1THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. BY JAMES DE MILLE, AUTHOR OF "CORD AND CREESE; OR, THE BRANDON MYSTERY," ETC., ETC. With (rDne fpnbreb llhmtrations. NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE. I 8 72. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by HARPER & BROTHERS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. CONTENTS. CHIAPTER I. CHAPTER IX. PARIS.-THE DODGE CLUB.-HOW TO SPEAK A DRIVE INTO THE COUNTRY.-A FIGIIT WITH A FRENCH.-HOW TO RAISE A CROWD....... 3 VETTURINO. —THE EFFECT OF EATING " HARD ILLUSTRATIONS.- -Dick!-Here I Invite my Friends.-Tlle Club.-The Place Vend6me.-Keep it, Buttons! -FIVE TEMPLES AND ONE MILL.......... 28 ILLUSTMATIONS. —" DO You See That?"-The Mill at PHsCIIAPTER II. tlm. CHAPTER X. DRLEANS. —HOW TO QUELL A LANDLORD.-HOW TO FIGHT OFF HUMBUGS; AND HOW TO TRAVEL ON TIE WATER, WHERE BUTTONS SEES A LOST WITHOUT BAGGAGE............................ 10 IDEA AND GIVES CHASE TO IT, TOGETHER WITH ILLUSTRATIONS-That's a Hotel Bill.-Cicero against HE EART-SICKENING RESULTS THEREOF. 32 Verres.-Sac-r-r-r-re! ILLUSTRATIONS. - Tile Spaniards. - "A Thousand Pardons!" CHAPTER III. CHAPTER XI. THIE RHONE IN A RAIN.-THE MAD FRENCHMAN. TIlE SENATOR HAS SUCH A FANCY FOR SEEKING — SUICIDE A CAPITAL CRIME IN FRANCE... 13 USEFUL INFORMATION!-CURIOUS POSITION OF ILUisTATIONs-NumberT 729.-Horror! Despair! A WISE, AND WELL-KNOWN, AND DESERVEDLYPOPULAR LEGISLATOR, AND UNDIGNIFIED MODE CHAPTER IV. OF HIS ESCAPE....................... 35 ILLUSTRATION.-The Senator. MARSEILLES.......,,......................... 4 CIAPTER XII. CHAPTER V. HERCULANEUM AND POMPEII, AND ALL THAT THE SIGHT OF THOSE FAMOUS PLACES PRODUCED THE RETIRED ORGANoGRINDER. —THE SENATOR ON TIHE MINDS OF THE DODGE CLUB........ 37 PIIILOSOPHIZES.-EVILS OF NOT HAVING A PASSPORT.............................. 1.. i5 ILLUSTRATIONS.-Villa of Diomedes. —Phew!-A Street in Pompeii. ILIUSTiRATIONS.-Those Italians.-Genoa, the Superb. CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER VL. VESUVIUS.-WONDERFUL ASCENT OF THE CONE. -WONDERFUL DESCENT INTO THE CRATER.LAZARONI AND MACARONI...................... 17 AND MOST WONDERFUL DISAPPEARANCE OF ILLUSTRATIONS. -Their Noble Excellencies. -Lazaroni MR. FIGGS, AFTER WHOM ALL HIS FRIENDS GO, and Macaroni. WITH THEIR LIVES IN THEIR HANDS.-GREAT SENSATION AMONG SPECTATORS.............. 40 CHAPTER VII. ILLUSTRATIONS.-The Ascent of Vesuvius.-The Descent of Vesuvius.-Where's Figgs? —Mr. Figgs.-The Ladies. bOLORES.-AN ITALIAN MAID LEARNS ENGLISH.A ROMANTIC ADVENTURE.-A MASQUERADE, CHAPTER XIV. AND WHAT BEFELL THE SENATOR. -A CHARMING DOMINO.-A M1OONLIGHT WALK, AND AN 3IAGNIFICENT ATTITUDE OF THE SENATOR; BRILASTOUNDING DISCOVERY...................... 19 LIANCY OF BUTTONS; AND PLUCK OF THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE CLUB: BY ALL OF WHICH ILLUSTRATIONS.-Yankee Doodle.-I Kiss IHands.-The THE GREATEST EFFECTS ARE PRODUCED. 47 Yotung Hussar.-A Perplexed Senator.-Exit Senator. ILLUSTRATIONS. —The Bandits Captured.-Sold. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER XV. ADVENTURES AND MISADVENTURES. — A WET GROTTO AND A BOILING LAKE.-THE TWO FAIR DOLORES ONCE MORE. A PLEASANT CONVERSASPANIARDS, AND THE DONKEY RIDE........ 24 TION.-BUTTONS LEARNS MORE OF HIS YOUNG FRIEND.-AFFECTING FARIEWELL.......... 50 ILLUSTRATIONS.-Darn it! Don't.-Thumpl —A Trying Moment.-Senator and Donkey. ILLUSTRATIONS.-T-T Piastres I-The Brave Soldier. 2 CONTENTS. CHAPTER XVI. CHAPTER XXVI. DICK RELATES A FAMILY LEGEND............. 53 CONSEQUENCES OF BEING GALLANT IN ITALY, ILLUSTRATIONS.-Buying a Whale.-The Long-lost Son. WHERE THERE ARE LOVERS, HUSBANDS, BI;OTII ERS, FATHERS, COUSINS, AND INNUMERABLE ~CHAPTER XVII OTHER RELATIVES AND CONNECTIONS, ALL READY WITH THE STILETTO.................. 69 NIGHT ON THE ROAD.-THE CLUB ASLEEP.-TIIEY ILLUSTRATION.-An Interruption. ENTER ROME.-THOUGHTS ON APPROACHING AND ENTERING "'THE ETERNAL CITY..... CHPTER XXVII. ILLUSTRATION.-To Rome. DICK ON THE SICK LIST.-RAPTURE OF BUTTONS CHAPTER XVIII. AT MAKING AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.... 71 ILLUSTRATION. —Poor Dick I A LETTER BY DICK, AND CRITICISMS OF HIS FRIENDS.......................................... 56 CHAPTER XXVIII. FRIENDS... 56 CHIAPTER XXVIII. CHAPTER XIX. WHAT KIND OF A LETTER THE SENATOR WROTE FOR THE "NEW ENGLAND PATRIOT," WHICH ST. PETER'S!-TIIE TRAGIC STORY OF THE FAT SHOWS A TRUE, LIBERAL, UNBIASED, PLAIN, UNMAN IN TIIE BALL.-HOW ANOTHER TRAGEDY VARNISHED VIEW OF ROME........... 73 NEARLY HAPPENED. —THE WOES OF MEINIIERR ILLUSTR1TIO.N.-Sketches by a Friend. SCHATT..... 57 ILLUSTRATION.-" Gracious Me!" CHAPTER XXIX. CHAPTER XX. THE LONELY ONE AND HIS COMIFORTER.-THE TRUE MEDICINE FOR A SICK SMAN........... 75 TIIE GLORY, GRANDEUR, BEAUTY, AND INFINITE VARIETY OF THE PINCIAN HILL; NARRATED CHAPTER XXX. AND DETAILED NOT COLUMNARILY BUT EXIIAUSTIVELY, AND AFTER TIIE MANNER OF RA- OCCUPATIONS AND PEREGRINATIONS OF BUTBELAIS............................................ 60 TONS.................... 77 ILLUSTRATION. —Buttons and Murray. CHAPTER XXI. HARMONY ON THE PINCIAN HILL.-MUSIC HATH CHAPTER XXXI. CHARMS.-AMERICAN MELODIES.-THE GLORY, BUTTONS ACTS TIlE GOOD SAMARITAN, AND LITTHE POWER, AND THE BEAUTY OF YANKEE RALLY UNEARTHS A MOST UNEXPECTED VICDOODLE, AND THE MERCENARY SOUL OF AN ITALIAN ORGAN-GRINDIER.................60 TIM OF AN ATROCIOUS ROBBERY.-GR-R-R-AITALIAN ORGAN-GRINDER..................... 60 CIOUS ME!....................................... 77 ILLUSTRATION. —Old Virginny. CHAPTER XXXII. CHAPTER XXII. ANOTHER DISCOVERY MADE BY BUTTONS.... 78 HOW A BARGAIN IS MADE.-THE WILES OF THE ITALIAN TRADESMAN. - TIE NAKED SULKY CIAPTER XXIII BEGGAR, AND THE JOVIAL WELL-CLAD BEGGAR.-WHO IS THE KING OF BEGGARS?... 62 BpEKEKK KOaE IKcoaE Ko0........................ 9 ILLUSTRATION.-The Shrug. ILLUSTRATION.-Brekekekek Koax Koax! CHAPTER XXIII. CHAPTER XXXIV. THE MANIFOLD LIFE OF THE CAFE NUOVO, AND THE SENATOR PURSUES HIS INVESTIGATIONS.-AN HOW THEY RECEIVED THE NEWS ABOUT MAGEN- INTELLIGENT ROMAN TOUCHES A CHORD IN THE TA.-EXCITEMENT.-ENTHUSIASM.-TEARS.- SENATOR'S HEART THAT VIBRATES.-RESULTS EMBRACES.................................... 64 OF THE VIBRATION.-A VISIT FROM THE ROMIAN ILLUSTRAT1ON. —News of Magenta! POLICE; AND THE GREAT RACE DOWN THE CORSO BETWEEN THE SENATOR AND A ROMAN SPY. CHAPTER XXIV. -GLEE OF THE POPULACE!-HI! HI!.... 80 CHECKMATE ILLUSTRATIONS.-Got You There!-Walking Spanish. CHECKMATE!....................................... 65 ILLUSTRATIoN.-Before and After. CHAPTER XXXV. CHAPTER XXV. DICK MAKES ANOTHER EFFORT, AND BEGINS TO FEEL ENCOURAGED............................ 83 BUTTONS A MAN OF ONE IDEA.-DICK AND HIS ILLUSTRATION.-Dick Thinks it Over. MEASURING TAPE.-DARK EYES. —SUSCEPTIBLE HEART.-YOUNG MAIDEN WHO LIVES OUT OF TOWN.-GRAND COLLISION OF TWO ABSTRACTED LOVERS IN THE PUBLIC STREETS. 66 SHOWING HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO GET A LAUNILLUSTRATIONaS-Away!-Pepita. DRESS, FOR THE SENATOR WANTEIb ONE, AND CONTENTS. 3 NOT KNOWING THE LANGUAGE GOT INTO A CHAPTER XLI. SCRAPE, NOT BY IIIS OWN FAULT, FOR RE WAS CAREFUL ABOUT COMMITTING HIMSELF WITH ANDS.-THE DODGE CLUB DEFIES THEM AND IF TLE LADIES WOUPLD TASRE A FANCY TO REPELS THEM.-HOW TO MAKE A BARRICADE. IF THE LADIES WOULD TAKE A FANCY TO E 8 HIM.9................. — FRATERNIZATION OF AMERICAN EAGLE AND GALLIC COCK.-THERE'S NOTHING LIKE LEATHILLUSTRATIONS.-The Senator in a Bad Fix.-The Sena- 96 tor in a Worse Fix. ILLUSTRATION.-An International Affair. CIIAPTER XXXVII. CHAAPTER XLIL Borne. -Ancient History. — THE PREHISTORIC ERA.- CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF NIEBUHR FLORENCE.-DESPERATION OF BUTTONS, OF M3R. AND HIS SCHOOL.-THE EARLY HISTORY OF FIGGS, AND OF THE DOCTOR.................. 99 ROME PLACED ON A RIGIIT BASIS.-EXPLANA- ILLUSTRATIONS. —Florence, from San Miniato.-Pitti PalTION OF HISTORY OF REPUBLIC.-NAPOLEON'S ace.-Fountain of Neptune, Palazzo Veccllio.-The Du" CIESAR." - TIIE IMPERIAL REGIME. - THE onro. - The Campanile. - Strozzi Palace. - Buttons NORTHERN BARBARIANS.-RISE OF THE PA- Melancholy. PACY.-MEDIEVAL ROME. CHAPTER XLIII. Topograplay.-TRUE ADJUSTMENT OF BOUNDS OF ANCIENT CITY.-ITS PROBABLE POPULATION.-THE SENATOR ENTRAPPED.-TIIE WILES AND Geology.-EXAMINATION OF FORMATION. - WITCHERY OF A QUEEN OF SOCIETY. — IIS TUFA TRAVERTINE.-ROMAN CE3MENT.-TERRA- FATE DESTINED TO BE, AS HE THINKS, ITALIAN COTTA.-Special consideration of Roman Cata- COUNTESSES.-SENTIMENTAL CONVERSATION.conmbs.-BOSIO.-ARRINGI-II.-CARDINAL WISE- POETRY. -BEAUTY,-MOONLIGIT.- RAPTURE. MAN. - RECENT EXPLORATIONS, INVESTIGA- -DISTRACTION.-BLISS!.................... 10 TIONS, EXAMINATIONS, EXHUMATIONS, AND RE- ILLUSTRATION. —La Cica. SUSCITATIONS. -EARLY CHRISTIAN HISTORY SET ON A TRUE BASIS.-RELICS. —MARTYRS. CHAPTER XLIV. -REAL ORIGIN OF CATACOMBS.-TRUE AND RELIABLE EXTENT (WITIt MAPS). 4 MORERE DIAGORA, NON ENIM IN C(ELUI ADRemarks on Art.-TIIE RENAISSANCE.-TI-IE EAR- SCENSURUS ES."-THE APOTHEOSIS OF THE LY PAINTERS: CIMABUE, GIOTTO, PERUGINO, SENATOR (NOTHING LESS-IT WAS A MOMENT RAFAELLE SANZIO, MICHELANGELO BUONAROT- IN WHICH A MAN MIGHT WISH TO DIETI.-THE TRANSFIGURATION.-THE MIOSES OF THOUGH, OF COURSE, THE SENATOR DIDN'T MICHELANGELO. - BELLINI.- SAINT PETER'S, DIE).................,............... 106 AND MORE PARTICULARLY TIIE COLONNADE.- ILLUSTRATIONS.-Solferino!-The Senator Speaks. THE LAST JUDGMENT.-DANTE. -THE MIEDI2EVAL SPIRIT.-EFFECT OF GOTHIC ART ON ITALY AND ITALIAN TASTE. -COMPARISON OF LOMBARD WITH SICILIAN CHURCHES.-TO WIIAT TIIE PRIVATE OPINION OF THE DOCTOR ABOUT EXTENT ROSIE INFLUENCED THIS DEVELOP- FOREIGN TRAVEL. —BUTTONS STILL MEETS MENT. - THE FOSTERING SPIRIT OF THE WITH AFFLICTIONS........................... 109 CHURCH.-ALL MODERN ART CHRISTIAN.HWILY TCHIS-WASL NECESNARTY-FOHIESTIN ILLUSTR&TIONS.-A Grease Spot.-Farewell, Figgs! WIY THIS WAS A NECESSITY.-FOLLIES OF MODERN CRITICS.-REYNOLDS AND RUSKIIN. — HOW FAR POPULAR TASTE IS WORTH ANY CHAPTER XLVI. THING.-CONCLUDING REMARKS OF A MISCEL-A MEMORABLE DRIVE.-NIGHT.-THE BRIGANDS LANEOUS DESCRIPTION.................... 88 ONCE MORE.-GARIBALDIS NAME-TE FIRE. — THE IRON BAR.-THE MAN FROM THE GRANCHAPTER XXXVIII. ITE STATE AND HIS TWO BOYS............... 111 ITALIAN TRAVEL, ROADS, INNS.-A GRAND BREAK- ILLUSTRATIONS.-In the Coach.-A Free Fight.-Don't DOWN. - AN ARMY OF BEGGARS. - SIX MEN Speak. H1UNTING UP A CARRIAGE WHEEL; AND PLANS CHAPTER XLVII. OF THE SENATOR FOR THE GOOD OF ITALY. 88 *~~at~~~ I~BAD BRUISES, BUT GOOD MUSES. -THE HONILLU.STATIONs.-Travelling in Italy.-The Senator's Es- ORABLE SCARS OF DICK.-A KNOWLEDGE OF cort. BONES................................ 115 CHAPTER XXXIX. TRII:MPHIANT PROGRESS OF DICK.-GENDARMES CHAPTER XLVIII. FOILED.-THE DODGE CLUB IS ATTACKED BY SUFFERING AND SENTIMENT AT BOLOGNA.-MOONBRIGANDS, AND EVERY MAN OF IT COVERS HIM- SINEBEST BALM FOR WOUNDS........ 117 SELF WITH GLORY.-SCREAM OF THE AMERICAN EAGLE!.................................. 91 ILLUSTRATION.-ed p. ILT.USTRATIONS.-Dick in his Glory.-Pietro.-The Barricade. CHAPTER XLIX. CHAPTER XL. CROSSING INTO THE ENEMIY S COUNTRY.-CONPLEASANT MEDITATIONS ABOUT THE WONDERS OF STERNATION OF THE CUSTOM-HOUSE OFFITOBACCO; AND THREE PLEASANT ANECDOTES CERS...118 BY AN ITALIAN BRIGAND...................... 95, ILLUSTRATION.-LButtons in Bliss. 4 CONTENTS. CHAPTER L. CHAPTER LIV. VENICE AND ITS PECULIAR GLORY.-THE DODGE DICK 3IEETS AN OLD FRIEND.-THE EMOTIONAT CLUB COME TO GRIEF AT LAST. —UP A TREE.- NATURE OF THE ITALIAN.-THE SENATOR OVERIN A NET, ETC................................... 119 COME AND DU3MBFOUNDED................... 128 ILLUSTRATIONS.-Dick's Luggage.-Arrested.-Silence! ILLUSTRATION.-_The Count JUgo. CHAPTER LI. CHAPTER LV. THE AMERICAN EAGLE AND THE AUSTRIAN DOUB- IN WHICII BUTTONS WRITES A LETTER; AND IN LE-HEADED DITTO.............................. 12 WHICH THE CLUB LOSES AN IMPORTANT MEMBER.-SMALL BY DEGREES AND BEAUTIFULLY LESS............................................... 129 CHAPTER LII. CHAPTER LVI. THE SENATOR STILL ENGAGED IN FACING DOWN THE AUSTRIAN.-THE AMERICAN CONSUL.- THE FAITHFUL ONE! — DARTS, DISTRACTION, UNEXPECTED RE-APPEARANCE OF FORGOTTEN LOVE'S VOWS, OVERPOWERING SCENE AT THE THINGS.-COLLAPSE OF THE COURT....... 124 MEETING OF TWO FOND ONES. -COMPLETE BREAK-DOWN OF THE HISTORIAN........... 130 ILLUSTRATION. —Watts Mlis-spelled. ILLUSTRATION.-The Door. CHAPTER LIII. CHAPTER LVII.. MYSTERIOUS FLIGHT.-DESPAIR OF BUTTONS. -PURSUIT.-HISTORIC GROUND, AND HISTORIC TIIE DODGE CLUB IN PARIS ONCE MIORE.-BUTCITIES............................................. 16 TONS'S "JOLLY GOOD HEALTH. "............ 132 ILLtSTRITION.-Formalities. ILLUSTRATION. —" IIe's a Jolly Good Fellow I" THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX, is Ax bombast uttered. For the invincible soldiers of France are off to fight for an idea;;' i i --- and doesn't every one of -z? them carry a marshal's baI j! A ton in his knapsack? imsl Afe fitaA troop of Cent Gacrde FREN1<.O' O RAISEI A!i CROWD comes thundering down ill pleted this businesa cloud of dust, dashing the jT\ is a\ glorious d ayinpeople right and left. Loud liN ens tile scene. ucheers arise: I" Vive l'EmCet. Gd hf onr og ou. forgiinglv. pereur!" The hoarse voices / ltlrdlgeslof myriads prolong the yell. It is Louis Napoleon. He hang touches his hat gracefully gra maytasaesed n ra el o s ife inoe nto the crowd. He A chasseur leaps into a iii cb"Where shall I take you?"'-.V~':~~~~~ ~~~"To Glory!" shouts the soldier. The crowd applaud. The ~~~'~~~ / /' ~~~~~~~cabman drives off and don't (want any further direction. Ir' //ere a big-bearded Zouave kisses his big-bearded brother in a blouse. "Adieu, mon frere; write me."''Where shall I write?" 6 Direct toVienna-poste /restante." /!!~ //=-~_ ~-?.~ —~-~ ~ ~Every body laughs at.~ r'~~ ~~-.c-~. every thing, and tho crowd are quite wild at this. A young man is perched upon a pillar near the garCHAPTER I. den wall of the Tuileries. Ile enjoys the scene PARIS-THE DODGE CLUB-ow TO SPEAK immensely. After a while he takes a clay pipe FRENC-HOW TO AISE CROWD. fromhispocket and slowly, fills it. Having completed this business he draws a match along IT is a glorious day in Paris. The whole the stone and is just about lighting his pipe. city is out in the public places, watching the I'Halloo!" departure of the army of Italy. Every imagi- Down drops the lighted match on the neck nable uniform, on foot and on horseback, en- of an ouvrier. It burns. The man scowls up; livens the scene. Zouaves are everywhere. but seeng the cause, smiles and waves his hand Cent Gardes hurry to and fro, looking ferocious. forgivingly. Imperial Gardes look magnificent. Innumera- "Dick!" ble little red-legged soldiers of the line dance At this a young man in the midst of the about, gesticulating vehemently. Grisettes crowd stops and looks around. Hle is a short hang about the necks of departing braves. A young man, in whose face there is a strange great many tears are shed, and a great deal of mixture. of, innocence and shrewdness. IHe ia, 6 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. pulling a baby-carriage, containing a small "Bang? Well, Madame Bang must look specimen of French nationality, and behind out for another lodger. You must come with him walks a majestic female. me, young man. You need a guardian. It's The young man Dick takes a quick survey well that I came in time to rescue you. Let's and recognizes the person who has called him. be off!" Down drops the pole of the carriage, and, to And the two youths descended and were the horror of the majestic female, he darts off, soon lost in the crowd. and, springing up the pillar, grasps first the foot and then the hand of his friend. " Three flights of steps are bad enough; but "Buttons!" he cried; "what, you! you here great Heavens! what do you mean by taking a in Paris!" fellow up to the eighth story?" "I believe I am." Such was the exclamation of Dick as he fell "Why, when did you come?" exhausted into a seat in a little room at the top "About a month ago." of one of the tallest houses in Paris. "I had no idea of it. I didn't know you "Eoonomy, my dear boy." were here." "Ehem!" "And I didn't know that you wtere. I "Paris is overflowing, and I could get no thought by this time that you were in Italy. other place without paying an enormous price. What has kept you here so long?" Now I am trying to husband my means." Dick looked confused. "I should think so." "Why the fact is, I am studying German." "I sleep here-" " German! in Paris! lFrench, you mean." "And have plenty of bedfellows." " No, German." "I eat here-" " You're crazy; who with?" "The powers of the human stomach are asDick nodded his head toward his late com- tounding." panion. "And here I invite my friends." "What, that woman? How she isscowling "Friends only, I should think. Nothing at us!" but the truest friendship could make a man "Is she?" said Dick, with some trepidation. hold out in such an ascent." "Yes. But don't look. Have you been "But come. What are your plans?" with her all the time?" " I have none." " Yes, seven months." "Then you must league yourself with me." "Studying German!" cried Buttons, with a "I shall be delighted." laugh. "Who is she?" "And I'm going to Italy." "Madame Bang." "Then I'm afraid our league is already at an end." " -~ ~,~ li i'If, 1Why?" ~i ('''/,..!, I;I,.',...; I haven't money enough." 7 3 ii i | leha egaie"How much have you?" "Only five hundred dollars; I've spent all the rest of my allowance." "Five hundred? Why, man, I "Certainly." /.,N="Then I'll go too and run the risk. Butis this the style?" and Dick looked liilly: dolefully around.' ",By no means-not always. But K3~ " ~ ~~~~~~ ~ / < you'iust practice economy." — ~-~ lm~X\\`~` ~ ~ "Have you any acquaintances?" A other "Yes, tvo. We three have formed ourselves into a society for the purpose of going to Italy. We call ourselves the Dodge Club." "The Dodge Club?" "Yes. Because our principle is to dodge all humbugs and swindles, which make travelling so expensive generally. We have gained much experience already, and hope to gain more. One of my friends is a doctor from Phil, adelphia, Doctor Snakeroot, and the other is Senator Jones from Massa. chusetts. Neither the Doctor nor the uIER I INVITE MY IrIE:Ms. Senator understand a word of any lan. THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 7 guage but the American. That is the reason press something. On the whole, I think if I why I became acquainted with them. hadn't come up that the Senator would have " First as to the Doctor, I picked him up at been arrested by a stiff gendarme who was just Dunkirk. It was in a cafe. I was getting my then coming along the street. As it was, I armodest breakfast when I saw him come in. rived just in time to learn that he was anxious lie sat down and boldly asked for coffee. Aft- to see the French mode of killing cattle, and er the usual delay the gargon brought him a was trying to find his way to the abattoirs. small cup filled with what looked like ink. The Senator is a fine man, but eminently pracOn the waiter was a cup of eau de vie, and a lit- tical. He used to think the French language tle plate containing several enormous lumps of an accomplishment only. He has changed his loaf-sugar. Never shall I forget the Doctor's face mind since his arrival here. He has one little of amazement. He looked at each article in suc- peculiarity, and that is, to bawl broken English cession. What was the ink for? what the bran- at the top of his voice when he wants to commudy? what the sugar? He did not know that the nicate with foreigners." two first when mixed makes the best drink in the world, and that the last is intended for the pock- Not long afterward the Dodge Club received et of the guest by force of a custom dear to ev- a new member in the person of Mr. Dick Whifcry Frenchman. To make a long story short, fletree. The introduction took place in a modI explained to him the mysteries of French cof- est cafe, where a dinner of six courses was supfee, and we became sworn friends. plied for the ridiculous sum of one franc-soup, "My meeting with the Senator was under a roast, a fry, a bake, a fish, a pie, bread at slightly different circumstances. It was early discretion, and a glass of vinegar generously in the morning. It was chilly. I was walk- thrown in. ing briskly out of town. Suddenly I turned At one end of the table sat the Senator, a a corner and came upon a crowd. They sur- very large and muscular man, with iron-gray rounded a tall man. He was an American, hair, and features that were very strongly and appeared to be insane. First he made marked and very strongly American. He apgestures like a man hewing or chopping. Then peared to be about fifty years of age. At the he drew his hand across his throat. Then he other sat the Doctor, a slender young man in staggered forward and pretended to fall. Then black. On one side sat Buttons, and opposite he groaned heavily. After which he raised him- to him was Dick. self up and looked ait the crowd with an air of "Buttons," said the Senator, " were you out mild inquiry. They did not laugh. They did not yesterday?" oven smile. They listened respectfully, for they "I was." knew that the strange gentleman wished to ex- "It was a powerful crowd." " Rather large." "' It was im-mense. I never ~i ~~ l z ibefore had any idea of the popu_.-____ __. 1 i.... lation of Paris. New York ________ isn't to be compared to it." V!~ i] ~.j -~ [ Xi I i ~ h " i'As to crolwds, that is nothN \> ~ l~i~itill il1 a rat loose in the Champs Elysdes, and I bet ten thousand;~48H ~ ~ Z~ ~~&h'l ~~ I~p>eople will be after it in five ininutes.", / X kSho! /Any thing will raise a crowd in Paris."; I ~.i~~~~l\~~ "It will be a small one, then." / % ls -th "My dear Senator, in an hour from this I'll engage myself to raise as lrge a crowd as \li / the one you saw yesterday."' I~. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~' "My dear Buttons, you look like it." "Will you bet?" " Bet? Are you in earnest?" " Never more so.":::-~ ~t~~~198~a~ ~"But there is an immense ~ —jp ~ ~ ~ ~ YY j!dS~ficrowd outside already." "Then let the scene of my.~ —-- ~ —~~-~:~-'~'~.......trial be in a less crowded place g — the Place Vend6me, for inTH, CLUB. stance." 8 TIlE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. "Name the conditions." result, and walked quickly down a neighboring "In an hour from this I engage to fill the street. Place Vendome with people. Whoever fails Dick noticed that every one whom he met forfeits a dinner to the Club." stopped, stared, and then walked quickly forThe eyes of Dick and the Doctor sparkled. ward, looking up at the column. These peo" Done!" said the Senator. ple accosted others, who did the same. In a "All that you have to do," said Buttons, few minutes many hundreds of people were "is to go to the top of the Colonne Vend6me looking up and exchanging glances with one anand wave your hat three times when you want other. me to begin." In a short time Buttons had completed the "I'll do that. But it's wrong," said the circuit of the block, and re-entered the Place Senator. "It's taking money from you. You by another street. He was running at a quick must lose." pace, and, at a moderate calculation, about two "Oh, don't be alarmed," said Buttons, cheer- thousand gamins de PIaris ran before, beside, fullv. and behind him. Gens d'armes caught the exThe Dodge Club left for the Place Ven- citement, and rushed frantically about. Sold6me, and the Senator, separating himself diers called to one another, and tore across the from his companions, began the ascent. But- square gesticulating and shouting. Carriages tons left his friends at a corner to see the stopped; the occupants stared up at the column; horsemen drew up their rearing horses;.~L,.~ dogs barked; children screamed; up flew a thousand windows, out of which five thousand \heads were thrust. At the end of twenty minutes, after a very laborious journey, the Senator reached the top of the column. He looked down. ______I_11 A cry of amazement burst from him. The immense Place Vendbine was crammed with human beings. Innumerable upturned faces were staring at the startled Senator. All /-':~!f l &-. around, the lofty houses sent all their inmates to the open windows, through which they looked up. The very house-tops were crowded. Away down all the streets which led to the li-' -1 --— I, Place crowds of human beings poured along.;a1 1. ~ -~ l..&, "B~Well," muttered the Senator, "it's evident that B uttons understands these Frenchmen. 5 1iHowever, I must perform my part, so here ~i?2ijtil~?. - 5~i[,)~lk~ goes." 1!1~1~ ~And the Senator, majestically removing his hat, waved it slowly around his head seven times. At the seventh whirl his fingers slipped, and a great gust of wind caught the hat and l~~, blew it far out into the air.'T'H1E P'L.:UA YVNDU.0,i1. THE DODGE CLUTB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 9 It fell. way. The Senator thought of the dungeons of A deep groan of horror burst forth from the the Inquisition, and other Old World horrors of multitude, so deep, so long, so terrible that the which he had heard in his boyhood. Senator turned pale. A hundred thousand heads upturned; two So the Senator had to give the dinner. Th( hundred thousand arms waved furiously in the Club enjoyed it amazingly. air. Tile tide of new-comers flowing up the Almost at the moment of his.entrance But. other streets filled the Place to overflowing; tons had arrived, arm in arm with the Amerv and the vast host of people swayed to and fro, ican minister, whose representations and exagitated by a thousand passions. All this was planations procured the Senator's release. the work of but a short time. "I wouldn't have minded it so much," said " Come," said the Senator, "this is getting the Senator, from whose manly bosom the last beyond a joke." trace of vexation had fled, "if it hadn't been There was a sudden movement among the for that darned policeman that collared me first. people at the foot of the column. The Senator What a Providence it was that I didn't knock leaned over to see what it was. him down! Who do you think he was?" At once a great cry came up, like the thun- "Who?" der of a cataract, warningly, imperiously, ter- "The very man that was going to arrest me ribly. The Senator drew back confounded. the other day when I was trying to find my way Suddenly he advanced again. He shook his to the slaughter-house. That man is my evil head deprecatingly, and waved his arms as if to genius. I will leave Paris before another day." disclaim any evil motives which they might im- "The loss of your hat completed my plans," pute to him. But they did not comprehend said Buttons. "Was that done on purpose? him. Scores of stiff gens d'armes, hundreds of Did you throw it down for the sake of saying little soldiers, stopped in their rush to the foot'Take my hat?'" of the column to shake their fists and scream at "No. It was the wind," said the Senator, him. innocently. "But how did you manage to "Now if I only understood their doosid lin- raise the crowd? You haven't told us that yet." go," thought the Senator. "But "-after a "How? In the simplest way possible. I pause-" it wouldn't be of no account up here. told every soul I met that a crazy man was goAnd what an awkward fix," he added, " for the ing up the Colonne Vend6me to throw himself father of a family to stand hatless on the top down." of a pillory like this! Sho!" A light burst in upon the Senator's soul. There came a deep rumble from the hollow Ile raised his new hat from a chair, and placing stairway beneath him, which grew nearer and it before Buttons, said fervently and with unclouder every moment. tion: " Somebody's coming," said the Senator. "Keep it, Buttons!" "Wa'al, I'm glad. Misery loves company. Perhaps I can purchase a hat." - In five minutes more the heads of twenty gens d'armes shot up through the opening in the top of the pillar, one after another, and reminded the Senator of the "Jump-up-John- - nies" in children's toys. Six of them seized him and made him prisoner. The indignant Senator remonstrated, and in-'formed them that he was an American citizen. m Ai: IIis remark made no impression. They did not understand English. The Senator's wrath made his hair fairly I'igi bristle. He contented himself, however, with drawing up the programme of an immediate war between France and the Great Republic. X It took an hour for the column to get emp- i tied. It was choked with people rushing up. Seven gentlemen fainted, and three escaped with badly sprained limbs. During this time the Senator remained in the custody of his captors. At last the column was cleared. The prisoner was taken down and placed in a cab. He saw the dense crowd and heard the mighty murmurs of the people. He was driven away for an immense distance. It seemed miles. At last the black walls of a huge edifice rose -.= before him. The cab drove under a dark arch- KEEP ITT, BUTTONS! 10 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. ck THIATS A I1OTFL ]BILL. CHAPTER II. "By Jove! Thirty-five francs! My dear ORLEANS. —HOW TO QUELL A LINDLORD.-HOW Sir, I quite agree with you. It's an imposiTO FIGHT OFF HUMIBUGS; AND HOW TO TRAVEL tion." WITHOUT BAGGAGE. A deep sigh expressed the relief of the fat A TREMENDOUS uproar in the hall of a hotel man at this mark of sympathy. at Orleans awaked every member of the Dodge " There's'no redress," said Buttons. " You'll Club from the sound and refreshing slumber have to grin and bear it. For you must know into which they had fallen after a fatiguing that in these inland towns hotel-keepers are in journey from Paris. league, offensive and defensive, with all the Filing out into the hall one after another they cab-drivers, omnibus-drivers, postillions, truckbeheld a singular spectacle. men, hostlers, porters, errand-boys, cafr-keepIt was a fat man, bald-headed, middle-aged, lers, cicerones, tradesmen, lawyers, chamberwith a well-to-do look, that bulrst upon their maids, doctors, priests, soldiers, gens d'armes, sight. magistrates, etc., etc., etc. In short, the whole He was standing in the hall with flushed face community is a joint-stock company organized and stocking feet, sw-earing most firightfullyr. A to plunder the unsuspecting traveller." crowd of waiters stood around shrugging their "And must I stand here and be swindled shoulders, and trying to soothe him. As the without a word?" cried the other. fat man spoke English, and the waiters French, "By no means. Row like fury. Call up there was a little misapprehension. the whole household one by one, and swear at " There, gentlemen," cried the fat man, as them in broad Saxon. That's the way to strike he caught sight of our four flriends, " look at terror into the soul of a Frenchman." that! What do you call that?" The fat man stared for a moment at Buttons, "That?" said Buttons, taking a paper which and then plunging his hands deep into his tle fat man thrust in his face, " why, that's a trowsers pockets he walked up and down the hall. hotel bill." At last he turned to the others: "A hotel bill? chy it's an imposition!" "Gentlemen, is this endurable?" cried the other excitedly. "Horrible!" cried Dick. "Perhaps it is," said Buttons, coolly. Abominable!" the Doctor. "Of course it is! Read it out loud, and let "Infamous!" the Senator. these gentlemen see what they think of it." "By jingo! I've a great mind to go home. " I'll read it in English," said Buttons, "fior If I've got to be plundeced, I'd a durned sight the benefit of the Club:" rather have my money go to support our own.llister Blank, great and glorious institutions." To the IloteldtL Roi: There is no doubt that the unfolrtunate man SOine piners...... 6 fncs. One bedt........ 5 f l. would have had to pay up if it had not been for One cab.........2 " One candle......1 the energetic action of Buttons. One do..........2 "4 One candle......1 " Ile summoned the hotel-keeper before him, One information. 5 6 One candle..... 1 " Wine...........5'C One candle...... 1 " and, closing the door, asked his friends to sit Tobacco........ 2 5fias. down. U5fans THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 11 Then Buttons, standing up, began to repeat to It was the fat man. the hotel-keeper, smilingly, but with extraor- He was President of a Western bank. dinary volubility, Daniel Webster's oration His name was Figgs. against Hayne. The polite Frenchman would not interrupt him, but listened with a bland It was a damp, dull, dreary, drenching night, though somewhat dubious smile. when the lumbering diligence bore the Dodge The Dodge Club did infinite credit to them- Club through the streets of Lyons and up to selves by listening without a smile to the words the door of their hotel. Seventeen men and of their leader. five small boys stood bowing ready to receive Buttons then went through the proposition them. about the hypothenuse of a right-angled tri- The Senator, Buttons, and Dick took the angle, and appended the words of a few negro small valises which contained their travelling songs. apparel, and dashed through the line of servitors Here the worthy landlord interrupted him, into the house. The Doctor walked after, sebegging his pardon, and telling him that he did renely and majestically. He had no baggage. not understand English very well, and could Mr. Figgs descended from the roof with conhis Excellency speak French? siderable difficulty. Slipping from the wheel, His Excellency, with equal politeness, regret- he fell into the outstretched arms of three waitted his want of complete familiarity with French. ers. They put him on his feet. He was forced when he felt deeply on any sub- His luggage was soon ready. ject to express himself in English. Mr. Figgs had two trunks and various other Then followed Cicero's oration against Verres, articles. Of these trunks seven waiters took and he was just beginning a speech of Chat- one, and four the other. Then ham's when the landlord surrendered at dis- Waiter No. 12 took hat-box; cretion. " " 13 " travelling desk; When, after the lapse of three hours and " " 14 " Scotch plaid; twenty-five minutes, the fat man held his bill " " 15 " over-coat; toward him, and Buttons offered five francs, " " 16 " umbrella; he did not even remonstrate, but took the money, " " 17 " rubber coat; and hastily receipting the bill with his pencil, Boy " 1 " cane; darted from the room. " " 2 " muffler; "Well," exclaimed the Senator, when he " " 3 " one of his mittens; had recovered from the effects of the scene-" I " " 4 " the other; never before realized the truth of a story I once " " 5 " cigar-case. heard." After a long and laborious dinner they rose " What was the story?" and smoked. " Oh, it was about a bet between a Yankee and a Frenchman, who could talk the longest. The two were shut up - in a room. They remained there three days. At the end of that time their friends broke open the door and entered, and what do you think they N found there?" a n "Nobody?" suggested the, fat man. "No," said the Senator, with a glow of patriotic pride on hisqfine face. "IBut they found the Frenchman lying dead upon the floor, and the Yankee whispering in his ear the beginning of the second part of the Higgins story." "And what is the Higgins story?" I[ I "For Heaven's sake, gasped the Doctor, starting up, "don't ask him nowwait till next week!" As they passed over the mountains of Auvergne a new - - member was added to the Dodge Club. CICERO AGAINST VrIRES. THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. led the way; one waiter to,\+N ~,PS~I~i Ft7 ~ gold, the spices, and the gems of India will yet'~\"l(s\1~l:, da~ — i —' 1 be conveyed over the European world. For the \ Suez Canal, which will once more turn the tide of this mighty traffic through its ancient Mediterranean channel, will raise Marseilles to the foremost rank among cities. So, at least, the Marseillaise believe. AWhen our travellers arrived there the city was crammed with soldiers. The harbor was packed with steamships. Guns were thunder- ing, bands playing, fifes screaming, muskets rattling, regiments tramping, cavalry galloping. Confusion reigned supreme. Every thing was 7!,"/-'. ~ /1 out of order. No one spoke or thought of any thing but the cominDg war in Lombardy. Excitable little red-legged French soldiers danced about everywhere. Every one was beside himself. None could use the plain lannornou D~sp~ ~ iriguage of every-day life. All were intoxicated norroco! DEsPuaIE! |vwith hope and enthusiasm. The travellers admired immensely the exciting scene, but their admiration was changed to disgust when they found that on account of the CHAPTER IV. rush of soldiers to Italy their own prospects of ILLES. getting there were extremely slight. At length they found that a steamer was goOLD Massilia wears her years well. To look ing. It was a propeller. Its name was the at her now as she appears, full of life and joy and Prince. The enterprising company that owned gayety, no one would imagine that thirty cen- her had patriotically chartered every boat on turies or more had passed over her head. their line to the Government at an enormous profHere is the first glimpse of the glorious South, it, and had placed the Prince on the line for the with all its sunshine and luxury and voluptuous use of travellers. THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 15 ~kl THOSE ITALIANS. history of the country you will see that it has THE RETIRED ORGAN - GRINDER.-TEE SENATOR been impossible. No other was e)er so beset. PHILOSOPHIZES.