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But with a clouded brow David Rossi turned away fro-room, and Bruno looked around in blank bewilderment

"Shall you want the lamp, sir?" said Elena

"Not yet, thank you," he answered through the open door

The wood fire was glowing on the hearth, and in the acute state of his

nerves he shuddered involuntarily as its reflection in the

opposite looked back at hiraph, which had been returned to its place on the piano, and then

from a drawer in the bureau he took a small cardboard box The wood in

the fire flickered at that , but he drew a cylinder froraph Then he stepped to the door, shut and locked

it

VII

"Well!" said Bruno "If that isn't enough to make ato do, but to conceal the nature of it Bruno

flourished the newspaper and said: "Elena, I e and read these articles to your

father Poor Donna Roma, she'll have to fly, I'm afraid Bye-bye,

Garibaldi-Mazzini! Early to bed, early to rise, and tiht be a sinner and a criminal

instead of the hero of the hour! It licks me to little bits" And Bruno

carried his dark ht be

dispelled by a litre of autuht from sunny vineyards