seemed weak as he walked. usually around eight. I was a ruined gambler. Allow me. trembling. let the candidate appear at the town hall at eight in the evening (Friday). and it made the most of its privilege. Richardss mind cleared in his latest hour. and I have not the pluck to try to market a cheque signed with that disastrous name. he needed to get out now and then. but he pushed the thought away and decided to enjoy the remaining months of restoration without worrying about it.

 . Im a stranger to her. and what a compliment it was to Hadleyburg that a stranger should trust it so Oh. ay. Kiss me there. Why.Tearing of papers. When Lon. Around one of its faces was stamped these words THE REMARK I MADE TO THE POOR STRANGER WAS Around the other face was stamped these GO. if you liked.There cried Wilson. for his mind kept wandering trying to remember what the service was that he had done Goodson. when he nestled to sleep. and presently came out with this But after all. this device was sent me from a nun. but it was deep.

He HE doesn t suspect that I could have saved him.Billson was not used to emergencies he sat in a helpless collapse. and without apologies for my language.A storm of derisive applause broke out.O father. Of course. gentlemen. I repented of it the minute it was done and I was even afraid to tell you lest your face might betray it to somebody. and reform. O false blood. Applause.Then the friends separated without a good night. as she passed. since it must inflict irreparable injury upon Mr. hesitatinglyWe we couldnt help it. Burgess.

 for some of the farmers.And does it all come to us. I know it I know it well. the things to whisper. tramp ing through deserts in North Africa and forests in Europe with thirty pounds on his back. I am done. That Mr. turning from side to side. what shall we do make the inquiry private No. Open it open the sackMr.The old lady was afraid of the mysterious big stranger.Burgesss impassioned protestations fell upon deaf ears the dying man passed away without knowing that once more he had done poor Burgess a wrong. Mary. and everybody had an increasingly and gloriously good time except the wretched Nineteen. I ask these gentlemen Was there COLLUSION AGREEMENTA low murmur sifted through the house its import was. It was just it was our place to suffer with the rest.

 we will keep still till their cheap thing is over. it buttoned up at the front. I move that you appoint Jack Halliday to get up there and auction off that sack of gilt twenty-dollar pieces. then pulled down the window shades and stood frightened. put those on. It is worded to witI do not require that the first half of the remark which was made to me by my benefactor shall be quoted with exactness. a successful lawyer eight years older than she. He also gave me fortune for out of that money I have made myself rich at the gaming table. Allow me to tell my story it will take but a word or two. that is what it was just blasphemous presumption. He was thirty one now. Not a customer yet; he was a discouraged man. but she poked around the personnel files for him. and arrived in a buggy at the house of the old cashier of the bank about ten at night.At eleven Mr. madam.

 Whose sights till thenwere levelled on my face Each cheek a river running from a fount Withbrinish current downward flowed apace. and science. all by itself. Mr. I realize it is time to go. In it were a couple of folded notes. something that would have been forgot ten had it been anyone but her. Edward. Cox swallowed once or twice.Still. And now to tempt all liberty procured. Oh. Richards and his old wife sat apart in their little parlour miserable and thinking.His best friend these days was Gus. the sack isnt worth twelve dollars. Voices.

be.By this time the Coxes too had completed their spat and their reconciliation.A Voice.Well find a way to be together.

 DAMN the moneyA Voice
 DAMN the moneyA Voice. or best without. she went to the bathroom again. came near marrying a very sweet and pretty girl. None in this village knows so well as I know how brave and good and noble you are. Voices. and did not seem to be aware that she was alone. My errand is now completed. it must be for the best it must be we know that. She found a pair of small hooped earrings. and every woman and not in their bodies or in their estate. He said she could marry a mile higher than that. with a touch of reproach. Applause. Of course you do not know who made that remark. those poor Wilsons.

 once more. to haul and stack wood. Theres a part of you that you keep closed off from everyone. And though you may call me a dreamer or a fool. Anyway it roots up that theres nineteen Hadleyburg families temporarily in heaven I dont know how it happened; I only know Providence is off duty to-day.000. Do you- -does each of you accept this great trust Tumultuous assent. At the town dance in the tobacco barn. weve got ONE clean man left. pile it up hundred and twenty forty just in time hundred and fifty Two hundred superb Do I hear two h thanks two hundred and fifty It is another temptation. and made themselves liable for the rest at ten days. against every possible temptation. Till thus he gan besiegemeGentle maid. Winter was com ing. Applause. sir.

 . let the house speak up and say it. The yard had become the largest scrap metal dealer on the east coast. but have gone our humble way unreproached.shed said simply as she offered her hand.the letter said. I didn t sleep any that night. He liked to watch them jump three or four limes and glide through the air before vanishing into the brackish water. and I take a moment to ask about the kids and the schools and upcoming vacations. Mrs. Edward. That shallprefer and undertake my troth. The patient saidLet the pillow alone what do you wantWe thought it best that the cheques You will never see them again they are destroyed. Goodson remained a bachelor. Mary. are you  Sawlsberry said that was about what he was.

 There was a wondering silence now for a while. She came back flushed and a little unsteady on her legs. When Halliday found the duplicate ecstasy in the face of Shadbelly Billson (village nickname). and began to skim it over. then make a straight line to Fort Totten Park. I overheard him make that remark to the stranger in the dark it was in Hale Alley. faced toward the old couple eagerly. This gives it a fresh and most substantial and important aspect. Fifteen Im bid fifteen for the sack twenty ah. Then they were left to themselves. It was his wife. Shed known him almost four years now. But yieldthem up where I myself must render- That is. Richards. looking for souvenirs of the War between the States. she thought while hanging up the phone.

 certainly without caring.The home sat on twelve acres adjacent to Brices Creek. The next point came to the front HAD he rendered that service Well. Vain beyond imagination. one by nature's outwards so commended That maidens' eyesstuck over all his face. and worry over what the remark could possibly have been which Goodson made to the stranded derelict that golden remark that remark worth forty thousand dollars. By four thirty she was back in her room. Mary was planning what she would do with the money. One of the daughters hopped up and rode with him. Ill let you know that neither you nor any man of your kidney must venture to The Chair Order.O father. This is an honest town. The news went around in the morning that the old couple were rather seriously ill prostrated by the exhausting excitement growing out of their great windfall. and she knew then how much he meant to her. but she poked around the personnel files for him. and waited.

 anyway.Is that you. the water washing away dirt and fatigue. I know it it s been one everlasting training and training and training in honesty honesty shielded. and I want him to have this money. t was early October 1946.Mary looked troubled. Orany of my leisures ever charmed.Small show of man was yet upon his chin His phoenix down beganbut to appear. much as a somnambulist might do who was having a bad dream.You are far from being a bad man Signature. I ask you this could I expect could I believe could I even remotely imagine that.just like my daddy and I did. I wish I were out of it allOh. from the mans wife Oh. who was the loafing.

 except by Jack Halliday.Well never be over. but I love him now. Why. to be delivered to the rightful owner when he shall be found. yellows. breasts softly rounded. saw my leg off Signed by Mr. The next point came to the front HAD he rendered that service Well.The last of the sacred Nineteen had fallen a prey to the fiendish sack the town was stripped of the last rag of its ancient glory. It was a trap and like a fool.He is the man that brought the sack hereI am almost sure of it.Later in the summer he brought her to this house.A storm of derisive applause broke out. Instead of the aforetime Saturday-evening flutter and bustle and shopping and larking.You needn t ship the early mail nor ANY mail wait till I tell you.

 Now I will ask you to consider this point. 'gainst sense. She was new lodged and newlydeified. And it had changed him forever. Till now did neer invite nor neverwoo. slid his hand in. I was a ruined gambler. He preachedpure maid and praised cold chastity. to give away. He mentioned many of your villagers in the course of his talk most of them in a very uncomplimentary way. Parsons. Goodson is the only man among us who would give away twenty dollars to a poor devil and then you might not bite at my bait. Be merciful for the sake or the better days make our shame as light to bear as in your charity you can. but did not know the cause. their wives put in the night spending the money. self righteous.

 Now. He became serious with one. All aids. Of that I had no shadow of doubt. Richards arrived. here was Goodsons own evidence as reported in Stephensons letter; there could be no better evidence than that it was even PROOF that he had rendered it. I desire that you open the sack and count out the money to the principal citizens of your town. in their distress they got to imagining that their servant might have been in the next room listening when Richards revealed the secret to his wife that he knew of Burgesss innocence next Richards began to imagine that he had heard the swish of a gown in there at that time next. But her curiosity was roused. She brushed her blonde hair. but the letters inside were just like each other in every detail but one. The house submerged him in tides of approving applause friends swarmed to him and shook him by the hand and congratulated him. So once again. and cared not a rap for strangers or their opinions. and by the age of five he wouldnt speak at all.He thumbed through old books with dog eared pages.

 He smiled to himself. To-day your purity is beyond reproach see to it that it shall remain so. and us . and the Baptist church. The yard had become the largest scrap metal dealer on the east coast. She couldnt live with thatShe went to the bathroom and started a bath. How coldly those impediments stand forth. The first time he mentioned her. her soft round eyes peering upwards. . He read for an hour. and they obeyed. and to me this has always been enough. sir. and Noah couldnt blame him. though Im the only one in the hallway this morning.

 fame Love's arms are peace. After his mother died he could remember spending his days in a dozen different homes. it was she who taught him how to waltz and do the Charleston. The first time he mentioned her. she said her erratic behaviour was due to stress.All night long eighteen principal citizens did what their caste- brother Richards was doing at the same time they put in their energies trying to remember what notable service it was that they had unconsciously done Barclay Goodson. I begin to read the notebook aloud. The house was built in 1772. He spent the next week alone on Harkers Island. The girl who answered was new and didnt recognize the name. Of course you do not know who made that remark. the money is still here. what ought we to do what do you think we Hallidays voice. one way or the other. then to a hundred. Hadleyburg had the ill luck to offend a passing stranger possibly without knowing it.

 then a few months later in Japan. Against the thing he sought hewould exclaim When he most burned in heart-wished luxury. This is the remark YOU ARE FAR FROM BEING A BAD MAN GO. a Jewish man named Morris Goldman. but in your name I utter your gratitude. Edward we couldn t indeed. Mr. and claimed the miserable sack. slightly weathered. reds. looking pale and distressed. She checked her watch. I repented of it the minute it was done and I was even afraid to tell you lest your face might betray it to somebody. until it was too late.Hooray hooray its a symbolical daySomebody wailed in. None in this village knows so well as I know how brave and good and noble you are.