-EVILS OF NOT HAVING A PASS- bt is ositlup No difer Sas It s surPORT. It split up nto different States. It surcrowucns of everlasting snow; and the beetling in." precipice, where the vexed waters forever throw "TThere will be a chance for them now to up their foaming spray; the frequent hamlets show what they can do." that nestle among them; the castles and towers of Tueo; and yo u will see w hat t ill do. that crown the lofty heights; and the road They only impossiblant the Frenc to open the way. that winds tortuously along the shore-all these We Italians can do the rest ourselves. It is a form a scene in which beauty more romantic good time to go to Italy. You will see devothan that of the Rhine is contrasted with all the tion and patriotism such as you never saw begrandeur of the ocean. fore. There is no country so belove b as Italy." Buttons, with his usual flexible and easy dis- wereI think onther nations are as patriotic." position, made the acquaintance of couple of Other nations! were driven hat nations? ould step Italians who had been away from Italy and know that the Italians can not leave Italy? It crownere nof returning. Tsnoeyw; aere tavelling sec- is this loe that eeps them home. French, ond-class. Germans, Spaniards, Portuguese, English-all Buprettos supposed they were glad to get back. others leave their homes, and go all over the up Glad? Did he doubt it? Wspray, they were worquentld to live. Italihey cans can not and do not." Italians." " I have seen Italians in America." "Are Italians fonder of their country than TYou have seen Italian exiles, not cmiothers?" grants. Or you have seen them staying there "Without doubt. had they not the best for a few years so as to earn a little money to reason to be?" go heack with. They are only travellers on "Why?" business. They are always unhappy, and are "They had the garden and pride of the always cheered by the prospect of getting home world for their country. Mention acnan other in at last." the same breath wit Italyy and." That tese Italians were brothers, and from It uttons supposeIf they love it so much why can they not perience in the world had grown avery intelli keep it for themselves?" gent. One had been in them stand-organ thereus B 16 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. ness, the other in the image-making line. Ital- with soldiers constantly passed firom the ships ians can do nothing else in the bustling com- to the stone quays, where thousands more waitmunities of foreign nations. Buttons looked ed to receive them —soldiers being mixed up with respect upon those men who thus had car- with guns, cannons, wheels, muskets, drums, ried their love for their dear Art for years baggage, sails, beams, timbers, camps, matthrough strange lands and uncongenial climes. tresses, casks, boxes, irons, in infinite confusion. "If I were an Italian I too would be an "We must go ashore here," said Buttons. organ-grinder!" he at length exclaimed. "Does any body know how long the steamer The Italians did not reply, but evidently will remain here?" thought that Buttons could not be in a better "A day." business. "A day! That will be magnificent! We "These Italians," said the Senator, to whom will be able to see the whole city in that time. Buttons had told the conversation-" these Ital- Let's go and order a boat off." ians," said he, after they had gone, "air a The Captain received them politely. singular people. They're deficient. They're "Whatdid Messieurswant? Togoashore? wanting in the leading element of the age. With the utmost pleasure. Had they their passThey haven't got any idee of the principle ports? Of course they had them vised in Marof pro-gress. They don't understand trade. seilles for Genoa." There's where they miss it. What's the use Buttons looked blank, and feebly inquired: of hand-organs? What's the use of dancers? " Why?" What's the use of statoos, whether plaster im- "It's the law, Monsieur. We are prohibited ages or marble sculptoor? Can they clear for- from permitting passengers to go ashore unests or build up States? No, Sir; and there- less their passports are all right. It's a mere fore I say that this Italian nation will never be form." wuth a cuss until they are inoculated with the "A mere form!" cried Buttons. "Why, spirit of Seventy-six, the principles of the Pil- ours are visMd for Naples." grim Fathers, and the doctrines of the Revo- "Naples!" cried the Captain, with a shrug; lution. Boney knows it"-he added, senten- "you are unfortunate, Messieurs. That will tiously —" bless you, Boney knows it." not pass you to Genoa." After a sound sleep, which lasted until late "My dear Sir, you don't mean to tell me in the following day, they went out on deck. that, on account of this little informality, you There lay Genoa. I will keep us prisoners on board of this vessel? Glorious sight! As they stood looking at Consider-" the superb city the sun poured down upon the "Monsieur," said the Captain, courteously, scene his brightest rays. The city rose in suc- "I did not make these laws. It is the law; I cessive terraces on the side of a semicircular can not change it. I should be most happy to slope crowned with massive edifices; moles oblige you, but I ask you, how is it possible?"' projected into the harbor terminated by lofty The Captain was right. He could do nothtowers; the inner basin was crowded with ship- ing. The travellers would have to swallow ping, prominent among which were countless their rage. French ships of war and transports. The yells Imagine them looking all day at the loveliof fifes, the throbbing of drums, the bang of est of Italian scenes-the glorious city of Genoa, muskets, the thunder of cannon, and the strains with all its historic associations!-the city of of martial music filled the air. Boats crowded the Dorias, the home of Columbus, even now QENOA, TIIE SUPERB. THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN hIDCCCLIX. 17 the scene of events upon which the eyes of all Again the same tantalizing view of a great the world were fastened. city from after. Leghorn lay inviting them, but Imagine them looking upon all this, and only the unlucky passport kept them on board of the looking, unable to go near; seeing all the prep- vessel. The Senator grew impatient, Mr. Figgs arations for war, but unable to mingle with the and the Doctor were testy; Dick and Buttons warriors. To pace up and down all day; to alone were calm. It was the calmness of deshake their fists at the scene; to fret, and fume, spair. and chafe with irrepressible impatience; to After watching Leghorn for hours they were scold, to rave, to swear-this was the lot of the taken to Civita Vecchia. Here they rushed unhappy tourists. down below, and during the short period of High in the startled heavens rose the thun- their stay remained invisible. der of preparations for the war in Lombardy. At last their voyage ended, and they entered T'hey heard the sounds, but could not watch the harbor ofNaples. GloriousNaples! Naples the scene near at hand. the captivating! The day was as long as an ordinary week, "Vede Napoli, e poi mori!" but at length it came to an end. On the fol- There was the Bay of Naples-the matchlowing morning steam was got up, and they less, the peerless, the indescribable! There Went to Leghorn. the rock of Ischia, the Isle of Capri, there the "I suppose they will play the same game slopes of Sorrento, where never-ending spring on us at Leghorn," said Dick, mournfully. abides; there the long sweep of Naples and " Withont doubt," said Bttons. " But I her sister cities; there Vesuvius, with its thin don't mind; the bitterness of death is past. I volume of smoke floating like a pennon in the can stand any thing now." air! I} iI TIII.IPR NO;LE EXCELLFENCIES. CHAP1TER VI. iit to a gendarme, and it was only after paying LAZAONI AND MACARON. a piastre that the Doctor was permitted to retain it. ABouT forty or fifty lazaroni surrounded the Even after the travellers had started off on Dodge Club when they landed, but to their in- foot in search of lodgings the lazaroni did not tense disgust the latter ignored them altogeth- desert them. Ten of them followed everyer, and carried their own umbrellas andcarpet- where. At intervals they respectfully offered bags. But the lazaroni revenged themselves. to carry their baggage, or show them to a As the Doctor stooped to pick up his cane, hotel, whichever was most agreeable to their which had fallen, a number of articles dropped Noble Excellencies. from his breast-pocket, and among them was a Their Noble Excellencies were in despair. revolver, a thing which was tabooed in Naples. At length, stumbling upon the Cafd dell' EuA ragged rascal eagerly snatched it and handed ropa, they rushed in and passed three hours 18 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. over their breakfast. This done, they congrat- are the eating-houses of the vulgar-low, grimy ulated themselves on having got rid of their places, floors incrusted with mud, tables of followers. thick deal worn by a thousand horny hands, In vain! slippery with ten thousand upset dishes of macScarcely had they emerged from the cafd aroni. Here the pewter plates, and the iron than Dick uttered a cry of horror. From be- knives, forks, and spoons are chained to the hind a corner advanced their ten friends, with massive tables. How utter must the destitnthe same calm demeanor, the same unruffled tion be when it is thought necessary to chain and even cheerful patience, and the same re- up such worthless trash! spectful offer of their humble services. Into one of these places went Buttons and In despair they separated. Buttons and Dick in their study of human nature. They Dick obtained lodgings in the Strada di San sat at the table. A huge dish of macaroni was Bartollomeo. The Senator and the other two served up. Fifty guests stopped to look at the engaged pleasant rooms on the Strada Nuova, new-comers. The waiters winked at the cuswhich overlooked the Bay. tomers of the house, and thrust their tongues Certainly Naples is a very curious place. in their cheeks. There are magnificent edifices-palaces, mon- Dick could not eat, but the more philosophuments, castles, fortresses, churches, and cathe- ical Buttons made an extremely hearty meal, drals. There are majestic rows of buildings; and pronounced the macaroni delicious. gay shops, splendidly decorated; stately colon- On landing in a city which swarmed with nades, and gardens like Paradise. There are beggars the first thought of our tourists was, streets unrivalled for gayety, forever filled to How the mischief do they all live? There are overflowing with the busy, the laughing, the sixty thousand lazaroni in this gay city. The jolly; dashing officers, noisy soldiers, ragged average amount of clothing to each man is lazaroni, proud nobles, sickly beggars, lovely about one-third of a pair of trowsers and a ladies; troops of cavalry galloping up and woolen cap. But after spending a day or two down; ten thousand caleches dashing to and the question changed its form, and became, fro. There is variety enough everywhere. How the mischief can they all help living? All the trades are divided, and arranged in Food may be picked up in the streets. Handdifferent parts of the city. Here are the lock- fuls of oranges and other fruits sell for next to smiths, there the cabinet- makers; here the nothing; strings of figs cost about a cent. builders, there the armorers; in this place the The consequence is that these sixty thousand basket-weavers, in that the cork-makers. people, fellow-creatures of ours, who are known And most amusing of all is the street most as the lazaroni of Naples, whom we half pity favored of the lazaroni. Here they live, and and altogether despise, and look upon as the move, and have their being; here they are lowest members of the Caucasian race, are not born, they grow, they wed, they rear families, altogether very miserable. On the contrary, they eat, and drink, and die. A long array of taken as a whole, they form the raggedest, furnaces extends up the street; over each is a oiliest, fattest, drollest, noisiest, sleekest, dirtistew-pan, and behind each a cook armed with est, ignorantest, prejudicedest, narrow-mindedan enormous ladle. At all hours of the day the est, shirtlessest, clotheslessest, idlest, carelesscook serves up macaroni to customers. This is est, jolliest, absurdest, rascaliest-but still, for the diet of the people. all that, perhaps-taken all in all-the happiIn the cellars behind those lines of stew-pans est community on the face of the earth. LAZ. RONI AND M oCATBNI. THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 19.i-.1i 11!';II11 jovral song? "Oh yes! happy /i' ls IAbeyond expression to do so." CHAPTER...... shorti1:1 a\ i iThe result, after ten lessons, A- R T A U M E AD was something like this: DOMii/ IN MOONLIGHT L''Anty Dooda tumma towna T D DICVEY One'2 ~x! By his sef a po-ne Stacca fadda inna sat II [ [,f[111!t)/ II/,~ li ~-~ Kalla Maccaroni." lady ~~She used to sing this in the?i't~IIE lodgingsKlltll':, Buttons%~.]~!)'!i! most charming manner, especially the last word in the last line. Not the least charm in conviction that she had mastered the English language. Ill Sa'n "Was it not an astonishou' ing thing for so young a Signens nature somewhat~orina to know English?" // in ei'11i'"~ moul "Oh, it was indeed!" said Buttons, who knew Italian very well, and had the lion's lsare of the conversation altIrave. "In And they said her accent was fine?" unovni t h~~~~~~~~~is ~ ~ ~ la"Oh, most beautiful!" made many informal calls on her two lodgers ThisDolorestreat "Bellissima! Bellissima!" repeated little Dolores, and she would laugh until her eyes overflowed with delighted vanity. YANKEE DOODLE. "C o u d any Signorina Americana learn Italian in so CHAPTER VI. sort a time?" No not one. They had not the spirit. They DOLORESr-AN ITALIAN MAID LEARNS ENGLISH.- could never equal her most beautiful accent." A ROMANTIC ADVENTURE.-A MASQUERADE, AND " Ah! you say all the time that my accent is WHAT BEFELL THE SENATOR.-A CHARMING mostbeautiful." DOMINO. -A MOONLIGHT WALK, AND AN AS- eay ic TOUNDING DISCOVERY. One day she picked up a likeness of a young lady which was lying on the table. THE lodgings of Buttons and Dick were in a " Who is this?" she asked, abruptly, of Butremarkably qentral part of Naples. The land- tons. lord was a true Neapolitan; a handsome, gay, "A Signorina." witty, noisy, lively, rascally, covetous, ungrate- "Oh yes! I know; but is she a relative?" ful, deceitful, cunning, good-hearted old scoun- "No." drel, who took advantage of his guests in a'Are you married?" thousand ways, and never spoke to them with- "No." out trying to humbug them. Ile was the fa- "Is this your affianced?" ther of a pretty daughter who had all her par- "Yes." ent's nature somewhat toned down, and expand- "Ah, how strange! What will you be?-a ed in %feminine mould, soldier or an advocate?" Buttons had a chivalrous soul, and so had "Neither. I will be a priest." Dick; the vivacity of this very friendly young "A priest! Signor, what is it that you tell lady was like an oasis in the wilderness of me? How can this he youX affianced lady?" travel. In the evening they loved to sit in the "Oh! in our country the priests all marry, sunshine of her smile. She was singularly and live in beautiful little cottages, with a'garunconventional, this landlord's daughter, and den in front." made many informal calls on her two lodgers This Dolores treated with the most contemptin their apartment. uous incredulity. Who ever heard of such a An innocent, sprightly little maid-name Do- thing? Impossible! Moreover, it was so ablores-age seventeen-complexion olive —hair surd. Buttons told her that he was affianced jet black-eyes likes tars, large, luminous, and five years ago. at the same time twinkling-was anxious to "An eternity!" exclaimed Dolores. "How learn English, especially to sing English songs; can you wait? But you must have been very and so used to bring her guitar and sing for the young." Americans. Would they teach her their nation- "Young? Yes, only sixteen." 20 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN AMDCCCLIX. "Blessed and most venerable Virgin! Only The Signora did not have to wait long. In sixteen! And is she the most beautiful girl less time than it takes to tell this Dick stood you know?" with his best bow before her. How he conI"No." gratulated himself on having studied Italian! "Where have you seen one more so?" The lady reclined on a sofa. She was about " In Naples." thirty, and undeniably pretty. A guitar lay at "Who is she?" her feet. Books were scattered around-French "An Italian." novels, and manuals of devotion. Intelligence "What is her name?" beamed from her large, expressive eyes. How "Dolores." delightful! Here was an adventure, perhaps a "That's me." fair conquest. "I mean you." "Good-evening, Signor!" This was pretty direct; but Dolores was frank, "I kiss the hands to your ladyship," said and required frankness from others. Some young Dick, mustering a sentence from Ollendolrff. ladies would have considered this too coarse and " Pardon me for this liberty." open to be acceptable. But Dolores had so high "I assure you it gives me the greatest bapdi. an opinion of herself that she took it for sincere ness, and I am wholly at your service." homage. So she half closed her eyes, leaned "I have understood that you are an Ameriback in her chair, looked languishingly at But- can." tons, and then burst into a merry pecal of music- "I am, Signora." al laughter. "And this is your first visit to Naples?" "I think I am the most beautiful girl you "My first, Signora." ever saw." "How does Naples please you?" It was Buttons's turn to laugh. He told Do- "Exceedingly. The beautiful city, the crowdlores that she was quite right, and repeated her ed streets, the delightful views-above all, the favorite word, "Bellissima!" most charming ladies." One evening when Dick was alone in the A bow-a slight flush passed over the lady's room a knock came to the door. face, and Dick whispered to himself" Was he disengaged?" "Well put, Dick, my boy-deuced well put " Oh, quite." for a beginner." "Th-e Signora in the room next-" " To conic ta the point," said the lady, with "Yes." a sigh.-("Ah, here we have it!" thought " Would be happy to see him." Dick-the point-blessed moment!)-" I would' Now?" not have ventured to trouble you for any slight " Yes, as soon as he liked." cause, Signor, but this nearly concerns myself."(Keep down-our heart, murmured Dick-cool, you dog-cool!)-" My,',jI~........;~,! A|happiness and my tenderest feelof you-"-(Social forms are generally a nui- t | |sauce to ardent souls- aside)-" and to communicate at once with you." "Signora, let me assure you that this is the happiest moment in my life.; The Signora looked surprised, but went on in a sort of preoccupied way: "I want to know if you can tell me any thing about my brother." I Brother!" "Who is now in America." Dick opened his eyes. "I Ithought that perhaps you could tell me how he is. I have not heard from him for two years, and feel very Dick sat for a moment surprised at this unexpected turn. The lady's a nxiety about her brother he could I KISS IIANDS. see was not feigned. So hie concealed THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 21 tapered down until the entrance of a gentleman brought it to a close. Dick bowed himself out. ~ ground,"At any rate," he mur.'"''-U.NG:lU'ABimured, " if the lady wanted to inspect me she had a chance, m \~ii~ and if she wanted to pump brothN. I ~~~~~~~~~~me she ought to be satisfied." One evening Buttons and Dick came in and found a stranger chatting familiarly with the landlord and a young -ati"rn o u t I'. I A b sol hussar. The stranger was " X]N....es,"t'1"1,' s "he dressed like a cavalry officer, and was the most astounding fop that the two Americans had ever seen. He paced up "f%~,~ Ist j~ and down, head erect, chest try-larger, in fachate ingom "fthrown out, sahre clanking, ineffable smile. He strode up to the two youths, spun round good__ C ton one heel, bowed to the TrHE y OUNO lUSSAR. i d ronizingly, and welcomed them in. his disappointment, and in his most engaging " A charming night, gallant gentlemen. A manner informed her that he had not seen her bewitching night. All Naples is alive. All the brother; but if she could tell him his name, and worldisgoing. Ar you?" the place where he was living, he might be able The young men stared, and coldly asked to tell somethin about him. where? "His name, sighed the lady, "is Giulio "Ha, ha, ha!" A merry peal of laughter Fanti.." rang out. I Absolutely - if the young Amer" And the place?" icans are not stupid. They don't know me!" "Rio Janeiro." "Dolores!" exclaimed Buttons. n"Rio Janeiro?" "Yes, exclaimed the other. tHow do you Yes, said the lady, slowly. on like me? Am I natural -eh? military? Do Dick was in despair. Not to know any thing I look terrible?" of her brother would make her think him stu- And Dolores skipped up and down with a pid. So he attempted to explain strut beyond description, breathing hard and "A merica," he began, "is a very large coun- frowning. try-larger, in fact, than the whole Kingdom " If you look so fierce you will frighten us of Naples. It is principally inhabited by say- away," said Buttons. ages, who are very hostile to the whites. The IHow do I look now?" she said, standing whites have a fev cities, however. In the North full before him with folded arms, a la Napoleon the whites all speak English. In the South they at St. Helena. all speak Spanish. The South Americalns are h "Bellissima! Bellissima!" said Buttons, in good Catholics, and respect the Holy Father; unfeigned admiration. biut the English in the North are all heretics. " Ah!" ejaculated Dolores, smacking her Conse"ently there is scarcely any communica- lips, and puffing out her little dimpled cheeks. tion between the two districts." "Oh!" and her eyes sparkled more brightly The lady had heard somewhere that in the with perfect joy and self-contentment. American wars they employed the savages to " And what is all this for?" assist them. Dick acknowledged the truth of " Is it possible that you do not know?" this with candor, but with pain. She would "I have no idea." see by this why he was unable to tell her any Then listen. It is at the Royal Opesrathing about her brother. His not knowing house. It will be the greatest masquerade bhall that brother was now the chief sorrow of his ever gi en." life. The lady earnestly hoped that Rio Ja- Oh-a masquerade ball!-and you?" neiro was well protected from the savages. I? I go as a handsome young officer to Oh, perfectly so. The fortifications of that break the hearts of the ladies, and have such cits are impregnable." rare sport. My brave cousin, yonder gallant Dick thus endeavored to give the lady an soldier, goes with ime." idea of America. The conversation gradually The brave cousin, who was a big, heavy-head 22 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. ed fellow, grinned in acknowledgment, but said gusto as the humblest artisan who treated his nothing. obscure sweet-heart with an entrance ticket. The Royal Opera-house at Naples is the Our friends all wore black dominos, "just largest, the grandest, and the most capacious in for the fun of the thing." Every body knew the world. An immense stage, an enormous that they were English or American, which is pit all thrown into one vast room, surrounded just the same; for Englishmen and Americans by innumerable boxes, all rising, tier above are universally recognizable by the rigidity of tier-myriads of dancers, myriads of masks, their muscles. myriads of spectators-so the scene appeared. A bevy of masked beauties were attracted by Moreover, the Neapolitan is a born buffoon. the colossal form of the Senator. To say that Nowhere is lie so natural as at a masquerade. he was bewildered would express his sensations The music, the crowd, the brilliant lights, the but faintly. He was distracted. He looked incessant motion are all intoxication to this im- for Buttons. Buttons was chatting with a little pressible being. domino. He turned to Dick. Dick was walkThe Senator lent the countenance of his ing off with a rhinoceros. To Figgs and the presence-not from curiosity, butfrom a bcenev- Doctor. Figgs and the Doctor were exchangolent desire to keep his young friends out of ing glances with a couple of lady codfishes and trouble. He narrowly escaped being prohibited trying to look amiable. The Senator gave a from entering by making an outrageous fuss at sickly smile. the door about some paltry change. He actual- "What'n thunder'll I do?" he muttered. ly imagined that it was possible to get the right Two dominos took either arm. A third stood change for a large coin in Naples. smilingly before him. A fourth tried to approThe multitudes of moving forms made the priate his left hand. new-comers dizzy. There were all kinds of "Will y'our Excellency dance with one of us fantastic figures. Lions polked with sylphs, at a time," said No. 4, with a Tuscan accent, crocodiles chased serpents, giants walked arm " or will you dance with all of us at once?" in arm with dwarfs, elephants on two legs ran The Senator looked helplessly at her. nimbly about, beating every body with huge "He does not know how," said No 1. "He probosces of inflated India rubber. Pretty girls has passed his life among the stars." in dominos abounded; every body whose face "Begone, irreverent ones!" said No. 3. was visible was on the broad grin. All classes "This is an American prince. He said I should were represented. The wealthiest nobles en- be his partner." tered into the spirit of the scene with as great "Boh! malidetta! " cried No. 2. "-He told me the same; but he said he e.....,2 c was a Milor Inglese." iz. _JY~I~g~~ No. 4 thereupon gave a smart "_______ ___ 4L~ ________ ~pull at the Senator's hand to 2 did the same. No. 3 began.'-K"C. -..:.&~Z, ) singing "Come e bello " and No. 1 stood coaxing him to "Fly with her." A crowd ~'~' \of idlers gathered grinningly A,~ PEPLXE SENATR.~ around. "My goodness'" groaned the Senator. "Me! the-the representative of a respectable constituency; the elder of a Presbyterian church; the president of a temperance society; the deliverer of that famous Fourth of July oration; the father of a family-me! to be treated thus! Who air these females? Air they countesses? Is this the way the foreign no. bility treat an American citizen?" But the ladies pulled and the crowd grinned. The Senator endeavored to remonstrate. Then he tried to pull his arms away; but finding that impossible he looked in a piteous manner, first at one, and then A rERPLEXED SENATOR. at the other. THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 23 [. -....................came near with the little Domino. Little Domino stopped, laughed, "(77-77B-1 I~ s~ees~a ~ OP~I clapped her hands, and If~~~~ ~:~ ~ r~e~c~ 1 i-J~~R~pointed to the Senator. The Senator was yelling vehemently in bro___3__ i<\ Y ken English to a large crowd of masks. Hie told them that he had a large family; that he owned a factory; that he'I!ia e Th aiwas a man of weight, character, influence, popularity, wealth; that he / 4 / came here merely to study their manners and customs. He disclaimed any intention to participate in their amuse"[ i B- ments just then, or to make acquaintances.lie would be proud to visit them all at their houses, or see them at his apartments, or-orin short, would he happy to do any thing if )1i~ ~they would only let him go in peace. The crowd laughed, ~: I~ ~~-~"~~,~ i~~~-r%~i1~11 - ~],~ ~'~:~:,, ~ JB ~'f' chattered, and shouted "B ravo 1" at every pause. The Senator was covered with shame /' ii'! If and perspiration. What would have become of 7,,)IJ~~~~ 4 ~him finally it is impossible to guess; but, fortunately, at this extremity he caught sight of: Buttons. To dash away firom the charming ladies, to burst through the crowd, and to seize the arm of Buttons was but "iHe wants, I tell you, to be my partner," the work of a moment. said No. 1. "'Buttons! Buttons! Buttons! Help me! "Bah!" cried No. 2, derisively; "he intends These confounded I-tflian wimmin! Take to 1e mine. I understand the national dance them away. Tell them to leave me be. Tell of his country-the famous jeeg Irlandese." them I don't know them-don't want to have "MRS.!!" them hanging round me. Tell them I'm your The Senator shouted this one word in a sten- jither!" cried the Senator, his voice:rising to torian voice. The ladies dropped his arms and a shout in his distraction and alarm. started. About 970 people were around him by this "I say, Mrs.!" cried the Senator. "Look time. here. Me no speeky I-talian-me American. "Goodness!" said Buttons; "you are in a Me come just see zee fun, you know-zee spoart fix. Why did you make yourself so agreeable? -youund-stand? Ha? Hum!" andto somany? Why,it'stoobad. Oneat The ladies clapped their hands, and cried a time!" "Bravo!" "Buttons," said the Senator, solemnly, "is Quite a crowd gathered around them. The this a time for joking? For Heaven's sake get Senator, impressed with the idea that, to make me away!" foreigners understand, it was only necessary to "Come, then; you must run for it." yell loud enough, bawled so loudly that ever so He seized the Senator's right arm. The litmany dancers stopped. Among these Buttons tle Domino clung to his other. Away they 24 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. started. It was a full. run. A shout arose. So A strange thought occurred. It was soon arises the shout in Rome along the bellowing confirmed. They stopped in front of Buttons's Corso when the horses are starting for the Car- own lodgings. A light gleamed over the door. nival races. It was a long, loud shout, gather- Another flashed into the soul of Buttons. The ing and growing and deepening as it rose, till Domino took off her mask and turned her face it burst on high in one grand thunder-clap of up toButtons. That face, dimpled, smiling, besound. witching; flashing, sparklingeyes; little mouth Away went the Senator like the wind. The with its rosy lips! dense crowd parted on either side with a rush. "Dolores!" The Opera-house is several hundred feet in "Blessed saints, and Holy Virgin! Is it poslength. Down this entire distance the Senator sible that you never suspected?" ran, accompanied by Buttons and the little " Never. How could I when I thought you Domino. Crowds cheered him as he passed. were dressed like a dragoon?" Behind him the passage-way closed up, and a "And you never passed so happy an evenlong trail of screaming maskers pressed after ing; and you never had so fascinating and him. The louder thev shouted the faster the charming a partner; and you never heard such Senator ran. At length they reached the oth- a voice of music as mine; and you can never er end. forget me through all life; and you never can "Do you see that box?" asked Buttons, hope to find any one equal to me!" said Dopointing to one on the topmost tier. lores, in her usual laughing volubility. "Yes, yes." "Never!" cried Buttons. "Fly! Run for your life! It's your only "Oh dear! I think you must love me very hope. Get in there and hide till we go!" much." The Senator vanished. Scarcely had his And a merry peal of laughter rang up the coat-tails disappeared through the door when stairs as Dolores, evading Buttons's arm, which the pursuing crowd arrived there. Six thou- that young man had tried to pass about her sand two hundred and twenty-seven human be- waist, dashed away into the darkness and out ings, dressed in every variety of costume, on of sight. finding that the runner had vanished, gave vent to their excited feelings by a loud cheer for the interesting American who had contributed so CHAPTER VIII. greatly to the evening's enjoyment. ADVENTURES AND MISADVENTURES.-A WET GROTUnlucky Senator! Will it be believed that TO AND A BOILING LAKE. - THE TWO FAIR even in the topmost box his pursuers followed SPANIARDS, AND THE DONKEY RIDE. him? It was even so. About an hour after- THE Grotto of Posilippo is a most remarkable ward Buttons, on coming near the entrance, place, and, in the opinion of every intelligent encountered him. His face was pale but reso- traveller, is more astonishing than even the Hoolute, his dress disordered. He muttered a few sac Tunnel, which nobody will deny except the words about " durned I-talian countesses," and benighted Bostonian. hurried out. The city of Pozzuoli is celebrated for two Buttons kept company with the little Dom- things; first, because St. Paul once landed ino. Never in his life had he passed so agree- there, and no doubt hurried away as fast as he able an evening. He took good care to let his could; and, secondly, on account of the imcompanion know this. At length the crowd mense number of beggars that throng around began to separate. The Domino would go. the unhappy one who enters its streets. Buttons would go with her. Had she a car- The Dodge Club contributed liberally. The riage? No, she walked. Then he would walk Doctor gave a cork-screw; the Senator, a bladewith her. less knife; Dick, an old lottery ticket; Buttons, Buttons tried hard to get a carriage, but all a candle-stump; Mr. Figgs, a wild-cat bankwere engaged. But a walk would not be un- note. After which they all hurried away on pleasant in such company. The Domino did donkeys as fast as possible. not complain. She was vivacious, brilliant, de- The donkey is in his glory here. Nowhere lightful, bewitching. Buttons had been trying else does he develop such a variety of formsall the evening to find out who she was. In nowhere attain such an infinity of sizes-nowhere vain., emit so impressive a bray. It is the Bray of "Who in the world is she? I must find out, Naples. " It is like the thunder of the night so that I may see her again." This was his when the cloud bursts o'er Cona, and a thouone thought. sand ghosts shriek at once in the hollow wind." They approached the Strada Nuova. There is a locality in this region which the "She is not one of the nobility, at any rate," ancients named after a certain warm region he thought, " or she would not live here." which no refined person ever permits himself to They turned up a familiar street. mention in our day. Whatever it may have "How exceedingly jolly! She can't live far been when some Roman Tityrus walked pipe in away from my lodgings." mouth along its shore, its present condition They entered the Strada di San Bartolomeo. renders its name singularly appropriate and " Hanged if she don't live in the same street!" I felicitous. Here the party amused themselves THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 25 with a lunch of figs and oranges, which they latter looked as anxious as his trembling beargathered indiscriminately from orchards and er. gardens on the road-side. "Darn it! I say," he cried. "Darn it! Don't! There was the Lake Lucrine. Averno and Don't!" the Elysian Fields were there. The ruins of "Diavo-lo!" muttered the Italian. Caligula's Bridge dotted the surface of the sea. And in the next instant plump went the SenYet the charms of all these classic scenes were ator into the water. A scene then followed eclipsed in the tourists' eyes by those of a num- that baffles description. The Senator, rising ber of pretty peasants girls who stood washing from his unexpected bath, foaming and sputterclothes in the limpid waters of the lake. ing, the Italian praying for forgiveness, the It was in this neighborhood that they found loud voices of all the others shouting, calling, the Grotto of the Cumvean Sibyl. They follow- and laughing. ed the intelligent cicerone, armed with torches, The end of it was that they all left as soon as into a gloomy tunnel. Theintelligent cicerone possible, and the Senator indignantly waded walked before them with the air of one who had back through the water himself. A furious row something to show. Seven stout peasants fol- with the unfortunate bearer, whom the Senator lowed after. The cavern was as dark as possi- refused to pay, formed a beautifully appropriate ble, and extended apparently for an endless dis- termination to their visit to this classic spot. tance. The Senator was so disturbed by this misadAfter walking a distance of about two miles, venture that his wrath did not subside until his according to the Senator's calculation, they came trowsers were thoroughly dried. This, howto the centre of interest. It was a hole in the ever, was accomplished at last, under the warm wall of the tunnel. The Americans were given sun, and then he looked around him with his to understand that they must enter here. usual complacency. "But how?" The next spot of interest which attracted " How? Why, on the broad backs of the I them was the Hall of the Subterranean Lake. stout peasants, who all stood politely offering In this place there is a cavern in the centre of their humble services." The guide went first. a hill, which is approached by a passage of some Buttons, without more ado, got on the back of considerable length, and in the subterranean the nearest Italian and followed. Dick came cavern a pool of water boils and bubbles. The next; then the Doctor. Mr. Figgs and the usual crowd of obliging peasantry surrounded Senator followed in the same dignified manner. them as they entered the vestibule of this interThey descended for some distance, and finally esting place. It was a dingy-looking chamber, came to water about three feet deep. As the out of which two narrow subterranean passages roof was low, and only rose three feet above the ran. A grimy, sooty, blackened figure stood water, the party had some difficulty, not only in before them with torches. keeping their feet out of the water, but also in breathing. At length they came to a chamber about twelve feet m — square. From this they passed on to ot another of the same size. Thence to another. And so on. Arriving at the last, Bearer No. I N quietly deposited Buttons on a raised stone platform, which fortunately - arose about half an inch above the water. Three other bearers did the same. Mr. Figgs looked forlornly about him, and, being a fat man, seemed to grow somewhat apoplectic. Dick beguiled the time by lighting his pipe. "So this is the Grotto of the Cumaean Sibyl, is it?" said Buttons. "Then all I can say is that-" What he was going to say was lost by a loud cry which interrupted himn__t and startled all. It came from the other chamber. "The Senator!" said Dick. _ _I It was indeed his well-known voice. - - There was a plash and a groan. Im- - mediately afterward a man staggered into the room. He was deathly pale, and tottered feebly under the tremen-'-_ - _dous weight of the Senator. The DARN IT -DON'T. 26 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. "Follow!" This was all that he condescended to say, after lighting his torches and dis- t~ - tributing them to his visitors. He 2 stalked off, and stooping down, darted the Senator, then the Doctor, then Mr. A Figgs. The air was intensely hot, and / the passage-way grew lower. ore- over, the smoke from the torches filled K ~ / the air, blindin, and choking them. Mr. Figgs faltered. Fat, and not by any means nimble, he came to a pause about twenty feet from the entrance, o r / o ane te and, making a sudden turn, darted outf /m The Doctor was tall and unaccustoined to bend his perpendicular form. d Half choked and panting heavily lie too / gave up, and turning about rushed out / d /ce after Mr. Figgs. The other three went on bravely. t Buttons and Dick, because they had lonlg since made up their minds to see i t every thing that presented itself, and ute Senator, because when he started on / an enterprise he was incapable of turn-. ing back. After a time the passage went sloping steeply down. At the bottom of the/1 declivity was a pond of water bubbling and steaming. Down this they ran nt Now the slope was extremely slippery, a and the subterranean chamber was butn faintly illuminated by the torches. Annd so it came to pass that, as the Senator ran down after the others, they had barely reached the bottom when At once all turned round with a start. Not too quickly; for there lay the Senator, on hiis are offered for sale in such abundance that they back, sliding, in an oblique direction, straight may be considered staple articles of commerce toward the pool. His booted feet were already in this country. in the seething waves; his nails were dug into So skillful are the manufacturers that they can the slippery soil; he was shouting for help, produce unlimited supplies of the following artiTo grasp his hand, his collar, his leg-to jerk cles, and many others too numerous to mention: him away and place him upright, was the work Cumaean and Oscan coins; of a shorter time than is taken to tell it. reitt and ditto statnettes; The guide now wanted them to wait till he Ditto and ditto rings; Ditto and ditto bracelets; boiled an egg. The Senator remonstrated, stat- Ditto and ditto images; ing that he had already nearly boiled a leg. Ditto and ditto toilet articles; the Senator's opposition overpowered the wishes Ditto and ditto flass; of tle others, and the party proceeded to return. ReliCq of Parthenope; Pale, grimy with soot, panting, covered with Ditto of BalM; Ditto of Miseaum; bauge drops of perspiration, they burst into the Ditto of Pre-tum; chamber where the others were waiting-first Ditto of IHerclaneum; Buttons, then Dick, then the Senator covered Ditto of Popreiia; wity mud and slime. Ditto of Capuna; The latter gentleman did not answer much to Ditto of Ctnothe eager inquiries of his friends, but maintained And other places too numerous to mention a solemn silence. The two former loudly and all supplied to order; all of which are eaten by volubly descanted on the accumulated horrors rust, and warranted to be covered by the canker of the subterranean way, the narrow passage, and the mould of antiquity. the sulphurous air, the lake of boiling floods. The good guide earnestly pressed some interIn this outer chamber their attention was di- esting relics upon their attention, but without reeted to a number of ancient relics. These marked success. And now, as the hour of din THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 27 ner approached, they made i S.the best of their way to a neighboring inn, which com- s A - imanded a fine view of the bay. Emerging from the chamber the guide followed < I. them, offering his wares. "Tell me," he cried, in a \ sonorous voice, "I oh most no- w ble Americans how much ch till you give for this most Ca ancient vase?' 9o "Un' mezzo carlino," said Dick. "Un' mezzo carlino! The man's hand, which had been uplifted to display the vase, fell downward as he said this. His tall figure grew less and less distinct as they went further away; but long aftel he was out of sight the phan- tom of his reproachful face a haunted their miroids.' e After dinner they went out on the piazza in front of the hotel. Two Spanish ladies were there, whose dark eyes produced an instantaneous effect upon the im- is with French, Italian, Spanish, and Portupressible heart of Buttons. guese." They sat side by side, Ieaning against the stone "And look at him now!" cried the Senator, balustrade. They were smoking cigarettes, his eye beaming with cordial admiration. and the effect produced by waving their pretty "You may well look at him!" sighed Dick. hands as they took the cigarettes from their "Two such pretty girls as these won't turn up months was, to say the least, bewildering. again in a hurry. Spaniards too; I always adButtons awaited his opportunity, and did not mired them." And he walked down to the have to waitlong. Whether itwas atthey were shore humming to himself something about willing to give the young American a chance, or "I the girls of Cadiz." whether it was really unavoidable, can not be The ladies informed Buttons that they were said, but certainly one of the fair Spaniards travelling with their brother, and had been found that her cigarette had gone out. A pret- through Russia, Germany, England, France, ty look of despair, and an equally pretty gesture and were now traversing Italy; did not like tilhe of vexation, showed at once the state of things. three first-mentioned countries, but were charmUpon which Buttons stepped up, and with a bow ed with Italy. that would have done honor to Chesterfield, pro- Their aatvet was delightful. Buttons found duced a box of scented allumettes, and lighting out that the name of one was Lucia, and the one, gravely held it forward. The fair Spaniard other Ida. For the life of him he did not know smiled bewitchingly, and bending forward with- which he admired most; but, on the whole, rathout hesitation to light her cigarette, brought her er inclined to the one to whom he had offered rosy lips into bewildering proximity to Buttons's the light-Ida. hand. lie was equally frank, and let them know It was a trying moment. his name, his country, his creed. They were The amiable expression of the ladies' faces, shocked at his creed, pleased with his country, combined with the softly-spoken thanks of the and amused at his name, which they prolady whom Buttons first addressed, encouraged nounced, "Seidor Bo-to-nes." him. The consequence was, that in about five After about an hour their brother came. lHe minutes more he was occupying a seat opposite was a small man, very active, and full of vivacthem, chatting as familiarly as though he were ity. Instead of looking fiercely at the stranan old playmate. Dick looked on with admira- ger, he shook hands with him very cordially. tion; the others with envy. Before doing this, however, he took one short, "How in the world does it happen," asked quick survey of his entire person, from his felt the Senator, "that Buttons knows the lingo of hat down to his Congress boots. The conseevery body he meets?" quence was that Buttons deserted his compan"He can't help it," said Dick. "These ions, and went off with the ladies. Continental languages are all alike; know one, Dick took the lead of the party on the return and you've got the key to the others - that home. They viewed the conduct of Buttons 28 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. /~f/I/IC I. Al\I'h SENATOR AND DONKEY, with displeasure. The Senator did not show CHAPTER IX. his 1usual serenity. A DRIVE INTO THE COUNTRY.