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" You know together. your reverence said that there w ould be ways of sending word home and getting news from home." 1

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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;

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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 ce
 * en saying

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

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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

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inclu

much

favour

in

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