The Eternal City

eyes and twirled-up moustache, who had stood by the

essage from abroad. He is coming along with the people, but

r! You say he is coming

ning visibly, and the man's watchfu

saw him arrested, and I a

ave heard so little of all that happened, and my boy and I h

stranger, "the people made an attempt to rescue him, and it seemed as if the

didn't he? I'm sur

he Brigadier was on the point of ordering his men to fire

w it!

blood be shed for my sake. We

him! And t

as in charge of him uncovered his head. 'Room for the Honoura

is time, and the soft voice was trembli

you are free.' 'But before I go I must say something,' said the Deputy. 'My only orders are that you are to be set at liberty,' said the officer. 'Nevertheless, I must see the Minister,' said Mr. Rossi. But the crowd had pressed in

it all, and mor

oman's beaming eyes, and sai

wife of one of his f

ou liv

the rooms

keep house fo

y-yes, we keep hou

ghted by a shaft of sunshine, and there came from some unseen p

a door and led to a flat roof on which some twenty or thirty canaries were

Ros

lso-dogs and cats and rabbits and

irre

s not like some people who love animals-he loves child

ho cried 'Uncle D

David' to Mr. Rossi, and he has been Unc

g-room, no doubt,"

nately,

nfortu

erybody. People know it, too, and they take advantage. He would give the chicken off his plate if he hadn't anything else. I have to scold him

," said the stranger, indicating a d

s colleagues in Parliament, and his fellow-journalists,

oln, Washington, and Cromwell, and the room, which had been furnished orig

kerchief into shreds to make a tassel for his mace." Then with a sweep of the arm, "All presents, sir. He gets presents from all parts of the world. The piano is

onogr

. A week ago a cylinder ca

some prisone

p for an instrument to reproduce it, Sister,' he said. But, lo

reproduced

linder to amuse the boy, but I never knew him try t

its white counterpane, white bed curtains, and white

!" said th

end of the room, where a desk stood between two windows, amid heaps of uno

He had taken from the desk a dagger with a lapis-lazu

A six-chamber revolver came yesterday, but he had no use for

re in an ebony frame which hung by the side of the bed. It was the po

Mr. Rossi's in E

rtainly, but the face seem

f the narrow lanes into the broad piazza. At the same instant the boy shouted from the adjoi

!" said the woman, and the ripple of he