-A FIGHT WITH A The party were all riding on donkeys. To VETTURINO.-THE EFFECT OF EATING "HARD do this on the minute animals which the Nea- BOILED EGGS."-WHAT THEY SAW AT PSESTUM. politans furnish it is necessary to seat one's self -FIVE TEMPLES AND ONE "MILL." on the stern of the animal, and draw the legs To hire a carriage in Naples for any length wvell up, so that they may not trail on the ground. of time is by no means an easy thing. It is The appearance of the rider from behind is that necessary to hold long commune with the proof a Satyr dressed in the fashion of the nine- prietor, to exert all the wiles of masterly diploteenth century. Nothing can be more ridicu- macy, to circumvent cunning by cunning, to exlous than the sight of a figure dressed in a frock- ecrt patience, skill, and eloquence. After a decoat and beaver hat, and terminated by the legs cision has been reached, there is but one way in and tail of a donkey. which you can hold your vetturino to his barAs it wasgettinglate the party hurried. The gain, and that is to bind him to it by securing donkeys were put on the full gallop. First rode his name to a contract. Every vetturino has a the guide, then the others, last of whom was the printed form all ready. If he can't write his Senator, whose great weight was a sore trial to name, he does something equally binding and the little donkey. far siml)ler. He dips his thumb in the ink-hotThey neared Pozzuoli, when suddenly the tle and stamps it on the paper. If that is not Senator gave his little beast a smart whack to his signature, what else is it? hasten his steps. Thle donkey lost all patience. "Thus," said one, "Signor Adam signed the With a jump he leaped forward. Away he mnarriage-contractwith Signora Eva." went, far ahead of the others. The saddle, AfIer incredible difficulties a contract had whose girth was rather old, slipped off. The been drawn up and signed by the horny thumb Senator held on tightly. In vain! Just as he of a certain big vetturino, whlo went by the rounded a corner formed by a projecting sand- name of" I1 Piccolo." It was to the effect that, bankthe donkey slipped. Down wenttherider; for a certain specified sum, I Piccolo should down went the donkey also-rider and beast take the party to Prestumrn and back, with a defloundering in the dusty road. tour to Sorrento. A merry peal of ill-suppressed laughter came It was a most delightful morning. All were firom the road-side as he rolled into viewv. It in the best of spirits. So they started. On came firom a carriage. In the carriage were the for miles through interminable streets of houses Spaniards-there, too, was Buttons. that bordered the circular shore, through crowds of sheep, droves of cattle, dense masses of human beings, through which innumerable caleches darted like meteors amid the stars of heaven. Here came the oxen of Southern Italy, stately, solemn, long-horned, cream-colored; there marched great droves of Sorrento hogs THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 29 the hog of hogs-a strange but not ill-favored most precious of scenic delights the pantomime animal, thick in hide, leaden in color, hairless commends itself to the Italian bosom. Of as a hippopotamus. The flesh of the Sorrento course there was a pantomime at Salerno. It hog bears the same relation to common pork was a mite of a house; on a rough calculation that "Lubin's Extrait" bears to the coarse thirty feet by twenty; a double tier of boxes; scent of a country grocery. A pork-chop from a parquette about twelve feet square; and a the Sorrento animal comes to the palate with stage of about two-thirds that size. the force of a new revelation; it is the highest Yet behold what the ingenuity of man can possibility of pork-the apotheosis of the pig! accomplish! On that stage there were perLong lines of macaroni-cooks doing an enor- formed all the usual exhibitions of human pasmous business; armies of dealers in anisette; I sion, and they even went into the production crowds of water-carriers; throngs of fishermen, I of great scenic displays, among which a great carrying nets and singing merry songs-" Ecco storm in the forest was most prominent. mi!" "Ecco la!" —possible Massaniellos every Polichinello was in his glory! On this occaman of them, I assure you, Sir. And-envel- sion the joke of the evening was an English oping all, mingling with all, jostling all, busy traveller. The ideal Englishman on the Conwith the busiest, idle with the idlest, noisy with tinent is a never-failing source of merriment. the noisest, jolly with the jolliest, the fat, oily, The presence of five Americans gave addiswarthy, rosy-(etc., for further epithets see i tional piquancy to the show. The corpulent, preceding pages)-Lazaroni! double-chinned, red-nosed Englishman, with Every moment produces new effects in the knee-breeches, shoe-buckles, and absurd.coat, ever-shifting scenes of Naples. Here is the re- stamped, swore, frowned, doubled up his fists, verse of monotony; if any thing becomes weari- knocked down waiters, scattered gold right and some, it is the variety. Here is the monotony left, was arrested, was tried, was fined; but of incessant change. The whole city, with all came forth unterrified from every persecution, its vast suburbs, lives on the streets. to rave, to storm, to fight, to lavish money as The Senator wiped his fevered brow. He before. thought that for crowds, noise, tumult, dash, How vivid were the flashes of lightning prohurry- skurry, gayety, life, laughter, joyance, duced by touching off some cotton-wool soaked and all that incites to mirth, and all that stirs in alcohol! IHow terrific the peals of thunder the soul, even New York couldn't hold a candle produced by the vibrations of a piece of sheetto Naples. iron! Whatever was deficient in mechan;ical Rabelais ought to have been a Neapolitan. apparatus was readily supplied by the powerful Then, as the city gradually faded into the imagination of the Italians, who, though they country, the winding road opened up before had often seen all this before, were not at all them with avenues of majestic trees-overhang- weary of looking at it, but enjoyed the thouing, arching midway —forming long aisles of sandth repetition as much as the first. shade. Myrtles, that grew up into trees, scent- Those merry Italians! ed the air. Interminable groves of figs and There is an old, old game played by every oranges spread away up the hill, intermingled vetturino. with the darker foliage of the olive or cypress. When our travellers had returned to the hoThe mountains come lovingly down to bathe tel, and were enjoying themselves in general their feet in the sea. The road winds among conversation, the vetturino bowed himself in. them. There is a deep valley around which 1He was a good deal exercised in his mind. rise lofty hills topped with white villages or W Vith a great preamble he came to the point: ancient towers, or dotted with villas which peep As they intended to start early in the morning, forth from amid dense groves. As far as the he supposed they would not object to settle their eye can reach the vineyards spread awav. little bill now. Not as in France or Germany, miserable sandy- " What!" shouted Buttons, jumping up. fields with naked poles or stunted bushes; but "What bill? Settle a bill? We settle a bill? vast extents of trees, among which the vines Are you mad?" leap in wild luxuriance, hanging in long fes- "Your excellencies intend to settle the bill, toons from branch to branch, or intertwining: of course," said the vetturino, with much with the foliage. Iphlegm. "I don't know how it is," said the Senator, "Our excellencies never dreamed of any "but I'm cussed if I feel as if this here country such thing." was ground into the dust. If it is, it is no bad "Not pay? Ha! ha! You jest, Signor." thing to go through the mill. I don't much "Do you see this?" said Buttons, solemnly wonder that these Italians don't emigrate. If producing the contract. I owned a farm in this neighborhood I'd stand "Well?" responded II Piccolo. a good deal of squeezin' before I'd sell out and "What is this?" go anywheres else." "' Our contract." At evening they reached Salerno, a watering- "Do you know what it is that you have enplace on the sea-coast, and Naples in miniature. gaged to do?" There is no town in Italy without its opera- "To take you to Poestum." house or theatre, and among the most vivid and' Yes; to Poestum and back, with a detour 30 TIE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. to Sorrento. Moreover, you engage to supply fine melodramatic tone, and with a vivacity of us with three meals a day and lodgings, for gesture that was not without its effect on the all of which we engage to pay a certain sum. Italian. He folded the contract, replaced it in What, then," cried Buttons, elevating his voice, his breast-pocket, and slapped it with fearful "in the name of all the blessed saints and apos- emphasis. Every slap seemed to go to the tles, do you mean by coming to us about hotel heart of I1 Piccolo. bills?" "If you dare to try to back out of this agree"Signor," said the vetturino, meekly, "when ment I'll have you up before the police. I'll I made that contract I fear I was too sanguine." enforce the awful penalty that punishes the "Too sanguine!" non-performance of a solemn engagement. I'll "And I have changed my mind since." have you arrested by the Royal Guards in the "Indeed?" name of His Majesty the King, and cause you "I find that I am a poor man." to be incarcerated in the lowest dungeons of "Did you just find that out?" St. Elmo. Besides, I won't pay you for the "And that if I carry out this it will ruin ride thus far." me." With this last remark Buttons walked to the "Well?" door, and without another word opened it, and "So you'll have to pay for the hotel expenses motioned to Il Piccolo to leave. The vetturino yourselves," said II Piccolo, with desperation. departed in silence. "I will forgive this insufferable insolence," On the following morning he made his apsaid Buttons, majestically, "on condition that pearance as pleasant as though nothing had it never occurs again. Do you see that?" he happened. cried, in louder tones. The carriage rolled away from Salerno. And he unfolded the contract, which he had Broad fields stretched away on every side. been holding in his hand, and sternly pointed Troops of villagers marched forth to their lato the big blotch of ink that was supposed to bor. As they went on they saw women workbe I1 Piccolo's signature. ing in the fields, and men lolling on the fences. " Do you see that s" he cried, in a voice of "I Do you call that the stuff for a free counthunder. try?" cried the Senator, whose whole soul rose The Italian did not speak. up in arms against such a sight. " Air these "And that?" he cried, pointing to the sig- things men? or can such slaves as these womnature of the witness. en seem to be give birth to any thing but The Italian opened his mouth to speak, but slaves?" was evidently nonplused. " Bravo!" cried Buttons. "You are in my power!" said Buttons, in a The Senator was too indignant to say more, and so fell into a fit of musing. "Dick," said Buttons, after a long pause, - "you are as pale as a ghost. I believe you must be beginning to feel the miasma firom __ these plains." ~: —~_~.~11,~, i1 " Oh no," said Dick, dolefully; "something worse." v:um ~ J jit iii < ~"What's the matter?" ~ "ii K'Do you remember the eggs we had for dinner last evening?" "4 Yes." "1 That's what's the matter," said Dick, witl a groan. "I can't explain; but this, perhaps, will tell thee all I feel." l He took from his pocket a paper and handed it to Buttons. Around the margin were drawn etchings of countless fantastic figures, illustrating the following lines: A NIGHTMARE. Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire." BY A VICTiM. Egzs! Eggs!! Eggs!! Heard boiled eggs for tea! And oh! the horrible nightmare dream They brought to luckless me! The hippopotamus came; He sat upon my chest: The hippopotamus roared' I'll spot him!" a He trampled upon my breast. The big iguanodon hunched And rooted in under me: The big iguanodon raised by that pan o' done "'DO YoU sEZ TIIxT?" Orerdone eggs for tea. THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 31 The ichthyosaurus tried taken up with a deep calculation, that the Sena. T'o roll me up in a ball; tor was startled by a sudden noise. While all the three were grinning at me, And pounding me, bed and all Turning hastily he saw something that made Hip! hip! hurrah! thim run with the speed of the wind toward the It was a little black pig, place where the noise arose. Buttons and Dick And a big bull-frog, and a bobtailed dog- were surrounded by a crowd of fierce-looking All of them dancing a jig. men, who were making very threatening demAnd oh, tile snakes! the snakes I Z 9 And the boa constrictor too! onstrations. There were at least fifteen. As And the cobra capello-a terrible fellow- the Senator ran up from one direction, so came Came to my horrified view. up Mr. Figgs and the Doctor from another. Snakes and horrible beasts, What is this?" cried the Senator, bursting Frog, pig, and dog Hustled me, pushed me, tickled me, crushed me in upon the crowd. Rolled me about like a log. A huge Italian was shaking his fist in ButThe little blue devils came on; tons's face, and stamping and gesticulating vioThey rode on a needle's point; lently. And the big giraffe, with asthmatic laugh, And legs all out of joint. "These men say we must pay five piastres Bats crawled into myall out of joint, each to them for strolling about their ground, Hopping about in my brain; and Buttons has told this big fellow that he will And grizzly bears rode up on mares, give them five kicks each. There'll be some And then rode down again. Adteroedw agai*, kind of a fight. They belong to the Camorra." An antediluvian roared, In the form of a Brahmin bull; Dick said all this in a hurried under-tone. And a Patagonian squeezed an onion, " Camorry, what's that-brigands?" Filling my aching eyes full. "All the same." The three blue bottles that sat Upon the historical stones They're not armed, anyhow." Sang,'" Hey diddle diddle "-two on a fiddle, Just at this moment Buttons said something The other one on the bones. which seemed to sting the Italians to the soul, Get W ll oo whoo I ohoo! for with a wild shout they rushed forward. The Get up, get up, you beauty! Instantly Dick Here come the shaved monkeys, a-riding on don- Doctor drew out his revolver. Instantly Dick keys, snatched it from him, and rushing forward, Fresh from Bobberty Shooty.'" drove back the foremost. None of them were They raised me up in the air, armed. Bed, body, and all, And carried me soon to the man in the moon, "Stand off!" he cried, in Italian. "The At the siege of Sebastopol. fight is between this big fellow and my friend. Down, down, down, If any one of you interferes I'll put a bullet Round, round, round, him." A whirlpool hurled me out of the world, And oh, no bottom I found. The Italians fell back cursing. Buttons inDown, down, down, stantly divested himself of his coat, vest, and Whirl, whirl, whirl, collar. The Italian waited with a grim smile. And the Florentine boar was pacing the shore, His tail all out of curl. At one end were the Senator, the Doctor, Mr. lie smoked my favorite pipe, Figgs; at the other the Italian ruffians. In the lie blew a cloud of smoke, middle Buttons and his big antagonist. Near lie pulled me out with his porcine snout, tlem Dick with his pistol. And hugging him, I awoke. The scene that followed had better be de"Why, Dick," cried the Senator, " what pre- scribed in Dick's own words, as he pencilled cious nonsense!" them in his memorandum-book, from time to " It was intended to be so," said Dick. time, keeping a sharp lookout with his pistol " Well, but you might as well put on an idee. also. Afterward the description was retouched: It must have some meaning." " Not a bit of it. It has no meaning; that Great mill at Pcestum, between E. BUTTONS, Esq., Gentleman, and Italian party called BEPPO. is, no more than a dream or a nightmare.lled BEPP or n ea 1st Round. —Beppo defiant, no attitude at all. ButThe Senator now began to discuss the nature tons assumed an elegant pose. Beppo made a succesof poetry, but was suddenly interrupted by a sion of wild strokes without any aim, which were parried without effort. After which Buttons landed four blows, shout — one on each peeper, one on the smeller, and one on the': The Temples!" mug. The country about Pestum is one of the most First blood for Buttons. Beppo considerably surprised. Rushed furiously at Buttons, arms flying everybeautiful in the world. Between the mountains where, struck over Buttons's head. Buttons lightly made and the sea lies a luxuriant plain, and in the obeisance, and then fired a hundred-pounder on Beppo's left auricular, which had the effect of bringing him to middle of it is the ruined city. The outlines of grass. First knock down for Buttons. walls and remnants of gates are there. Above 2d Round.-Foreign population quite dumbfounded. all rise five ancient edifices. They strolled care- Americans amused but not excited. One hundred to one on Buttons eagerlyoffered, but no takers. Beppojumped lessly around. The marble floors of a good to his feet like a wild cat. Eyes encircled with ebon many private houses are yet visible, but the aurioles, olfactory quite demolished. Made a rush at Buttons, who, being a member of the Dodge Club, dodged stupendous temples are the chief attractions him, and landed a rattler on the jugular, which again here; above all, the majestic shrine of Neptune. i sent foreign party to grass. It was while standin with head thrown back, 3d Round.-Nimble to the scratch. Beppo badly It was while standing with head thrown back, I mashed and raving. Buttons unscathed and laughing. eyes and mouth opened wide, and thoughts all Beppo more cautious made a faint attempt to get into C 32 THE DOi)GE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. TilE ILL AT STUM Buttons. Nego. Tried a littlesparring,whichwas sum- CHAPTER X. marily ended by a cannonade from Buttons directly in his countenance. ON THE WATER, WHERE BUTTONS SEES A LOST 4th RoTtnd.-Foreigners wild. Yelling to their man to IDEA AND GIVES CHASE TO IT, TOGETHER WITH go in. (Don't understand a single one of the rules of the THE HEART-SICKENING RESULTS THEREOF. P. R. Very benighted. Need missionaries.) Evinced strong determination to go in themselves, but were check- ON the following morning Buttons and Dick ed by attitude of referee, who threatened to blow out went a little way out of town, and down the brains of first man that interfered. Beppo's face magni. fled considerably. Appearance not at all prepossessing. steep cliff toward the shore. Much distressed but furious. Made a bound at Buttons, It was a classic spot. Here was no less a who calmly, and without any apparent effort, met him with a terrific upper cut, which made the Italian's gigan- place than the cave of Polyphemus, where Hotic frame tremble like a ship under the stroke of a big mer, at least, may have stood, if Ulysses didn't. wave. He tottered, and swung his arms, trying to regain his balance, when another annihilator most cleanly ad- Ad here is the identical stone with which the ministered by Buttons laid him low. A great tumult rose giant was wont to block up the entrance to his among the foreigners. Beppo lay panting with no de- cavern termination to come to the scratch. At the expiration of usual time, opponent not appearing, Buttons was The sea rolled before. Away down to the proclaimed victor. Beppoverymuch mashled. Foreign- right was Vesuvius starting from which the ers veiy greatly cowed. After waiting a short time Buttons reunlied his garments and walked off with his eye took in the whole wide sweep of the shore, frienda lined with white cities, with a background of mountains, till the land terminated in bold promAfter the victory the travellers left Pxstum ontories. on their return. Opposite was the Isle of Capri. The road that turns off to Sorrento is the Myriads of white sails flashed across the sea. most beautiful in the world. It winds along One of these arrested the attention of Butthe shore with innumerable turnings, climbing tons, and so absorbed him that he stared fixedhills, descending into valleys, twining around ly at it for half an hour without moving. precipices. There are scores of the prettiest At length an exclamation burst from him: villages under the sun, ivy-covered ruins, frown- "By Jove! It is! It is!" ing fortresses, lofty towers, and elegant villas. "What is? What is?" At last Sorrento smiles out from a valley "The Spaniards!" which is proverbial for beauty, where, within its "Where?" shelter of hills, neither the hot blast of midsum- "In that boat." mer nor the cold winds of winter can ever dis- "Ah!" said Dick, coolly, looking at the ob. turb its repose. This is the valley of perpetual ject pointed out by Buttons. spring, where fruits forever grow, and the sea- It was an English sail-boat, with a small cabsons all blend together, so that the same orchard i in and an immense sail. In the stern were a shows trees in blossom and bearing fruit. gentleman and two ladies. Buttons was confident that they were the Spaniards. THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 33 you will not have so liquid an atmosphere; if you have a shore with equal beauty of outline, - and equal grace in its long sweep of towering f —( ~-~ headland and retreating slope, you will not have _s.z:.-;so deep a purple on the distant hills. Above' —" ""~i A= all, nowhere else on earth has Nature placed in the very centre of so divine a scene the contrasted terrors of the black volcano. Watching a chase is exciting; but taking,:... a part in it is much more so. Buttons had made - the most scientific arrangements. He had cal=.~.:-_-_-.,,' culated that at a certain point on the opposite shore the other boat would turn on a new tack, z-5-: —~ --....... and that if he steered to his boat to a point about half-way over, he would meet them, without appearing to be in pursuit. He accordingly felt so / elated at the idea that he burst forth into song.; The other boat at length had passed well over ___=gY —~-~ —~ under the shadow of the land. It did not turn. — _ InFiurther and further over, and still it did not N -~_~'~ change its course. Buttons still kept the course which he had first chosen; but finding that he was getting far out of the way of the other boat, i___ a l he was forced to turn the head of his boat closer to the wind, and sail slowly, watching the There was an island immediately ahead of: the other boat. What was his dismay at seeTIE SPANIARDS. ing it gracefully pass beyond the outer edge of the island, turn behind it, and vanish. He "Well," said Dick, "what's the use of get- struck the taffrail furiously with his clenched ting so excited about it?" hand. However, there was no help for it; so, "Why, I'm going back to Naples by water i" changing his course, he steered in a straight line "Are you? Then I'll go too. Shall we after the other, to where it had disappeared. leave the others?" Now that the boat was out of sight Dick did " Certainly not, if they want to come with us." not feel himself called on to watch. So he went Upon inquiry they found that the others had forward into the bow, and made himself a snug a strong objection to going by sea. Mr. Figgs berth, where he laid down; and lighting his preferred the ease of the carriage. The Doctor pipe, looked dreamily out through a cloud of thought the sea air injurious. The Senator had smoke upon the charming scene. The tossing the honesty to confess that he was afraid of sea- of the boat and the lazy flapping of the sails sickness. They would not listen topersuasion, had a soothing influence. His nerves owned but were all resolutely bent on keeping to the the lulling power. His eyelids grew heavy and carriage. gently descended. Buttons exhibited a feverish haste in search- The wind and waves and islands and sea and ing after a boat. There was but little to choose sky, all mingled together in a confused mass, from among a crowd of odd-looking fishing-boats came before his mind. He was sailing on that crowded the shore. However, they se- clouds, and chasing Spanish ladies through the lected the cleanest from among them, and soon sky. The drifting currents of the air bore them the boat, with her broad sail spread, was dart- resistlessly along in wide and never-ending ing over 4he sea. curves upward in spiral movements toward the The boat of which they went in pursuit was zenith; and then off in ever-increAsing speed, far away over near the other shore, taking long with ever-widening gyrations, toward the suntacks across thebay. Buttons headed hisboat so set, where the clouds grew red, and lazaroni as to meet the other on its return tack. grinned from behindIt was a magnificent scene. After exhaust- A sudden bang of the huge sail struck by the ting every shore view of Naples, there is nothing wind, a wild creaking of the boom, and a smart like taking to the water. Every thing then ap- dash of spray over the bows and into his face pears in a new light. The far, winding cities waked him from his slumber. He started up, that surround the shore, the white villages, the half blinded, to look around. Buttons sat gazpurple Apennines, the rocky isles, the frowning ing over the waters with an expression of bitter volcano. vexation. They had passed the outer point of This is what makes Naples supreme in beauty. the island and had caught a swift current, a The peculiar combinations of scenery that are chopping spa, and a brisk breeze. The other found there make rivalry impossible. For if boat was nowhere to be seen. Buttons had alyou find elsewhere an equally beautiful bay,.ready headed back again. 34 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITIALY IN MDCCCLIX. "I don't see the other boat," said Dick. that they don't slacken a little! Perhaps we Buttons without a word pointed to the left. are not in full view. I will sit a little more out There she was. She had gone quietly around of the shade of the sail, so that they can recogthe island, and had taken the channel between nize me." it and the shore. All the time that she had Accordingly Buttons moved out to a more been hidden she was steadily increasing the conspicuous place, and Dick allowed himself to distance between them. be more visible. Again the flashing brass was "There's no help for it," said Dick, "but to seen in the boat, and they could plainly per. keep straight after them." ceive that it was passed from one to the other, Buttons did not reply, but leaned back with while each took a long survey. a sweet expression of patience. The two boats "They must be able to see us if they have kept on in this way for a long time; but the any kind of a glass at all." one in which our friends had embarked was no "I should think so," said Buttons, dolefully. match at all for the one they were pursuing. "Are you sure they are the Spaniards?" At every new tack this fact became more pain- "Oh! quite." fully evident. The only hope for Buttons was "Then I must say they might be a little to regain by his superior nautical skill what he more civil, and not keep us racing after them niight lose. Those in the other boat had but forever!" little skill in sailing, These at length became'Oh, I don't know; I suppose they wouldn't aware that they were followed, and regarded like to sail close up to us." their pursuers with earnest attention. It did "They needn't sail up to us, but they might not seem to have any effect. give us a chance to hail them." " They know we are after them at last!" "I don't think the man they have with them said Dick. looks like Seilor Francia." "I wonder if they can recognize us?" "Francia? Is that his name? He certain"If they do they have sharp eyes. I'll be ly looks larger. He is larger." hanged if I can recognize them! I don't see "Look!" how you can." As Buttons spoke the boat ahead fell rapidly "Instinct, Dick-instinct!" said Buttons, to leeward. The wind had fallen, and a curwith animation. rent which they had struck upon bore them "What's that flashing in their boat?" away. In the effort to escape from the current " That?" said Buttons.'"It's a spy-glass. the boat headed toward Buttons, and when the I didn't notice it before." wind again arose she continued to sail toward " I've seen it for the last half-hour.'" them. As they came nearer Button's face ex"' Tlen they must recognize us. tIow strange hibited a stln nge variety of expressions. -A TIIOUSAND I.'-DOs!" THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 35 They met. while the grand music of one of Mozart's masses In the other boat sat two English ladies and was filling his soul, Buttons suddenly felt his a tall gentleman, who eyed the two young men arm twitched. He turned. It was Dick. fixedly, with a "stony British stare." Buttons was horrified. In the midst of this "A thousand pardons!" said Buttons, rising solemn scene the young man was convulsed and bowing. "I mistook you for some ac- with laughter. His features were working, his quaintances." lips moving, as he tried to whisper something Whereupon the others smiled ill a friendly which his laughter prevented him from saying, way, bowed, and said somlething. A few comn- and tears were in his eyes. At last he stuck monplaces were interchanged, and the boats his handkerchief in his mouth and bowed down drifted away out of hearing. very low, while his whole frame shook. Some of the worshipers near by looked scandalized, others shocked, others angry. Buttons felt vexed. At la.st Dick raised his face and rolled CHAPTER XI. his eves toward the organ-loft, and instantly THE SENATOR IIAS SUCH A FANCY FOR SEEKING bowed his head again. Buttons looked ul mcUSEFUL INFORMATION! —CURIOUS POSITION OF chanically, following the direction of Dick's A WISE, AND WELL-KNOWN, AND DESERVEDLY- glance. The next instant he too fell forward, POPULAR LEGISLATOR, AN'D UNDIGNIFIED MODE tore his handkerchief out of his pocket, wvhile OF HISI ESCAPE. g his whole frame shook with the most painful IT was not much after ten in the morning convulsion of laughter. when Buttons and Dick returned. On reach- And how dreadful is such a convulsion in a ing the hotel they found Mr. Figgs and the solemn place! In a church, amid worshipers; Doctor, who asked them if they had seen the perhaps especially amid wvorshipeis of anotl:er Senator. To which they replied by rputting the I creed, for then one is suspected of offering desame question to their questioners. liberate insult. So it was here. People near He had not been seen since they had all been saw the two young men, and darted angry looks tocthllcr last. Where was he? at them. Of course there was no anxiety felt about Now what was it that had so excited two him, but still they all wished to have him near I young men, who were by no means inclined to at hand, as it was about time for them to leave offer insult to any one, especially in religious the town. Ti-le etturino was already grum- matters? bing, and it required a pretty strong remon- It was this: As they looked up to the organstrance froln Buttons to silence him. loft they saw a figure there. They had nothing to do but to wait patient- The organ projected from the wall about six ly. Mr. Figgs and the Doctor lounged about feet; on the left si(le was the handle worked by the sofas. Buttons and Dick strolled about the the man who blew it, and a space for the choir. town. Hearing strains of music as they p)assed On the right was a small narrow space not more the cathedral, they turned in there to listen to than about three feet wide, and it was in this the service. Why there should be service, and space that they saw the figure which produced full service too, they could not imagine. i such an effect on them. "Can it be Sunday, Dick?" said Buttons, It was the Senator. He stood there erect, gravely. bare-headed of course, with confusion in his "Who can tell?" exclairned Dick, lost in face and vexation and bewilderment. The wonder. sight of him was enough —the astonishing posiThe cathedral was a small one, with nave I tion of the man, in such a place at such a time. rind transept as usual, and in the Italian Gothic But the Senator was looking eagerly for help. style. At the end of the nave stood the high l And he had seen them enter, and all his soul altar, which was now illuminated with wax-can- was in his eyes, and all his eyes were fixed on dies, while priests officiated before it. At the those two. right extremity of the transept was the organ- As Dick looked up startled and confounded loft, a somnewhat unusual position; while at at the sight, the Senator projected his head as the opposite end of the transept was a smaller far forward as he dared, frowned, nodded, and door. The church was moderately filled. Prob- then began working his lips violently as certain ably there were as many people there as it ever deaf and dumb people do, who converse by such had. They knelt on the floor with their faces movements, and can understand what words are toward the altar. Finding the nave somewhat said by the shape of the mouth in uttering them. crowded, Buttons and Dick went around to the But the effect was to make the Senator look door at the end of the transept, and entered like a man who was making grimaces for a there. A large space was empty as far as the wager, like those in Victor Hugo's "!N6tre junction with the nave. Into this the two young Dame." As such the apparition was so overmen entered, very reverently, and on coming powering that neither Buttons nor Dick dared near to the place where the other worshipers to look up for some time. What made it worse, were they knelt down in the midst of them. each was conscious that the other was laughing, While looking before him, with his mind so that self-control was all the more difficult. full of thoughts called up by the occasion, and Worse still, each knew that this figure in the 36 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. organ-loft was watching them with his hungry could not help doing often, the Senator would glance, ready the moment that they looked up repeat his mouthings, and nods, and becks, and to begin his grimaces once more. looks of entreaty. The consequence was, that "That poor Senator!" thought Buttons; the people thought the stranger was making "how did he get there? Oh, how did he get faces at them. Three hundred and forty-seven there?" honest people of Sorrento thus found themselves Yet how could he be rescued? Could he be? shamefully insulted in their own church by a No. He must wait till the service should be barbarous foreigner, probably an Englishman, over. no doubt a heretic. The other four hundred Meanwhile the young men mustered sufficient and thirty-six who knelt in the nave knew nothcourage to look up again, and after a mighty ing about it. They could not see the organstruggle to gaze upon the Senator for a few loft at all. The priests at the high altar could seconds at a time at least. There he stood, not see it, so that they were uninterrupted in projecting forward his anxious face, making their duties. The singers in the organ-loft saw faces as each one looked up. nothing, for the Senator was concealed fiom their view. Those therefore who saw him were...... the people in the transept, who now kept starsaw that t3 ere might be a serious tumult when the Senator came down aimongye tat wrathfulin | thrce human beings waiting to take vengeance on the miscreants no hance thrown ridicule on the Sen atr came dowaking faces at that wrathful s thcrowy knelt ein prao er. Already a murmur in t he navre sawtic! the agitaretic!n of those in the trttons saw tatns, and bolgot d stroke alon the couldause. ognlAt la st the service was ended; the singers sona themvis e burst into the midst of h theon the two Houng men has the Hoy tert aing fraes Alrd at th faihul;S I,IlJ1NOW'' A heretic; A her etic! A blast hemera neiIh s lokn p iButtons saw that a hold stroke alone could save them. He hurst into the mid s t of the throng followed by Dick. "Fly i" he cried. "Fly for your lives! It is a miadman! Fly! Fly!" o onA loud cry of terror arose. Instantaneous A conviction flashed on the minds of all. A madman!