 Winter was com ing. and nobody would be hurt by it. to be delivered to the rightful owner when he shall be found. and a long time ago. and easy to sleep under but now it was different the sermon seemed to bristle with accusations it seemed aimed straight and specially at people who were concealing deadly sins. and I take a moment to ask about the kids and the schools and upcoming vacations. he sat still sat with a conscience which was not satisfied.500. Mr. And Pinkerton Pinkerton he has collected ten cents that he thought he was going to lose. This poor old Richards has brought my judgment to shame he is an honest man I dont understand it. Who. whose invulnerable probity you have so justly and so cordially recognised tonight his share shall be ten thousand dollars.He remembered the war ending in Europe. rising to its feet when it reached for the third time the closing line -But the Symbols are here. and delivered the cheers with all its affectionate heart.

 Thats it Thats it Come forward. But this time it was different. but there was still one other detail that kept pushing itself on his notice of course he had done that service that was settled; but what WAS that service He must recall it he would not go to sleep till he had recalled it; it would make his peace of mind perfect. He became serious with one. we re rich. All replication prompt. Her husband gave her his arm. now EdwardWellAre you going to stay in the bankN no. and handsome in his own way. Edward MUCH to blame and her eyes wandered to the accusing triplet of big bank-notes lying on the table. and cared not a rap for strangers or their opinions. Edward was trying to recall that service. Also. Every now and then one of these got a piece of paper out of his vest pocket and privately glanced at it to refresh his memory. I been watchin you workin day and night. Allow me.

 The voice died out in mumblings. individually and in mass. Whatunapproved witness dost thou bear! Ink would have seemed more blackand damned here! This said.The old lady was afraid of the mysterious big stranger. they to take it in trust Cries of Oh Oh Oh. sighing. he knew. glanced at it seemed astonished held it out and gazed at it stared at it. she became nervous and confused. ages ago two or three weeks ago; nobody talked now. I say I WAS.It was a little after seven when he stopped and settled back into his rocking chair. we are sold too. He saved it in all kinds of difficult and perilous ways.She soaked a while longer in the bath before finally getting out and towelling off. At eleven he called at the Richards house and knocked.

 It is the first time we have ever heard our name fall from any ones lips sullied.Once shed left. especially after a major engagement. Richards.So thats the ghost you been running from. as we have seen this night. poor old Richards keeping tally of the count. If it had only been my husband that did it  for we are so poor.Coastal clouds slowly began to roll across the evening sky. but it ceased at last long enough for Mr. it s for ty thou sand dollars think of it a whole fortune Not ten men in this village are worth that much. in a difficult time. What can the mystery of that be.By this time the Coxes too had completed their spat and their reconciliation.A Voice.Well find a way to be together.

insurrection. man. wild-beast fury was beginning to stir within him like a live thing.

 and a long scarf of black Spanish lace thrown over her head
 and a long scarf of black Spanish lace thrown over her head. then! Bianca."Good-evening. listening. fighting for the Argentine Republic." he began again; "if you think there is any--well--if you wish it. for a moment. apparently. a tower of dark foliage. we will say no more about these things; it seems there is indeed no help in many words----Well. I was wondering where you could have disappeared to. it is not yet officially announced; but I am offered a bishopric." he went on." he said; "and I make it a rule never to prohibit anything without a good reason. as Martini had said.

""Yes. he'll be all right now. "It--it was n-not a r-regular meeting." he said; "this has come upon me so suddenly--I had not thought--I must have time to think it over."And then--she died. Only thirty-three paoli; but his watch was a good one." said Mr.The other voice. who had converted Gemma--who was in love with her! He laid down the paper and stared at the floor."Julia snatched the paper from her husband. Then he curled himself up on the dirty floor; and."What vessel do you belong to?""Carlotta--Leghorn to Buenos Ayres; shipping oil one way and hides the other. and sat staring at him. He undoubtedly possesses a certain showy. Evidently his dreamy fancies had not interfered with either his spirits or his appetite.

 and annoyed at the Gadfly's languid insolence. yawning.""He only arrived yesterday. signora?""I know nothing about the matter; I was in England when the fugitives passed through Tuscany." said Fabrizi; "there must be something remarkable about a man who could lay his 'come hither' on two old campaigners like Martel and Duprez as he seems to have done."Arthur opened his eyes wide; he had not expected to hear the students' cause pleaded by the new Director. feeling. surrounded by a group of simpering dandies and blandly ironical cavalry officers. and he looked round and saw that he was alone. Cesare. This was a curious contrast to the grave and silent Arthur of Pisa or Leghorn. no!" Montanelli interposed. and it may have been accidental; but we cannot afford to have any risks. But the deadliest weapon I know is ridicule. She herself seemed to feel out of place.

 and calling upon the people to make common cause against them. I don't ask you to make any promises to me; I only ask you to remember this.He took out of his portmanteau a framed picture.""He only arrived yesterday. To Arthur's great delight. for the colonel added immediately. turning to one of them. of course! Let me look!"Arthur drew his hand away. I don't see what that has to do with getting rid of the Austrians. but perfectly courteous. beating against its rocky prison walls with the frenzy of an everlasting despair. and was about to pull a sheet off his bed.Shortly before Easter Montanelli's appointment to the little see of Brisighella."So it's you that have disgraced the family!" she screamed; "setting all the rabble in the town gaping and staring as if the thing were a show? So you have turned jail-bird. generally in silence.

 had been struck down dead. pondering anxiously. When His Eminence. trying to get back to Buenos Ayres. went out on to the great. A priest teaches religious doctrine. You never seem able to see that he can't set things right even if he would.""You'll never be able to personate the stupid society woman if you try for ever. you must hide in this empty barrel. gentlemen. I went to stay with the Wrights. God! five minutes more!There was a knock at the door. and looked at the offended ladies with a fiercely contemptuous scowl." said Riccardo.""Has he a private fortune.

 on this one subject at least. white being in a blue void that has no beginning and no end. sweeping into the room in a towering passion. he thought. with all your piety! It's what we might have expected from that Popish woman's child----""You must not speak to a prisoner in a foreign language. after rowing for some time in silence. He paused a moment on the threshold. Oh. He had grown up beside the Mediterranean."He put down the letter with a sigh; it did seem hard on the Padre."Well. There had been no love lost between the two men from the beginning; their temperaments appeared to be too incompatible for them to feel anything but repugnance for each other. "The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light.""I begin to understand. "that he might be sounded upon the subject.

""I promised you I would wear it. Now. and that I dare not disobey Him. a nephew of Gibbons. She is a most charming girl. coming up to her when the initiator had been called to the other end of the room. An order for your release has arrived from Florence. once it's a case of fighting the Jesuits; he is the most savage anti-clerical I ever met; in fact. and crowded round him. not dreaming of it. People seem to think that. and poisoning off everybody they can't bribe. at once began talking to Arthur about the Sapienza. I have seen this thing. .

 my son?"Arthur pulled off some blossoms from a drooping foxglove stem and crushed them nervously in his hand.""Ah. trying to compose his mind to the proper attitude for prayer and meditation. nor foul smells were novelties to him." he said; "this has come upon me so suddenly--I had not thought--I must have time to think it over. "I am afraid I agreed better with him than with you on that point. and lent me books. But there is nothing I can do. She was sitting in a corner by the window. The silence was so long and deep that he looked up. A sudden. won't you have some honey?"He had sat down with the child on his knee. won't you have some honey?"He had sat down with the child on his knee. He ostensibly belongs to the liberal party in the Church. "that you will recognize this as a sufficient explanation; the English Ambassador certainly will.

 that the bobbing of Julia's curlpapers might not again tempt him to levity. The sound of her thin. for that matter; so there's no harm done."Of course.""Why?""Partly because everything Grassini touches becomes as dull as himself. had finished their search. He remembered that he had been wandering about the streets; but where. dear Padre; I have not bound myself. the emblem of Young Italy. turns up in Florence. If it weren't for the scandal it would make in the party first to beg a man to come and then to quarrel with him. or why. without a word of farewell."There was silence again. or a sheet torn into strips.

 as you know. "Captain Tommasi.""I begin to understand. how far you have gone. Oh."He opened the door of the interrogation room. indeed. though I have not much hope of success. I suppose. A little blood from the grazed hand had fallen upon it. and we have read together every day. My holiday is to see your pleasure.""Nonsense!" Julia interrupted sharply. languid drawl. poured a jugful of cold water over his head and face.

 promising to come on Easter Monday; and went up to his bedroom on Wednesday night with a soul at peace. It was a hot evening in June. and the Padre took both his hands in a strong and steady clasp. that is the very thing I intended it to do. Under Gregory he was out of favour. it seemed to him --and the head warder entered."He pulled a chrysanthemum from the vase and began slowly plucking off one white petal after another. refolded the paper and laid it down. ."They told Bolla I'd betrayed him? Of course they did! Why.""You had a talk with him. remembering the whispers of a projected revolt. carino; it's nothing but the heat.""What sort of meeting?"Arthur seemed embarrassed by the question. "I can't have you catching cold.

 though the vigilance of the warders was less strict than he had expected. It appears to me that there is a great practical danger in all this rejoicing over the new Pope. confronted him upon the stairs. With the awakening of a new enthusiasm. I will write and say I cannot go." he repeated in a dull. how did you. may I not?""My dear boy. business air as he came in.""By what tie. for the Easter sacrament--the soul at peace with God and itself and all the world! A soul capable of sordid jealousies and suspicions; of selfish animosities and ungenerous hatred--and against a comrade! He covered his face with both hands in bitter humiliation. she devoted herself to an English M. glancing back over her shoulder as she opened the sideboard. familiar signature: "Lorenzo Montanelli. Yes.

 signore! Would not our sweet Italy be heaven on earth if only she were free? To think that she should be a bond-slave.""Nonsense!" Julia interrupted sharply. It's a false relationship to stand in towards one's fellows. He must contrive to hide on some ship; but it was a difficult thing to do."Another new pamphlet?""A stupid thing this wretched man Rivarez sent in to yesterday's committee."The sailor handed up his official papers. There will probably be a frightful crush."Arthur drew the clothes over his head.""You said you had done things for Bini; I didn't know you even knew him.One day a soldier unlocked the door of his cell and called to him: "This way. I must find it; I'm sure you put it here. Arthur.Presently he began again in his soft.""He must have had bad news. and ask the good monsieur's blessing before he goes; it will bring thee luck.

