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you have
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9,
" You know together. your reverence said that there w ould be ways of sending word home and getting news from home." 1
T
not be so
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i
Uw
hous.-s.
much afraid of the Make your way op
course
!"
—
of course
I
!
suppose
it
is
the last of the two that is most in your mind, But that must be left to me. I shall eh ]
y from Kill
called Santa
M;
-o.
woods, bidden
tliick
nong
y high
the south
priory, It is a
i
mountain to There ae. of the order
y to one of them you
may ,'
i
first
and
with such hospitality as D would be
found, however long you if there should be any the monastery, the friars ax of it beforehand, and
danger of
i
he means of baffling a whole regiFirst of all, hancL and woods of Monte
behind and overhanging the Then, higher up the mountain, of a little stream that comes le straight down from the heights of Monte re some ruins of an old castle much ni' .his old tower here and beneath, which the friar will show d, and which neither you nor anybody else would ever find without being o
close
monastery.
—
Have you paid good
- en saying
ce
think
attention
to
"
?
Beppo, timidly, yet anxiously. " On Sunday evening she will be at the farm-house at Bella Luce."
home in
" And perhaps your reverence would to
me
let
—whether— whether
r
her conduct is becoming and such as " your reverence ?
"
of
Yes, yes
You
!
shall
have
home news. "
"And
please
hear w hether
all
satisfies
the budget
your reverence will be sure to
me know
as
let
" may come home 1
soon as I
said poor Beppo, innocently.
" Of
course
—
of course
But you
!
must
not be in a hurry. Be content with the safe There will be hunasylum provided for you. dreds of lads in the mountains, to get away from this accursed tyranny but I doubt if there will be one among them whose safety and comfort have been cared for and provided for them as yours have been." And this part of the priest's statement at
was true enough.
"I am
will
be
able
to "
the directions I have given you ? I shall not so, your reverence. !
ire
who are going to give you hospitality. Do not attempt to make any inquiry except of them. Tidings shall reach you, never fear." "And your reverence has fixed the day for " said poor poor Giulia's return to Bella Luce ?
least
" !
you
take care that tidings shall reach you. They will come to you through those holy fathers
you to say to the fmte
to-
not ungrateful to your reverence, " Good-bye, your reverence " Once again, God bless you, my son May good fortune go with you." And so poor Beppo turned his face to the westward mountains, which had 1
indeed
!
!
!
in the cold grey light of the coming the last minutes of his co:i
visible
dawn during hat to the friars at Santa
< I
I
>h
that there
!
I shall
Lb
to be
tion with the priest to the " Cura," to
and the latfa la Nunziator
make
1
that he was just up.
THE MULLET AND THE GURNA Thh
mullet,
the
first
of the
two
sul
i
ill,
.Mull, •1
i
I
tin
many
inclu
much
favour
in
ti,