- Yes. He could be nothing else. I A panic arose. The people recoiled from before that terrible madman. Buttons sprang up to the loft. lie seized the Senator's arm and dragged him down. The people fled in horror. As the Senator emerged he saw seven hundred and eighty-three good people of Sorrento scampering away like the wind across the square in front of the cathedral. On reaching the hotel he told his story. He thad been peering about in search of useful information, and had entered the cathedral. After THIE SENATOR. going through every part he went up into the organ-loft. Just then the singers came. InNow the people in the immediate vicinity of stead of going out like a man, he dodged them the two young men had noticed their agitation from some absurd cause or other, with a half as has already been stated, and, moreover, they idea that he would get into trouble for intrudhad looked up to see the cause of it. They too ing. The longer he stayed the worse it was for saw the Senator. Others again, seeing their him. At last he saw Buttons and Dick enter, neighbors looking up, did the same, until at last and tried to make signals. all in the transept were staring up at the odd- "Well," said Buttons, "we had better looking stranger. leave. The Sorrentonians will be around hero As Buttons and Dick looked up, which they soon to see the maniac. They will find out all THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 37 about him, and make us acquainted with Lynch "I that these ancient Pompey fellers should pick law." out this kind of a way of getting buried. This In a quarter of an hour more they were on must be the reason why people speak of urns their way back to Naples. and ashes when they speak of dead people." They walked through the Villa of Diomedes. + —-c- They were somewhat disappointed. From guide-books, and especially from the remarkaCHAPTER XII. bly well-got-up Pompeian court at Sydenham HERCULANEUM AND POMPEII, AND ALL THAT THE Palace, Buttons had been led to expect someSIGHT OF THOSE FAMOUS PLACES PRODUCED ON thing far grander. But in this, the largest THE MINDS OF THE DODGE CLUB. ]house in the city, what did he find? Mites of THEY had already visited Herculaneum, but rooms, in fact closets, in which even a humble the only feeling which had been awakened by modern would find himself rather crowded. the sight of that ill-fated city was one of un- There was scarcely a decent-sized apartment in mitigated disgust. As honesty was the chief the whole establishment, as they all indignantcharacteristic of the whole party, they did not ly declared. The cellars were more striking. hesitate to express themselves with the utmost A number of earthern vessels of enormous size freedom on this subject. They hoped for bet- were in one corner. ter things from Pompeii. At any rate Pompeii "What are these?" asked the Senator. was above ground; what might be there would "Wine jars." be visible. No fuss with torches. No hum- "What?" bugging with lanterns No wandering through " Wine jars. They didn't use wooden casks." long black passages. NTo mountains bringing "The more fools they. Now do you mean forth mice. to say that wooden casks are not infinitely more Their expectations were encouraged as they convenient than these things that can't stand walked up the street of Tombs leading to the up without they are leaned against the wall? Hcerculaneum Gate. Tombs were all around, Pho!" any quantity, all sizes, little black vaults full of At one corner the guide stopped, and point — pigeon-holes. These they narrowly examined, ing do n, said something. and when the guide wasn't looking they filled "What does he say?" asked the Senator. their pockets with the ashes of the dead. He says if you want to know how the Pom"Strange," quoth the Senator, musingly, peians got clioked, stoop down and smell that. _ _i' - _ _ _ _ _ i SE~~,:.~' =- = VILLA OF DIOMIEDES 38 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. ~ ________ I ii lor the system. It was all hollow. Why, don't you see /-: of l l the man was a blockhead? He hadn't sense enough to`=4ii~:lif:''see that when the whole place was going to the dogs, seient' Pomteii." buh~Tifld'ingsIit was no good stopping to guard it. He'd much better have cleared out and saved his precious life for the good of his country. Do you \` -B -suppose a Yankee would act that way?" "I should suppose not." "That man, Sir, was a machine, and nothing more. A soldier must know something else than merely obeying orders." By this time they had passed through the gate and stood inside. The street opened before them for a considerable distance with houses on each side. Inc - erluding the sidewalks it might have been almost twelve feet wide. As only the lower part of the walls rmREw! of the houses was standing, the show that they made was Every body who comes here is expected to smell not imposing. There was no splendor in the arthis particular spot, or he can't say that he has chitecture or the material, for the style of the seen Pompeii." buildings was extremely simple, and they were So down went the five on their knees, and made with brick covered with stucco. up again faster than they went down. With one After wandering silently through the streets universal shout of: "Phew-w-w-w-w-h-h-h! i" the Senator at length burst forth: It was a torrent of sulphurous vapor that they "I say it's an enormous imposition!" inhaled. "What?" inquired Buttons, faintly. "Now, I suppose," said the Senator, as soon "Why, the whole system of Cyclopedias, as he could speak, " that that there comes di- Panoramas, Books of Travel, Woodbridge's Gerect in a bee-line through a subterranean tun- ography, Sunday-school Books —" nel right straight from old Vesuvius." "IWhat do you mean?" "IYes, and it was this that suggested the "I mean the descriptions they give of this famous scheme for extinguishing the volcano." place. The fellows who write about it get into "How? What famous scheme?" the heroics, and what with their descriptions, "Why, an English stock-broker came here and pictures, and moralizing, you believe it is last year, and smelled this place, as every one a second Babylon. It don't seem possible for must do. An idea struck him. He started any of them to tell the truth. Why, there isn't up. He ran off without a word. He went a single decent-sized house in the place. Oh, straight to London. There he organized a it's small! it's small!" company. They propose to dig a tunnel from "It certainly might be larger." the sea to the interior of the mountain. When "I know," continued the Senator, with a all is ready they will let in the water. There majestic wave of his hand-" I know that I'm will be a tremendous hiss. The volcano will expected to find this here scene very impressive; belch out steam for about six weeks; but the but I'll be hanged if I'm satisfied. Why, in the result will be that the fires will be put out for- name of IHeaven, when they give us pictures ever." of the place, can't they make things of the right From the Villa of Diomedes they went to the size? Why, I've seen a hundred pictures of gate where the guard-house is seen. Buttons that gate. They make it look like a triumphtold the story of the sentinel who died there on ant arch; and now that I'm here, durn me if I duty, embellishing it with a few new features can't touch the top of it when I stand on tipof an original character. toe." "Now that may be all very well," said the In all his walk the Senator found only one Senator, "but don't ask me to admire that thing that pleased him. This was the cele THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 39 brated Pompeian institution of a shop under the Although the expectations which he had dwelling-house. formed were not quite realized, yet Buttons " Whenever I see any signs of any thing like found much to excite interest after the first distrade among these ancients," said he, "I re- appointment had passed away. Dick excited spect them. And what is more satisfactory the Senator's disgust by exhibiting those raptthan to see a bake-shop or an eating-saloon in ures which the latter had condemned. the lower story of a palace?" The Doctor went by the Guide-book altogethTheir walk was terminated by the theatre and er, and regulated his emotions accordingly. amphitheatre. The sight of these were more Having seen the various places enumerated satisfactory to the Senator. there, he wished no more. As Buttons and "Didn't these fellows come it uncommon Dick wished to stroll further among the houses, strong though in the matter of shows?" he ask- the other three waited for them in the amphied, with considerable enthusiasm. "Hey? theatre, where the Senator beguiled the time by Why, we haven't got a single travelling circus, giving his " idee" of an ancient show. menagerie and all, that could come anyway near It was the close of day before the party left. to this. After all, this town might have looked At the outer barrier an official politely examwell enough when it was all bran-new and ined them. The result of the examination was painted up. It might have looked so then; that the party was compelled to disgorge a numbut, by thunder! it looks any thing but that ber of highly interesting souvenirs, consisting now. What makes me mad is to see every of lava, mosaic stones, ashes, plaster, marble traveller pretend to get into raptures about it chips, pebbles, bricks, a bronze hinge, a piece now. Raptures be hanged! I ask you, as a of bone, a small rag, a stick, etc. sensible man, is there any thing here equal to The official apologized with touching politeany town of the same population in Massachn- ness: "It was only a form," he said. " Yet setts?" he must do it. For look you, Signori," and _, _ _ _______ ________ __________ ________ _______ _ __________ _ __ -jIILjj- __ j _-------- = ~ - ---- it -i —-— __ A STREET IN POMPEII. 40 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. here he shrugged up his shoulders, rolled his On one side it was covered with loose sand, but eyes, and puffed out his lips in a way that was in other places it was all overlaid with masses possible to none but an Italian, "were it not of lava fragments. The undertaking seemed thus the entire city would be carried away piece- prodigious. nlcal!" The Senator looked up with a weary smile. ~- - - but did not falter; the Doctor thought they would not be able to get up to the top, and proCHAPTER XIII. posed returning; the others declined; whereVESUTVIUS.-WONDERFUL ASCENT OF THE CONE.- upon the Doctor slowly sauntered back to the WONDERFUL DESCENT INTO THE CRATER.-AND Hermitage. Mr. Figgs, whom the ride had MOST WONDERFUL DISAPPEARANCE OF MR. considerably shaken, expressed a desire to asFIGGS, AFTER WHOM ALL HIS FRIENDS GO, WITH cend, but felt doubtful about his wind. Dick THEIR LIVES IN THEIR HANDS. —GREAT SENSA- assured him that he would find plenty when he TION AMO'NGO SPECTATORS. got to the top. The guides also came to his To every visitor to Naples the most promi- relief. Did he want to go? Behold them. nent object is Vesuvius. The huge form of the They had chairs to carry him up or straps to volcano forever stands before him. The long pull him. Their straps were so made that they pennon of smoke from its crater forever floats | could envelop the traveller and allow him to be out triumphantly in the air. Not in the land- pulled comfortably up. So Mr. Figgs gracescape only, but in all the picture-shops. In fully resigned himself to the guides, who in a these establishments they really seem to deal in short time had adjusted their straps, and led nothing but prints and paintings of Vesuvius. him to the foot of the cone. It was a lovely morning when a carriage, Now for the ascent. filled with Americans, drew up at an inn near Buttons went first. Like a young chamois the foot of the mountain. There were guides this youth bounded up, leaping from rock to without number waiting, like beasts of prey, to rock, and steering in a straight line for the fall on them; and all the horses of the country- summit. Next the Senator, who mounted slowa wonderful lot-an amazing lot-alean, cranky, ly and perseveringly, as though he had a solemn raw-boned, ill-fed, wall-eyed, ill-natured, sneak- duty to perform, and was determined to do it ing, ungainly, half-foundered, half-starved lot; thoroughly. Then came Dick. More fitful. afflicted with all the diseases that horse-flesh is A few steps upward; then a rest; then a fresh heir to. There were no others, so but little start; followed by another rest. At length he time was wasted. All were on an equal foot- sat down about one-third of the way up and ing. To have a preference was out of the took a smoke. Behind him Mr. Figgs toiled question, so they amused themselves with picking out the ugliest. When the horses were first brought out Mr. __... Figgs looked uneasy, and made some mysteri- __ ous remarks about walking. He thought such = nags were an imposition. He vowed they could go faster on foot. On foot! The others scout-, i-!: ed the idea. Absurd! Perhaps he wasn't used._ _k ~i- = to such beasts. Never mind. He mustn't be proud. Mr. Figgs, however, seemed to have i reasons which were strictly private, and an- nounced his intention of walking. But the others would not hear of such a thing. They insisted. They forced him to mount. This. Mr. Figgs at length accomplished, though he got up on the wrong side, and nearly pulled his hqrse over backward by pulling at the curbrein, shouting all the time, in tones of agony, "Who-a!" At length they all set out, and, with few interruptions, arrived at a place half-way up the mountain called The Hermitage. Here they XN rested, and leaving their horses behind, walked on over a barren region to the foot of the cone. All around was the abomination of desolation. Craggy rocks, huge, disjointed masses of shattered lava-blocks, cooled off into the most grotesque shapes, mixed with ashes, scorine, and pumice-stones. The cone towered frowningly I above their heads. Looking up, the aspect was not enticing. A steep slope ran up for an immense distance till it touched the smoky canopy. I THE ASCENT OF VWSi US. THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 41 up, pulled by the panting guides. Three stout there at anchor, and in full sail. Over all was men in front-two others boosting from behind. a sky such as is seen only in Italy, with a depth A long description might be given of this re- of blue, which, when seen in paintings, seems markable ascent. How Mr. Figgs aggravated to the inexperienced eye like an exaggeration. the guides almost beyond endurance by mere The guides drew their attention from all this force of inertia. Having committed himself to beauty to a solid fact. This was the cooking them he did it thoroughly, and not by one single of an egg by merely burying it in the hot sand act of exertion did he lessen their labor. They for a few minutes. pulled, pushed, and shouted; then they rested; Buttons now proposed to go down into the then they rose again to pull, to push, to shout, crater. The guides looked aghast. and to rest as before; then they implored him " Why not?" in the most moving terms to do something to "Impossible, Signor. It's death." help them, to put one foot before the other, to "Death? Nonsense! come along and show brace himself firmly-in short, to do any thing. us the way." In vain. Mr. Figgs didn't understand a "The way? There is no way. No one word. He was unmovable. Then they threat- ever dares to go down. Where can we go to? ened to drop himn and leave him half-way. The Do you not see that beyond that point where threat was disregarded. Mr. Figgs sat on a the rock projects it is all a precipice?" stone while they rested and smiled benignantly "That point? Well, that is the very spot I at them. At last, maddened by his impassi- wish to go to. Come along." bility, they screamed at him and at one an- "Never, Signor." other with furious gesticulations, and then tear- "Then I'll go." ing off the straps, they hurried up the slope, "Don't. For the sake of Icaven, and in the leaving him on the middle of the mount to take name of the most Holy Mother, of St. Peter in care of himself. chains, of all the blessed Apostles and Martyrs, It might be told how the Senator toiled up the glorious Saints and-" slowly but surely, never stopping till he had "Blessed Botheration," cried Buttons, abruptgained the summit; or how Buttons, who ar- ly turning his back and preparing to descend. rived there first, spent the time in exploring "Are you in earnest, Buttons?" asked Dick. the mysteries of this elevated region; or how "Are you really going down?" Dick stopped every twenty paces to rest and "Certainly." smoke; how he consumed much time and "Oh, then I'll go too." much tobacco; and how he did not gain the Upon this the others warned, rebuked, threatsummit until twenty minutes after the serene ened, remonstrated, and begged. Invain. The face of the Senator had confronted the terrors Senator interposed the authority of years and of the crater. wisdom. But to no purpose. NVith much Before these three there was a wonderful anxiety he sat on the edge of the crater, lookscene. Below them lay the steep sides of the ing for the result and expecting a tragedy. cone, a waste of hideous ruain- The slope down which they ventured was " Rocks, crags, and mounds confusedly hurled, covered with loose sand. At each step the l'lhe fragments of a ruined world." treacherous soil slid beneath them. It was a Before them was the crater, a vast abyss, the mad and highly reprehensible undertaking. bottom of which was hidden from sight by dense Nevertheless down they went-further and furclouds of sulphurous smoke which forever as- ther. The kind heart of the Senator felt a pang cezded. Far away on the other side rose the at every step. His voice sounded mournfully.opposite wall of the abyss-black, rocky cliffs through the rolling smoke that burst through a that rose precipitously upward. The side on million crevices, and at times hid the adventwhich they stood sloped down at a steep angle urers from view. But down they went. Somefor a few hundred feet, and then went abruptly times they slid fearfully. Then they would downward. A mighty wind was blowing and wait and cautiously look around. Sometimes the carried all the smoke away to the opposite side vapors covered them with such dense folds that of the crater, so that by getting down into the they had to cover their faces. shelter of a rock they were quite comfortable. "If they ain't dashed to pieces they'll be sufThe view of the country that lay beneath was focated-sure!" cried the Senator, starting up, superb. There lay Naples with its suburbs, and unable to control his feelings. "I can't extending for miles along the shore, with Por- stand this," he muttered, and he too stepped tici, Castellamare, and the vale of Sorrento. down. There rose the hills of Baix, the rock of Ischia, The guides looked on in horror. "Your and the Isle of Capri. There lay countless blood will be on your own heads!" they cried. vineyards, fields forever green, groves of orange As the Senator descended the smoke entered and fig-trees, clusters of palms and cypresses. his eyes, mouth, and nostrils, making him cough Mountains ascended all around, with many and sneeze fearfully. The sand slid; the heat heights crowned with castles or villages. There under the surface pained his feet; every step lay the glorious Bay of Naples, the type of per- made it worse. However, he kept on bravely. feet beauty. Hundreds of white sails dotted At length he reached the spot where the others the intense blue of its surface. Ships were were standing. 42 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX....._ ] -!" 7~. ~ ziEd TILC DESCENT OF VLSUVIUS. At the foot of the declivity was an angular of blackest smoke in thick clouds which rolled rock which jutted out for about twelve feet. It up the flinty cliffs and reaching the summit was about six feet wide. Its sides went down bounded fiercely out into the sky to pass on and precipitously. The Senator walked painfully be seen from afar as that dread pennant of Veto where they were standing. It was a fearful suvius which is the sign and symbol of its masscene. All around arose the sides of the crater, tery over the earth around it and the inhabitblack and rocky, perpendicular on all sides, ex- ants thereof ever changing and in all its changes cept the small slope dozwn which they had just watched with awe by fearful men who read in dcscended-a vast and gloomy circumference. those changes their own fate now taking heart BtL the most terrific sight lay beneath. as they see it more tenuous in its consistency The sides of the crater went sheer down to a anon shuddering as they see it gathering in great depth enclosing a black abyss which in the denser folds and finally awe-stricken and all first excitement of the scene the startled fancy overcome as they see the thick black cloud rise might well imagine extending to the bowels of proudly up to heaven in a long straight colthe earth from which there came rolling up vast umn at whose upper termination the colossal clouds dense black sulphurous which at times pillar spreads itself out and shows to the startcompletely encircled them shutting out every led gaze the dread symbol of the cypress tree thing fiom view filling eyes nose mouth with the herald of earthquakes eruptions and — fumes of brimstone forcing them to hold the - There-I flatter myself that in the way tails of their coats or the skirts it's all the of description it would not be easy to beat the same over their faces so as not to be altogether above. I just throw it off as my fiiend Titsuffocated while again after a while a fierce marsh, poor fellow, once said, to show what I blast of wind driving downward would hurl the could do if I tried. I have decided not to put smoke away and dashing it against the other punctuation marks there, but rather to let each side of the crater gather it up in dense volumes reader supply them for himself. They are oft THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 43 en in the way, particularly to the writer, when they knew that the neighborhood of Vesuvius he has to stop in the full flow of a description was not always the safest in the world, they all and insert them- went back at once to search after him. But- Arriving at the foot of the cone they went We left our friends down in the crater of Ye- everywhere shouting his name. There was no suvius. Of course they hurried out as soon as response. They skirted the base of the cone. they could, and mounting the treacherous steep They walked up to where he had been. They they soon regained the summit, where the guides saw nothing. The guides who had thus far had stood bawling piteously all the time. been with them now said they had to go. So Then came the descent. It was not over the they received their pay and departed. lava blocks, but in another place, which was " Of all the mean, useless, chicken-hearted covered with loose sliding sand. Away they dolts that ever I see," said the Senator, " they started. are the wust!" Buttons ahead, went with immense strides But meanwhile there was no Figgs. They down the slope. At every step the sliding sand began to feel anxious. At last Buttons, who carried him about ten feet further, so that each had been up to where Mr. Figgs was left, step was equal to about twenty feet. It was thought he saw traces of footsteps in the sand like flying. But it was attended by so many that was nearest. He followed these for some falls that the descent of Buttons and Dick was time, and at last shouted to the others. The accomplished as much by sliding and rolling as others went to where he was. They saw an by walking. Italian with him-an ill-looking, low-browed The Senator was more cautious. Having rascal, with villain stamped on every feature. fallen once or twice, he tried to correct this "This fellow says he saw a man who antendency by walking backward. Whenever he swers the description of Figgs go over in that found himself falling he would let himself go, direction," said Buttons, pointing toward the part and thus, on his hands and knees, would let of the mountain which is furthest from the himself slide for a considerable distance. This sea. plan gave him immense satisfaction. "There? What for?" " It's quite like coasting," said he, after he "I don't know." had reached the bottom; " only it does come a "Is there any danger?" little hard on the trowsers." "I think so-Figgs may have had to goOn their arrival at the Hermitage to their who knows?" surprise they saw nothing of Mr. Figgs. The "Well," said the Senator, "we must go after Doctor had been sleeping all the time, but the him." landlord said lie had not been that way. As "What arms have you?" said the Doctor. "Don't show it before this rascal." ~...-_- ___",:,,, I have a bowie-knife," said Buttons.....'< " So have I," said Dick. ]]li,// ),, "And I, " om, said the Senator, "am sorry to say that I have nothing at all." ~~~/'x'q'j il~1111~ ~ l1I/,i/( "Well, I suppose we must go," said the Doe~~~/~ ~ ~ ~~,/' tor.'My revolver is something. It is a dou-,/ -i-i 1 8,lii il ble revolver, of peculiar shape." Without any other thought they at once prev pared to venture into a district that for all they knew might swarm with robbers. They had only one thought, and that was to save Figgs. "Can this man lead us?" asked Dick. L "He says he can take us along where he saw Figgs go, and perhaps we may see some people who can tell us about him." f |" k for the three weeks. Your bill for eighteen is a cheat. I throw it away. Behold!" i And Buttons, tearing the paper into twenty fragments, scattered them over the floor. " Ah!" cried Dolores, standing before him, < —' ~ 1' with her arms folded, and her face all aglow with beautiful anger; "you call it a cheat, do E you? You would like, would you not, to run off and pay nothing? That is the custom, I suppose, in America. But you can not do that in this honest country." "Signore, you may tear up fifty bills, but you must pay," said the landlord, politely. I I y "If you come to travel you should bring money enough to take you along," said Dolores. "Then I would not have to take lodgings fit only for a Sorrento beggar," said Buttons, somewhat rudely. "They are too good for an American beggar," rejoined Dolores, taking a step nearer to him, and slapping her little hands together by way of emphasis. "' Is this the maid," thought Buttons, "that il hung so tenderly on my arm at the masquerade? the sweet girl who has charmed so many even- - ings with her innocent mirth? Is this the fair TWO PIASTRES! young creature who-" "' Are you going to pay, or do you think you carline for the whole three weeks. I am can keep us waiting forever?" cried the fair ashamed of you. I will not consent." young creature, impatiently and sharply. "How much will you give?" said the land" No more than six piastres," replied Buttons. lord, once more, without heeding his daughter. " Be reasonable, Signore. Be reasonable," "Six piastres," said Buttons. said the landlord, with a conciliatory smile; "Impossible!" " and above all, be calm-be calm. Let us "When I came here I took good care to have no contention. I feel that these honor- have it understood. You distinctly said two able American gentlemen have no wish but to piastres per week. You may find it very conact justly," and he looked benignantly at his venient to forget. I find it equally convenient family. to remember." "I wish I could feel the same about these "Try-try hard, and perhaps you will reItalians," said Buttons. member that we offered to take nothing. Oh "You will soon feel that these Italians are yes, nothing-absolutely nothing. Couldn't determined to have their due," said Dolores. think of it," said Dolores, with a multitude of "They shall have their due and no more." ridiculous but extremely pretty gestures, that "Come, Buttons," said Dick, in Italian, "let made the little witch charming even in her rasus leave this old rascal." cality.-" Oh yes, nothing "-a shrug of the " Old rascal?" hissed Dolores, rushing up shoulders —" we felt so honored "-spreading toward Dick as though she would tear his eyes out her hands and bowing.-" A great Ameriout, and %tamping her little foot. "Old ras- can!-a noble foreigner!"-folding her arms, cal! Ah, piccolo Di-a-vo-lo!" and strutting up and down.-" Too much hap*" Come," said the landlord; "I have affec- piness!"-here her voice assumed a tone of most tion for you. I wish to satisfy you. I have absurd sarcasm. —" We wanted to entertain always tried to satisfy and please you." them all the rest of our lives for nothing "-a "The ungratefulones!" said Dolores. "Have ridiculous grimace-" or perhaps your sweet we not all been as friendly to them as we never conversation has been sufficient pay-ha?" and iwere before? And now they try like vipers to she pointed her little rosy taper finger at Butsting us." tons as though she would transfix him. "Peace, Dolores," said the landlord, majes- Buttons sighed. "Dolores!" said he, "I tically. "Let us all be very friendly. Come, always thought you were my friend. I didn't good American gentlemen, let us have peace. think that you would turn against me." " What now will you pay?" "Ah, infamous one! and foolish too! Did " Stop!" cried Dolores. " Do you bargain? you think that I could ever help you to cheat Why, they will try and make you take a half- my poor parents? Was this the reason why 52 \ THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. you sought me? Dishonest one! I am only sider the American the same flesh and blood. an innocent girl, but I can understand your vil- They believe that "le bogues " is a necessary lainy." part of the education of the whole Anglo-Saxon "I think you understand a great many race, careful parents among that people being things," said Buttons, mournfully. intent upon three things for their children, to "And to think that one would seek my wit: friendship to save his money!" (1.) To eat Rosbifand Biftek, but especially Buttons turned away. "Suppose I stayed the former. here three weeks longer, how much would you (2.) To use certain profane expressions, by charge?" he asked the landlord. which the Continental can always tell the AnThat worthy opened his eyes. His face glo-Saxon. brightened. (3.) To STRIKE FRIOM TIIE SIIOULDEIR!! "'Three weeks longer? Ah-I-Well- Consequently, when Buttons, followed by Perhaps-" Dick, advanced to the door, the landlord and "Stop!" cried Dolores, placing her hand the "brave soldier " slipped aside, and actually over her father's mouth —" not a word. Don't allowed them to pass. you understand? He don't want to stay three Not so Dolores. minutes longer. He wants to get you into a She tried to hound her relatives on; she new bargain, and cheat you." stormed; she taunted them; she called them "Ah!" said the landlord, with a knowing cowards; she even went so far as to run after wink. "But, my child, you are really too Buttons and seize his valise. Whereupon that harsh. You must not mind her, gentlemen. young gentleman patiently waited without a She's only a willful young girl-a spoiled child word till she let go her hold. He then went -a spoiled child." on his way. "Her language is a little strong," said But- Arriving at the foot of the stairway he looktons, " but I don't mind what she says." ed back. There was the slender form of the " You may deceive my poor, kind, simple, young girl quivering with rage. honest, unsuspecting father," said she, "but ";Addio, Dolores!" in the most mournful of you can't deceive me." voices. I"Probably not." "Scelerato!" was the response, hissed out "Buttons, hadn't we better go?" said Dick; from the prettiest of lips. " squabbling here won't benefit us." The next morning the Dodge Club left Na"Well," said Buttons, slowly, and with a ples. lingering look at Dolores. _ But as Dolores saw them stoop to take their valises she sprang to the door-way. "They're going! They're going!" she cried. "And they will rob us. Stop them." " Signore," said Buttons, "here are six piastres. I leave them on the table. You will =, get no more. If you give me any trouble I will summon you before the police for conspiracy against a traveller. You can't cheat me. You need not try." So saying, he quietly placed the six piastres on the table, and advanced toward the door. t Signore! Signore!" cried the landlord and he put himself in his way. At a sign from Dolores the big dragoon came also, and put I himself behind her. "You shall not go," she cried. "You shall i Mver pass through this door till you pay." "Who is going to stop us?" said Buttons. __ ~ "My father, and this brave soldier Who isarmed," said Dolores, in a voice to which she tried to give a terrific emphasis. "Then I beg leave to say this much," said Buttons; and hlie looked with blazing eyes full in the face of the "Ibrave soldier." II"I am not a'brave soldier,' and I am not armed; but my friend and I have paid our bills, and we are going through that door. If you dare to lay! so much as the weight of your finger on me I'll show you how a man can use his fists." -- Now the Continentals have a great and a " wholesome dread of the English fist, and con- TUHE BRaVE sOLDI,. THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 53 CHAPTER XVI. at last, just in the nick of time, he came across a dead whale. DICK RELATES A FAMILY LEGEND. "It was floating bottom upward, covered "DICK," said the Senator, as they rolled over with barnacles of very large size indeed; and the road, " spin a yarn to beguile the time." where his fins projected there were two little Dick looked modest. coves, one on each side. Into the one on the The rest added their entreaties. lee-side he ran his boat, of which there was "Oh, well," said Dick, " since you're so very nothing left but the stem and stern and two urgent it would be unbecoming to refuse. A side planks. story? Well, what? I will tell you about my "My grandfather looked upon the whale as maternal grandfather. an island. It was a very nice country to one "My maternal grandfather, then, was once who had been so long in a boat, though a little out in Hong Kong, and had saved up a little monotonous. The first thing that he did was money. As the climate did not agree with to erect the banner of his country, of which he him he thought he would come home; and at happened to have a copy on his pocket-handlength an American ship touched there, on board kerchief; which he did by putting it at the end of which he went, and he saw a man in the of an oar and sticking it in the ground, or the galley; so my grandfather stepped up to him flesh, whichever you please to call it. He then and asked him: took an observation, and proceeded to make "' Are you the mate?' himself a house, which he did by whittling up "'No. I'm the man that boils the mate,' the remains of the long-boat, and had enough said the other, who was also an Irishman. left to make a table, a chair, and a boot-jack. "So he had to go to the cabin, where he So here he stayed, quite comfortable, for fortyfound the captain and mate writing out clear- three days and a half, taking observations all ance papers for the custom-house. the time with great accuracy; and at the end "' Say, captain, will you cross the sea to of that time all his house was gone, for he had plow the raging main?' asked my grandfather. to cut it up for fuel to cook his meals, and noth"'Oh, the ship it is ready and the wind is ing was left but half of the boot-jack and the fair to plow the raging main!' said the captain. oar which served to uphold the banner of his Of course my grandfather at once paid his fare country. At the end of this time a ship came without asking credit, and the amount was three up. hundred and twenty-seven dollars thirty-nine "The men of the ship did not know what on cents. earth to make of this appearance on the water, "' Well, they set sail, and after going ever where the American flag was flying. So they so many thousand miles, or hundred-I forget bore straight down toward it. which, but it don't matter-a great storm arose, "' I see a sight across the sea, hi ho cheerly a typhoon or simoon, perhaps both; and after men!' remarked the captain to the mate, in a slowly gathering up its energies for the spact confidential manner. of twenty-nine days, seven hours, and twenty- "'Methinks it is my own countrie, hi ho three minutes, without counting the seconds, it cheerly men!' rejoined the other, quietly. burst upon them at exactly forty-two minutes "'It rises grandly o'er the brine, hi ho cheerpast five, on the sixth day of the week. Need ly men!' said the captain. I say that day was Friday? Now my grand- "'And bears aloft our own ensign, hi ho father saw all the time how it was going to end; cheerly men!' said the mate. and while the rest were praying and shrieking "As the ship came up my grandfather placed he had cut the lashings of the ship's long-boat both hands to his mouth in the shape of a speakand stayed there all the time, having put on ing-trumpet, and cried out:' Ship ahoy across board the nautical instruments, two or three the wave, with a way-ay-ay-ay-ayv! Storm fish-hooks, a gross of lucifer matches, and a along!' sauce-pan. At last the storm struck the ship, " To which the captain of the ship respondas I have stated, and at the first crack away ed through his trumpet:' Tis I, my messmate went the vessel to the bottom, leaving my grand- bold and brave, with a way-ay-ay-ay-ay! Storm father floating alone on the surface of the along." ocean. "At this my grandfather inquired:'WVhat "My grandfather navigated the long-boat vessel are you gliding on? Pray tell to me its fifty-two days, three hours, and twenty minutes name.' by the ship's chronometer; caught plenty of " And the captain replied:' Our bark it is a fish with his fish-hooks; boiled sea-water in his whaler bold, and Jones the captain's name.' sauce-pan, and boiled all the salt away, making " Thereupon the captain came on board the his fire in the bottom of the boat, which is a whale, or on shore, whichever you like-I don't very good place, for the fire can't burn through know which, nor does it matter-he came, at without touching the water, which it can't burn; any rate. My grandfather shook hands with and finding plenty of fuel in the boat, which he him and asked him to sit down. But the capgradually dismantled, taking first the thole-pins, tain declined, saying he preferred standing. then the seats, then the taffrail, and so on. This "' Well,' said my grandfather,'I called on sort of thing, though, could not last forever, and you to see if you would like to buy a whale.' 