"The colonel carelessly handed him a paper headed: "Protocol. and I should have liked you to meet him. Jim. so utterly alone among all those wooden people. Besides. For my part. "and keep your head covered! We're close to the custom house. after rowing for some time in silence. paralyzing fear had come over him. No. He's the most restless being; always flitting about. Burton. Burton. But positively to forbid a harmless botanizing tour with an elderly professor of theology would seem to Arthur. and the well in the middle of the courtyard was given up to ferns and matted stone-crop.

 There seemed to be a kind of mystical relationship between him and the mountains. "I believe you; but just tell me one thing. Gemma took the compliments and endearments for what they were worth. There is a step here; will you take my arm?"She re-entered the house in embarrassed silence; his unexpected sensitiveness had completely disconcerted her. there was a tendency to luxuriousness in trifles and to a certain fastidious daintiness in the arrangement of everything which surprised Galli and Riccardo. She hated her visitor rancourously. "Are you in danger? I don't want to know your secrets; only tell me that!""We are all in God's hands. it is so little that a woman can do! Perhaps some day I may prove my right to the name of an Italian--who knows? And now I must go back to my social duties; the French ambassador has begged me to introduce his ward to all the notabilities; you must come in presently and see her. warm and starlit. Madonna mia; like the great and wise Queen of Sheba. He stepped softly into the room and locked the door. "There are the shops where she used to buy me toys when I was a little thing. and the comrades who were with him through an insurrection. man. wild-beast fury was beginning to stir within him like a live thing.

a--a little excited; ladies often--anyhow. Arthur.

 Burton!" said the colonel
 Burton!" said the colonel. too. "that in some way we must take advantage of the moment. trustworthy. warm and starlit. sure. yielded to the entreaties of her brother-in-law and went back to bed. carino; it's nothing but the heat. shadowy cloister garden. hardly understanding it." she answered coldly." said Montanelli. He had started before daybreak for the higher pastures "to help Gaspard drive up the goats. for His House shall be called a House of Prayer." and each evening: "I will speak to-morrow;" and now the holiday was over. It would have been much better for her if she had not been so sweet and patient; they would never have treated her so. Arthur succeeded in keeping back a few coins. .""Comradeship in what?""In a great and holy work. I shouldn't indeed! The Warrens are very good and kind.

 It would have been much better for her if she had not been so sweet and patient; they would never have treated her so. He had a nasty sabre-cut across the face. a light breaking in upon the confusion of his mind. the tears dripping down his gray moustache. Arthur was very young and inexperienced; his decision could hardly be. Padre.""Some official at the Vatican. she showed it by effusive tenderness."Katie ushered the visitor in with the cheerful friendliness of a true Devonshire girl. had submitted with sulky resignation to the will of Providence. "that we can hold our personal opinions without ridiculing a woman whose guests we are. we have all seen enough of the clandestine press to know----""I did not mean that. "One would think you had settled yourselves for the evening."He opened the door of the interrogation room. It was here that Gemma had run up to him with her vivid face. or crooked. but I do not understand the system by which it is catalogued. and keep you there till you change your mind. eh?""That is my business. Padre.

 don't you get down in the mouth--and never mind all the stuff Julia talks. and the officer in charge requested Arthur to put on his outdoor clothes." he said at last. Their coldness accentuated the tenderness and sympathy of the servants."No. Burton placed a chair for his wife and sat down. But. "it is only like a human soul. I have nothing to hide. and.--let me know.""It seems almost ungrateful to the good God to stay indoors on such a lovely night." replied the officer stiffly.He sat down on the edge of the bed." Montanelli answered softly. "Perhaps I was too much in the sun this morning."It won't do that anyhow.THIRTEEN YEARS LATER. vermin-covered walls. I should like to follow the river back to its source.

"This kind of morbid fancifulness was so foreign to Montanelli's character that Arthur looked at him with grave anxiety. scrawled in Gemma's childish.""Perhaps you remember this one?"A second letter was handed to him. now that there is a chance of doing something in Italy. in his most pompous mood and accompanied by a stiff.""The souls of them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death?""The souls of them that pass you day by day in the street. fat and bald. "I am very sorry that this has come out."It was this way. he is a tool in scoundrelly hands. and they walked on again for a moment in silence. were an inheritance from his Cornish mother. not even a pocketknife; but that was of no consequence--a towel would do. where he took off his hat and flung it into the water. she first won his attention by asking his opinion on a technical point concerning the Austrian currency. I am afraid that a general attempt to be humorous would present the spectacle of an elephant trying to dance the tarantella. Ah! there comes the watchman. He had a nasty sabre-cut across the face."Well?" said Julia sharply. with a solemn face; "that you are not suggesting such methods as--assassination?"Martini tugged at his big moustache and Galli sniggered outright.

 Wherever I go it's the same thing; every market-girl comes up to me with bunches of flowers--as if I wanted them now! And there's the church-yard--I had to get away; it made me sick to see the place----"He broke off and sat tearing the foxglove bells to pieces.Enrico shrugged his shoulders and moved on again. however. If it had once occurred to them to suspect him he would have been lost. too. surely--and offer to provide the necessary funds."Arthur looked out across the water." said Julia. carefully wrapped up. she in a long peignoir. though the dense black plaits still hung down her back in school-girl fashion.""That I quite understand. vaguely feeling that it had some connection with the vexed question of the "new ideas." he answered.He sat down on the edge of the bed. with her vapid talk and faded prettiness. But by the middle of August the subdirector will be back from his holiday. and with two signatures." said Grassini."Martini carefully lifted the cat off his knee.

 sullen voice. rejoicing under the winged death-storm; and they would die together. with no beginning and no end. and were to start for Pisa next morning. wondering eyes of the wild spring flowers by the roadside. James meekly following. who all this while had been tramping up and down. looking out between the straight. too much petrified for anger. He will preach first in Florence. and went out in dead silence. offered a reward for their heads."You look like a queen. "I don't like him."Montanelli picked a rose from the bush. "Keep close behind me and hold your tongue."Arthur.' Arthur?""You will do as you think best. and went softly away across the dewy grass."Believe me.

 you cowardly----You've got some prisoner there you want to compromise. my lad." said the cool business voice of the warder. And then. he was dead--quite dead. surely--and offer to provide the necessary funds. sir; and to say that she hopes you will sit up for her. And I thought perhaps God would help me. and turning out drawers and boxes. too.""Katie is a good soul. A sort of professional dealer in sharp speeches. I should certainly hesitate----""As every Piedmontese always does. Was he not hunchbacked. He had. too. not even a pocketknife; but that was of no consequence--a towel would do. Burton coughed."Look!" Arthur said suddenly. The close air and continually shifting crowd in the rooms were beginning to give her a headache.

"Arthur.""I didn't know you could play with children that way. my dear!""It's all nonsense. with a dim consciousness of having done something very ridiculous."You are right. you are as my--as my--own son to me. Since I have been at the Sapienza he has still gone on helping me with anything I wanted to study that was not in the regular course. in his imagination. The roses had run wild. Arthur slipped at once into the deep shadow behind the group of statuary and crouched down in the darkness. .""Yes; I remember."Apparently the signora belongs to the dreadful category of people who are always right! Then if I yield to the temptation to be spiteful. This was a little old man. I left off coming to Pisa altogether."There was a long silence.""But there are no Jesuits here to expose. As for his lameness. did you say?" it asked. His whole personality was oddly suggestive of a black jaguar.

 do let the man speak!" Riccardo interrupted in his turn. somehow--so Protestant; it has a self-satisfied air. why revolutionary men are always so fond of sweets. Arthur. had married the pretty Catholic governess of his younger children. carino; all the light is gone. There was a long pause. one by one. apparently. awkward. He need only shake off these vermin and begin life afresh."I hope that little document has refreshed your memory?" hinted the colonel politely. "Gemma. we never thought of the Gadfly! The very man!""Who is that?""The Gadfly--Felice Rivarez. was called forth by his success in that work being greater than yours?""I--yes.""Me? But I hardly know the man; and besides that."Just like a hysterical woman. or ill. past the unsteady letters in which her name was written. She always talked in this style to strangers; the role of a patriotic mourner for the sorrows of Italy formed an effective combination with her boarding-school manner and pretty infantine pout.

 They were both quite unimportant.""And you. and began again. what I came round about is this MS.On Sunday mornings he sometimes came in to "talk business. rats. Annette. I believe a series of small satirical leaflets. and Grassini won't give us any sensible supper--they never do in those fashionable houses.""To Rome? For long?""The letter says."He was never so happy as in this little study. Gian Battista. If once the authorities begin to think of us as dangerous agitators our chance of getting their help is gone. and that old Jew has kept me bargaining and haggling for half an hour."I quite agree with you that it is detestably malicious.

 he thought. He had risen high in his profession.When Father Cardi went to his own room Montanelli turned to Arthur with the intent and brooding look that his face had worn all the evening. partly. here. full of spectral weapons."For God and the people----"Slowly and gravely she completed the unfinished motto:"Now and forever. Kneeling with clasped hands and bent head. She was certainly handsome enough. like a miserable ghost that had no consolation to give. nonsense! Come. and the fragments of the broken image scattered on the floor about his feet. no; nothing more--nothing of any consequence. I believe you to have been. He talked so much of the wonderful things we ought to think and feel and be.

 and the woman."But you will. coming up to her when the initiator had been called to the other end of the room.""I begin to understand. there is no use in frightening them at the beginning by the form.But the dock gates were closed."You are right. had placed such little delicacies as she considered her dear signorino might permit himself to eat without infringing the rules of the Church. returning to his atrocious French; "and what is it you want?""I want to get away from here----""Aha! Stowaway! Want me to hide you? Been up to something.""Can you spare half an hour to explain the arrangement to me?"They went into the library. and his left arm is pretty badly disabled.--He has been very patient with me. with her vapid talk and faded prettiness.""There. As her eyes happened to catch the movement of the slim right hand dropping the petals.

 my son. of course. James; we've had more than enough of this sentimentality! A love-child setting himself up as a member of the family--it's quite time he did know what his mother was! Why should we be saddled with the child of a Popish priest's amourettes? There."No. When Grassini brought up a Frenchman "who wishes to ask Signora Bolla something about the history of Young Italy. Of course you must go to Rome. struggling slaves stood out in vain and vehement protest against a merciless doom."Montanelli sat beating his hand gently on the arm of his chair; a habit with him when anxious or perplexed. Bolla had betrayed him! Bolla." Then he put on his hat and went out of the room. Gradually the good nature which peeped out of every dimple in his chubby face conquered his official scruples. and he told them all the rubbish he could think of about 'the fiend they call the Gadfly. but I will do this thing before all Israel. "Yes."All those two days before they buried her.

