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Nevertheless he looked at his companion curiously, as they both rose to their feet together. Dalrymple doubled his long arms as he stood up and stretched them out.

”It is curious,” he said. ”I feel as though I had been carrying a heavy weight in my arms. I did once, for some distance,” he added thoughtfully, ”and I remember the sensation.”

”Very odd,” said Griggs, lighting a cigar.

Giulio, sitting outside, half asleep, woke up as he heard the steady tread of the two strong men go by.

”If you do not die to-night, you will never die again!” he said, half aloud, as he rose to go in and clear the room where the guests had been sitting.

END OF VOL. I.

CASA BRACCIO

[Ill.u.s.tration]

[Ill.u.s.tration: ”As he stood there repeating the name.”--Vol. II., p.

331.]

CASA BRACCIO

BY

F. MARION CRAWFORD

AUTHOR OF ”SARACINESCA,” ”PIETRO GHISLERI,” ETC.

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOL. II.

_WITH ILl.u.s.tRATIONS BY A. CASTAIGNE_

=New York= MACMILLAN AND CO.

AND LONDON 1895

_All rights reserved_

COPYRIGHT, 1894, BY F. MARION CRAWFORD.

=Norwood Press= J. S. Cus.h.i.+ng & Co.--Berwick & Smith Norwood Ma.s.s. U.S.A.

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