54 TIlE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. IUYING A WHALE. "Wa'al, yes, I don't mind. I'm in that line " To which the end was: myself.' "'Wa'al, what'll you take?' "' What'll you give for it?' "' What'll you give?' "' What'll you take for it?' r give?' give?' "' What'll you give?' o take' take?' "' What'll you take ] give?' give?' "' What'll you give?' 1 take?' take?' "'What'll you take?' "' Well,' said my grandfather,'I don't know I g?give?' give as I care about trading after all. I think I'll'What'll you take?' take?' wait till the whaling fleet comes along. I've give?' give?' been waiting for them for some time, and they [ take?' take?' ought to be here soon.' "Twenty-five minutes were taken up in the "'You're not in the right track,' said Caprepetition of this question, for neither wished to tain Jones. commit himself. "' Yes, I am.' "' Have you had any offers for it yet?' asked "' Excuse me.' Captain Jones at last. "' Ex-cuse me,' said my grandfather.'I "'Wa'al, no; can't say that I have.' took an observation just before you came in "'I'll give as much as any bodv.' sight, and I am in lat. 470 22' 20", long. 1500'How much?' 1' 55".' "' What'll you take?' "Captain Jones's face fell. My grandfather i''What'll you give?' poked him in the ribs and smiled. "'What'll you take?' "'I'll tell you what I'll do, as I don't care, "' What'll you give?' after all, about waiting here. It's a little damp, "' What'll you take?' and I'm subject to rheumatics. I'll let you have (give?' give?' the whole thing if you give me twenty-five per " Vhat'll | tatake?' take?' cent, of the oil after it's barreled, barrels and all.' give?' give?' "The captain thought for a moment. take take?' "'You drive a close bargain.' "Then my grandfather, after a long delib- "' Of course.' eration, took the captain by the arm and led "'Well, it'll save a voyage, and that's some. him all around, showing him the country, as thing.' one may say, enlarging upon the fine points, "' Something! Bless your heart! ain't that and doing as all good traders are bound to do every thing?' when they find themselves face to face with a "'Well, I'll agree. Come on board, and customer. we'll make out the papers.' THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 55 "So my grandfather went on board, and they "And she caught him in her arms. made out the papers; and the ship hauled up "Here endeth the first part of my grandfaalongside of the whale, and they went to work ther's adventures, but he had many more, good cutting, and slashing, and hoisting, and burn- and bad; for he was a remarkable man, though ing, and boiling, and at last, after ever so long a I say it; and if any of you ever want to hear time - I don't remember exactly how long — more about him, which I doubt, all you've got the oil was all secured, and my grandfather, in to do is to say so. But perhaps it's just as well a few months afterward, when he landed at to let the old gentleman drop, for his adventNantucket and made inquiries, sold his share ures were rather strange; but the narration of the oil for three thousand nine hundred and of them is not very profitable, not that I go in fifty-six dollars fifty-six cents, which he at once for the utilitarian theory of conversation; but I invested in business in New Bedford, and start- think, on the whole, that, in story-telling, ficed off to Pennsylvania to visit his mother. The tion should be preferred to dull facts like these, old lady didn't know him at all, he was so and so the next time I tell a story I will make changed by sun, wind, storm, hardship, sickness, one up." fatigue, want, exposure, and other things of The Club had listened to the story with the that kind. She looked coldly on him. gravity which should be manifested toward one "' Who are you?' who is relating family matters. At its close the "' Don't you know?' Senatorprepared to speak. He cleared his throat: "' No.' "Ahem! Gentlemen of the Club! our ad"'Think.' ventures, thus far, have not been altogether "' Iave you a strawberry on your arm? n' contemptible. We have a President and a Sec"' No.' retary; ought we not also to have a Recording "'Then-you are-you are-You ARE-my Secretary-a Ilistorian?" own-my long-lost son!' "Ay!" said all, very earnestly. "Who, then, shall it be?" All looked at Dick. al_ "I see there is but one feeling among us all," said the Senator. "Yes, Richard, you - I aare the man. Your gift of language, your fancy, *a —-1-tt t 6< | t ES 96 | If) your modesty, your fluency- But I spare you. Kii~l~ [I ~, t M i - { From this time forth you know your duty.", Overcome by this honor, Dick was compelled to bow his thanks in silence and hide his blushing face. " And now," said Mr. Figgs, eagerly,' I want to hear the Higgins Story!" - The Doctor turned frightfully pale. Dick ~ | twi 4 5 - - t | [began to fill his pipe. The Senator looked I earnestly out of the window. Buttons looked at the ceiling. _ What's the matter?" said Mr. Figgs. ~ i "'What?" asked Buttons. / "The Higgins Story?" /'s lThe Doctor started to his feet. His excite-'I ] ment was wonderful. He clenched his fist. "I'll quit! I'm going back. I'll join you at Rome by another route. I'll —" "'I'i No, you won't!" said Buttons; for on a ijourney like this it would be absurd to begin the Higgins Story."'"Pooh!" said Dick, " it would require nineteen days at least to get through the introductory part." "When, then, can I hear it?" asked Mr. THE LONG-LOST SON. Figgs, in perplexity. tK~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~i....: -:~.r.t.=.- i~.~:..... ~'?~~~~~~( - -- -.. C,~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~c on 0 ~ % ~c... 6... e5 r,, o ISG Ijrr, u -, E Z c~ C3~~~~~~~~ ~~~ O 93 d Q *I; t~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~z ZZ - % J \\'Y i an Operas, how many there are which are truly Ameri-1 can in their extravagance their broad humor, their glorious and uproarious jol - __ lity! The words are trash.~ The melodies are every Thing. melodies touched the-hearts of the listeners. American life -rose before them as they listened. American life-free, boundless, exuberant, broadly-developing, self - asserting, gaining its characteristics from the boundless extent of its home-a continental \~- life of limitless variety. As ~IMT~_1 mournful as the Scotch,; as OiD VIGNY reckless as the Irish; as solemnly patriotic as the English. Yankee Doodle has never received justice. "Listen!" cried the Senator, in wild excite- It is a tune without words. What are the recment. ognized words? Nonsense unutterable - the It was "IHail Columbia." sneer of a British officer. But the tune!-ah, "The Pincian Hill," said the Senator, with that is quite ante tig deep solemnity, "Iis glorified from this time The tune wvas from the very first taken to the forth and for evermore. It has gained a new national heart, and has -never ceased to be chercharm. The Voice of Freedom hath made it- ished there. The Republic has grown to be a self heard!" very different thing from that weak beginning, The others, though less demonstrative, were but its national air is as popular as ever. The no less delighted. Then came another, better people do not merely love it. They glory in it. yet. "The Star-Spangled Banner." And yet apologies are sometimes made for it. "4There!' cried the Senator, "1is our true By whom? By the soulless dilettante. The, national anthem-the commemoration of nation- people know better:-the farmers, the mechanal triumph; the grand upsoaring of the victori- ics, the fishermen, the dry-goods clerks, the eus American Eagle as it wings its everlasting newsboys, the railway stokers, the butchers, flight through the blue empyrean away np to the bakers, the candlestick-makers, the tinkers, the eternal stars!" the tailors, the soldiers, the sailors. Why? He buirst into tears; the ethers respected his Because this music has a voice of i ts own, more emotioiL expressive than words; the language of the Then he wiped his eyes and looked ashamed soul, which speaks forth in certain melodies of himself-quite uselessly-for it is a mistake wvhich form an utterance of unutterable passion. to suppose that tears are unmanly. Unmanly! The name was pprhaps given in ridicule. It The manliest of men may sometimes shed tears wvas accepted with pride. The air is rash, reckout of his very manhood. less, gay, triumphant, noisy, boisterous, careAt last there arose a magic strain that pro- less, heedless, rampant, raging, roaring, rattleduced an effect to which the former was noth- brainish, devil - may. care-ish, plague- take -theing. It was "Yankee Doodle!" hindmost-ish; but! solemn, stern, hopeful, resThe Senator did not speak. He could not olute, fierce, menacing, strong, cantankerous find words. He turned his eyes first upon one, (cantankerous is entirely an American idea), and then another of his companions; eyes beam- bold, daringing, with joy aad triumph- eyes that sheowed Words fail. emotion arising straight from a patriot's heart Yankee Doodle has not yet received its Doo! -eyes which seemed to say: Is there any sound The Senator had smiled, laughed, sighed, on earth or above the earth that can equal this? wept, gone through many variations of feeling. 62 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. lie had thrown baiocchi till his pockets were ex- CHAPTER XXII. hausted, and then handed forth silver. HIe had (HO A BARGAIN IS MADE.-THE WILES OF THE shaken hands with all his companions ten times ITALIAN TRADESMAN. - THE NAKED SULKY over. They themselves went not quite as far BEGGAR, AND THE JOVIAL WELL-CLAD BEGin feeling as he, but yet to a certain extent they GAR.-WHO IS HE KING OF BEGGARS? went in. "WHAT are you thinking about, Buttons?" And yet Americans are thought to be practi- Well, Dick, to tell the truth, I have been cal, and not ideal. Yet here was a true Amer- thinki that if I do find the Spaniards they ican who was intoxicated-drunk! By what? won't have reason to be particularly proud of By sound, notes, harmony. By music! me as a companion. Look at me." "Buttons," said he, as the music ceased and "I look, and to be frank, my dear boy, I the Italian prepared to make his bow and quit must say that you look more shabby-genteel the scene," I must make that gentleman's ac- than otherwise. quaintance." "That's the result of travelling on one suit Buttons walked up to the organ-grinder of clothes-without considering fighting. oI "Be my interpreter," said the Senator. "In- give up my theory. troduce me." Give it up, then, and come out as a butter"What's your name?" asked Buttons. fly. "Maffeo Cloto."Friend of m soul, the die is cast. Come "' From where?" forth with me and seek a cloting-store." " Urbino." It was not difficult to find one. They en" Were you ever in America?" tered the first one that they saw. The polite "No, Signore." Roman overwhelmed them with attention. "What does he say?" asked the Senator, im- Show me a coat, Signore." patiently. Signore sprang nimly at the shelves and "He says his name is Mr. Cloto, and he was brought down every coat in his store. Buttons never in America." picked out one that suited his fancy, and tried "H tow did you get these tunes?" it on. "Out of my organ," said the Italian, grin- What is te price ning. With a profusion of explanation and descrip" Of course; but how did you happen to get tion the Roman informed him: "Forty piasan organ with such tunes?" tres. "I bought it." I'll give you twelve," said Buttons, quietly. "Oh yes; but how did you happen to buy The Italian smiled, put his head on one side, one with these tunes?" -drew down the corners of his mouth, and threw "For youiillustrious American Signore. You up his shoulders. This is the shrug. The all like to hear them." shrug requires special attention. The shrug is "Do you know any thing about the tunes?" a gesture used by the Latin race for expressing "Signore?" a multitude of things, both objectively and sub"Do you know what tile words are?" jectively. It is a language of itself. It is, as "Oh no. I am an Italian." circumstances require, a noun, adverb, pronoun, "I suppose you make money out of them." verb, adjective, preposition, inteijection, con"I make more in a day with these than I junction. Yet it does not supersede thespoken iould in a week with other tunes." language. It comes in rather when spoken "You lay up money, I suppose." words are useless, to convey intensity of mean"Oh yes. In two years I will retire and let ing or delicacy. It is not taught, but it is my younger brother play here." learned. "These tunes?" The coarser, or at least blunter, Teutonic "Yes, Signore." race have not cordially adopted this mode of "To Americans?" human intercommunication. The advantage ~'Yes, Signore." of tile shrug is that in one slight gesture it con"What is it all?" asked the Senator. tains an amount of meaning which otherwise "He says that he finds he makes money by would require many words. A good shrugger playing American tunes to ~Lmericans." in Italy is admired, just as a good conversation"Hm," said the Senator, with some displeas- ist is in England, or a good stump orator in ure; "and he has no soul then to see tile-the America. When the mercilant shrugged, Butbeauty, the sentiment, the grandeur of his vo- tons understood him and said: cation! " "You refuse? Then Igo. Behold me!" "INot a bit-lie only goes in for money." "1Ah, Signore, how can you tilus endeavor to The Senator turned away in disgust. "6Yan- take advantage of the necessities of the poor?" kee Doodle," he murmured, "ought of itself to "inrIms u codn om bl have a refining and converting influence on the ity." European mind; but it is too debased-yes- The Italian laughed long and quietly. The yes-too debased." idea of an Englishman or American not having much money was an exquisite piece of humor. "Go not, Signore. Wait a little. Let me THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 63, 1~ ~They obeyed. The Italian folded the coat! o | —- neatly, tied it carefully, stroked the parcel tenderly, and with a meek yet sad smile handed it S i — - 1, to Buttons. There-only sixteen piastres." j Buttons had taken out his purse. At this he hurriedly replaced it, with an air of vexation. "I can only give twelve." Oh, Signore, be generous. Think of my struggles, my expenses, my family. You il -4. W W W ilk//} not force me to lose." / | |;- i anthr"I would scorn to force you to any thing, ~~ and therefore I will depart." | | 0 | | - _ S~~II"Stop, Signore," cried the Italian, detaining ~| 11 E i ~~~them at the door. "I consent. You may take it for fourteen." "For Heaven's sake, Buttons, take it," said Dick, whose patience was now completely xhausted. "Take it.":Z X 11;. "Twelve," said Buttons. "Let me pay the extra two dollars, for my own peace of mind," said Dick. "Nonsense, Dick. It's the principle of the alS k P P 1 ~ tiling. As a member of the Dodge Club, too, I could not give more." ~2s ~~'11 ~ j ~"Thirteen, good Signore mine," said the Italian piteously. "My friend, I have given my word that I..~i' v _~ ~would pay only twelve." THlE SIIHUG. "Your word? Your pardon, but towhom?" "To you." dore garments. Behold this, and this. "Oh, then, how gladly I release you from 11You shall have many of my goods for twelve your word!" rpiastres Twelve, Signore, or I go." "No, Signore; I must have this, or I will III can not." have none." Buttons turned away. They walked along "You are very hard, Signore. Think of my the street, and at length arrived at another necessities. Think of the pressure of this pres- clothier's. Just as they stepped in a hand was cut war, which we poor miserable tradesmen laid on Buttons's shoulder, and a voice cried feel most of all." out" Then addio, Signore; I must depart." "ITake it! Take it, Signore!" They went out and walked six paces. "Ali! I thought so! Twelve?" "P-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-t!" (Another little idea "Twelve." of the Latin race. It is a much more penetrat- Buttons paid the money and directed where ing sound than a loud Hallo! Ladies can use it should be sent. He found out afterward that it. Children too. This would be worth im- the price which an Italian gentleman would porting to America.) pay was about ten piastres. IIP-s-s-s-s-s-s-S-s-s-t!" There is no greater wonder than the p~atient Buttons and Dick turned. The Italian stood waiting of an Italian tradesman in pursuit of a smiling and bowing and beckoning. bargain. The flexibility of the Italian conl"Take it for twenty-four piastres." science and imagination under such circum"No, Signore; I can only pay twelve." stances is truly astonishing. With a gesture of ruffled dignity the shop- Dress makes a difference. The very expreskeeper withdrew. Again they turned away. sion of the face changes when one has passed They had scarcely gone ten paces before the from shabbiness into'eclegance. After Buttons shop-keeper was after them: had dressed himself in his gay attire his -next "A thousand pardons. But Ihave concluded thought was what to do with his old clothes. to take twenty." "ICome and let us dispose of them." "No; twelve, an d n o more." "Dispose of them! "But think, Signore; -only think." "9Oh, I mean get rid of them. I saw a man "I do think, my friend; I do think." crouching in a corner nearly naked as I came "Say eighteen." up. Let us go and see if we can find him. I'd "No, Signore." like to try the effect." "Seventeen." They went to the place where the man had "Twelve." been seen. He was there still. A young man, "Here. Come back with me." in excellent health, brown, muscular, lithe. He E ~64 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. had an old coverlet around his loins-that was I CHAPTER XXIIL al.Ielooked up sulkily. looked p sulkily. I THE MANIFOLD LIFE OF THE CAFE NUOVO AND Are vou not cold? HOW THEY RECEIVED THE NEWS ABOUT MAGEN"No," he blurted out, and turned away. TA.- EXCITEMENT. -ENTHUSIASM.-TEARS."A boor," said Dick. "Don't throw away EMBRACES. your charity on him." ALL modern Rome lives in the Caf Nuovo. Look here." It was once a palace. Lofty ceilings, glitterThe man looked up lazily. ing walls, marble pavements, countless tables, Do you want some clothes?" luxurious couches, immense mirrors; all dazzle No reply. the eye. The hubbub is immense, the confu "I've got some here, and perhaps will give sion overpowering. them to you." The European mode of life is not bad. LodgThe man scrambled to his feet. ings in roomy apartments, where one sleeps and Confound the fellow!" said Dick. "If he attends to one's private affairs; meals altogethdon't want them let's find some one who does." er at the cafe. There one invites one's friends. Look here," said Buttons. No delay with dinner; no badly-cooked dishes; He unfolded his parcel. The fellow looked no stale or sour bread; no timid, overworn indifferently at the things. wife trembling for the result of new experiments Here, take this," and he offered the panta- in housekeeping. On the contrary, one has: ~~~~~~~~loons. prompt meals; exquisite food; delicious bread; The Italian took them and slowly put them polite waiters; and happy wife, with plenty of on. This done, he stretched himself and yawned. leisure at home to improve mind and adorn Take this." body. It was his vest. The first visit which the Club paid to the The man took the vest and put it on with Cafd Nuovo was an eventful one. News ad equal sang froid. Again he yawned and just been received of the great strife at Magenta. stretched himself. Every one was wild. The two Galignai's ad Here's a coat." been appropriated by two Italians, who. were Buttons held it out to the Italian. The fel- surrounded by forty-seven frenzied Englishmen, low took it, surveyed it closely, felt in the pock- all eager to get hold of the papers. The Italets, and examined very critically the stiffening ians obligingly tried to read the news. The of the collar. Finally he put it on. He but- wretched mangle which they made of the antoned it closely around him, and passed his fin- guage, the impatience, the excitement, and the gers through his matted hair. Then he felt the perplexity of the audience, combined with the pockets once more. After which hie yawned splendid self-complacency of the readers, formed long and solemnly. This done, he looked ear- a strikin(, scene. nestly at Buttons and Dick. He saw that they The Italians gathered in a vast crowd in one had nothing more. Upon which he turned on of the billiard-rooms, where one of their numhis heel, and without saying a word, good or her, mounted on a table, was reading with terbad, walked off'with immense strides, turned a rifle volubility, and still more terrific gesticulacorner, and was out of sight. The two philan- tions, a private letter from a friend at Milan. thropists wvere left staring at one another. At "IBradvo! " cried all present. last they laughed. In pronouncing which wvord the Italians rolled "That man is an original," said Dick. the "Ir" so tumultuously that the only audible "Yes, and there is another," said Buttons. sound wasAs hie spoke he pointed to the flight of stone B-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-ah! steps that goes up from the Piazza di Spagna. Like the letter B in a railwvay train. Dick looked up. There sat The Beggar! The best of all was to see the French. They ANTONIO! were packed in a dense mass at the furthest exLegless, hatless, but not by any means penni- tremity of the Grand Saloon. Every oae was less, king of Roman beggars, with a European talking. Every one was describing to his reputation, unequalled in his own profession- neighbor the minute particulars of the trementhere sat the most scientific beggar that the dons contest. Old soldiers, hoarse with exworld has ever seen. citement, emulated the volubility of younger He had watched the recent proceedings, and ones. A thousand arms waved energetically in caught the glance of the young men. the air. Every one was too much interested in As they looked up his voice came clear and his own description to heed his neighbor. They sonorous through the air: were all talkers, no listeners. "10 most generous-0 most noble-0 most A few Germans were there, but they sat forillustrious youths-Draw near-Look in pity saken and neglected. Even the waiters forupon the abject-Behold legless, armless, help- sook them. So they smoked the cigars of sweet less, the beggar Antonio' forsaken of Heaven- and bitter fancy, occasionally conversing in thick,For the love of the Virgin-For the sake of the gutturals. It was evident that they considered saints -In the name of humanity -Date me the present occasion as a combined crowv of the uno mezzo baioccho-Sono poooooooooovero- whole Latin race over the German. So they Miseraaaaaaaaaabilc-Desperrrraaaaaaaado!" I looked on with impassive faces. THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. Perhaps the most stolid of all was Meinheer tell them all. It was a great sight to see. On Schatt, who smoked and sipped coffee alternate- each individual the news produced a different ly, stopping after each sip to look around with effect. Some stood still as though petrified; mild surprise, to stroke his forked heard, and others flung up their arms and yelled; others to ejaculate- cheered; others upset tables, not knowing what "Gr-r-r-r-r-r-acious me!"they were doing; others threw themselves into Him the Sen atosw adcosewho, one another's arms, and embraced and kissed* making room for the Senator, conversed with others wept for joy:-these last were Milanese. much animation. After a time the others took Buttons was trying to find Francia. The seats n~tr themn, and formed a neutral party. rush of the excited crowd bore him away, and At this moment a small-sized gentleman with his efforts were fruitless. In fact, when he arblack twinkling eyes came rushing past, and rived at the place where that gentleman had hurst into the thick of the crowd of Frenchmen. been, he was gone. The Germans began to At the sight of him Bnttons leaped up, and look more uncomfortable than ever. At length cried: Meinheer Schatt proposed that they should all "There's Francia! I'll catch him now!" go in a body to the Cafd Scacehi. So they all Francia shouted a few words which set the left. Frenchmen wild. - " The Allies have entered Milan! A dispatch has jnst arrived 1" CHAPTER XXIV. There burst a shrill yell of triumph from the CHECKMATE! insane Frenchmen. There was a wild rushing THiE Cafd Scacehi, as its name implies, is deto and fro, and the crowd swayed backwvard and voted to chess. Germans patronize it to a great forward. The Italians came pouring in from extent. Politics do not enter into the precincts the other room. One word was sufficient to sacred to Caissa. 66 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. After they had been seated about an hour CHAPTER XXV. Buttons entered. He had not been able to find BUTTONS A MAN OF ONE IDEA-DICK AND HIS Francia. To divert his melancholy he proposed MEASURING TAPE-DARK EYES-SUSCEPTIBLE that Meinheer Schatt should play a game of HEART-YOUNG MAIDEN WHO LIVES OUT OF chess with the Senator. Now, chess was the TOWN-GRAND COLLISIO OF TWO ABSTRACTED Senator's hobby. He claimed to be the best LOVERS IN THE PUBLIC STREETS. player in his State. With a patronizing smile Too much blame can not be given to Buttons he consented to play with a tyro like Meinheer for his behavior at this period. He acted as Schatt. At the end of one game Meinheer though the whole motive of his existence as Schatt stroked his beard and meekly said- to find the Francias. To this he devoted his "Gr-r-r-acious me! " d and of this e dreamed at night. He deThe Senator frowned and bit his lips. He serted his friends. Left to themselves, without was checkmated. his moral influence to keep them together and Another game. Meinheer Schatt played in give aim to their efforts, each one followed his a calm, and some might say a stupid, manner. own inclination. "Gr-r-r-acious me!" Mr. Figgs spent the whole of his time in the It was a drawn game. Caf Nuovo, drawing out plans of dinners for Another: this was a very long game. The each successive day. The Doctor, after sleepSenator played laboriously. It was no use. ing till noon, lounged on the Pincian Hill till Slowly and steadily Meinheer Schatt won the evening, when he joined Mr. Figgs at dinner. game. The Senator explored every nook and corner of When he uttered his usual exclamation the Rome. At first Dick accompanied him, but Senator felt strongly inclined to throw the board gradually they diverged from one another in at his head. However, he restrained himself, different paths. The Senator visited every and they commenced another game. Much to place in the city, peered into dirty houses, examhis delight the Senator beat. He now began in pavements, investigated fountains, stared to explain to Buttons exactly why it was that hard at the beggars, and looked curiously at he had not beaten before. the Swiss Guard in the Pope's Palace. He Another game followed. The Senator lost soon became known to the lower classes, who woefully. His defeat was in fact disgraceful. recognized with a grin the tall foreigner that When Meinheer Schatt said the ominous word shouted queer foreign words and made funny the Senator rose, and was so overcome with vex- gestures. ation that he had not the courtesy to say-Good- Dick lived among churches, palaces, and runight. ins. Tired at length of wandering, he attached As they passed out Meinheer Schatt was seen himself to some artists, in wvhose studios he staring after them with his large blue eyes, passed the greater part of his afternoons, lie stroking his beard, and whispering to himself- became personally acquainted with nearly every "Gr-r-r-acious me!I" member of the fraternity, to whom he endeared himself by the excellence of his tobacco, and his great capacity for listening. Your talkative people bore artists more than any others. "What a lovely girl! What a look she gave " Such was the thought that burst upon the soul of Dick, after a little -visit to a little church BIEFOIIE AND AFTERL THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 67 that goes by the name of Saint Somebody ai forth a gold piece of about twenty dollars value. quattri fontani. He had visited it simply be- He held it out. The priest stared at him with cause he had heard that its dimensions exactly a look that was appalling. correspond with those of each of the chief piers "If you know-" faltered Dick-" any onethat support the dome of Saint Peter's. As he of course I don't mean yourself-far from itwished to be accurate, he had taken a tape-line, but-that is-" and began stretching it from the altar to the "Sir," cried the priest, "who are you? Are door. The astonished priests at first stood par- there no bounds to your impudence? Have alyzed by his sacrilegious impudence, but final- you come to insult me because I am a priest, ly, after a consultation, they came to him and and therefore can not revenge myself? Away!" ordered him to be gone. Dick looked up with The priest choked with rage. Dick walked mild wonder. They indignantly repeated thel out. Bitterly he cursed his wretched stupidity order. that had led him to this. His very ears tingled Dick was extremely sorry that he had given with shame as he saw the full extent of the inoffense. Wouldn't they overlook it? He was sult that he had offered to a priest and a gena stranger, and did not know that they would tieman. He concluded to leave Rome at once. be unwilling. However, since he had begun, But at the very moment when he had made he supposed they would kindly permit him to this desperate resolve he saw some one comining. finish. A sharp thrill went through his heart. -" They would kindly do no such thing," It was SHE! She looked at him and glanced remarked one of the priests, brusquely. "Was modestly away. Dick at once walked up to their church a common stable or a wine-shop her. that he should presume to molest them at their "Signorina," said he, not thinking what a services? If he had no religion, could he not serious thing it was to address an Italian maiden have courtesy; or, if he had no faith himself, in the streets. But this one did not resent it. could he not respect the faith of others?" She looked up and smiled. "What a smile!" Dick felt abashed. The eyes of all the wor- thought Dick. shipers were on him, and it was while rolling I "Signorina," he said again, and then stopped, up his tape that his eyes met the glance of a not knowing what to say. IHis voice was very beautiful Italian girl, who was kneeling oppo- tremulous, and the expression of his face tensite. The noise had disturbed her devotions, der and beseeching. His eyes told all. and she had turned to see what it was. It was "Signore," said the girl, with a sweet smile. a thrilling glance from deep black lustrous orbs, The smile encouraged Dick. in which there was a soft and melting languor "Ehem-I have lost my way. I-I-could which he could not resist. He went out daz- you tell me how I could get to the Piazza del zled, and so completely bewildered that he did Popolo? I think I might find my way home not think of waiting. After he had gone a few from there." blocks he hurried back. She had gone. How- The girl's eyes beamed with a mischievous ever, the impression of her face remained. light. He went so often to the little church that the "Oh yes, most easily. You go down that priests noticed him; but finding that he was street; when you pass four side-streets you turn quiet and orderly they were not offended. One to the left-the left-remember, and then you of them seemed to think that his rebuke had keep on till you come to a large church with a awakened the young foreigner to a sense of fountain before it, then you turn round that, and higher things; so he one day accosted him with you see the obelisk of the Piazza del Popolo." much politeness. The priest delicately brought Her voice was the sweetest that Dick had forward the claims of religion. Dick listened ever heard. He listened as he would listen to meekly. At length he asked the priest if he music, and did not hear a single word that he recollected a certain young girl with beautiful I comprehended. face, wonderful eyes, and marvellous appearance "Pardon me," said he, "but would you please that was worshiping there on the day that he to tell me again. I can not remember all. came td measure the church. Three streets?" "Yes," said the priest, coldly. The girl laughed and repeated it. Could he tell her name and where she lived? Dick sighed. "Sir," said the priest, "I had hoped that "I'm a stranger here, and am afraid that I you came here from a higher motive. It will can not find my way. I left my map at home. do you no good to know, and I therefore decline If I could find some one who would go with me telling you." and show me." Dick begged most humbly, but the priest was Hle looked earnestly at her, but she modestly inexorable. At last Dick remembered having made a movement to go. heard that an Italian was constitutionally un- 1 "Are you in a great hurry?" said he. able to resist a bribe. He thought he might i "No, Signore," replied the girl, softly. try. True, the priest was a gentleman; but "Could you-a-a-would you be willingperhaps an Italian gentleman was different from to-to-walk a little part of the way with me, an English or American; so he put his hand and-show me a very little part of the wayin his pocket, and blushing violently, brought only a very little?" THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLLX. "Any way," thought Dick, "she ought to understand." 7//f'y "111'lmti~ x ~ "::.,[~And did you see me when I was in that little church with a measuring line?" The young girl looked up at him, her large eyes reading his very soul. \\\,ll li', "Did I look at you? Why, I was praying." DE I ~ 1'"You looked at me, and I have never forFi gotten it." Another glance as though to assure herself'%ii/' of Dick's meaning. The next moment her'1' 1 ~'!"j eyes sank and her face flushed crimson. Dick's heart beat so fast that he could not speak for some time., 6 "Signore," said the young girl at last, "when you turn that corner you will see the Piazza del Popolo." "Will you not walk as far as that corner said Dick. -"Ah,'Signore, I am afraid I will not have — 2 -~' "Will I never see you again?" asked he, Fmournfully. "I do not know, Signore. You ought to /l II~~t II1tIi~tx~ l ~~~~~~~ know." A pause. Both had stopped, and Dickwas looking earnestly at her, but she was looking at -.