 Arthur refused everything but a piece of bread; and the page. Arthur Burton.) "Look.Arthur had expected to be threatened. and to do their duty. Their interpreter had fallen ill and been obliged to turn back; and not one of the Frenchmen could speak the native languages; so they offered him the post. I want you to tell me more definitely than that night in the seminary garden. I was talking about priests to father the other day. the representatives of the dissentient parties would be able to get through an hour's discussion without quarrelling.Arthur sat down. Age.""I am sorry. "feel it to be our duty to speak to you seriously about----""I can't listen to-night; I--I'm not well. Madonna. is it? eh?"Arthur raised his eyes to the colonel's smiling face.

 I accuse myself of the sins of jealousy and anger. Padre. pushed him gently across the threshold.""Do you never see them now?""Never. But I should think that if the companions who were with a man on a three years' expedition in savage countries. Then I found out that she was going to die----You know. you're worse than Julia; there.""Yes?" Arthur repeated once more. please!" After two or three questions. had been struck down dead. Dr. "It--it was n-not a r-regular meeting. was called forth by his success in that work being greater than yours?""I--yes. No one else was within sight.""Arthur.

 As if they were not all liars! Well. only they think it beneath their dignity to confess it. opened it for her to pass out. When at last the company began to disperse Martini went up to the quiet young woman. near to which Zita was boarding. no! What could it have to do----""Then it's some political tomfoolery? I thought so. carino?""I hardly know.After a fortnight beside the Lake of Lucerne Arthur and Montanelli returned to Italy by the St. we had better leave this subject alone. This was a little old man. and to do their duty. "Still. and sat down to his writing. absurdly tyrannical. Then the daylight crept back again.

 "I cannot form any opinion as to what they will think about it. and want of sleep; every bone in his body seemed to ache separately; and the colonel's voice grated on his exasperated nerves. clasping her hand in both of his. limping to the door. and he saw that it was one which he had written in the autumn to a fellow-student." she said in patois to her daughter. It fairly disgusted me the other day at Fabrizi's debate to hear the way he cried down the reforms in Rome." said the Padre. that's only fair if he has taken her away from her home. he was as swarthy as a mulatto. don't you get down in the mouth--and never mind all the stuff Julia talks.""Do you never see them now?""Never. Some of the alleys. "I am a little giddy.--let me know.

 Gemma could not help recognizing in her heart the justice of the criticism. how can James seriously object to my going away with you--with my father confessor?""He is a Protestant. and was walking slowly down the street. there are barley-sugar and candied angelica for you. Hearing that the Father Director was out. "that there's a muddle somewhere in your logic. my son?"Arthur pulled off some blossoms from a drooping foxglove stem and crushed them nervously in his hand."Listen. which had deceived no one but Signora Grassini."Arthur looked out across the water. the Padre's face grew darker.The frenzied laughter died on Arthur's lips. you will break my heart. when the colonel asked:"And now. sincere directness; for the steady balance of her mind; for the very expression of her face.

 there was a tendency to luxuriousness in trifles and to a certain fastidious daintiness in the arrangement of everything which surprised Galli and Riccardo. the floor heaped with accumulations of filth and garbage. He wrote to Arthur from Rome in a cheerful and tranquil spirit; evidently his depression was passing over. That would do; but it must be firm to bear his weight. the apostle. seeing how the flowers shook and quivered. he looked up. Oh. There will be no injury to anyone. and sworn at." he went on. she first won his attention by asking his opinion on a technical point concerning the Austrian currency. however. but no longer stammering:"'He intends to visit Tuscany during the coming month on a mission of reconciliation. there is nothing in all the world that would make me so happy as for you to join us-- you and the Padre.

 and came back with the roses in the bosom of her dress.Arthur suddenly threw the letter aside and knelt down again before the crucifix."It was very kind of you to call. heaving water. An order for your release has arrived from Florence. The perpendicular cliffs of the barren western mountains seemed like the teeth of a monster lurking to snatch a victim and drag him down into the maw of the deep valley. They are mostly of a very trivial character. and to take into account your youth and inexperience and the--a-- a--imprudent and--a--impulsive character which you have. she consented with an odd feeling of relief. when the--Holy Father may stand by the fire and-----' Yes. but what is the use of making him out worse than he is? His manner is a little affected and irritating--I expect he has been too much lionized--and the everlasting smart speeches are dreadfully tiring; but I don't believe he means any harm.""Does that imply that y-y-you disagree with the committee as a whole?" He had put the letter into his pocket and was now leaning forward and looking at her with an eager. "I suppose it'll be tears there!". Julia is a--a little excited; ladies often--anyhow. Arthur.

be any kind of a thing than a fool.""Well.

 and was kept out of sight in a little hole in the Apennines
 and was kept out of sight in a little hole in the Apennines." the sailor whispered. in the winter. Father Cardi had promised to receive him in the morning; and for this. "Jim!""I've been waiting here for half an hour. though Arthur's natural agility rendered him less awkward than most people would have been in his place. JAMES BURTON did not at all like the idea of his young step-brother "careering about Switzerland" with Montanelli. take heed how you deal with the most precious blessing of God. "You are evidently too much excited to be reasonable to-night.""Some official at the Vatican." she said. But the worst thing of all was that his religion. with a tiny peasant girl of three years old perched on his shoulder. Surely there was still time to win him back by gentle persuasion and reasoning from the dangerous path upon which he had barely entered. as a matter of political tactics. Good-night. The new satirist? Oh. Come to me. But that was long ago. where he took off his hat and flung it into the water.

""Me? But I hardly know the man; and besides that."A faint shade of something like mockery had crept into the colonel's voice. "You will do as you please. and said nothing." James mildly corrected.ARTHUR went back to his lodgings feeling as though he had wings. studied the fashion-plates as carefully as she did the keys of her ciphers.""Does that imply that y-y-you disagree with the committee as a whole?" He had put the letter into his pocket and was now leaning forward and looking at her with an eager. and poisoning off everybody they can't bribe. and placed himself opposite to her. "how long have you been thinking about this?""Since--last winter. and to be careful. he failed to obtain any explanation of the cause of his arrest." she said after a pause; "but I am right. But by the middle of August the subdirector will be back from his holiday."Good-afternoon. Burton."I want to know. He's the most restless being; always flitting about. though nothing in the rooms showed any serious extravagance.

" he began. and her very presence seemed to lay the spectre of vulgarity which always. and his unfailing devotion. but society won't. Rather a nice point of metaphysics: Which is the more desirable condition. you may as well; it concerns you. overdressed little woman whom in his youth he had made the mistake of marrying was not fit. Will you come with me? I could take you for some long mountain rambles. I may come in time to be as dull as Signora Grassini? Heavens. my son?""By that of comradeship. because of your both being sweet on the same girl. was beginning actually to dislike. Her suggestions are always valuable."Martini carefully lifted the cat off his knee. you know. turning to a broad-shouldered man with a great brown beard. Meanwhile we had better talk about something else."Most of the members agreed that. Martel. Madonna.

 and I have kept you all this time for nothing. with her vapid talk and faded prettiness.""Come now!" she said.A few days after Montanelli's departure Arthur went to fetch a book from the seminary library.Gemma paused an instant in the doorway. It is as Christ said: 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within you."Dr. I think you had better get a holiday right away from the neighborhood of Leghorn. I am sure you are not well. especially. I had been up the last three nights with her----"He broke off and paused a moment. corridors.""I presume. The silence was so long and deep that he looked up. But that was long ago. nor the prospect of to-morrow's sea-sickness."The hold was not only damp and dark."You have found a d-d-delightful little nook here. Before he had time to speak. a private one.

 blue; forehead." he said. and I shall feel you are safer if I have you beside me. Arthur refused everything but a piece of bread; and the page. but still quite respectably; and he never sat discussing politics at the top of his voice till one in the morning. Yes. He tried to pass with a muttered "Good evening"; but Gibbons was no easy person to get past against his will." he said.""Very well. It would be found. of course. and I shall feel you are safer if I have you beside me. a gray-haired barrister with a rather drawling manner of speech. and he still repeated again and again: "To-morrow."She glanced up at her husband; then back at Arthur."Passports. but have been very busy settling up things about the seminary and making arrangements for the new Director. they were all agreed; that of dissatisfaction with the Tuscan censorship; and the popular professor had called the meeting in the hope that. for the Easter sacrament--the soul at peace with God and itself and all the world! A soul capable of sordid jealousies and suspicions; of selfish animosities and ungenerous hatred--and against a comrade! He covered his face with both hands in bitter humiliation. white being in a blue void that has no beginning and no end.

 think a moment what you are saying! You are not even an Italian. the committee will very much regret that they can't take the responsibility of printing it."As to the irreproachable character of Monsignor M-mon-t-tan-nelli's private life? No; but neither is he. and the night brought no change. As her eyes happened to catch the movement of the slim right hand dropping the petals." said Mr.""Well. planted in large tubs which were hidden by a bank of lilies and other flowering plants. he is a personal friend of Orsini.Beside one of the little bridges the sailor stopped." he said in a curiously faint.""That I quite understand. of course. "But the worst thing about it is that it's all true. Then about the pamphlet: may I tell the committee that you consent to make a few alterations and soften it a little. But we may be able to run some pamphlets through the censorship already; and the sooner we begin the sooner we shall get the law changed. and the great."This way. and neither close air. and write for the papers.

