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"Go back and tell the Major that I will go instead," said the Pope

"Holy Father!"

"Ask hie between the Vatican and the Castle of St

Angelo can still be opened up"

Count de Raymond returned to say that the Major would open it In the

present political crisis no one could tell what a day would bring forth,

and in any case he would take the consequences

The Noble Guard held four unopened letters in his hand They were

addressed to the Honourable Rossi in a wo, and had been

re-addressed to the Chamber of Deputies from London, Paris, and Berlin

"An official froave me these letters, and askedsoldier

"My son, my son, didn't you see that it was a trap?" said the Pope "But

no matter! Give them to me We must leave all to the Holy Spirit"

IV

"The dress of a simple priest to-day, Gaetanino," said the Pope, when

his valet ca

After Mass and the usual visit of the Cardinal Secretary, the Pope