-~x the ground. "How can I know when I do not know even J \',.your name? Let me know that, so that I may think about it." "Ah, how you try to flatter! My name is Pepita Gianti." ___ "~~~~~~~~~Yes. I live close by the Basilica di San ~2Z Paolo fuori le inure." "A long distance. I was out there once." - "~~~~~~~~I saw you." ________ ~~~~Dick exulted. AWAY! "1How many times have you seen me? I have only seen you once before." The girl seemed half to consent, but mod- " IOh, seven or eight times." estly hesitated, and a faint flush stole over her "And will this be the last?" said Dick, beface. sceechingly. " IAh do!"sai d Dick. l~e was desperate. "ISignore, if I wait any longer the gates will "It's my only chance," thought he. be shut." The girl softly assented and walked on with I Oh, theni, before you go, tell me where I him. can find you to-morrow. If I walk out on that III am very much obliged to you for your road will I see you? Will you come in to-morkindness," said Dick. "I' eyhrdfrarw or will you stay out there and shall I go stranger to find his way in Rome." there? Which of the houses do you live in? or " But, Signora, by this time you ought to where can I find you? If you lived over on the know the whole of our city." Alban Hills I would walk every day to find you. " "What? How?" Dick spoke with ardor and impetuosity. The "Why, you have been here three weeks at deep feeling which he showed, and the mingled least." eagerness and delicacy which he exhihited, "How do you know?" and the young man seemed not offensive to his companion. She blushed to his eyes. He had been telling lies, looked up timidly. and she knew it all the time. "When to-morrow comes you will be think"1Oh, I saw you once in the church, and I ing of something else-or perhaps away on those have seen you with that tall man. Is he your Alban mountains. You will forget all about father?" me. What is the use of telling you? I ought "No, only a friend." to go now." "I saw you," and she shook her little head "I'll neverforget!" burst forth Dick. "Neytriumphantly, and her eyes beamed with fun er-never. Believe me. On my soul; and oh, and laughter. F Signorina, it is not much to ask!" THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 69 "Confound it!" Buttons hurriedly left, and ran all the way to the corner, round which he passed. CHAPTER XXVI. CONSEQUENCES OF BEING GALLANT IN ITALY, VHERE THERE ARE LOVERS, HUSBANDS, BROTHERS, FATHERS, COUSINS, AND INNUMERABLE OTHER RELATIVES AND CONNECTIONS, ALL READY WITH THE STILETTO. AFTER his meeting with Pepita, Dick found it extremely difficult to restrain his impatience until the following evening. He was at the gate long before the time, waiting with trembling eagerness. It was nearly sundown before she came; but ~EPITA. ~ she did come at last. Dick watched her with strange emotions, murmuring to himself all His ardor carried him away. In the broad those peculiar epithets which are commonly ~~~~~street h ~e actually made a gesture as though e used by people in his situation. The young would take herand. The Young girl drew girl was unmistakably lovely, and her grace and back blushing deeply. She looked at him ith beauty might have affected a sterner heart than ~a reproachful glance. Dick's. "11 ~ ~You forget-" "Now I wonder if she knows how perfectly Whereupon Dick interrupted her with innu- and radiantly lovely she is," thought he, as she ~erable apologies, looked at him and smiled. You do not deserve forgiveness. But I will He joined her a little way from the gate. forgive you if you leave me now. Did I not "So you do not forget." tell you that I was in a hurry I forget! Before I spoke to you I thought Will you not tell me where I can see you of you without ceasing, and now I can never again?" forget you." "I suppose I will be walking out about this'Do your friends know where you are?" she time to-morrow." I asked, timidly. "Oh, Signorina! and I will be at the gate." "Do you think I would tell them?" "If you don't forget." "Are you going to stay long in Rome?" "Would you be angry if you saw me at the "I will not go away for a long time." gate this evening?"' You are an American." "Yes; for friends are going out wvith me. "Yes." Addio, Signore." "America is very far away." The young girl departed, leaving Dick rooted "But it is easy to get there." to the spot. After a while lie went on to the "Howv long will you be in Rome?" Piazza del Popolo. A thousand feelings agi- "I don't know. A very long time." tated him. Joy, triumph, perfect bliss, were "Not in the summer?" mingled with countless tender recollections of " Yes, in the summer." the glance, the smile, the tone, and the blushes "But the malaria. Are You not afraid of of Pepita. lie walked on with new life. So that? Will your friends stay?" abstracted was his mind in all kinds of delicious "I do not care whether my friends do or anticipations that he ran full against a man who not. " was hnrr~ying at full speed and in. equal ahstrac- "But you will be left alone." tion in the opposite direction. There, was a re- "I suppose so." coil. Both fell. Both began to make apolo- "But what will you do for company? It will -gies. But suddenly: be -very lonely." "Why, Buttons 1" III will think of you all day, and at evening "1Why, Dick!" come to the gate." "Where in the world did you come from?" "Oh, Signore! You jest now1, "Where in the world did you come from?" "How can I jest with von? "What are you after, Buttons?" "You don't mean what you say." "Did you see a carriage passing beyond that "Pepita! " corner?" Pepita blushed and looked embarrassed. "No, none." Dick had called her by her Christian name; "You must have seen it." but she did not appear to resent it. WXell, I didn't." "You don't know who I am, " she said at "Why, -it must have just passed you." last. "Why do you pretend to be sofriendly?" "I saw none." ItI know that you are Pepita, and I don't 70 TIlE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. want to know any thing more, except one thing, fellows, magnified by the gloom. Pepita shriekwhich I am afraid to ask." ed. Pepita quickened her pace. "Who are you?" cried Dick. "Away, or "Do not walk so fast, Pepita," said Dick, I'll shoot you all. I'm armed." beseechingly. "Let the walk be as long as "Boh!" said one of the men, contemptuously. you can." "Off!" cried Dick, as the fellow drew near. "But if I walked so slowly you would never He put himself before Pepita to protect her, let me get home." and thrust his right hand in the breast-pocket "I wish I could make the walk so slow that of his coat. we could spend a life-time on the road." "Who is that with you?" said a voice. Pepita laughed. "That would be a long At the sound of the voice Pcpita uttered a time." cry. Darting from behind Dick she rushed up It was getting late. The sun was half-way to him. below the horizon. The sky was flaming with "It is Pepita, Luigi!" golden light, which glanced dreamily through "Pepita! Sister! What do you mean by the hazy atmosphere. Every thing was toned this?" said the man hoarsely. "Why are you down to soft beauty. Of course it was the sea- so late? Who is this man?" son for lovers and lovers' vows. Pepita walked "An American gentleman who walked out a little more slowly to oblige Dick. She uttered as far as this to protect me," said Pepita, burstan occasional murmur at their slow progress, ing into tears. but still did not seem eager to quicken her pace. "An American gentleman!" said Luigi, with Every step was taken unwillingly by Dick, who a bitter sneer. "Hlie came to protect you, did wanted to prolong the happy time. hlie? Well; we will show him in a few minPepita's voice was the sweetest in the world, utes how grateful we are." and her soft Italian sounded more musically Dick stood with folded arms awaiting the rethan that language had ever sounded before. sult of all this. She seemed happy, and by many little signs "Luigi! dearest brother!" cried Pepita, with showed that her companion was not indifferent a shudder, "on my soul-in the name of the to her. At length Dick ventured to offer his Holy Mother-he is an honorable American arm. She rested her hand on it very gently, gentleman, and he came to protect me." and Dick tremulously took it in his. The little "Oh! we know, and we will reward him." hand fluttered for a few minutes, and then sank "Luigi! Luigi!" moaned Pepita, "if you fo rest. hurt him I will die!" The sun had now set. Evening in Italy is "Ah! Has it come to that?" said Luigi, far different from what it is in northern lati- bitterly. " A half-hour's acquaintance, and you tudes. There it comes on gently and slowly, talk of dying. Here, Pepita; go home with sometimes prolonging its presence for hours, Ricardo." and the light will be visible until very late. In "I will not. I will not go a step unless you Italy, however, it is short and abrupt. Almost let him go." as soon as the sun disappears the thick shad- "Oh, we will let him go!" ows come swiftly on and cover every thing. It "Promise me you will not hurt him." was so at this time. It seemed but a moment "Pepita, go home!" cried her brother, after sunset, and yet every thing was growing sternly. indistinct. The clumps of trees grew black; "I will not unless you promise." the houses and walls of the city behind all faded "Foolish girl! Do you suppose we are gointo a mass of gloom. The stars shone faintly. ing to break the laws and get into trouble? There was no moon. No, no. Come, go home with Ricardo. I'm go" I will be very late to-night,"' said Pepita, ing to the city." timidly. Ricardo came forward, and Pepita allowed "But are you much later than usual?" herself to be led away. "Oh, very -much!" When she was out of sight and hearing Lui" There is no danger, is there? But if there gi approached Dick. Amid the gloom Dick did is you are safe. I can protect you. Can you not see the wrath and hate that might have been trust me?" on his face, but the tone of his voice was pas"Yes," said Pepita, in a low voice. sionate and menacing. He prepared for the It was too dark to see the swiftly-changing worst. color of Pepita's face as Dick murmured some "That is my sister.-Wretch! what did you words in her ear. But her hand trembled vio- mean? lently as Dick held it. She did not say a word "I swear-" in response. Dick stood still for a moment and "Peace! We will give you cause to remembegged her to answer him. She made an effort ber her." and whispered some indistinct syllables. Where- Dick saw that words and excuses were useless. upon Dick called her by every endearing name He thought his hour had come. He resolved to that he could think of, and Hasty foot- die game. He hadn't a pistol. His manceuvre steps! Exclamations! Shouts! They were of putting his hand in his pocket was merely insurrounded! Twelve menormore-stout, strong tended to deceive. The Italians thought that THEDOGE LU; R, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 71 if~='- hehdoeh wudhv doe or ha mnio i. ______ Hewud:tlas=ae=hw it ehdsaioe i ___ sefudratre h e weebfr im ug uh edathm ie ilEeat Dick~~ gaehmateedu 1)0wbewenhi yeta knckd imhedlng "Yu a kllm,"h 72 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. The kind-hearted Senator remained at home all crowd filled the church. Priests in goreous day, and sat by Dick's bedside, sometimes talk- vestments officiated at the high altar, which ing, sometimes reading. Dick begged him not was all ablaze with the light of enormous axto put himself to so much inconvenience on his candles. The gloom of the interior was heightaccount; but such language was distasteful to ed by the clouds of incense that rolled on the Senator. high far within the vaulted ceiling. "My boy," he said, "I know that you would The Pope was there. In one of the adjoindo as much for me. Besides, it is a far greater in chambers he was performing a ceremony pleasure to do any thing for you than to walk which sometimes takes place in this church. about merely to gratify myself. Don't apolo- Guided by instinct, Buttons pressed his way gize, or tell me that I am troubling myself. into the chamber. A number of people filled Leave me to do as I please." it. Suddenly e uttered an exclamation. Dick's grateful look expressed more than Just as His Holiness was rising to leave, Butwords. tons saw the group that had filled his thoughts In a few days his pain had diminished, and for weeks. it was evident that he would be out in a fort- The Spaniards! No mistake this time. And night or so. The kind attentions of his firiends he had been right all along. All his efforts affected him greatly. They all spent more time had, after all, been based on something tangithan ever in his room, and never came there ble. Not in vain ad e bad so many walks, wvithout bringing him some little trifle, such as runnings, casings, searchings, strolls, so many grapes, oranges, or other fruit. The Senator hopes, fears, desires, discourageents. He was hunted all over Rome for a book, and found rigt Jo, rapture, bliss, ecstasy delight Victor Hugo's works, which he bought on a vent- There they were: the little Do-T DONNAure, and had the gratification of seeing that it IDA was acceptable. Buttons, lost for a while in the crowd, and All suspected something. The Doctor had pressed away, never lost sight of the Spaniards. concluded from the first that Dick had met The did not see him however until, as they with an accident. They had too much delicacy slowly moved out, they were stopped and greetto question him, but made many conjectures ed with astonishing eagerness. The Don shook among themselves. The Doctor thought that hands cordially. The Donna-that is, the eldhe had been among some ruins, and met with a er sister-smiled sweetly. Ida blushed and fall. Mr. Figgs suggested that he might have cast down her ees. been run over. The Senator thought it was Nothing could be more gratifying than this some Italian epidemic. Buttons was incapable reception. Where had he been? Howv long of thinking rationally about any thing just then. in Rome? Why -had they not met before? He was the victim of a monomania: the Span- Strange that they had not seen him aboat the iards! city. And hadhe reallybeenbhere three weeks? About a week after Dick's ad\'enture But- Buttons informed them that he had seen them tons was strolling about on his usual quest, several times, b'ut at a distance. He had been when he was attracted by a large crowd around at all the hotels, but had not seen their names. the Chiesa di Gesu. The splendid equipages Hotels! Oh, they lived in lodgings in the of the cardinals were crowded about the princi- Palazzo Concini, not far from the Piazza del pal entrance, and from the interior sounds of Popolo. And how much longer did he intend music came floating magnificently down. But- to stay?-Oh, no particular time. His friends tons wvent in to see what wa's going on. A vatst enjoyed themselves here very much. Hle did rooii nic ~ ~ 77-! THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 73 not know exactly when they would leave. How was amused; but Buttons felt gratified at seelong would they remain?-They intended to ing a little confusion on her face, as though she leave for Florence on the following week.-Al! was conscious of the real cause of such a perHe was thinking of leaving for the same place severing pursuit. She modestly evaded his at aout the same time. Whereupon the Don glance, and sat at a little distance from the expressed a polite hope that they might see one others. Indeed, she said but little during the another on the journey whole evening. By this time the crowd had diminished. When Buttons left he felt like a spiritual beThey looked on while the Pope entered his ing. He was not conscious of treading on any state-coach, and with strains of msic, and material earth, but seemed to float along through ~~prancing of horse~s, and array of dragoons, enchanted air over the streets into his lodgings, drove magnificently away. and so on into the realm of dreams. The Don turned to Buttons: Would he not accompany them to their lodgings? They were just about returning to dinner. If he were disOt re_ Isengaged they should be most happy to have the CHAPTER XXVIII. honor of his company. WHAT KIND OF A LETTER THE SENATOR WROTE Buttons tried very ard to look as though FOR THE " NEW ENGLAND PATRIOT," WHICIH e were not mad with eagerness to accept the SHOWS A TRUE, LIBERAL, UNBIASED, PLAIN, UNr VARNISHED VIEW OF ROME. invitation, but not very successfully. The car- VANSEVIWOHM. riage drove off rapidly. The Don an"DIcK," said the Senator, as he sat with him on one seat, the ladies on the other. in his room, "I've been thinking over your tone Then the face of Ida as she sat opposite! of mind, more particularly as it appears in those Such a face! Such a smile! Such witchery letters which you write home, such as you read in her expression! Such music in her laugh! the other day. It is a surprising thing to me ~At any rate so ~t seemed to Buttons, and that ow a young man with your usual good sense, is all that is needed. keenness of perception, and fine education can On thoh the streets of Rome; past the allow yourself to be so completely carried away post-office, round the column of Antoninus, up by a mawkish sentiment. What is the use of the Corso, until at last they stopped in front of all these memories and fancies and hysterical 1an immense edifice which ad once been a pal- emotions that you talk about? In one place ace. The descendants of the family lived in a you call yourself by the absurd name of'A remote corner, and their poverty compelled them I Pensive Traveller.' Why not be honest? Be to let out all the remainder as lodgings. This a sensible American, exhihiting in your thought is no uncommon thing in Italy. Indeed, there and in all your actions the effect of democratic are so many ruined nobles in the country that principles and stiff republican institutions. Nowv those are fortunate who have a shelter over I'll read you what I have written. I think the their heads. Buttons remarked this to the matter is a little nearer the mark than your Don, who told some stories of these fallen no- flights of fancy. But perhaps you, don't care bles. He informed him that in Naples their just nowv about hearing it?" laundress was said to be the last scion of one "Indeed I do; so read on," said Dick. of the most ancient families in the kingdom. "1As I have travelled considerable in Italy," said the She was a countess in her own right, but had Senator, reading from a paper which lie drew from his to wrk t meiallabor. Moreover, many had pocket, "1With -my eyes wide open, I have some idea of the to work at menial ~~~~country and of the general condition of the farming sunk down to the grade of peasantry, and lived class-," in squalor on lands which were once the estates The Senator stopped. "I forgot to say that of their ancestors. this is for the New England Patriot, pub lished Buttons spent the evening there. The rooms in our village, you know." were elegant. Books lay around which showved Dick nodded. The Senator resumed: a culivate tast. Theyoun ma flhm "The soil is remarkably rich. Even where there are self in a realm of enchantment. The joy of mountains they are well wooded. So if the fields look meeting w~as heightened by their unusual comn- well it is not sorprising. What is surprising is the cultith vnigh oudotvation. I saw ploughs such as Adam might have used whien plaisance. During th vnn efudotforced for the first time to torn up the ground outside the all about them. They lived in Cadiz, where locality of Eden; harrows which were probably invented the Don was a merchant. This was their first by Numa Poinpey, an old Roman that people talk about. "'Theylhaven't any idea of draining-clear. Forlhere is visit to Italy. a place called the Pontine Marsh, beanliiful soil, surroundThey all had fine perceptions for the beauti- ed by a settled country, and yet they let it go to waste almot entirely. ful in art or nature, and, besides, a keen sense, " ~IThe Italians are lazy. The secret of their bad farmof the ludicrous. So, when Buttons, growing ing lies in this. For thie,en loll and smoke on thefences, communicative, told them about Mr. Figgs's leaving the poor women to toil in the fields. A woman ploughing! And yet these peopie want to be free. adventure in the ball of St. Peter's, they were "4They ivear leather leggins, short breeches, and j ck. greatly amused. He told about the adventures ets. Many of them wear wooden shoes. The women of the soth use a queer kind of outlandish head'dress, which if of al hi frinds.He tld o himelf:all boutthey spent less time in fixing it would be better for their the chase in Naples Bay, and his pursuit of their own worldly prosperity. carriage from St. Peter's. He did not tell them "IT he cattle are fine: very broad in the chest, with splendid,action. I don't believe any other country can that he had done this more than once. Ida show such cattle. Thiepigs are certainly thiebest lever saw 74 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. Ieo??.dc SKETCHES BY A FRIEND. by a long chalk. Their chops beat all creation. A friend Patent Medicine Edifices; no signs of enterprise, in fact, of mine has made some sketches, which I will give to the at all Lyceum on my return. They exhibit the Sorrento pig in "1The houses are very uncomfortable. They are large, various attitudes, and built in the form of a square. People live on separate "1The horses, on the contrary, are poor affairs. I have fiats, If it is cold they have to grin and bear it. There yet to see the first decent horse. The animals employed are no stoves. I have suffered more from the cold on some by travellers generally are the lowest of their species. The evenings since I have been here than ever I did in-doors at shoes which the horses wear are of a singular shape. I home. I have asked for a fire, but all they could give me can't describe. them in writing, but they look more like a was a poisonous fire of charcoal in an earthen thing like a fiat-iron than any thing else, basket. ".4I paid a visit to Pompeii, and on coming back I saw "1Some of their public buildings are good, but that can't some of the carts of the country. They gave one a deplor- make the population comfortable, In fact, the people genable idea of the state of the useful arts in this place. erally are ill-cared for. Here are the wretched Jews, who Scientific farming is out of the question. If fine planta- live in a filthy quarter of the city crowded together like tions are seen it's Nature does it. pigs. "1Vineyards abound everywhere. Wine is a great sta- "LThe peopie pass the most of their time in coffee-houses. pie of the country. Yet they don't export much after all. Thiey are an idle set-have nothing in thieworld to do. It In fact, the foreign commerce is comparatively trifling, is still a mystery to me how they live. Chestnuts and olives are raised in immense quantities. "1The fact is, there are too many soldiers and priests. The chestnut is as essential to the Italian as the potato is Now it is evident that these gentry, being non-producers, to the Irishman. A failuLre in the crop is attended with must be supported directly or indirectly by the producers. the same disastrous consequences. They dry the nuts, This is the cause, I suppose, of the poverty of a great part grind tisen into a kind of flour, and make them into cakes. of the population. I tasted one and found it abominable. Yet these people "LBegging is reduced to a science. In this I confess the eat it with garlic, and grow fat on it. Chestnut bread, Italian beats the American all to pieces. The American oil instead of butter, wine instead of tea, and you have an eye has not seen, nor ear heard, the devices of an Italian Italian meal, beggar to get -along. "1It's a flue country for fruit. I found Gaeta surround- "1I Isave seen them in great crowds waiting outside of a led by orange groves. The fig is an important article in the monastery for their dinner, whicie consists of huge howls economy of an Italian household, of porridge given by the monks. Can any thing be more "I have been in Rome three weeks Many people take ruinous to a people? mucs interest in this place, though quite unnecessarily. I "1The only trade that I could discover after a long and do not think it is at all equal to Boston. Yet I have taken patient search was the trade in brooches and toys which great pains to examine time place. The streets are narrow are bought as curiosities by travellers. and crooked, like those of Boston. They are extremely "1 There are nothing but churches and palaces wherever dirty. There are no sidewalks. The gutter is in the you go. Some of these palaces are queer-looking concerns. middle of the street. The people empty their siops from There isn't one in the whole lot equal to some of the Fifth their windows. The pavements are bad and very slippery. Avenue houses in New York in paint of real genuine style. Time accumulation of filth about the streets is immense. "6There has been too much money spent in churches, and The drainage is not good. They actually use one old drain too little on houses. If it amounted to any timing it would which, they tell me, was made three thousand years not be so bad, hut the only effect has been to promote an ago. idle fondness for music and pictures and such like. If they "1Gas has only been recently introduced. I understand tore down nine-tenths of their churches, and turned them that a year or two ago the streets were lighted by miser- into school-houses on the New England system, it would able contrivances, consisting of a mean oil lamp swung from not be bad for time rising generation. the middle of a rope stretched across the street. "1The newspapers which they have are miserable things "4The shops are not worth mentioning. There are no -wretched little sheets, full of lies-no advertisements, no magnificent Dry-goods Stores, such as I Ihave seen by the news, no nothing. I got a friend to translate for me what hundred in Boston; no Hardware Stores; no palatial 1 pretended to be the latest American news. It was a col THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 75 lection of murders, duels, railway accidents, and steamboat CHAPTER XXIX. explosions. explosions. ~~~~THE LONELY ONE AND HIS COMFORTER. —THE " I don't see what hope there is for this unfortunate TE LONELY ONE AND HIS COMFORTER-T country; I don't really. The people have gone on so long TRUE MEDICINE FOR A SICK MAN. in their present course that they are now about incorrigi- DICK was alone in his chamber. Confineble. If the entire population were to emigrate to the Western States, and mixup with the people there, it might ment to his room was bad enough, but what be possible for their descendants in the course of time to was that in comparison with the desolation of amount to something. " I don't see any hope except perhaps in one plan, which soul that afflicted him? Pepita was always in would be no doubt impossible for these lazy and dreamy his thoughts. The bright moment was alone Italians to carry out. It is this: Let this poor, broken- remembered and the black seel could not efdown, bankrupt Government make an inventory of its whole stock of jewels, gold, gems, pictures, and statues. I face her image. Yet his misadventure showed understand that the nobility throughout Europe would be him that his chances of seeing her again were willing to pay immense sums of money for these ornaments. If they are fools enough to do so, then in Heaven's name extremely faint. But how could he give her let them have the chance. Clear out the whole stock of up? They would soon be leaving for Florence. rubbish, and let the hard cash come in to replace it. That would be a good beginning, with something tangible How could he leave neer to see er aain-the to start from. I am told that the ornaments of St. Peter's lovely, the sweet, the tender, the- A faint Cathedral cost ever so many millions of dollars. In the knock at the door. name of goodness why not sell out the stock and realize instead of issuing those ragged notes for twenty-five cents, " Come in," said Dick, without rising from which circulate among the people here at a discount of about his chair. seventy-five per cent.? A female entered. She was dressed in black. "Then let them run a railroad north to Florence and A female entered. She was dressed in black. south to Naples. It would open up a fine tract of country A thick veil hid her features, but her bent figure which is capable of growing grain; it would tap the great denoted are and weariness. She slowly closed olive-growing districts, and originate a vast trade in oil, wine, and dried fruits. the door. "The country around Rome is uninhabited, but not "Is it here where a young American lives barren. It is sickly in summer-time, but if there was a population on it wilho would cultivate it properly I calcu- with this name?" late the malaria would vanish, just as the fever and ague She held out a card. It was his name, his do from many Western districts in our country by the card He had only given it to one person in same agencies. I calculate that region could be made one of the most fertile on this round earth if occupied by an Rome, and that one was Pepita. industrious class of emigrants. "1 Oh i!" cried Dick, rising, his whole expres" But there is a large space inside the walls of the city which could be turned to the best of purposes. sion changing from sadness to eager and be4 The place which used to be the Roman lorum is ex- seeching hope "oh if you know where she is actly calculated to be the terminus of the railroad which I have suggested. A comnmodious depot could be made, -where I may find her-" and the door-way might be worked up out of the arch of The female raised her form, then with a hand Titus, which now stands blocking up the way, and is of no that trembled excessively she slowly lifted her earthly use. "The amount of crumbling stones and old ruined walls veil. It was a face not old and wrinkled but that they leave about this quarter of the city is astonish- young and lovely with tearful eyes downcast ing. It ought not to be so.' What the Government ought to do after being put in and cheeks suffused with blushes. funds by the process mentioned above is this: With an eager cry Dick bounded from his " Tihe Government ought to tear down all those unsight- chair and caught her in his arms. Not a word ly heaps of stone and erect factories and industrial schools. There is plenty of material to do it with. For instance, was spoken. He held her in a strong embrace take the old ruin called the Coliseum. It is a fact, arrived as though he would not let her go. At last he at by elaborate calculation, that the entire contents of that concern are amply sufficient to construct no less drew her to a seat beside him, still holding her than one hundred and fifty handsome factories, each two in his arms. hundred feet by seventy-five. " The factories being built, they could be devoted to I could not stay away. I led you into misthe production of the finer tissues. Silks and velvets fortune. Oh, how you have suffered! You could be produced here. Glass-ware of all kinds could be are thin and wan. What a wretch am I made. There is a fine Italian clay that makes nice cups3 and crocks.When you see me no more will you forgive " I could also suggest the famous Roman cement as an me?" additional article ofexport. The Catacombs under the city could be put to some direct practical use. Forgive t" and Dick replied in a more em-;' I have hastily put out these few ideas to show what a phatic way than words afford. liberal and enlightened policy might effect even in such They would not let me leave the house for an unpromising place as Rome. It is not probable, however, that mn scheme would meet with favor here. The ten days. They told me if I ever dared to see leading classes in this city are such an incurable set of old vou again they would kill you. So I knew you fogies that, I verily believe. rather than do what I have - suggested, theywould choose to have the earth open beneath were not dead. But I did not know how they tlhem and swallow them upforever-city, churches, statues, had beaten you till one day Ricardo told me all. pictures, museums, palaces, ruins and all. t I've got a few other ideas, some of which will work some To think of you unarmed fighting so gallantly. day. Suppose Russia should sell us her part of America, Four of them were so bruised that they have Spain sell us Cuba, Italy give us Rome, Turkey an island not yet recovered. To-day uigi ent to Ciita or two-then what? But I'll keep this for another letter." Vecchia. He told me that if I dared to go to "That's all," said the Senator. Rome he would send me to a convent. But I Dick's face was drawn up into the strangest disobeyed him. I could not rest. I had to expression. He did not say any thing, how- come and see how you were, and to-bidever. The Senator calmly folded up his paper, adieu-" and with a thoughtful air took up his hat. "Adieu! bid adieu?-never. I will not let "I'm going to that Coliseum again to meas- you." ure a place I forgot," said he. "Ah, now you talk wildly," said Pepita, Upon which he retired, leaving Dick alone. mournfully, "for you know we must part." 76 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. "We shall not part." Is there no hope?" "I will have to go home, and you can not No-not now." follow me." "Notnow? Andwhenwilltherebe? Can " Oh, Pepita, I can not give you up. You it be possible that you would give me up? shall be mine-now-my wife-and come with Then I would not give you up! If you do not me home-to America. And we shall never love me I must love you." again have to part."Cruel!" murmured Pepita. "Impossible," said Pepita, as big tear-drops Forgive," said Dick, penitently. Perfell from her eyes. "Impossible!" haps I am too sudden. If I come back again "Why impossible?" in two or three months will you be as hard"Luigi would track us to the end of the hearted as you are now world." Hard-hearted!" sighed Pepita, tearfully. "Track us! I would like to see him try it!" " You should not reproach me. My troubles cried Dick in a fury. "I have an account to are more than I can bear. It is no slight thing settle with him which will not be pleasant for that you ask." him to pay. Who is he to dare to stand be- "Will waiting soften you? Will it make tween me and you? As to following me- any difference? If I came for you-" Well, I have already given him a specimen of You must not leave me so, said. Pepita, what I am. I would give a year of my life to reproachfully. "Iwilltellyouall. Yonwillnhave him alone for about half an hour." derstandmebetter. Listen. Myfamilisnoble." "You wrong him," cried Pepita, earnestly. "Noble!" cried Dick, thunderstck. He "You wrong him. You must not talk so. He had ertainly always thought her astonishingly is not a bravo. He is my brother. He has lady-like for a peasant girl, but attributed this been like a father to me. He loves me dearly, to the superior refinement of the Italian race. and my good name is dearer to him than life. Yes, noble," said Pepita, proudly. We Hle is so good and so noble, dear Luigi! It seem now only poor peasants. Yet once we was his love for me that blinded him and made were rich and powerful. My grandfather lost him furious. He thought you were deceiving all in the wars in the time of Napoleon, and us all, and would not listen to you." only left his descendants an honorable name. "But if he were so noble would he have at- Alas! honor and titles are worth but little when tacked one unarmed man, and hlie at the head one is poor. My brother Luigi is the Count di of a dozen?" Gianti." "I tell you," cried Pepita, "y vou do not know "And o are the Countess di Gianti." him. He was so blinded by passion that he "Yes," said Pepita, smiling at last, and haphad no mercy. Oh, I owe every thing to him! py at the change that showed itself in Dick. And I know how good and noble he is!" "II am the Countess Pepita di Gianti. Can "1Pepita, for your sake I will forgive him you understand now my dear Luigi's high sense every thing." of honor and the fury that he felt when hie "I can not stay longer," said Pepita, making thought that you intended an insult? Our an effort to rise, poverty, which we can not escape, chafes him "Oh1,, Pepita! you can not leave me for- sorely. If I were to desert him thus suddenly ever."7 it would kill him." Pepita fell weeping into his arms, her slen- "Oh01, Pepita! if waiting will win von I will der form convulsed with emotion. wait for years. Is there any hope?" "You shall not." "When will you leave Rome? " "I must-there is no help." "In a few days my friends leave." "Why must you? Canvyouinot fly with me? "Then do not stay behind. If you do you What prevents you from being mine? Let us can not see me." go and be united in the little church where I " But if I come again in two or three months? saw you first." What then? Can Isceeyou?" "n11Impossible!" moaned Pepita. "Perhaps," said Pepita, timidly. "IWhy?" "And you will not refuse? No, no! You "IBecause I could not do you such injustice, can not! I-ow can I find you?" You have your father far away in America. "Alas! you will by that time forgret all You might offend him." about me." "Bother my father!" cried Dick. "Cruel Pepita! How can you say I will Pepita looked shocked. forget? Would I not die for yen? How can III mean-he would allow me to do any thing I find you?" I liked, and glory in it, because I did it. He "The Padre Liguori." would chuckle over it for a month." "Who?" "Luigi-" "Padre Liguori, at the little church. The "Pepita, do you love him better than me?" tall priest-the one wvho spoke to you." "No, but if I leave him so it would break "But he will refuse. Hlie ates me." his heart. liewill thinklIam ruined. He "He is a good man. If he thinks von are will declare a vendetta against you, and follow honorable he will be your friend, Ilie is a true you to the end of the world." friend to me." THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 77 "I will see him before I leave and tell him larly the ladies. They were perfectly familiar all." with all the Spanish painters and many of the There were voices below. Italian. Buttons felt himself far inferior to Pepita started. them in real familiarity with Art, but he made "They come. I must go," said she, drop- amends by brilliant criticisms of a transcendentping her veil. al nature. "Confound them!" cried Dick. It was certainly a pleasant occupation for "Addio!" sighed Pepita. youth, sprightliness, and beauty. To wander Dick caught her in his arms. She tore her- all day long through that central world from self away with sobs. which forever emanate all that is fairest and She was gone. most enticing in Art, Antiquity, and Religion; Dick sank back in his chair, with his eyes to have a soul open to the reception of all these fixed hungrily on the door. influences, and to have all things glorified by "Hallo!" burst the Doctor's voice on his Almighty love; in short, to be in love in Rome. ears. "Who's that old girl? Hey? Why, Rome is an inexhaustible store-house of atDick, how pale you are! You're worse. Hang tractions. For the lovers of gayety there are it! you'll have a relapse if you don't look out. the drives of the Pincian Hill, or the Villa BorYou must make a total change in your diet- ghese. For the student, ruins whose very dust more stimulating drink and generous food. is eloquent. For the artist, treasures beyond However, the drive to Florence wvill set you all price. For the devotee, religion. How forturight again." nate, thought Buttons, that in addition to all this there is, for the lovers of the beautiful, beauty! CHAPTER XXX. Day after day they visited new scenes. Upon the whole, perhaps, the best way to see the city, OCCUPATIONS AND PEREGRINATIONS OF BUTTONS. when one can not spend one's life there, is to IF Buttons had spent little time in his room take Murray's Hand-book, and, armed with before he now spent less. He was exploring that red necessity, dash energetically at the the ruins of Rome, the churches, the picture work; see every thing that is mentioned; galleries, and the palaces under new auspices. hurry it up in the orthodox manner; then throw He knew the name of every palace and church the book away, and go over the ground anew, in the place. He acquired this knowledge by wandering easily wherever fancy leads. means of superhuman application to "Murray's Hand-book" on the evenings after leaving his companions. They were enthusiastic, particuCHAPTER XXXI. If-'~ ~ ~ ~~, ~BUTTONS ACTS THE GOOD SAMARITAN, AND LITfJ ~ — _~~' ~,ERALLY UNEARTHS A MOST UNEXPECTED VICA~, J WTIM OF AN ATROCIOUS ROBBERY.-GR-R-R-A>Y}W / ~~~~~COUSME K /....,<-~,~:~a To these, once wandering idly down the Ap~ - -, A pian Way, the ancient tower of Metella rose inNA <~ig~~. I lvitingly. The carriage stopped, and ascend-,fa(- f ~i x 5 l i | Ling, they walked up to the entrance. They /r" -3 a M Il1M marvelled at the enormous blocks of travertine C:/ i S t 1 | i ~~ of which the edifice was built, the noble sim-'xN i G|plicity of the style, the venerable garment of!V, ~ fenGivy which hid the ravages of time. f s-..7,., The door was open, and they walked in.,>->'~.1,\ WButtons first; the ladies timidly following; and the Don bringing up the rear. Suddenly'a low groan startled them. It seemed to come /:~.~'%,k~,'(,~~ ~ lfrom the very depths of the earth. The ladies gave a shriek, and dashing past their brother, ran out. The Don paused. Buttons of course:g _,~~ -,.. |~ advanced. He never felt so extensive in his life before. What a splendid opportunity to.