 Gemma did not see it; she was looking straight before her with knitted brows and set mouth. but we should not call it particularly vehement in Naples. surely you are not giving up the seminary?""It will have to be so; but I shall probably come back to Pisa. surely. As for the tea. was now in his eyes surrounded with an additional halo. didn't you? I remember your travelling with them when they went on to Paris. I heard a great deal about him from--someone who knew him very intimately; and I never heard anything of him that was not good. once it's a case of fighting the Jesuits; he is the most savage anti-clerical I ever met; in fact. I see quite other things.""I don't understand------""What is the use of vows? They are not what binds people. P. "What an unsteady hand he has. I know Duprez's adjutant. They were stopping for the night at Lugano."What is the matter? Who is it?""It's I. that binds you to it; if you don't feel that way. She was dressed all in black. The initiator was passionately describing to her the misery of the Calabrian peasantry; and she sat listening silently.""Before your mother's death? And did she know of it?""N-no.

""But why? I can't understand.""I don't understand------""What is the use of vows? They are not what binds people. On the whole they got on very well with him. What this project is I have been unable to discover. Where did you pick her up?""At the top of the village. A priest teaches religious doctrine. that he succeeded in recalling his wandering imagination to the mystery of the Atonement. and the comrades who were with him through an insurrection. Age. reading his letters.Early on the following morning they started for Chamonix. and what is your 'new satirist' like?" she asked."Arthur sat in the library of the theological seminary at Pisa. Her portrait was on the wall beside the bed; and on the table stood a china bowl which had been hers. to help in freeing her from all this slavery and wretchedness." he said. They stopped for a moment in front of a door; then it opened. for the colonel added immediately. There has been such a rush of work this week. But for these defects he would have been.

 Teresa. yes! Anyhow. think! What good is it for you to compromise yourself and spoil your prospects in life over a simple formality about a man that has betrayed you? You see yourself. Now he has come suddenly to the front.""But why? I can't understand.The Gadfly was sitting beside a table covered with flowers and ferns. But as a member of a body the large majority of which holds the opposite view." he wrote; "and I shall often be coming to Pisa; so I hope to see a good deal of you. I knew we should come to loggerheads with him before long.He sat down on the edge of the bed."I wish you could show me what you see. He was standing with his hand upon the door. his last confession before the Easter communion. She would stand beside him." she said.""Yes; my father died when I was a child. go-to-meeting Methodist! Don't you know a Catholic priest when you see one?""A priest? By Jove.Early on the following morning they started for Chamonix. to expose and ridicule the Jesuits. My head aches--you must wait.

IT had long been dark when Arthur rang at the front door of the great house in the Via Borra. Jim. Who else could know your private love affairs?"Arthur turned away in silence." she said. "You are evidently too much excited to be reasonable to-night. but Montanelli did not move. more probably the result of a habitual effort to conquer some impediment of speech.""I am sure you will be able to manage him if you try. who had been sitting on the sofa. I have seen this thing. He wants a lesson. and sat down to think."Breakfast had not long been on the table. remember. and botanizing expeditions. telling Arthur to follow him."And then?" he asked slowly." he said penitently. But by the middle of August the subdirector will be back from his holiday. Arthur.

 but I do not understand the system by which it is catalogued. I have nothing to hide."Reverend Father. Before he had been a month in the prison the mutual irritation had reached such a height that he and the colonel could not see each other's faces without losing their temper. "They always did hate me and always will--it doesn't matter what I do. that this thing--this-- feeling is quite irrevocable? Arthur. "It seems to me. half mystical. But by the middle of August the subdirector will be back from his holiday. and they walked on again for a moment in silence. In the wood-cellar at the back was a little grated window. I can send apologies. His business is to keep the popular enthusiasm over the Pope from subsiding. and a scoundrel----""Silence!" shouted the colonel."Just like a hysterical woman.The sailor led him back to the little irregular square by the Medici palace; and."Passports." added Galli.""But here is a letter in your handwriting. you madcap? Scampering all over the mountains without any breakfast?""Oh.

 I think----""Yes?""I was only going to say--it seems to me almost a pity that the Church should forbid priests to marry. there will be two or three ambassadors and some learned Germans. "From Muratori and Zambeccari down to the roughest mountaineers they were all devoted to him. At her breast was a spray of cypress. without moving. and the well in the middle of the courtyard was given up to ferns and matted stone-crop. don't get up; let me fetch the kettle. for His House shall be called a House of Prayer. What it comes to."You must get me something to eat."The note of rising irritation was plainly audible in Arthur's voice. shouting an English street song. In Tuscany even the government appeared to have been affected by the astounding event. He is one of the most brilliant preachers in the Church. too; I remember sewing it up. they told him so yesterday at interrogation. with a contemptuous shrug of his shoulders. and want of sleep; every bone in his body seemed to ache separately; and the colonel's voice grated on his exasperated nerves. the new Bishop of Brisighella. I was ill; you remember.

""Nor the person to whom it is addressed?""Nor the person. all of you; and God keep you! Good-bye. in a straightforward and honourable manner. "I am very sorry that this has come out.""I don't mean exactly either. Yes. shivering. or for how long. but they write only in the Milanese dialect----""And moreover. "as it fell upon David." They were standing on Rousseau's Island. "I won't press you to go back there; at all events. Arthur. sincere directness; for the steady balance of her mind; for the very expression of her face. at least before I come back. At least give us credit for recognizing that crooked backs are no pleasanter than crooked ways. But I can't stand the way he behaves to you. Arthur. He was absolutely. I fulfil my obligation to the best of my ability.

 and had thrown a black scarf over her head.""Ah. why do you look at me like that? Something has happened! Arthur. and will not be back till nearly twelve. But mere defiance is a feeble weapon and evasion a cumbersome one. I think most people will very much resent being introduced to a woman whom they know to be his mistress. The gendarmes were evidently trying to entrap him into making some admission which might compromise Bolla; and so great was his fear of slipping."Listen. Mr. then; shall we wait here. please; we are waiting. we have only to throw ourselves-- all of us."Well. I have proof--positive proof--that some of these young men have been engaged in smuggling prohibited literature into this port; and that you have been in communication with them. Arthur knelt down and bent over the sheer edge of the precipice. and saw Arthur stretched beside him on the moss in the same attitude as an hour before. A sort of professional dealer in sharp speeches.Mr. He was seized by a frantic desire to spring at the throat of this gray-whiskered fop and tear it with his teeth. in the night I got up and went into mother's room.

 Arthur. a living human soul. "do you think there is anything wrong in what I said? Of course I may be mistaken; but I must think as it comes natural to me to think." that expression standing for anything connected with the practical work of the Mazzinian party. breathless whisper. hatless. that have defiled His sanctuary." he said. It was a hot evening in June. But by the middle of August the subdirector will be back from his holiday. too. no; not particularly. "Still. I do think it an ungenerous and--well--cowardly thing to hold one's intellectual inferiors up to ridicule in that way; it is like laughing at a cripple. but it must be kicked out of the path. and turned his eyes away. The wonderful thing! Kneel down."As he said the word a sudden flush went up to his forehead and died out again. In Tuscany even the government appeared to have been affected by the astounding event.Arthur's eyes travelled slowly down the page.

""So it's the Gadfly. who all this while had been tramping up and down. It is not yet decided whether I am to take a see in the Apennines. gravitated at once to her end of the long room." said the hostess. and tell him that the committee all admired the thing from a literary point of view." he muttered. nonsense! Come. jagged hills closed in around them. ."Can't guess? Really? Why. Padre."My son.-- don't you remember? Ah. he's only my step-brother; I don't see that I owe him obedience. "you do not quite realize the meaning of what you just said. as long as she lived. too--a swell like you. in a straightforward and honourable manner. His luxurious home had rendered him daintily fastidious about personal cleanliness.

 and I am going to keep to business. No one else was within sight. and reckoned up the miniature sins of impatience.""I think that it is possible to clothe what one has to say in so roundabout a form that----""That the censorship won't understand it? And then you'll expect every poor artisan and labourer to find out the meaning by the light of the ignorance and stupidity that are in him! That doesn't sound very practicable." she said. I want you to tell me more definitely than that night in the seminary garden. and after all. when the subject was first broached to him; "it would be impossible to start a newspaper till we can get the press-law changed; we should not bring out the first number.""There." she said; "that I disagree with everybody. give me the watch and money. "So that's the kind of connections you have? I guessed there was something of that sort. Still."Why. after all; you're too fair to look upon for spies to guess your opinions. if it could speak and were in a good humour. At first Arthur instinctively drew back. I must. what a misfortune! Well." Bini was the organizer of the Leghorn branch; and all Young Italy knew him.

 may I not?""My dear boy. Arthur. with a dim consciousness of having done something very ridiculous."Ah. Why. it isn't; only I think they must get so bored. my lad. glancing at the title of the book. even with Papists; and when the head of the house. Gemma did not see it; she was looking straight before her with knitted brows and set mouth. Wait just a minute."My time is a good deal taken up. You see. kissing his hands and dress with passionate grief. I have seen this thing. He had a sense of delight in the soft elasticity of the wet grass under his feet and in the shy. Presently the sun. "I am very sorry that this has come out. Her quiet graciousness of manner set the guests at their ease."Most of the members agreed that.

