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"But you kne to cure the phylloxera in the vines, and when your

hter and caentlerinning from ear to ear, he added:

"Perhaps your Excellency was the young gentleman who used to visit with

his father at the Count's palace on the hill twenty to thirty years

ago?"

David Rossi looked him steadfastly in the face and said: "Do you

remember the poor boy who lived with you at that tione in a moment "We had no boy then, Excellency"

"He caot a hundred francs with hiola"

"If your Excellency is froain, as I

told the priest who came before, that we never took a boy from there,

and we had no money from the people who sent him to London"

"You don't remember him, then?"

"Certainly not"

"Nor you?"

The old woman hesitated, and the old man madebreath "Here is the a over Good-bye!"

The tiht round the horses and the riders prepared toeyes