Volume VI Part 58 (1/2)

”I will try, but I warn you that I shall tell her the siain to-morrow”

At six o'clock I went to ask Halish notes I had won, and he gave me the money himself

Before supper I spoke to the duchess about the poor Hanoverian My lady said she re her, and that she would like to have a talk with her before coht the poor creature to her the next day, and left them alone The result of the intervieas that the duchess took her into her service in the place of a Roland with her I never heard of her again, but a few days after Petina sent to beg me to come and see hi h he was very handsoly; but the distinction between beauty and ugliness is often hard to point out

This visit proved a very tedious one, for I had to listen to a long story which did not interestout I was met by an official, who said another prisoner wanted to speak to me

”What's his name?”

”His name is Gaetano, and he says he is a relation of yours”

My relation and Gaetano! I thought it ht be the abbe

I went up to the first floor, and found a score of wretched prisoners sitting on the ground roaring an obscene song in chorus

Such gaiety is the last resource of iving her children soreeted ossip” He would have embraced nized in him that Gaetano who had married a pretty woman under my auspices as her Godfather The reader may remember that I afterwards helped her to escape from him

”I am sorry to see you here, but what can I do for you?”

”You can pay oods supplied to you at Paris byI supposed imprisonment had driven him mad

As I went away I asked an official why he had been iery, and that he would have been hanged if it had not been for a legal flaw He was sentenced to imprisonment for life

I dismissed him from my mind, but in the afternoon I had a visit from an advocate who de his claier, where es

”Sir,” said I, ”the , and the evidence of this book is utterly worthless

”You ood evidence, and our laws deal very favorably with imprisoned creditors I am retained for them, and if you do not settle the matter by to-morrow I shall serve you with a sunation and asked him politely for his na quite certain that his affair was as good as settled

I called on Agatha, and her husband was n a power of attorney, e him to act for me, and he then advised the other advocate that all communications in the case lietti' who abound in Naples only live by cheating, and especially by iers