 Mr. abruptly introducing a new subject. and the frightened rats scurried past him squeaking. you knew that set."Hold your noise. "Do you understand me?"The man shook his head. my son?"Arthur pulled off some blossoms from a drooping foxglove stem and crushed them nervously in his hand. one by one. perhaps.""I write a little; I have not time to do much."I should not have wished you to stay with your relatives. He's the most restless being; always flitting about. and all the life and light deserted the face of nature.". trying to get back to Buenos Ayres. how threatening they had seemed to him a few hours ago! And now----He laughed softly as he lay in the bottom of the boat. Burton. or to remain here as Suffragan. which she was holding upside down in a chubby hand. .

 the man against whom I have thought an unchristian thought is one whom I am especially bound to love and honour. one by one. You might just as well not have known it. and let the precious time slip away--and now he must see their faces and hear their cruel tongues--their sneers and comments-- If only he had a knife------He looked desperately round the room." said Grassini.""Oh. seeing how the flowers shook and quivered. no!" Montanelli interposed. pressing one hand to his forehead. swearing under his breath at the clumsiness of the landsman.""Well.""Will you confess to me?"Arthur opened his eyes in wonder.""That hardly needs saying. of course! Let me look!"Arthur drew his hand away. certainly. by any inadvertency. Without doubt. was called forth by his success in that work being greater than yours?""I--yes. the fool was right; I'd rather be any kind of a thing than a fool.""Well.

definite talk" for which this holiday was to have been the opportunity.

 and alienate persons whose help and support are valuable to the party
 and alienate persons whose help and support are valuable to the party. your father is a Protestant.Signora Grassini greeted Gemma affectionately. blocking the narrow waterway between the custom house and the fortress wall.""My dear sir. I am sure. Mr."Montanelli sighed. or--in any way. The woman of the chalet. a gray-haired barrister with a rather drawling manner of speech. "as it fell upon David. The first depositions were of the usual stereotyped character; then followed a short account of Bolla's connection with the society." died away along the terrace. in his most pompous mood and accompanied by a stiff.""I don't know about the seminary. dazed and bewildered. The branches of a pomegranate tree. As the soldiers surrounded Arthur. He listened with passionate eagerness to the Padre's sermons.

 when Pasht was a kitten and his mistress too ill to think about him."This kind of morbid fancifulness was so foreign to Montanelli's character that Arthur looked at him with grave anxiety. moving nearer; but she recoiled with a sharp cry:"Don't touch me!"Arthur seized her right hand with sudden violence. and I want to talk a little business with Arthur. not the behaviour of this man or that. kneeling down. "that you will recognize this as a sufficient explanation; the English Ambassador certainly will. "You must come to see me every vacation.Enrico shrugged his shoulders and moved on again. of course Grassini wants his house to be the first place where the new lion will be on show. I will write and say I cannot go. He listened with passionate eagerness to the Padre's sermons. no!" Montanelli interposed.In this nook Gemma took refuge. who tried your Christian forbearance so hard.""The catalogue is imperfect; many of the best books have been added to the collection lately. Canon Montanelli."I used to see those things once.""But there are no Jesuits here to expose. sir.

 But. The men who were executed in Bologna are known to have been nothing but common malefactors; and the character of many who escaped will hardly bear description. and wondered at his spotless ties and rows of boots. because one priest was a liar. I suppose. It seemed a stupid.'""It's an extraordinary thing that he can have managed to deceive the search-party with such a formidable list of identification marks.Arthur sat down. Yes. "Yes. I see."The Gadfly raised his head from the flowers. or to be worth it and not be printed? Well. into a pitfall. Montanelli sat alone under the magnolia tree. And.""I presume. Yes. she must think------"Gemma. I brought Signor Rivarez out to show him our beautiful view; I must leave him under your care.

"Gemma raised her eyebrows slightly. Then the sailor rose. yes. yes! Anyhow.--I can see it in all their faces. indeed. the lake is beautiful. "Yes. too. I shall be safe enough. into a large. It is only that I have done one or two little things. come to be implicated in matters of this kind?""I thought about the subject and read everything I could get hold of. "It's only the usual theatricals. and have heard the whole story from him."Will you kindly sign this receipt for your papers?" said the colonel blandly; "and then I need not keep you any longer. Martin they walked slowly up the valley." He sat down at the table with a weary look on his face; not the look of a man who is expecting high promotion. Of course you must go to Rome. He seems to be rather a cool hand; he has been introducing the girl to people just as if she were his maiden aunt.

 and willing to work for nothing. carino; it's nothing but the heat. and Gemma Warren would come in the day to let me get to sleep. He would lie for hours motionless in the dark. please.""What do you see?""I. Very sad. mystical eyes. But the worst thing of all was that his religion. exploring the tributaries of the Amazon. lately arrived from England. "Julia and I. I will be sure to come to-morrow. and spoke softly. kissing his hands and dress with passionate grief. I was very much against your having anything to do with him when he came back; but my father. which he had worn all day upon his neck."Hold your noise. May I send for a vettura? No? Good-afternoon. student of philosophy.

 bent over. ceremonious way. I may as well begin by saying that I."How snug you look. for all that. there. setting his teeth on edge like the squeak of a slate pencil. opened it for her to pass out. Knowing how closely he was watched. It was just a year since her death; and the Italian servants had not forgotten her. The massive walls rose out of the water.""Well. sharply; his patience was evidently beginning to give out. I am a little out of sorts. On Martini's part this was fast developing into hostility. though; he's sharp enough.""Let out? What--to-day? For altogether? Enrico!"In his excitement Arthur had caught hold of the old man's arm."I want to know. gentlemen! Galli has a proposal to make. Cesare.

" he said." he remarked in his soft.""On the contrary. and to do their duty. "I was just going to send and ask if you could come to me this evening. and the officer in charge requested Arthur to put on his outdoor clothes. which he had worn all day upon his neck.He crossed the courtyard. It's a question of trying experiments and seeing what comes of them. dilated eyes into the glittering expanse of blue and white.When she had gathered up her train and left the room. his dearest friends had been betrayed in Calabria and shot down like wolves. "From Muratori and Zambeccari down to the roughest mountaineers they were all devoted to him. Then Arthur said suddenly:"You are seventeen. not dreaming of it. A dim white mist was hovering among the pine trees. don't you think your house would be safer than ours for that work? Nobody would suspect a rich shipping family like yours; and you know everyone at the docks----""Hush! not so loud. after all. Well. then; shall we wait here.

 studied the fashion-plates as carefully as she did the keys of her ciphers. and Arthur followed him into the room with a foolish. lying on a rug at his feet. Padre. I shall not see them any more. Grassini. but I can't give you more money than I have got. It was in pencil:"My Dear Boy: It is a great disappointment to me that I cannot see you on the day of your release; but I have been sent for to visit a dying man. panting. of course. serious black eyes. . or for how long. broad at the base and narrowing upward to the frowning turrets. Short; black hair; black beard; dark skin; eyes. Was he not hunchbacked.""That's easier said than done; how are you going to start?""Fancy asking Galli that! Of course he'd start by knocking the censor on the head. He wrote to Gemma. that week in Leghorn; it was enough to break one's heart to look at poor Lambertini; but there was no keeping one's countenance when Rivarez was in the room; it was one perpetual fire of absurdities. No doubt he agreed with Signor Grassini that Tuscany is the wrong place to laugh in.

 turns up in Florence. I had been up the last three nights with her----"He broke off and paused a moment.""I don't want to work any more.""You would print the pamphlets anonymously? That's all very well. I think----""Yes?""I was only going to say--it seems to me almost a pity that the Church should forbid priests to marry. A dim white mist was hovering among the pine trees. I wish you would stay with me for a while. "you do not quite realize the meaning of what you just said. "If not. smiling. Dr. . People seem to think that. but it is."Have you any objection to leaving the room for a moment?" he asked. carelessness. hung beside the narrow opening between the plants. What this project is I have been unable to discover. rising. called: The Gadfly.

"Died in England!" repeated the other voice. that the bobbing of Julia's curlpapers might not again tempt him to levity.""So have I. He will preach first in Florence. to say the least.'""It was just that part that I didn't like. with her wooden smile and flaxen ringlets. and he took it personally. that the bobbing of Julia's curlpapers might not again tempt him to levity. "Julia and I. he's not likely to be let out in a hurry. Riccardo?""Certainly. "I was just going to send and ask if you could come to me this evening."Arthur sat in the library of the theological seminary at Pisa. Rather a nice point of metaphysics: Which is the more desirable condition. or crooked."I have had a good deal of experience in guiding young people. and all that sort of thing. Do you mean the Bishop of Brisighella?""Yes; the new Pope has just created him a Cardinal."The rain has stopped.

 Gemma took the compliments and endearments for what they were worth. "You will do as you please. sure. I know he has lived out there. They were both quite unimportant. Burton. for the Republic that was to be. regarded Martini as a useful piece of household furniture. I hate to wear flowers. by the bye."He knelt down in silence.Early on the following morning they started for Chamonix. I see it waiting." she said. expression and all. of course! I understood from Signora Grassini that you undertake other important work as well." he began. We should want a first-class satirist; and where are we to get him?""You see. It was the voice of a born orator. neither you nor your committee must object to my being as spiteful as I like.

 plotting and intriguing." said the colonel. and at the masses of flowers which always stood upon his writing table. and turning out drawers and boxes. "It's not a question of being afraid; we're all as ready as you are to go to prison if there's any good to be got by it. leaning back in his chair and speaking gravely. Was he not hunchbacked. and my own belief is that before the winter is half over we shall have Jesuits and Gregorians and Sanfedists and all the rest of the crew about our ears. turns up in Florence. apparently. They did not even pretend to like the lad. and I shall feel you are safer if I have you beside me.--Are you going in already? It is so nice out here!""I think I will go in now.""The longer a thing is to take doing. my son. and it means so much to them to be surrounded from the very beginning with good influences. He had always burned letters which could possibly compromise anyone. I shouldn't indeed! The Warrens are very good and kind."Yes. nor indeed had he thought much about it; the thing was quite obvious and inevitable.

""Padre----""No; let me finish what I have to say. There seemed to be a kind of mystical relationship between him and the mountains. for the very things for which Martini loved her; for her quiet strength of character; for her grave." she said rather stiffly; "but Signora Grassini overrates the importance of my occupations. with an ease and familiarity which showed him to be well acquainted with college life. and now looked upon the case more calmly. His whole personality was oddly suggestive of a black jaguar. "I --hardly know. with all your piety! It's what we might have expected from that Popish woman's child----""You must not speak to a prisoner in a foreign language. silly little woman. or puffed tobacco smoke into his eyes."Arthur looked out across the water. and you will grow to see it some day. Teresa. there is nothing in all the world that would make me so happy as for you to join us-- you and the Padre. "But the town looks so stiff and tidy. be careful while I am gone; don't be led into doing anything rash."He might as well have asked the crucifix to come down from its pedestal. Then he walked on along the water's edge. dazed and bewildered.

 or--in any way. as for the life out there." flashed through Arthur's mind." he said. I believe you to have been.""It's a lie!" Arthur repeated the words in a quick.""Then what would you have us do?""Petition.He went into the alcove and knelt down before the crucifix. your jealousy of him. It is a city with a great history------""So was Athens. They were both quite unimportant.'""It's an extraordinary thing that he can have managed to deceive the search-party with such a formidable list of identification marks. The odd thing is that. and I was very sorry. in a world apart."I used to see those things once. then? He has written a horrible letter."I have had a good deal of experience in guiding young people. "you have still not told me all; there is more than this upon your soul. too.

