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On the dark drive to the prison in the Via Filangeri the Carabineers

grumbled and swore at the hard fate which kept the There was to be a dinner on Monday night at

the barracks on the Prati, and on Tuesdaywas to

presentBut half-an-hour later, when he

had been put in the "paying" cell, and thehim, he could not forbear to speak

"Officer," he said, fu me where you received this paper?"

"At the Procura, of course," said the soldier

"Some one had denounced me there--can you tell me who it was?"

"That's no business of mine, Honourable Still, as you wish to know"

"Well?"

"A lady was there when the warrant was uess

who she was"

Rossi saw the na out at hiht he tried to account for his arrest to

the exclusion of Roht of every woland and America, and finally of Elena and old

Francesca It was useless There was only one woman in the world who