-X r ~4 <,>s |give an exhibition of manly courage! So he walked on, and shouted: I'IWh o's there? A groan! Further in yet, till he came to the inner ~ chamber. It was dark there, the only light coming in through the passages. Through the I~(>'K gloom he saw the figure of a man lying on the BUTTONS AND MBL.xA. floor so tied that he could not move. 78 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. "Who are you? What's the matter?" Then Meinheer Schatt knew that they were "Let me loose, for God's sake!" said a voice, roers. Still e indignantly protested that e in thick Italian, with a heavy German accent. was an unoffending traveller. "I'm a traveller. I've been robbed by brig- "It's false! You have been mutilating the ands." sacred sepulchre of the dead, and violating the To snatch his knife from his pocket, to cut sanctity of their repose!" the cords that bound the man, to lift him to his And the fellow, thrusting his hands in the feet, and then to start back with a cry of aston- prisoner's pockets, brought forth the stones and ishment, were all the work of an instant. By ivy. The others looked into his other pockets, this time the others had entered. examined his hat, made him strip, shook his The mnan was a German, unmistakably. He clothes, pried into his boots-in short, gave him stood blinking and staring. Then he stretched a thorough overhaul. his several limbs and rubbed himself. Then They found nothing, except, as Meineer ache took a long survey of the new-comers. knowledged, with a faint smile, a piece of the Then he stroked a long, red, forked beard, and, value of three half-cents American, which e in tones expressive of the most profound be- had brought as a fee to the guide through the wilderment, slowly ejaculated- Catacombs. It was that bit of mone that "Gr-r-r-r-acious me!" caused his bonds. It maddened them. The "Meinheer Schatt!" cried Buttons, grasping danced around him in perfect fry and ask his hand. "How in the name of wonder did what e meant by daring to come out and give you get here? What has happened to you? them so much trouble with only that bit of imWho tied you up? Were you robbed? Were pure silver about him. you beaten? Are you hurt? But come out Dog of a Tedescho Your nation s of this dark hole to the sunshine." trampled upon our liberties; but Italy sall be Meinheer Schatt walked slowly out, saying avenged! Dog! scoundrel! villain! Tedesnothing to these rapid inquiries of Buttons. cho Tedes-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-cho The German intellect is profound, but slow; The end of it was that Meineer Schatt was and so Meinheer Schatt took a long time to col- tied in a sinularly uncomfortable position and lect his scattered ideas. Buttons found that left there. e thought e ad been there about he was quite faint; so producing a flask from five hours. He was faint and hungry. his pocket he made him drink a little precious They took him home. cordial, which revived him greatly. After a long pull he heaved a heavy sigh, and looked with a piteous expression at the new-comers. The kind-hearted Spaniards insisted on taking CHAPTER XXXII. him to their carriage. Hle was too wveak to AOHRDSOEYMD YBTOS walk. They would drive him. They would AOERDSOEYMD YBTOS listen to -no refusal. So Meinheer Schatt was ON the evening after this adventure the Don safely deposited in the carriage, and told his turned the conversation into a new channel. story. They all grew communicative. Buttons told He had come out very early in the morning to them that his father was an extensive merchant visit the Catacombs. Ilie chose the early part and ship-owner in Boston. His business exof the day so as to be back before it got hot. tended over many parts of the world. He Arriving at the Church of St. Sebastian he thought he might have done something in Cadiz. found to his disappointment that it wvas not open "Your father a ship-owner in Boston! I vet. So he thought he would beguile the time thought you belonged to New York," said the by walking about. So he strolled off to the Don, in surprise. tomb of Can~celia Metella, which was the most "loh,"9 said Buttons, "I said I came from striking object in view. He walked around it, there. The fact is, I lived there four years at and broke off a few pieces of stone. He took college, and will live there when I return." also a few pieces of ivy. These he intended to "And your father lives in Boston," said the carry away as relics. At last he -ventured to Don, with an interest that surprised Buttons. enter and examine the interior. Scarce had "Yes. " he got inside than lhe heard footsteps without. "Is his name Hiram Buttons?" The door was blocked up by a number of ill- "Yes," cried Buttons, eagerly. "How do looking men, who came in and caught him. yvou know?" Meinheer Schatt confessed that lie was com- "My dear Sir," cried the Don, "IHiram Butpletely overcome by terror. However, he at tons and I are not only old business correspondlast mustered sufficient strength to ask what eats, but I hope I can add personal friends." they wanted. The Don rose and grasped Buttons cordially "You are our prisoner! by the hand. The young man was overcome "Why? Who are you?" by surprise, delight, and triumph. "We are the secret body-guard of His Iloli- "I liked you from the first," said the Don. ness, appointed by the Sacred Council of the "You bear your character in your face. I was Refectory," said one of the men, in a mocking happy to receive you into our society. But now tone..1I feel a still higher pleasure, for I find you are THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 79 the son of a man for whom I assure you I enter- The waiter shrugged his shoulders till they ta an infinite respect." reached the upper part of his ears. The SeThe sisters were evidently delighted at the ator looked for a moment at him, and saw that scene. As to Buttons, he was overcome. he did not understand him. HIe looked at the Thus far he often felt delicacy about his po- floor involved in deep thought. At last he sition among them, and fears of intruding occa,- raised his eyes once more to meet those of the sionally interfered with his enjoyment. His waiter, which still were fixed upon him, and footing nowwas totally different; and the most placing the palms of his hands on his ips punctilious Spaniard could find no fault with threw back his head, and with his eyes still fixhis continued intimacy. ed steadfastly uponthe Waiter he gave utterance "urrah for that abominable old office, and to a long shrill gurgle such as he thought the that horrible business to which the old gentle- frogs might give: man tried to bring me! It has turned out the BpeK8KCKiK KOaF K06, best thing for me. What a capital idea it was BpKEKEKeK KOa' KoI4 for the governor to trade with Cadiz!" Such were the thoughts of Buttons as he went ____ - home. CHAPTER XXXIHI. BpEKEKEIc KOUI KOa~ KO5'E. 1l IN his explorations of the nooks and corners i/'h... of Roe the Senator was compelled for some /1" i " D - { time to make his journeys alone. I-IcHe sometimes felt regret that he had not some inter- preter with him on these occasions; but on the whole he thought lie was well paid for his trouble, and he stored up in his memory an in- credible number of those items which are usually knon as "useful facts." On one of these occasions he entered a very X common cafr near one of the gates, and as he felt hungry hie determined to get his dinner. Hle had long felt a desire to taste those, "frogs" of which lie had heard so much, aiid which to his great surprise he had never yet seen. On/ coming to France he of course felt confident. that he would find frogs as common as potatoes, on every dinnor-table. To his amazement lie had not yet seen one. Ilie determined to have some now. But howv could he get them? How ask for them? "1Pooh! easy enough!" said the Senator to himself, with a smile of superiority. "I wish I could ask for every thing else as easily." aREKE5KEKEK KOAX.KOAXI So he took his seat at one of the tables, and gave a thundering rap to sunimon the waiter. (Recurrence must be made to Aristophianes, All the cafd had been startled by the advent of who alone of articulate speaking men has writthe large foreigner. And evidently a rich man, ten down the utterance of the common frog.) for lie was an Englishman, as they thought. So The waiter started back. All the men in the up came the waiter with a very low bow, and a cafd jumped to their feet. very dirty jacket; and all the rest of the people "1Bpn1CcKKE1 KahsC Kc 0 c6'," continued the Senain the cafd looked at the Senator out of the cor- tor, quite patiently. The waiter looked frightncr of their eves, and stopped talking. The ened. Senator gazed with a calm, serene face and "Will you give me some or not?" cried the steady eye upon the waiter. Senator, indignantly. "Signore?" said the waiter, interrogatively. "Signore," faltered the waiter. Then he ran "Gunk! gunq!!" said the Senator, solemnly, for the cafi-keeper. without moving a muscle. The caf6-keeper came. The Senator repeatThe waiter stared. ed the words mentioned above, though~somewhat Clie vuol ella. he repeated, in a faint voice, angrily. The keeper brought forward every "Gunk! gung!." said the Senator, as sol- customer in the house to see if any one could emnly as before, understand the language. "on capisco." "It's German,' said one. "Gunk guag! gunkety gunk gung." It's English," said another. so80 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. "Bah!" said a third. "It's Russian." The Senator at once poured forth all that had "No," said a fourth, "it's Bohemian; for been in his mind since his arrival. He gave his Carolo Quinto said that Bohemian was the lan- opinion about the site, the architecture, the guage of the devil." And Number Four, who drains, the municipal government, the beggars, was rather an intelligent-looking man, eyed the and the commerce of the place; then the solSenator compassionately. diers, the nobles, the priests, monks, and nuns. "Gunk gung, gunkety gung!" cried the Sena- Then he criticised the Government, its form tor, frowning; for his patience had at last de- its mode of administration, enlarged upon its tyrserted him. anny, condemned vehemently its police system, The others looked at him helplessly, and and indeed its whole administration of every some, thinking of the devil, piously crossed them- thing, civil, political and ecclesiastical. selves. Whereupon the Senator rose in majes- Waxing warmer with the sound of his own eltic wrath, and shaking his purse in the face of oquence, e found himself suddenly ut naturalthe cafe-keeper, shouted: ly reminded of a country where all this is re"You're worse than a nigger!" and stalked versed. So he ent on to speak about Freedom, grandly out of the place. Repblicanism, the Rights of Man, and the Ballot-Box. Unable to talk with sufficient fluency while in a sitting posture e rose to his feet, and as he looked -around, seeing that all present an CHAPTER XXXIV. were starin at im e made up his mind to iTiE SENATOR PURSUES HIS INVESTIGATIONS.-AN prove the occasion. So he harangued the crowd INTELLIGENT ROMAN TOUCHES A CHORD IN THE generally, not because he toght any of them SENATOR'S HEART THAT VIBRATES.-RESULTS OF THE VIBRATION.-A VISIT FROM THE ROMAN Csince POLIEF N THE GEEAIO. AVST EAEROWN THE COR-N he had made a speech that the present opportuniPOLICE; AND THE GREAT RACE DOWN THE CORSO BETWEEN THE SENATOR AND A ROMAN SPY.- ty was irresistible. Besides, as e afterward GLEE OF THE POPULACE!-HI! HI! remarked, he feltat it was a crisis, and wo H=E did not ask for frogs again; but still he could tell ut that a ord spoken in season did not falter in his examination into the life of might produce some eneficial effects. the people. Still he sauntered through the re- He shook hands very warmly with his new moter corners of Rome, wandering over to the friend after it all was over, and on leaving him other side of the Tiber, or through the Ghetto, made him promise to come and see him at his or among the crooked streets at the end of the lodgings, where he would show him statistics, etc. Corso. Few have learned so much of Rome in The Senator then returned. so short a time. That evening he received a visit. The SenOn one occasion he was sitting in a caf6, ator heard a rap at his door and called out where he had supplied his wants in the follow- "Come in."'Two men entered-ill-looking, or ing way: rather malignant-looking, clothed in black. "Hi! coffee! coffee!"and again, HIii! ci- Dick was in his room, Buttons out, Figgs and gar! cigar!1" when his eye was attracted hy a: the Doctor had not returned from the cafd. man at the next tahle who was reading a copy The Senator insisted on shaking hands with of the London Times, which he had spread out both his visitors. One of these men spoke Envery ostentatiously. After a brief survey the: glish. Senator walked over to his table and, with a "1His Excellency," said he, pointing to the beaming smile, said- other, "4wishes to speak to you on official busi" Good-day, Sir." ness." The other man looked up and returned a very "1Happy to hear it," said the Senator. friendly smile. "His Excellency is the Chief of the Police, "And how do you do, Sir?" and I am the Interpreter." "IVery well, I thank you," said the other, Whereupon the Senator shook hands with with a strong Italian accent. both of them again. "D Io you keep your health?" "IProud to make your acquaintance," said he. "Thank you, yes;". said the other, evidently III am personally acquainted with the Chief quite pleased at the advances of the Senator. of the Boston police, and also of the Chief of "1Nothing gives me so much pleasure," said the New York police, and my opinion is that the Senator, "1as to come across an Italian who they can stand more liquor than any men I ever understands English. You, Sir, are a Roman, met with. Will you liquor?" Ipresume." The interpreter did not understand. The "4Sir, I am." Senator made an expressive sign. The InterThe man to whom the Senator spoke was not preter mentioned the request to the Chief, who one who would have attracted any notice from shook his head coldly.1 him if it had not been for his knowledge of En- "This is formal, " said th e Interpreter-"I not ghish. lie was a narrow-headed, mean-locking social." man, with very seedy clothes, and a servile but The Senator's face flushed. He frowned. canning expression. "1Give him my compliments then, and tell "1How do you like Rome?" lie asked of the him the next time he refuses a gentleman's Senator. offer he had better do it like a gentleman. For THE DODGE CLUB; 1OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 81 jil III~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~iI~~~~~ I,~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ ~.... ____________ I ~~~~~~_______ GOT'YOU THIERE! my part, if I chose to be uncivil, I might say "What do you mean?' that I consider your Roman police very small "You say I stir up the people." potatoes." "Yes. Do you deny it?" The Interpreter translated this literally, and "Pooh! How can a man stir up the people though the final expression was not very intelli- wvhen he can't speak a word of their language?" gible, yet it seemed to imply contempt. The Chief of Police did not reply for a mnoSo the Chief of Police made his communica- meat.' tion as sternly as possible. Grave reports had "1I rather think I've got you there," said the been made about His American Excellency. Senator, dryly. "1Hey? old IHoss?" The Senator looked surprised. ("IOld loss " was an epithet whbich he used "What about?" when he was in a good humor.) He felt that That he was haranguing the people, going he had the best of it here, and his auger was about secretly, plotting, and trying to instill rev- gone. He therefore tilted his chair back further, olutionary sentiments into the public mind, and placed his feet upon the back of a chair that "Pooh I"said the Senator. was in front of him. The Chief of Police bade him be careful. "There are Italians in Rome who speak EnHe would not be permitted to stir up an excita- gish, " was at len gth the rejoinder. ble populace. This was to give him warning. "I wish I could find some then," said the "IPooh!" said the Senator again. Senator. "1It's worse than looking for a needle And if M-k neglected this warnuing it would he in a hay-stack, they're so precious few." the wvorse for him. And the Chief of Police "You have met one."~ looked unutterable things. The Senator gazel "And I can't say I feel over-proud of the acat him, sternly and somewhat contemptuously quaintance," said the Senator, in his former dry for a few minutes. tone, looking hard at the Interpreter. "You're no great shakes any-how, said he. "At the Catfd Cenicci, I mean." "Signore?" said the Interpreter. "The what? Where's that?" "Doesn't it strike you that you are talking "Where you were this morning." infernal nonsense?" asked the Senator in a "Oh ho! that's it-nh? And was my friend slightly argumentative tone of voice, throwing there one of your friends too?" asked the Senone leg over another, tilting back his chair, and ator, as light burst in upon him. folding his arms. "le was sufficiently patriotic to give wvarn"Your language is disrespectful," was the in- ing." dignant reply. "1Oh-patriotic?-he was, was he?"' said the "Yours strikes me as something of the same Senator, slowly, wbile his eyes showed a dangerkind, too; but more-it is absurd." ous light. 82 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. "Yes-patriotic. He has watched you for The Senator informed his to friends about the some time." visit, and thoght very lightly about it; but the "VWatched me!" and the Senator frowned recollection of one thing rankled in his mind. wrathfully. That spy! The fellow had humbugged him. "Yes, all over Rome, wherever you went." e had dogged him, tracked him, perhaps for "Watched me! dogged me! tracked me! weeks, had dan him into conversation, asked Aha?" leading questions, and then given information. "So you are known." If there was any thing o earth that the Sena"Then the man is a spy." tor loathd it was this. "He is a patriot." But how could such a n be punished! "Why the mean concern sat next me, at- That was the thought. Punishment could only tracted my attention by reading English, and come from one. The law could do nothing encouraged me to speak as I did. Why don't But there was one who could do something, and you arrest him?" that one was himself. Lnch law "He did it to test you." "To test me! How would he like me to testMy e was J n, him?"So, darn your fre and sting, "The Government looks on your offense with You can not make me flinch." lenient eyes." The Senator hummed the above elegant words " Ah! " all that evening. "And content themselves this time with giv- He thought he could find the man yet. He ing you warning." was sure e would know him. e would de"Very much obliged; but tell your Govern- vote himself to this on the next day. The next ment not to be alarmed. I won't hurt them." day e went about the city, and at length in the Upon this the two visitors took their leave. afternoon e me to Pincian Hill There was WALKING SPANISH1. THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 83 a great crowd there as usual. The Senator which one is enabled to make any other do placed himself in a favorable position, in whichwhat is called "Walking Spanish," and prohe could only be seen from one point, and then pelled him rapidly toward the reservoir of the watched with the eye of a hawk. fountain. He watched for about an hour. At the end The Senator raised the spy from the ground of that time he sa a face. It belonged to a and pitched him into the pool. man who had been leaning against a post ith The air was rent with acclamations and cries.his back turned toward the Senator all this time of delight. It was theface! The fello happened to turn As the spy emerged, half-drowned, the crowd ait far enough round to let the Senator see him. came forward and would have prolonged the le was evidently watching him yet. The Sen- delightful sensation. ator walked rapidly toward him. The man saw Not often did they have a spy in their hands. him and began to move as rapidly away. The Senator increased his pace. So did the man. The Senator walked still faster. So did the man. The Senator took long strides. The man took short, quick ones. It is said that the fastest PCdestrians are those who take short, quick steps./ The Senator did not gain on the other.) By this time a vast number of idlers had been 7 attracted by the sight of these two men walking' as if for a wager. At last the Senator began \\ leC to run. So did the man! The whole thing was plain. One man was' chasing the other. At once all the idlers of the Pincian Hill stopped all their avocations and turned to look. The road winds down thme Pincian Hill to the Piazza del Popolo, and those on the upper part can look down and see the whole extent. What a place for a race! The quick-eyed Romans saw it all. "A spy! yes, a Govei~nment spy!" "Chased by an eccentric Englishman!" A loud shout burst from the Roman crowd. But a number of English and Americans thought___ differently. They saw a little man chased, T___ by a big one. Some cried "1Shame!" Others, 3. en (~ ~'' thinking it a case of pocket-p1icking, cried h "Stop thief! Others cried "IGo it, little fel-'z N low! Two to one on the small chap Every body on the Pincian Hill rushed to the edg~e of the winding road to look down, or to thle paved walk that overlooks the Piazza. Car- riages stopped and the occupants looked down. N French soldiers, dragoons, guards, officers-all cKhNSi'vl. staring.CHPE XXV And away went the Senator. And away ran, HPE XV the, terrified spy. Down the long way, and at' DICK MAKES ANOTHER EFFORT, AND BEGINS TO leng~th they came to the Piazza del Popolo. A FE NORGD loud shout came from all the, people. Above PEPITA'S little visit was beneficial to Dick. and on all sides they watched the race. The spy It showed him that he was not altogether cut dar-ted down the Corso. The Senator after him. off from her. Before that he had grown to The Romans in the street,applauded vocifer- think of her as almost inaccessible; now she ously. Hundreds of people stopped, and then seemed to have a will, and, what is better, a heart turned and ran after the Senator. All the win- of her owvn, which would lead her to do her dows, were crowded with heads. All the balco- share toward meetiug him again. Would it not nies were filled with people. be better now to comply with her evident deDown along the Corso. Past the column of sire, and leave Rome for a little while?. He Autonine. Into a street on the left. The could return again. Bat how could he tear Senator was gaining! At last they came to a himself away? Would it not be far better to square. A great fountain of vast waters bursts remain and seek her? He could not decide. forth there. The spy ran to the other side of He thought of Padre Liguori. He had grossly the square, and just as he was darting into a insulted that gentleman, and the thought of side alley the Senator's hand clutched his coat- meeting him again made him feel blank. Yet tails! he was in some way or other a protector of The Senator took the spy in that way by Pepita, a guardian, perhaps, and as such had 84 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. influence over her fortunes. If hle could only were their qiordomos. Poverty at last strip. disarm hostility from Padre Liguori it would ped them of every thing, and, te last of the be undoubtedly for his benefit. Perhaps Padre family dependents, entered the Church. But I Liguori would become his friend, and try to in- still preserve my respect and love for them. fluence Pepita's family in his favor. So he de- You can understand how bitterly I would ecided on going to see Padre Liguori. sent and avenge any base act or any wrong done The new turn which had been given to his to them. You can understand Luigi's vengeance feelings by Pepita's visit had benefited him in also." mind and body. He was quite strong enough "I thought as much," said Dick. "I for a long walk. Arriving at the church he thought you were a kind of guardian, and so I had no difficulty in finding Liguori. The priest came here to tell y frankly how it is. I love advanced with a look of surprise her. I can make her rich and happy. To do "Before mentioning the object of my visit," so is the desire of my heart. Why should I e said Dick, bowing courteously, "I owe you an turned away? Or if there be any objection, humble apology for a gross insult. I hope you what is it?" will forgive me." There is no objection-none whatever, if The priest bowed. Pepita is willing, and you sincerely love her. I "After I left here I succeeded in my object," think that Luigi would give his consent." continued Dick.Then hat would prevent me from marry"I heard so," said Liguori, coldly. ing her at once " And you have heard also that I met with a At once terrible punishment for my presumption, or Certainly." whatever else you may choose to call it."You show much ardor; but still an imme" I heard of that also," said the priest, stern- diate marriage is impossible. There are valy. "And do you complain of it? Tell me. ous reasons for this. In the first place, we love Was it not deserved?" Pepita too dearly to let her go so suddenly to "If their suspicions and yours had been cor- some one who merely feels a kind of impulse. rect, then the punishment would have been well We should like to know that there is some rosdeserved. But you all wrong me. I entreat pect of her being happy. We have cherished you to believe me. I am no adventurer. Iam her carefully thus far, and will not let her go honest and sincere." without having some security about her happi"We have only your word for this," said ness." Liguori, coldly. Then I will wait as long as you like, or "What will make you believe that I am sin- send for my friends to give you every informacere, then?" said Dick. "4What proof can I tion you desire to have; or if you want me to give?" give any proofs, in any way, about any thing, "You'are safe in offering to give proofs in a I'm ready." case where none can he given." "IThere is another thing," said Liguori, "I am frank with you. Will you -not be so "Iwhich I hope you will take kindly. You aire with me? I come to you to try to convince you young and in a foreign country. This sudden of my honesty, Padre Liguori. I love Pepita as impulse may be a whim. If you were to martruly and as honorably as it is possible for man ry now you might bitterly repent it before three to love, It was that feeling that so bewildered months wvere over. Under such circumstances me that I was led to insult you. I went out it would be misery for you and her. If this in the midst of danger, and would have died for happened in your native country you could be her. Withithese feelingslIcan not givebher up.' betrothed and wait. There is also another rcaIII have hoard sentiment like this often he- son why awaiting is absolutely necessary. It will fore. What is Your mneaning?" take some time to gain her brother's consent. "I am rich and of good family in my own Now her brother is poor, but hie might have, conntry; and I am determined to have P~epita been rich. He is a Liberal, and belongs to the for my wife." National party. He hates the present system "Your wife!" here most bitterly. He took part in the Roman "Yes," said Dick, resolutely. "I am hen- Republican movement a few years ago, and was orable and open about it. My story is short. I imprisoned after the return of the Pope, and love her, and wvish to make her my wife." lost the last vestige of his property by confiscaThe expression of Lignori changed entirely. tion. He now dresses coarsely, and declines "Ab! this makes the whole matter different to associate with any Romans, except a few wvho altogether. I did not know this before. Nor are members of a secret society with him. Ile did the Count. Buit he is excusable. A sud- is very closely watched by the Government, so den passion blinded him, and he attacked you. that he has to be quiet. But he expects to I will tell you "-and at each word the priest's rise to eminence and power, and even wealth, manner grew more friendly-" I will tell von before very long. So you see he does not look how it is, Signore. The Gxiantis were once a upon his sister as a'mere common every-day powerful family, and still have their title. I match. He expects to elevate her to the hiighconsider myself as a kind of appanage to the est rank, where she can find the best in the family, for my ancestors for several generations country around her. For my own part I think THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 85 this is doubtful; and if you are in earnest I tend to this. But how? Buttons was off with should do hat I could to further your inter- the Spaniards; Dick had gone out on a drive. est. But it will take some time to persuade No one could help him, so he tried it himself. ~~~~~the Count." ~In fact, he had never lost confidence in his pow"Then, situated as I am, hat can I do to ers of making himself understood. It was still gain her?" asked Dick. a fixed conviction of his that in cases of necesAre your friends thinking of leaving Rome sity any intelligent man could make his wants ~~~~~~soon?" ~known to intelligent foreigners. If not, there "Yes, pretty soon." is stupidity somewhere. Had he not done so Do not leave them. Go with them. Pur- in Paris and in other places? sue the course you originally intended, just as So he rang and managed to make the servant though nothing had happened. If after your understand that he wished to see the landlady. tour is finished you find that your feelings are The landlady had always shown a great admias strong as ever, and that she is as dear to you ration for the manly, not to say gigantic charms as you say, then you may return here." of the Senator. Upon him she bestowed her "~~~And you?" ~brightest smile, and the quick flush on her I think all objections may e removed." face and hleaving breast told that the Senator It will take some weeks to finish our tour." had made wild work with her too susceptible "Some weeks! Oh, do not return under heart. three months at least." So now when she learned that the Senator "Three months! that is very long!" wished to see her, she at once imagined the "Not too long. The time will soon pass cause to be any thing and every tiling except away. If you do not really love her you will the real one. Why take that particular time, e glad at having escaped; if you do you will when all the rest were out? she thought. Evirejoice at having proved your sincerity." dently for some tender purpose. Why send for Some further conversation passed, fter which her? Why not come down to see her? EviDik, finding the priest infexile, ceased to per- dently because he did not like the publicity of suade, and acceded to his proposal. her room at the Conciergerie. She arrayed herself, therefore, in her brightest and her best charms; gave an additional flourish to her dark hair that hung wavingly and CHAPTER XXX VI. -7 SHOWING HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO GET A LAUN- A1<.7//4 DRESS, FOR THE SENATOR WANTED ONE, AND // NOT KNOWING THE LANGUAGE GOT INTO A SCRAPE, NOT BY HIS OWN FAULT, FOE ILE WAS CAREFUL ABOUT COMMITTING HIMSELF WITH 9 THE LADIES; BUT PRAY, WAS IT HIS FAULT IF THE LADIES WOULD TAKE A FANCY TO HIM'? SIGNORA MIRANDOLINA ROCCA, who was the I /I~ R landlady of the house wvhere the Club wer lodg-/ ing, was a widow, of about forty years of age, still fresh and blooming, with a merry dark eye, and much animation of features. Sitting usual- ly in the small room which they passed on the./ 1vay to their apartments, they had to stop to get their keys, or to leave them when they went out, and Buttons and Dick frequently stoppedI to have a little conversation. The rest, not being able to speak Italian, contented themselves with smiles; the Senator particularly, who gave the most beaming of smiles both on going and on returning. Sometimes he even tried to talk to her in his usual adaptation of broken En~lish, sp oken in loud tones to the benighted but fascinating foreigner. Her at-I tention to Dick during his sickness increased the Senator's admiration, and he thought her U_ one of the best, one of the most kind-hearted I and sympathetic of beings. One day, toward the close of their tyi Romne, the Senator was in a fix. He had not had any washing done since he came to the 119" city. Hle had run through all his clean linen. //__ and came to a dead stand. Before leaving for another place it was absolutely necessary to at-, ic11 bLYATIOU IN A 1IAD FIX, 86 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. luxuriantly, and still without a trace of gray over "Me me want-ahum ah! You her forehead; looked at herself with her dark know-me-gentleman-hum-me —Coneyes in the glass to see if she appeared to the found the luck," he added, i profound vexabest advantage; and finally, in some agitation, tion. but with great eagerness, she went to obey the Signore," said Mirandolina, la di Leien summons. telezza me confonde." Meantime the Senator had been deliberating The Senator turned his eyes all around, everyhow to begin. He felt that he could not show where, in a desperate half-conscious search for his bundle of clothes to so-fair and fine a creat- escape from an embarrassing situation. ure as this, whose manners were so soft and "Signore oi ci siano sole, essuno ci seti," whose smile so pleasant. He would do any remarked the Signora, encouragingly. thing first. He would try a roundabout way Me want to tell you this!" burst forth the of making known his wishes, trusting to his Senator. "Clothes-you know-wasyown powers and the intelligence of the lady for washy." Whereupon e elevated his eyebrows, a full and complete understanding. Just as he smiled, and brought the tips of his fingers tohad come to this conclusion there was a timid gether. knock at the door. o n so ce cosa vo dir mi. ustrissimo, " Come in," said the Senator, who began to said the Signora, in bewilderment. feel a little awkward already. You-yo-you know. Ah? Washy? "Epermesso?" said a soft sweet voice, "se Hey? No, no," shaking his ead, not wasy, puo entrare?" and Signora Mirandolina Rocca butet washy." advanced into the room, giving one look at the The landlady smiled. The Senator, encourSenator, and then casting down her eyes. aged by this, came a step nearer. " Umilissiba serva di Lei, Signore, mi com- ie cos? CUOr epalpita. lo treo," manddi."' murmured La Rocca. But the Senator was in a quandary. What She retreated a step. Whereupon the Senacould he do? How begin? What gesture would tor at once fell back again in great confusion. be the most fitting for a beginning? Wash, washy," he repeated, mechanically, The pause began to be embarrassing. The as his mind was utterly vague and distrait. lady, however, as yet was calm-calmer, in fact, Ussi-Uussi?" repeated the other, interthan when she entered. roativel. So she spoke once more.Me "ODi che ha Ella bisogna, Illustris sino?" T," said she, with tender emphasis. The Senator was dreadfully embarrassed. "Wee mounseer," said he,7 with utter desperThe lady was so fair in his eyes. Was this a ation. woman who could contemplate the fact of soiled The Signora shook herbhead. "Non capisco. linen? Never. Ma quelle, balordaggini ed iatormentimeate, cite "IEhem 1 " said he. sono si aoa segni manaafesti d'amore?" Then he paused. I"II don't understand, marm, a single word of "Serva devote, said Signora Mirandolina. that." "Cite c'e, Sigaore." The Signora smiled. The Senator took courThen looking up, she saw the face of the age again. Senator all rosy red, turned toward her, with a "1The fact is this, marm,"1 said he, firmly, "I strange confusion and embarrassment in his eye, want to get my clothes washed somewhere. Of yet it was a kind eye-a soft, kind eye. course you don't do it, but you can tell me, you IIEgli e forse inaaarorato di mne, " murmured know. Hm.?" the lady, gathering new courage as she saw the "Nsa~o capisco." tiiiyof the other. "Cite grandezza!" she "Madame, said he, feeling confident that continued, loud enough for the Senator to hear, she would understand that word at least, and yet speaking as if to herself. "ICite beilezza! thinking, too, that it might perhap's serv~e as a utj geleatuomo, certamaeate - e quest' e maolto p~ie- key to explain any other words which he might cevo le. " append to it. "IMy clothes-I want to get them She glanced at the mainly figure of the Sen- washed-laundress-washy-soap and waterator with a tender admiration in her eye which clean'emn all up-iron'em-hang'em out to dry. she could not repress, and which was so intelli- Ha?" gible to the Senator that he blushed more vio- While saying this he indulged in an expresslently than ever, and looked helplessly around ive pantomine. When alluding to his clothes1 him, he placed his hands against his chest, when men" E inaaemoreto di me, senza dubio," said the tioning the drying of them he waved them in the Signora, "1vergogna non vuol cite si sepesse." air. The landlady comprehended this. How The Senator at length found voice. Ad- not? When a gentleman places his hand on his vancing toward the lady he looked at her very heart, what is his meaning? earnestly and as she thought very piteously- "1 0 sottigliezza d'emiore!" murmured she. held out both his hands, then smiled, then "1 Cite cose cerca," she continued, looking up spread his hands apart, then nodded and smiled timidly but invitingly. again, and said- The Senator felt doubtful at this, and in fact THE DODGE. CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 87 THlE S5FNATOR IN A WORSE FIX a little frightened. Again he placed his hands Her warm heart prompted her, and she obeyon his chest to indicate his clothes; he struck ed its impulse. What else could she do? She that manly chest forcibly several times, looking flung herself into his outstretched arms, as hie at her all the time. Thea bie wvrung his hands. raised himself to hang out imaginary clothes on "cAh, Signore," said La Rocca, with a melt- an invisible line. ing glance, "Inon i d'uopo di desperazione." The Senator was thunderstruck, confounded, "Washy, washy-" bewildered, shattered, overcome, crushed, stupe"IEppure, se Ell1a vuol sposarmi, non ce d~ff- fled, blasted, overwhelmed, horror - stricken, co/ta," returned the other, with true Italian wonder-smitten, annihilated, amazed, horrified, frankness. shocked, frightened, terrified, nonplused, wilted, "1Soaia and water-" awe-struck, shivered, astounded, dumbfounded. "Non ho il coraqgtio, di dir di no." Hie did not even struggle. He was paralyzed. The Senator had his arms outstretched to in- "IA/i, carissimno, " said a soft and tender voice dicate the hanging-out process. Still, however, in his ear, a low, sweet voice, "Ise verameneta me feeling doubtful if he were altogether -under- and, saro lo tua carissinma sposa-" stood, hie thought he would try another form of At that moment the door opened and Butpantomime. Suddenly hie fell down on his tons walked in. In an instant he darted out. knees, and began to imitate the action of a The Signora hurried away. washer-woman over her tub, washing, wringing, "A ddio, bellissima, carissimagioja."' she sigh. pounding, rubbing. ed. " 0 gran' cieio."' cried the Signora, her pity- The Senator was still paralyzed. ing heart filled with tenderness at the sight of After a time he went with a pale and anxthis noble being on his knees before her, and, as ious face to see Buttons. That young man she thought, wringing his hands in despair. promised secrecy, and when the Senator was "0 gran' cie/o! Egli e inaaemorato di me non telling his story tried hard to look serious and PUo par/ar Italiano e cosi non pio dirmelo.' sympathetic. In -vain. The thought of that 88 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. scene, and the cause of it, and the blunder that SITY. -FOLLIES OF MODERN CRITICS. -REYhad been made overwhelmed him. Laughter OLDS AND RUSIN.