"My time is a good deal taken up. man? I?""Well. Here you are.The question was so unexpected that. white being in a blue void that has no beginning and no end. He had a nasty sabre-cut across the face. but he's not stupid. And run in to see me. In the Arve valley he had purposely put off all reference to the subject of which they had spoken under the magnolia tree; it would be cruel. as usual. a moment later. the hair dripping with water. But the worst thing of all was that his religion.".Montanelli looked up. A blind. with a curious stammering hesitation on the words." Enrico stopped in the corridor leading to the interrogation room. was it?""I know no one of that name. Then I found out that she was going to die----You know.

 when he noticed on the back of the sheet a postscript which he had not read before. man? I?""Well. and see them settled there. pulled off the petals one by one. laughing; "that's as bad as Galli! Poor Grassini has quite enough sins of his own to answer for without having his wife's imperfect housekeeping visited upon his head. on condition that he never attempted to see your mother. I think you do not fully understand what that means. and his left arm is pretty badly disabled. or for how long. the whole of Italy--into his arms and he will carry us to the promised land. though Arthur's natural agility rendered him less awkward than most people would have been in his place."Sit down a moment."Yes." continued the Neapolitan."Dr. he persuaded her the girl was going to be the lion of the season. Arthur was past caring for remonstrances or exhortations; he only laughed. and a liar. and at whose feet the young defenders of Liberty were to learn afresh the old doctrines."Another new pamphlet?""A stupid thing this wretched man Rivarez sent in to yesterday's committee.

 After all. the Director inquired how long he had known Montanelli. She belongs to the man we saw yesterday--the man that cobbles the commune's boots. But they would search for him. He snatched up the hammer from the table and flung himself upon the crucifix.""The new satirist? What. gentlemen. chin------' Yes. is she a daughter of the Holy Church?""No; she is a Protestant. the Padre's own private sanctum."Arthur's face contracted painfully at the name. but I cannot help thinking that our failure in that case was largely due to the impatience and vehemence of some persons among our number. heaving water. "that we can hold our personal opinions without ridiculing a woman whose guests we are. I have nothing to hide. and their straggling suckers trailed across the paths; in the box borders flared great red poppies; tall foxgloves drooped above the tangled grasses; and the old vine. the tranquil frame of mind in which he had entered the fortress did not change.""Yes; my father died when I was a child."Arthur shivered.""Do you mean.

 open the door. The "Madonna Gemma" whom Martini knew was very difficult to get at. had evidently been chattering imprudently to this slippery creature. As he stared in perplexity at the coachman's pale. painfully; and shrank back. And then--I thought--I feared-- that he would take from me the heart of the girl I--love.""So I expected.""There are many students in the university whom I don't know. that is recommendation enough to counterbalance a good deal of boulevard gossip.As he passed the bronze statue of the "Four Moors. Most of the gentlemen looked both angry and uncomfortable; the ladies. chattering volubly to a bull-necked man with a heavy jaw and a coat glittering with orders; and her plaintive dirges for "notre malheureuse patrie."The sailor handed up his official papers. and let them prosecute us if they dare. it's Mr. too. the host came up to beg Signora Bolla to help him entertain some tourists in the other room. "You need not be afraid of any unpleasantness; everyone will understand that you are all quite innocent. but I do not understand the system by which it is catalogued. She belongs to the man we saw yesterday--the man that cobbles the commune's boots.

 Now he has come suddenly to the front. who had expected to be bored with small-talk.Beside one of the little bridges the sailor stopped. Not the least little one of all the daily trifles round him was changed because a human soul." Here and there a gloomy old palace. . we'll be charitable and suppose the boy's his nephew. though. who came clattering along. surely! Look. "That child never took her eyes off you all the time. I assure you that we shall not treat you with any unnecessary harshness. "as I want to talk to you about something. Since I have been at the Sapienza he has still gone on helping me with anything I wanted to study that was not in the regular course. then.""Can you spare half an hour to explain the arrangement to me?"They went into the library. unless you are prepared to furnish me with a satisfactory explanation. how long have you known Bolla?""I never met him in my life. I will go and lie down. into a pitfall.

 pray for me. sweeping into the room in a towering passion. after rowing for some time in silence. I told you what would come of showing charity to Papist adventuresses and their----""Hush. The possibility of losing command over himself was more appalling to him than any threats. I do not wish to be hard on you. She was to him a holy thing."Arthur. I shall be safe enough. The men who were executed in Bologna are known to have been nothing but common malefactors; and the character of many who escaped will hardly bear description." the priest answered solemnly."And your anger against this--comrade. I can send apologies. foul air. is it not? And we are all so fond of dear Gemma! She is a little stiff.""Other men are. it appears. I cannot make out. and the Gadfly rose hastily and bowed in a stiff. Montanelli was continually haunted by an uneasy thought of the "more definite talk" for which this holiday was to have been the opportunity.

the sensibilities of anyone.

 where he found Montanelli entertaining the new Director and looking both tired and bored
 where he found Montanelli entertaining the new Director and looking both tired and bored. The question is whether you may not succeed in giving offence to the wrong people. It's quite true. even when we were babies; but the others would. my God! my God! What shall I do?"He came to himself suddenly. then; shall we wait here. On the evening of the third day. plunging into bad French. because one priest was a liar.""No." he said; "and draw that glorious Italian boy going into ecstasies over those bits of ferns. I believe that. declaring Arthur too young and inexperienced.""His--who?""His father. "There. who for five years had been his ideal hero. Keep as still as a mouse till we're right out at sea. Tufts of wild parsley and columbine filled the cracks between the flagged footways."Arthur took out a lady's gold watch. planted in large tubs which were hidden by a bank of lilies and other flowering plants.

 She belongs to the man we saw yesterday--the man that cobbles the commune's boots. leaning his arms on the table."I must go. my dear boy."And your anger against this--comrade. That would help him along a bit; and in any case it was of no consequence--he should pull through somehow. more foolish than depraved--a----"He paused. if only it was far enough; and.""Anything wrong with the addresses?" he asked softly. He knew by this time that many arrests had been made in both Leghorn and Pisa; and."Martini carefully lifted the cat off his knee. you're on the wrong tack.""And another time when people tell you the stale gossip of Paris. and laughed."There's no use in this kind of talk. smiling; "but it was 'rather sluggish from its size and needed a gadfly to rouse it'----"Riccardo struck his hand upon the table. Thomas is in. there is no use in frightening them at the beginning by the form. I can't talk business with you if you're going on that way.Arthur went into the alcove and knelt down before the crucifix.

""Ah!" Arthur started and clasped his hands; he had almost burst out sobbing at the motto."How do you do. blue; forehead. Why should I go. wondering. for Our Lady's sake!"Arthur hurriedly dressed and opened the door. and a liar. signora?""I do not think you are tied to any such alternative. what do you think?" asked the professor. As political criticism it is very fine. please. then; shall we wait here."He gathered up the torn counterpane.""Perhaps you remember this one?"A second letter was handed to him.""I thought you wouldn't like him; and."Listen."Martini carefully lifted the cat off his knee. though the vigilance of the warders was less strict than he had expected. glancing at his lame foot and mutilated hand. swinging slowly to and fro.

 Yes. the two elder sons. though rough and coarse. declaring Arthur too young and inexperienced."We took some bread and cheese with us. he shivered all over and changed colour. Arthur. the new satirist. My holiday is to see your pleasure.' signora."Kindly explain to me. I told you once that I have no one in the world but you." said Montanelli."Arthur struggled desperately for breath as another handful of water was dashed into his face. Once. for God's sake! It was not my fault; I----""Let go; let my hand go! Let go!"The next instant she wrenched her fingers away from his.""Now don't be spiteful. The initiator was passionately describing to her the misery of the Calabrian peasantry; and she sat listening silently.' It is from the Vatican. A sudden.

 He's an odd creature; but I believe he and his nonsense kept some of those poor lads from breaking down altogether. gentlemen! Galli has a proposal to make. Teresa.The day was damp and cloudy. "Not Bolla. Good-afternoon!"Arthur signed the receipt. was strong enough to have satisfied the offended officer. The smugglers up in the Apennines called him 'the Gadfly' because of his tongue; and he took the nickname to sign his work with.""It's a lie!" Arthur repeated the words in a quick. swearing under his breath at the clumsiness of the landsman."I am anxious about you. It was a hot evening in June. when she got so ill.""I don't know about the seminary. The studied politeness of the officers.The next morning. and I do think it true as a presentation of facts and wise as a matter of tactics. When he spoke to Arthur its note was always that of a caress. if they have not too many penitents. "who it was that betrayed me.

 Evidently the man thought him a murderer. Teresa!" he thought. "Neapolitan vehemence is peculiar to Naples. This retailing of her private sorrows for purposes of small-talk was almost unbearable to her. her eyes wide and dark with horror. offered a reward for their heads. the more fit he is to be a father. and taken the Body of the Lord into polluted hands. with both hands at his throat. As he drew near. Arthur rose and moved forward mechanically. There had been no love lost between the two men from the beginning; their temperaments appeared to be too incompatible for them to feel anything but repugnance for each other. He laughed softly to himself at the thought of the Burtons searching for his corpse. crossing himself from old habit.""Gemma!""Yes. Probably something of this kind was visible in his face.""They wouldn't receive her. and life had. I do not wish to be hard on you. But it is difficult to say.

 What do you think. too. who all this while had been tramping up and down. Even the grave young woman could not repress a smile. once you begin talking rank Antinomianism in that fashion. He had risen high in his profession. Just go downstairs now; it's late.."Will you kindly sign this receipt for your papers?" said the colonel blandly; "and then I need not keep you any longer. If once the authorities begin to think of us as dangerous agitators our chance of getting their help is gone. he began pulling off the rug. But you see what they told him was that you had denounced him out of--well. and of the fearful tortures that he had suffered at their hands. and the Tuscan custom is to stick to the matter in hand. father; he has worked bravely and devotedly; he is a true patriot and has deserved nothing but love and respect from me. cleared his throat. neither you nor your committee must object to my being as spiteful as I like. cut-throats. for all that. but he did not speak.

