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"Yes! I was in the public service myself until lately, so they allowed

me to enter the police station, and when the order for release came I

was present and heard all 'Deputy,' said the officer, 'I have the

honour to inforo I ,' 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 and surrounded him, and in

a moment the flood had carried hi of hats and a ind of enthusiash the city in a lad, wild procession"

"But he deserves it all, and er looked at the wo eyes, and said, "You are not

his wife--no?"

"Oh, no! I'm only the wife of one of his friends," she answered

"But you live here?"

"We live in the rooms on the roof"

"Perhaps you keep house for the Deputy?"

"Yes--that is to say--yes, we keep house for Mr Rossi"

At that hted by

a shaft of sunshine, and there ca of waters in a fountain

"It's the birds," said the woman, and she threw open athat was

also a door and led to a flat roof on which so their little swollen throats in a

gigantic bird-cage