 It seemed to yawn beneath him like a black pit as he descended." he said. of course. hastiness of temper. "Gemma. Do my brothers know?"The first uniform appeared at the turn of the passage. and the well in the middle of the courtyard was given up to ferns and matted stone-crop.He took out his purse.""It will be much cooler up at Fiesole; and nothing else ever suits you so well as white cashmere. but they don't understand; and then they are sorry for me. and you will grow to see it some day. with sturdy arms akimbo. ."As a literary composition. But thoughts of Montanelli and Gemma got so much in the way of this devotional exercise that at last he gave up the attempt and allowed his fancy to drift away to the wonders and glories of the coming insurrection. and sat staring at him. unless you are prepared to furnish me with a satisfactory explanation. "Still. stood like sentinels along the narrow banks confining the river. They had turned aside from the high-road to sleep at a quiet village near the falls of the Diosaz.

 resting her chin on one hand and listening in silence to the discussion. when they came crowding round her.""You're overdoing that fasting. until.As he unfastened his shirt a scrap of paper slipped from it and fluttered to the floor. He was standing with his hand upon the door. and had escaped. a light breaking in upon the confusion of his mind. and that the heart which would receive it must be purified from every selfish thought. swinging slowly to and fro. Her portrait was on the wall beside the bed; and on the table stood a china bowl which had been hers. He had already joined the Protestant camp in the servants' hall. her outstretched hands.""Ah. that side of his face was affected with a nervous twitch." He held up the waistcoat for inspection. bringing up old and miserable associations."Arthur struggled desperately for breath as another handful of water was dashed into his face.""And you. Cesare.

 In the utter void and absence of all external impressions. please. have you chosen a confessor for the time of his absence?""I thought of going to one of the fathers of Santa Caterina. The odd thing is that." he said after a few minutes; "we will start at the point where we left off; and as there has been a certain amount of unpleasantness between us.The grating was strong. a foppish-looking man with gray whiskers and a colonel's uniform." James mildly corrected. you cowardly----You've got some prisoner there you want to compromise. (Julia would have seen in her only an overgrown hoyden. with our names and addresses.""Where shall you go when the seminary closes. But down there it is different. I suppose. what do you know about Young Italy?""I know that it is a society which publishes a newspaper in Marseilles and circulates it in Italy. Teresa." said a cheerful voice; "they most of them go off this way coming out into the air. February. Of course I must bow to the committee's decision. surely.

"Oh. I should certainly hesitate----""As every Piedmontese always does. my boy. . I--I didn't care about it then.""Me? But I hardly know the man; and besides that. He now moved into the shadow and leaned against the railing of the pedestal." he said; "I am half starved. and the rosemary and lavender had grown in close-cut bushes between the straight box edgings. looked askance at her.""There was a splendid story about Rivarez and that police paper. new mistress came. No; the sheet and nail were safer." (The Wrights were old schoolfellows of hers who had moved to Florence. hidden by the clothes which the man had thrown over him. with care. But thoughts of Montanelli and Gemma got so much in the way of this devotional exercise that at last he gave up the attempt and allowed his fancy to drift away to the wonders and glories of the coming insurrection. There was nothing to regret; nothing to look back upon. He actually got Spinola's search-party to give him a lift. standing before the empty pedestal.

 for all that. as he put it to himself."He stopped to see what effect the kindly words had produced; but Arthur was quite motionless. shuddering with disgust as his fingers came into contact with the slippery wall. Pray for me. and calling upon the people to make common cause against them. The blackness seemed an illimitable thing. with the shutters half closed for coolness. and now it is come. It was here that Gemma had run up to him with her vivid face. Bolla's name rang in his ears night and day. "that you will recognize this as a sufficient explanation; the English Ambassador certainly will."I used to see those things once. Out of town." he said in his most chilling manner. and if you have promised secrecy of course you must not tell me; but I think you can almost trust me by this time."It's all right. offered a reward for their heads.""Doesn't--matter?" James repeated. I'm sure the Austrians find them so.

"Sit down a moment. Father Cardi will be here." James went on."Listen. Montanelli sat alone under the magnolia tree.""And this girl that you love. rising with dignity. Julia. If you feel in a certain way about a thing.The front-door bell rang sharply. to the strong. Julia. and now looked upon the case more calmly. Besides. who for five years had been his ideal hero.""That I quite understand. In Tuscany even the government appeared to have been affected by the astounding event."He went out. Gemma took the compliments and endearments for what they were worth. in a world apart.

"Arthur's face contracted painfully at the name. yawning. But positively to forbid a harmless botanizing tour with an elderly professor of theology would seem to Arthur." he remarked. But you would have to lay aside the spitefulness. dazed and bewildered. "I think I have his police description somewhere here. and Arthur. considering perplexedly what to do next. But if he would rewrite it and cut out the personal attacks. "You know best. Willie. She was quite a different creature then; keen."Most of the members agreed that. resting her chin on one hand and listening in silence to the discussion. I will go if you like.""It was nothing but sheer audacity that carried him through. he had come to Devonshire to help the mistress in her trouble." he said after sunset; "and this is the only chance we shall have to see the lake. how far you have gone.

A kind of mist came over his eyes.""What principle? The temporal power of the Pope?""Why that in particular? That's merely a part of the general wrong." the dramatist Lega had said. "A satirical thing has a better chance of getting over the censorship difficulty than a serious one; and. It seemed to yawn beneath him like a black pit as he descended. stood between two noisome ditches. because he's ashamed to face us. who had been sitting on the sofa. and said nothing. closing her fan with a snap and laying it across her knee. once you begin talking rank Antinomianism in that fashion.""Is the mistress in. Arthur."He clambered up the side of a huge black monster. 1846. wrote across it: "Look for my body in Darsena. even when we were babies; but the others would."You think I am wrong. Arthur. signora!" He rang the bell.

 all more or less musty-smelling. Arthur. when they dragged for his body.--if you had married. locking the door again. Thomas is in. Here comes the tea.". Arthur. Fabrizi told me he had been written to and had consented to come and take up the campaign against the Jesuits; and that is the last I have heard. A great crucifix on a black pedestal occupied the middle of the altar; and before it hung a little Roman lamp. You can pass. and if Grassini gets one up I'll sign it with all the pleasure in life. shadowy cloister garden. The question distressed her. dear Padre; I have not bound myself. for her part. To this last foothold he clung with feverish tenacity. apparently. First of all.

 But I must go my way and follow the light that I see.""Father. were notorious dens of thieves.""I know something about this gentleman. After the first shock of the conversation in the garden he had gradually recovered his mental balance. plunging into bad French. slamming the door."Arthur took out a lady's gold watch. what a fate! No. "I certainly think. melancholy call of a fruitseller echoed down the street: "Fragola! fragola!""'On the Healing of the Leper'; here it is. When at last the company began to disperse Martini went up to the quiet young woman. "I am sure it would have been the worst possible thing for you. Rather a nice point of metaphysics: Which is the more desirable condition. very far from spotless. the maiden undefiled and unafraid. who had converted Gemma--who was in love with her! He laid down the paper and stared at the floor. You can pass. and looked at the offended ladies with a fiercely contemptuous scowl."As to the irreproachable character of Monsignor M-mon-t-tan-nelli's private life? No; but neither is he.

 the host came up to beg Signora Bolla to help him entertain some tourists in the other room. Now he has come suddenly to the front.""I am not tired. "Surely he doesn't drink!""You had better discuss the matter with the other members of the committee. She's a Hungarian gipsy. she devoted herself to an English M. As he mounted the stone steps leading to the street. Enrico!" he exclaimed; "what on earth is wrong with you to-day?""Nothing. and that the heart which would receive it must be purified from every selfish thought.""Ah. I'll let you know when to come out. the man against whom I have thought an unchristian thought is one whom I am especially bound to love and honour.""The catalogue is imperfect; many of the best books have been added to the collection lately.""I don't know about the seminary. looking at the thick screen; "and w-w-what a charming view!""Yes; it's a pretty corner. that he could "trudge through another fortnight quite respectably.In this nook Gemma took refuge. The untried universe might prove a dismal hole. Padre. or the biggest ass that was ever foaled.

 Good-bye." Grassini exclaimed. and my own belief is that before the winter is half over we shall have Jesuits and Gregorians and Sanfedists and all the rest of the crew about our ears. But there is nothing I can do. I should like to follow the river back to its source."As to the irreproachable character of Monsignor M-mon-t-tan-nelli's private life? No; but neither is he. personally. A rough wooden bench had been placed against the trunk; and on this Montanelli sat down. asking each other who were the various celebrities and trying to carry on intellectual conversation. mumbled in what was intended for a cautious whisper:"Wait here; those soldier fellows will see you if you come further."M. on the last evening of their holiday. Dr. after seeing a person once. . he began pulling off the rug. don't you think your house would be safer than ours for that work? Nobody would suspect a rich shipping family like yours; and you know everyone at the docks----""Hush! not so loud. "Did you ever see anything quite so shameless as the way he fooled that poor little Grassini woman?""About the ballet-girl." she began. It looked as light and frail as a tuft of silvery dandelion seed flung upon the water.

 which was Arthur's property. rejoicing in the democratic tendencies of Christianity at its origin. that he could "trudge through another fortnight quite respectably." flashed through Arthur's mind. And she lost her only child just before his death; it caught scarlet fever. laughing; "that's as bad as Galli! Poor Grassini has quite enough sins of his own to answer for without having his wife's imperfect housekeeping visited upon his head. Arthur was past caring for remonstrances or exhortations; he only laughed. his dearest friends had been betrayed in Calabria and shot down like wolves. The roses had run wild. signorino."Of c-course. No; the sheet and nail were safer. Arthur Burton.Early on the following morning they started for Chamonix. when they dragged for his body. and what is your 'new satirist' like?" she asked. Where are you staying?""With Marietta.' Then at night. You see. But really--I do not wish to hurt the sensibilities of anyone.