-HOW FAR POPULAR TASTE convulsed him. At last the Senator got up in- OF I ANESDSCRPIN dignantly and left the room. [ But what was he to do now? The thing o f ought to take the eye. It was nay intention, on the de. could not be explained. How could he get out pature of the Club fro Rome, to write a chapter of a of the house? He would have to pass her as thoroughly exhaustive character, as will be seen by the table of contents above; hut afterward, finding that the she sat at the door. hapter had already reached the dimensions of a good. He had to call on Buttons again and implore sized ook before a quarter of it was written, I thought that if it were inserted in this work it would be considered his assistance. The difficulty was so repug- by some as too long; in fact, if it were admitted noting nant, and the matter so very delicate, that But- more would ever be heard of e Dodge Club; which tons declared he could not take the respon- would be a great pity, as the st of their adventures did not take place until after this period; and as this is ths sibility of settling it. It would have to be real character of the preent work, I have finally decided beoeth lb to enlarge the chapter into a book, which I will publish brought beforr I have given to the world my History of the MClub.The Club had a meeting about it, and many macs," "Treatise on the Greek Particles, Course of plans were proposed. The stricken Senator Twelve Lectures on Modern istory," new edition of the hadgamemnonian Triology one planshylus, wiand that pnew revailed. It was tohad on plan and hat prvaile. It as ings, "1harmony of Greek Accent and Prosody," "1Exerleave Rome on the following day. For his ciss in Sanscrit for Beginners, on the Ollendorf System," part he had made up his mind to leave the house "The Odyssey of omer translated into the Dublin Irish dialect," "1Dissertation on the Symbolical Nature of the Mloat once. He would slip out as though he in- sal Economy," "Elements of Logic," Examination into tended to return, and the others could settle his the Law of Neutrals," Life of General George Wasingbill nd bing ith hem he cothe tha badton,"l " History of Patent Medicines," "1Transactions of bill and bring with them the clothes that had tadvancement of Human caused all this trouble. IIe would meet them Learning, particularly Natural Science' (consisting of e in thicle mowritten by myself on the gateoads of athe citye')," anda in th mornng otsidethe gte o the ity "Report of the' Kennebunkport, Maine, United CongreThis resolution was adopted by all, and the gationalLadies' Benevolent City Missionary and Mariners' Senator, leaving money to settle for himself, Friend Society," which will all be out some of these days, Ho pased huriedl out f theI don't know exactly when; but after they come out this went away. He passed hurriedly out ookform. Andifanyof the creaddoor. He dared not look. He heard a soft ers prefer to wait till they read that chapter before read voice pronounce frtheer, all I can say is, perhaps they'd better oiproctewd ~G a Ilfe not, as after all it has no necessary connection with the Now that one who owned the soft voice after- fortunes of the Dodge Club.] ward changed her feelings so much toward her "gioja" that opposite his name in her housebook she wrote the following epithets: Birbone, Villano, Zolicaccio,.Burberone, Gaglioffo, CHAPTER XXXVIII. Meksc/hiso, Briconaccio,2 Anesstalaccio. ITALIAN TRAVEL, ROADS, INNS.-A GRAND BREAKDOWN.-AN ARMY OF BEGGARS.-SIX MEN HUNTING UP A CARRIAGE WHEEL; AND PLANS OF THIE SENATOR FOR THE GOOD OF ITALY. CHAPTER XXXVII. ON tile following morning the Senator was Rome.-Ancient IiiStor-y.-TtE, PREHISTORIC ERA. picked up at the gate, where he had waited pa-CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF NIEBUHR A-ND tiently ever since the dawn of day. His seat HIS SCHOOL.-THE EARLY HISTORY OF ROME was secured. His friends were around him. PLACED ON A RIGHT BASIS.-EXPLANATION OF He was safe. They rolled on merrily all that HISTORY.OF REPUBLIC. -NAPOLEON'S "CAE- day. And hi araewsaedo hto iJAR."-THE IMPERIAL REGIME.-THE NORTH-. dthicargewshadotatf ERN BARBARIANS.-RISE OF THE PAPACY.-ME- the Spaniards. They stopped at the same inns. DIEVAL ROME. Buttons was happy. Topograp/ey.-TRUE ADJUSTMENT OF BOUNDS OF The next day came. At nine o'clock A.m. ANCIENT CITY.-ITS PROBABLE POPULATION.- on tile -next day there was a singular scene: Geology.-EXAMuINATION OF FORMATION.-TUFA Avtuawt h oewelcuhdit TRAVERTINE.-ROMAN CEMENT. -TERRA-COT- Avtuawt h oewelcuhdit TA.-Speciol cosesidercation of Roman Catacomnbs. fragments; two horses madly plunging; five -BOSO.-ARRINGHI.-CARDINAL WISEMAN.- men thrown in different directions on a soft,RECENT EXPLORATIONS, INVESTIGATIONS, EX- sand-bank; and a driver gazing npon the scene AMINATIONS, EXHUMATIONS, AND RESUSCITA- ihafc fwe TIONS.-EARLY CHRISTIAN HISTORY SET ON A wit aaeofwe TRUE BASIS.-RELICS.-MARTYRS.-REAL ORI- The Senator tried most energetically to brush GIN OF CATACOMBS.-TRUE AND RELIABLE EX- the dust from his clothes with an enormous red TENT (WITH MAPS).sikankrhf;teDcoadM.Fgs Resnar-ks os Art.-THE RENAISSANCE.-THE EARLY sikhnkrhe;teDco nnr ig PAINTERS: CIMABUE, GIOTTO, PERUGINO, RAF- looked aghast at huge rents ill their nether garAELLE SANZIO, MICHELANGELO ~BUONA-ROTTI.- meats; Buttons and Dick- picked themselves up THE, TRANSFIGURATION.-THE MOSES OF MI- and hurried to the wreck. CIHELANGELO.-BELLINI.-SAINT PETER'IS, AND The emotions of the former may be conceived. MORE PARTICULARLY THE COLONNADE.-THE LASTJUDGENT -DATE. THEMEDLVALThe wheel was an utter smash. No patching SPIRIT.-E FFECT OF GOTHIC ART ON ITALY AND however thorough, no care however tender, could ITALIAN TASTE. - COMPARISON OF LOMBARD place it on its edge again a perfect wheel. A bill WITH SICILIAN CHURCHES.-TO WHAT EXTENTI oebfr hm behindwihteSaars ROME NFLUECED TIS DEELOPMNT-TH hitherto their companions, had disappeared half FOSTERING. SPIRIT OF THE CHURCH.-ALL MOD-; ERN ART CHRISTIAN.-WHRY THIS WAS A NECES- an hour previously, and were now rolling on over THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 89 the palin beyond that hill all ignorant of this "The coach has already fallen on it," said disaster. Every moment separated them more Dick. "Surely that is enough." widely from the despairing Buttons. Could he "It infuriates me to find myself overthrown have metamorphosed himself into a wheel most here." gladly would he have done it. He had wild; "You could not wish for a better place, my thoughts of setting off on foot and catching up Pietro." to them before the next day. But, of course, "What will you do?" said Buttons. "We further reflection shlowed him that walking was must not wa;te time here. Can we go on?" out of the question. "How is that possible?" Dick looked on in silence. They were little "We might get a wheel ILt the next town." more than a day's journey from Rome. Civita "We could not fird one if we hunted all Castellana lay between; yet perhaps a wheel through the three next towns." might not be got at Civita Castellana. In that "Curse your Italian towns!" cried Buttons, case a return to Rome was inevitable. What a in a rage. momentous thought! Back to Rome! Ever "Certainly, Signore, curse them if you desire." since he left he had felt a profound melancholy. Where can we get this one repaired then?" The feeling of homesickness was on him. He "At Civita Castellana, I hope." had amused himself with keeping his eyes shut "Back there! What, go back!" and fancying that he was moving to Rome in- "I am not to blame," said Pietro, with resstead of from it. Hle had repented leaving the ignation. city. Better, he thought, to have waited. He "We must not go back. We shall not." might then have seen Pepita. The others grad- "If we go forward every mile will make it ually came to survey the scene. worse. And how can we move with this load " Eli? Well, what's to be done now?' said and this broken wheel up that hill?" Buttons, sharply, as the driver came along. That was indeed a difficulty. The time that " HIow long are you going to wait?" had elapsed since the lamentable break-down "Signore makes no allowance for a poor had been sufficient to bring upon the scene an man's confusion. Behold that wheel! What inconceivable crowd. After satisfying their is there for me to do-unhappy? May the bit- curiosity they betook themselves to business. ter curse of the ruined fall upon that miserable Ragged, dirty, evil- faced, wicked- eyed, wheel!" slouching, whining, impudent-seventeen wom2I TRA'VELLING IN ITALY. ~90 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. e twenty-nine small boys, and thirty-one Three hours were consumed in the tedious en, without counting curs and goats. search. The entire body of the inhabitants beSigno-o-oo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o! in the name of came soon aware of the object of their desires. the Ever Blessed, and for the love of Heaven." and showed how truly sympathetic is the ItalGo to thunder." "For the love of." "We ian nature, by accompanying them wherever have nothing, nothing, NOTHING! Do you hear?" they went, and making observations that were "Of the Virgin." "Away! Be off." "Give more sprightly than agreeable. me." Go to blazes!" "Me miserable." At first the Club kept together, and made "Will you be off?" "Infirm, blind, and." their search accompanied by Pietro; but after I'll break your skull! " "Altogether des- a time the crowd became so immense that they perate." If you torment us any more, I'll." separated, and continued their search singly. Only the smallest charity." "Smash your This produced but slight improvement. The abominable bottle-nose!' "Oh, generous no- crowd followed their example. A large numbles "Don't press me, you filthy." "Ii- ber followed the Senator: walking when e lstrious cavaliers!" "Take that! and if you walked; stopping when he stopped; turning say any more I'll kick you harder." "I kneel when he turned; strolling when he strolled; before you, oppressed, wretched, starving. Let peering when he peered; commenting when he these tears." "I'll make you shed more of spoke, and making themselves generally very them if you don't clear out." "N-n-n- Sig- agreeable and delightful. no-o-o-o-o!" "Away!" "Behold a wretch- At every corner the tall form of the Senator ed,illagerfromthe fardistantTicino!" "You might be seen as he walked swiftly with the be anged! Keep off!" "Oh, Signo-o-o-o-o! long procession following like a tail of a comOh per l'amor di Dio! Carita! Carita-a-a-a et; or as hlie stopped at times to look around in -solamente un mezzo baroecho-oh, Signo-o-o! despair, when -datemi." II He above the rest Pietro! Pietro! for Heaven's sake get us Tn shape and gesture proudly eminent tnout of tiis at once. Anywhere - anywherer Stood like a tower. His form had not yet lost so that we can escape from these infernal vaga- All its original rightnes ~~~~~bonds ~~!" ~although, to tell the truth, his clothes had, and The result was, that Pietro turned his car- the traces of mud and dust somewhat dimmed riage round. By piling the baggage well behind, the former lustre of his garments. and watching the fore-axle carefully, he con- I The appalling truth at last forced itself upon trived to move the vehicle along. Behind themr 1 them that Civita Castellana could not furnish followved the pertinacious beggars, filling the air! them either with a new wheel or a blacksmith with prayers, groans, sighs, cries, tears, lamen- whbo could repair the broken one. Whether the tations, appeals, wailings, and entreaties. Thus entire mechanical force of the town had gone situated they made their entry into Civita Cas- off to the wars or not they did not stop to intellana. quire. They believed that the citizens had Others might have felt flattered at the recep-I combined to disappoint them, in hopes that tion that awaited them. They only felt an-'their detention might bring in a little ready noyed. The entire city turned out. The main'money and start it in circulation around the street up which they passed was quite full. community. The side-streets showed people hurrying uip to It was at last seen that the only way to do the principal thoroughfare. They were the was to send Pietro back to Rome. To delay centre of all eyes. Through the windows of any longer would be only a waste of time. the caf6 the round eyes of the citizens were vis- Slowly and sadly they took up their quarters at ible on the broad stare. Even the dogs and the hotel. Dick decided to go back so as to cats had a general turn out. hasten Pietro, wvho might otherwise loiter on Nor could they seek relief in the seclusion ithe wvay. So the dilapidated carriage had to of the hotel. The anxiety which all felt to rc- set out on its journey backward. supne their journey did not allow them to rest. Forced to endure the horrors of detention in They at once explored the entire city. one of the dullest of Italian towns, their situaWas there a carriage-maker in the place? lion was deplorable. Mr. Figgs was least unA half-hour's search showed them that there happy, for he took to his bed and slept through was not one. The next thing then was to try! the entire period, with the exception of certain and find a wheel. About this they felt a little intervals which he devoted to meals. The Doehopeful. Strange, indeed, if so common a thing tor sat quiethy by an upper wvindow playing as this could not be obtained, the devil's tattoo on the ledge with inexhaustiYet strange as this might be it was even so. ble patience. No wheel was forthcoming. They could not The Senator strolled through the town. H-e find a carriage even. There was notlling but found much to ititerest him. His busy brain two ancient cale'ches, whose wvheels were not. was filled with schemes for the improvement only rickety but utterly disproportioned to the of the town. size of the vettura, and any quantity of bullock How town lots could be made valuable; how carts, whicll moved on contrivances that could strangers could be attracted; howv manufactscarcely be called wheels at all. ures could be promoted; how hotels started; TIlE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 91 ~NThLI'N II[~ - 1 liilj? ing of horses; Pietro drove up to the hotel., -t l, )~,~?,i —''-'- - ~1: ~,!ji!',liI~ Most conspicuous in the turn-out was Dick, who ws seated in the coupd, waving his hat triumph antly in the air.'! (/!i[i'li a l -~~ <'i | ~The appearance of the carriage was the signal for three hearty cheers, which burst involun~,?~,, ~~~'. ~'~~.-"~':{!~ tarily fromi the three Americans on th yard, rousing Mr. Figgs from sleep and the inn-keeper from his usual lethargy. One look "it the horses was enough to show that there! [,,,..~~~ 1[0 powas no chance of proceeding further that day. The poor beasts were covered with foa, and trembled excessively. h owever, they all felt -"~'[ 5 l~ _' [ Iinfinite relief at the prospect of getting away, even though they would have to wait till the following morning. Dick was dragged to the dining-room by his eager friends and fiercely interrogated. He had not much to tell. The journey to Rome had been made without any difficulty, the carriage having tumbled forward on its front axle not more than one hundred and fifty-seven times. True, when it reached Rome it was a perfect wreck, the framework being completely wrenched to pieces; and -!i ~ the proprietor was bitterly enraged with Pietro for not leaving the carriage at Civita Castellana,'- and returning on horseback for a wheel; but Dick interceded for the poor devil of a driver, TUE sENAToas EscoCT and the proprietor kindly consented to deduct the value of the coach from his wages piecehow. shops supported; how trade increased meal. how the whole surrounding population enriched, Their journey back was quick but uniuterestespecially by the fatctories. ing. Dick acknowledged that he had a faint "6Why, among these here hills, said he, idea of staying in Rome, but saw a friend who confidentially, to Buttons- " among these veiy aidvised him -not to. Ilie had taken the reins hills there is water-power and excellent location and driven for a great part of the way, while for, say-Silk-weaving mills, Fulling ditto, Grist Pietro had gone inside aiid slumbered the sleep ditto, Cardingr ditto, Sawing ditto, Plaster- of the just. crushing ditto, Planing ditto.-Now I would As it was a lonely country, wvith few inhabitlocate a cotton-mill over there." ants, he had beguiled the tedious hours of the "Where would you get your cotton?" mum- journey by blowing patriotic airs on an enorbled Buttons. mous trombone, purchased by him from a mis"Where?" repeated the Senator. "1Grow it cellaneous dealer in Rome. The result had on the Camnpagna, of course." been in the highest degree pleasing to himself, Buttons passed the time in a fever of im- though perhaps a little surprising to others. patience. No one, however, interfered with him except For far ahead the Spaniards wvere flying far- a party of gendarmes who attempted to stop ther and further away, no doubt wvondering at him. They thought that ho was a Garibaldievery stage why he did not join them. no trying to rouse the country. The trombone might have been the cause of that suspicion. Fortunately the gendarmes, though armed to C11APTER XXXIX. the teeth, wer-e not mounted, and so it was that, TRIUPEAN PRGRES OFDICK - ENDAMESwhen they attempted to arrest Dick, that yotmng FOILE-TEEDODG CLUBIS ATACKD BYman lashed his horses to fury, and, loosening BRIGANDS, AND EVERY MAN OF IT COVERS HIM- the reins at the same moment, burst through SELF WITH GLORY. - SCREAM OF THE AMERI- the line, and before they knew what he was CAN EAGLE! about he was away. IT was late on the evening of the following, They fired a volley. The echoes died away, day before Dick made his appearance with mingled with gendarmerian curses. The only Pietro. Another vettura had, been obtained, harm done was a hole made by a bullet through and with cracks of a long whip that resounded the coach. The only apparent effect was the through the whole town, summoning the citi- waking of Pietro. That worthy, suddenly zeus to the streets; with thunder of wheels roused from slumber, jumped up to hear the over the pavements; -with prancing and snort-'last sounds of the rifles, to see the hole made ~92 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. (ai DICi IN lIS GLORY. b the bullet, the fading forms of the frantic drels infested the roads, particularly in the Paicials, and the nimble figure of the gallant pal territories. Here the Government, finding driver, who stood upright upon the seat waving sufficient employment for all its energies in takhis hat over his head, while the horses dashed ing care of itself, could scarcely be expected to on at a furious gallop. take care either of its own subjects or the traThis was all. Nothing more occurred, for eller through its dominions. The Americans Pietro drove the remainder of the way, and had heard several stories about brigands. but Dick's trombone was tabooed. had given themselves no trouble whatever about On the following morning the welcome de- them. parture was made. To their inexpressible joy Now it came to pass that about five miles they found that the coach was this time a strong from Perugia they wound round a very thicklyone, and no ordinary event of travel could de- wooded mountain, which ascended on the left lay them. They had lost two days, however, far above, and on the right descended quite aband that was no trifle. They now entered -upon ruptly into a gorge. Dick was outside; the the second stage, and passed on without diffi- others inside. Suddenly a loud shout, and a culty. scream from Pietro. The carriage stopped. In fact, they didn't meet with a single inci- The inside passengers could see the horses dent worth menti-oning till they came to Peru- rearing and plunging, and Dick, snatching whip gin. Perugia is one of the finest places in Ita- and reins from Pietro, lashing them with all ly, and really did not deserve to be overhauled his might. In a moment all inside was in an so terrifically by the Papal troops. Every body uproar. remembers that affair. At the time when the "We are attacked!" cried Button s. Dodge Club arrived at this city they found the "The devil!" cried the Senator, who in his Papal party in the middle of a reaction. They sudden excitement, used the first and only proactually began to fear that they had gone a lit- fane expression which his friends ever heard tle too far. They were making friendly over- liin utter. tures to the outraged citizens. But the latter Out came the Doctor's revolver. were implacable, stiff! Bang! bang! wvent two rifles outside, and a What rankled most deeply was the madden- loud voice called on them to surrender. ing fact that these Swiss, who were made the "Aadate al Diavolo!" pealed out Dick's mnkisters of vengeance, were part of that ac- voice as loud as a trumpet. His blows fell cursed, detested, hated, shunned, despised, ab- fast and furiously on the horses. Maddened horred, loathed, execrated, contemptible, stu- by pain, the animals bounded forward for a few pid, thick-headed, brutal, gross, cruel, bestial, rods, and then swerving from the road-side, demoniacal, fiendish, and utterly abominable dashed against the precipitous bill, where the race-I Tedeschi-whose very name, when hiss- coach stuck, the horses rearing. ed from an Italian mouth, expresses unuttera- Through the doors which they had flung ble scorn and undying hate. open in order to jump out the occupants of the They left Perugia at early dawn. Jogging carriage sawv the reeling figures of armed men on easily over the hills, they were calculating overthrown and cursing. In a moment they the time when they would reach Florence. all wvere out. Iii the disturbed state of Italy at this time, Bang! and thenresulting from war and politica excitement, Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-bang! went half a dozen riand general expectation of universal change, fles. the country was filled with disorder, and scoun- Thank Heaven! not one of the Club was THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 93 struck. There were twenty scoundrels armed brace. Buttons's razor again drank blood. Two ~~to the teeth. ~turned upon him. Bang! went the Doctor's The Doctor was as stiff as a rock. e aimed pistol, sending one of them shrieking to the six times as calmly as though e were in a pistol- ground. Bang! once more, and a fellow who gallery. Nerve told. Six explosions roared. had nearly overpowered the breathless Figgs Six yells followed. Six men reeled staggered back. Dick was writhing on the I'd give ten years of my ife for such a pis- ground beneath the weight of a dead man and te~l!" cried Buttons. a fellow who was trying to suffocate him. ButThe Italians were staggered. Dick had a tons was being throttled by three others wvho bowie-knife. The Senator grasped a ponder- held him powerless, his razor being broken. s beam that he had placed on the coach in A crack on Mr. Figgs's head laid him low. case of another break-down. Mr. Figgs had a The Doctor stood off at a little distance hastily razor which he had grabbed from the store- reloading. house in the Doctor's pocket. Buttons had The Senator alone was free; but six fierce nothin. But on the rad lay three Italians fellows assailed him. It was now as in the old ~~~~~~~writhing. Homeric days, when the heroic soul, sustained Hurrah!" cried Buttons. Load in, by iron nerve and mighty muscle, came out parDoctor. Come; let's make a rush and gt the ticularly strong in the hour of conflict. guns of these devils on the road." The Senator's form towered up like one of He rushed forward. The others all at his his own granite cliffs in the storm-as rugged, sid. The Italians stood paralyzed at the effect as unconquerable. His blood was up! The of the revolver. As Buttons led the charge same blood it was that coursed through the they fell ack a few paces. veins of Cromwell's grim old "Ironsides," and Hurrah! hrrah! hurrah!" burst from afterward animated those sturdy backwoodsButtons, the Senator, and Dick, as each snatch- men who had planted themselves in American ed a rifle from the prostrate bandits, and has- forests, and beaten back wild beasts and howltily tore the cartridge-boxes fro them. ing savages. "Load up! load up! Doctor!" cried But- Buttons, prostrate on the ground, looked up, ~~~~~~tons. ~gasping through the smoke and dust, as lihe All riht said the Doctor, who never struggled with his assailants. He saw the Senchanged in his cool self-possession. ator, his hair bristling out straight, his teeth set, But now the Italians with curss and screams his eye on fire, his whole expression sublimed came back to the attack. It is absolutely st- by the arder of battle. His clothes were torn pefving to think how few shots hit the mark in to shreds; his coat was gone, his hat nowhere, the excitement of a fight. Here were a nnm- his hands and face were covered with clots of ber of men firing, from a distance, of hardly blood and streaks from mud, dust, smoke, and more than forty paces, and riot one took effect, powder. The next moment the whole crowd were The eye of Buttons took in all this in one upon them. Buttons snatched Mr. Figgs's ra- glance. The next instant, with a wide sweep zor from his grasp and used it vigorously, of his clubbed rifle the Senator put forth all his Dick plied his bowie-knife. The Senator wielded gigantic strength in one tremendous effort. a clubbed rifle on high as though it were a The shock was irresistible. Dowvn wvent the wand, and dealt the blows of a giant upon the six bandits as though a cannon-ball hind struck heads of his assailants. All the Italians were them. The Senator leaped awvay to relieve physically their inferiors-small, puny men. Dick, and seizing his assailant by neck and Mr. Figgs made a wild dash at the first man he heel, flung him over the cliff. Then tearing Sawv and seized his rifle. The fight was spirited, away another from Mr. Figgs's prostrate and The rascally brigands were nearly three times almost senseless form, hie rushed back upon as numerous, but the Americans surpassed them the six men wvhom he had just levelled to the in bodily strength and spirit, earth. Crash-crash-fell. the Senator's rifle, and Dick sprang to the relief of Buttons, who was down wevnt two men. his strength was enor- at his last extremity. But the Doctor was bemious-absorbed as it had been from the gran- fore him, as cool as ever. He grasped one felite cliffs of the old Granite State. Two brawny low by the throat-a favorite trick of the IDoefellows seized him from behind. A thrust of his tor's, in which his anatomical knowledge came elbow laid one low. Buttons slashed the wvrist very finely into play: of the other. A fellow threw himself on But- " IOff!" rang the Doctor's voice. tons. Dick's bowie-knife laid open his arm and The fellow gasped a curse. The next inthii~h. The next moment Dick went down be- stant a roar burst through the air, and the neath the blows of several Italians. But But- wretch fell heavily forward, shot through the tons rushed with his razor to rescue Dick. head, while his brains were spattered over the Threo men glared at him with uplifted weap- face of Buttons. The Doctor with a'blow of ens. Down came the Senator's clubbed rifle his fist sent the other fellow reeling over. like an avalanche, sweeping their weapons over Buttons sprang up gasping. The Italians the cliff. They turned simultaneously on the were falling back. He called to the Senator. Senator, and grasped him in a threefold em-. That man of mig(ht came up. Thank God, 94 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. they were all alive! Bruised, and wounded, and panting-but alive. /> The scowling bandits drew off; leaving seven~\\l~/, P of their number on the road hors de comnbat. ij4; Some of the retreating ones had been badly ~ < 1 treated, and limped and staggered. The Club z ~ proceeded to load their rifles. 0 The Doctor stepped forward. Deliberately ~~/ aiming hie fired his revolver five times in rapid succession. Before he had time to load again the bandits had darted into the woods. "Every one of those bullets htit," said thi. Doctor with unusual emphasis. "We must get under cover at once," said Dick. "They'll be back shorily with others!" r "Then we must fortify our position," said the Senator, "and wait for relief. As we weie, though, it was lucky they tried a hand- to-han fight first. This hill shelters us on one side. There are so many trees that they can't roll stones down, nor can they shoot us. We'll fix a barricade in front with our baggage. We'll have to fight behind a barricade this time \ though, by the Eternal! I wish it were handto-hand again, for I don't remember of ever having had such a glorious time in all my horn_ days! The Senator passed his hand over his gory brow, and walked to the coach. "IWhere's Pietro?" PIiTRO. "Pietro! Pietro."' No answer. en rifles, with cartridges, and some other useful " PtI —T.R 1" articles. Four of these men were stone-dead. Still no answer. They pulled their bodies in front of their place "1Pietro!" cried Dick, "if you don't come of shelter. The wounded men they drew inhere I'll blow your-'" side, and the Doctor at once attended to them, "IOh! is it you, Signori?" exclaimed Pie- while the others were strengthening the barrntro's voice; and that worthy appeared among cade. the trees a little way up the hill. He was dead- "I don't like putting these here," said the ly pale, and trembled so much that he could Senator; "Ibut it'll likely frighten the brigands, scarcely speak. or make them delicate about firing at us. That's "Look here!I" cried Buttons; "we are go- my idee." ing to barricade ourselves." The horses were secured fast. Then the bag"Barricade!" gage was piled all around, and made an cx"We can not carry our baggage away, and cellent barricade. With this and the captured we are not going to leave it behind. We cx- rifles they felt themselves able to encounter a pect to have another battle." small regiment. Pietro's farce grew livid. "INow let them come on, " cried the Senator, "You can stay and help us if you wish." "just as soon as they damn please! We'll try Pietro's teeth chattered. first the Eur6pean system of barricades; and "1Or you can help us far more by running to if that don't work, then we can fall back on the tife nearest town and lettingr the authorities real original, national, patriotic, independent, know.' manly, native American, true-blue, and alto"Oh, Signore, trust me! I go)" gether her6ic style! "Make haste, then, or yvou may find us all "What is that? murdered, and then how will you get your fares The Senator looked at the company, and -eh?" held out his clenched fist: "I go-I go; I will run all the way!" "Why, from behind a tree, in the woods, "Won't you take a gun to defend yourself like your glorious forefathers! with?" "1 Oh no!" cried Pietro, with horror. "No, no! In a few minutes he had vanished among the thick woods. After stripping the prostrate Italians the travellers found themselves in possession of sev THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 95 THE BARRICADN C1PE L ip.I hr ayti qult t o PLEASAT MEDTATIOS ABOT THEWONDESO-F id th ancints cntriv to wile aay th CLapicattebranyfakrsoe XL.wpie. gaisg theeony theringsqa tof eea iteHo strength and freshness to the beleaguered tray- ples, reared by adoring votaries to the goddess ellers, who now, intrenched behind their fortifi- Tabaca. Boys at school would have construed cations, awaited any attack which tile Italians passages about her. Lempriere, Smith, Anmight choose to make, thou, Drissler, and others would hate done "The I-talians," said tile Senator, "are not honor to her. Classic mythology would have a powerful race. By no means. Feeble in been full of her presence. Olympian Jove body-no muscle-no brawn. Above all, no would have been presented to us with this direal pluck. Buttons, is there a word in their vinity as his constant attendant, and a nimbus language that expresses the exact idee ofpluck?" around his immortal brows of her making. Bac"No." chus would have had a rival, a superior! "Or game?" Poets would have told how TABACA went "No." over the world girt in clouds that but set off "Or even spunk F" the more her splendid radiance. We should "No."7 have known how much Bacchus had to do with III thought not," said the Senator, calmly. i-r Batqdea; a chapter which will probably be a "They lgaven't the idee, and can't have the lost one in the History of Civilization. But word. Now, it wonld require a rather consid- that he who smokes should drink beer is quite erable crowd to demolish ns at the present indisputable. Whether the beer is to be X, time. " XX, XXX; or whether the brewer's name itI-low long will we have to stay here?" should begin with an A, as in Alsopp, and run asked Mr. Figgs abruptly. through the whole alphabet, ending with V, as "IMy dear Sir," said Buttons, with more in Vassar, may be fairly left. to individual consprightliness than he had shown for many days, sideration. "Ibe thankful that you are here at all. We'll What noble -poetry, what spirited odes, what get off some time to-day. These fellows are eloquent words, has not the world lost by the watching ns, and the moment we start they'll ignorance of Greek and Roman touching this fire on uts. We would be a good mark for them plant? in the coach. No, we must wait awhile." The above remarks were made by Dick on Seated upon the turf, they gave themselves this occasion. But Buttons was talking with. up to the pleasing influence that flows from the the wounded Italians. G 96 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. The Doctor had bound up their wounds and "I have no idea." Buttons had favored them with a drop from his "You would never guess. You never woul4 flask. Dick cut up some tobacco and filled a have thought of it yourself." pipe for each. After all, the Italians were not "Where did you leave it?" fiends. They had attacked them not from "In the heart of the Captain." malice, but purely from professional motives. Yet, had their enemies been Tedeschi, no amount of attention would have overcome their sullen hate. But being Americans, gay, easy, CHAPTER XLI. without malice, in fact kind and rather agreea- FINAL ATTACK OF REINFORCEMENTS OF BRIGANDS. ble, they softened, yielded altogether, and final- -THE DODGE CLUB DEFIES THEM AND REPELS ly chatted familiarly with Buttons and Dick. THEM.-HOW TO MAKE A BARRICADE. - FRAThey were young, not worse in appearance TERNIZATION OF AMERICAN EAGLE AND GALLIC COCK.-THERE'S NOTHING LIKE LEATHER. than the majority of men; perhaps not bad fellows in their social relations; at any rate, "IT is certainly a singular position for an rather inclined to be jolly in their present cir- American citizen to be placed in," said the cumstances. They were quite firee in their ex- Senator. "To come from a cotton-mill to pressions of admiration for the bravery of their such a regular out-and-out piece of fighting as captors, and looked with awe upon the Doctor's this. Yet it seems to me that fighting comes revolver, which was the first they had ever seen. natural to the American blood." In fact, the younger prisoner became quite "They've been very quiet for ever so long," communicative. Thus: said Mr. Figgs; "perhaps they've gone away." "I was born in Velletri. My age is twenty- "I don't believe they have, for two reasons. four years. I have never shed blood except The first is, they are robbers, and want our three times. The first time was in Narni-odd money; the second, they are Italians, and place, Narni. My employer was a vine-dresser. want revenge. They won't let us off so easily The season was dry; the brush caught fire, I after the drubbing weve gave them." don't know how, and in five minutes a third of Thus Buttons, and the others rather cointhe vineyard was consumed to ashes. My em- cided in his opinion. For several miles further ployer came cursing and raving at me, and on the road ran through a dangerous place, swore he'd make me work for him till I made where men might lurk in ambush, and pick good the loss. Enraged, I struck him. He them off like so many snipe. They rather enseized an axe. I drew my stiletto, and - of joyed a good fight, but did not care about becourse I had to run away. ing regularly shot down. So they waited. "ThesecondtimewasinNaples. Theaffair It was three in the afternoon. Fearfully was brought about by a woman. Signore, hot, too, but not so bad as it might have been. women are at the bottom of most crimes that High trees sheltered them. They could rumimen commit. I was in love with her. A friend nate under the shade. The only difficulty was of mine fell in love with her too. I informed the want of food. What can a garrison do that him that if he interfered with me I would kill is ill provided with eatables? The Doctor's him. I told her that if she encouraged him I little store of crackers and cheese was divided would kill him and her too. I suppose she was and eaten. A basket of figs and oranges folpiqued. Women will get piqued sometimes. lowed. Still they were hungry. At any rate she gave him marked encourage- "Well," said Dick, "there's one thing we ment. I scolded and threatened. No use. can do if the worst comes to the worst." She told me she was tired of me; that I was "What's that?"' too tyrannical. In fact, she dared to turn me "Go through the forest in Indian file back off and take the other fellow. Maffeo was a to Perugia." good fellow. I was sorry for him, but I had to "That's all very well," said the Senator, keep my word. stubbornly, "but we're not going back. No, "The third time was only a month ago. I Sir, not a step!" robbed a Frenchman, out of pure patriotism- "I'm tired of this," said Buttons, impatiently. the French, you know, are our oppressors-and "I'll go out as scout." kept what I found about him to reward me for "I'll go too," said Dick. my gallant act. The Government, however, "Don't go far, boys," said the Senator, in did not look upon it in a proper light. They the tone of an anxious father. sent out a detachment to arrest me. I was "No, not very. That hill yonder will be a caught, and by good fortune brought to an inn. good lookout place." At night I was bound tightly and shut up in "Yes, if you are not seen yourselves." the same room with the soldiers. The inn- "We'll risk that. If we see any signs of keeper's daughter, a friend of mine, came in these scoundrels, and find that they see us, we for something, and by mere chance dropped a will fire to let you know. If we remain undisknife behind me. I got it, cut my cords, and| covered we will come back quietly." when they were all asleep I departed. Before "Very well. But I don't like to let you go going I left the knife behind; and where now, off alone, my boys; it's too much of an exposure." Signore, do you think I left it?" "Nonsense." THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 97 I have a great mind to go too." For two hours an incessant fire was kept up No, no, you ad better stay to hold our between the bandits in the woods and the place of retreat. We'll come back, you know." Americans in their retreat. No damage was "1~Very well, then." ~done on either side. The Senator sat himself down again, and "Those fellows try so hard they almost deButtons and Dick vanished among the trees. serve to lick us," said the Senator dryly. An hour passed; the three in the barricade be- Suddenly there came from afar the piercing gan to feel uneasy; the prisoners were asleep blast of a trumpet. ~~aii~d snoring. 1 ~"Hark!" cried Buttons. Hang it," cried the Senator, I wish I had Again. ~~gone with them ~" ~A cavalry trumpet! "e r sr they are "They are horsemen!" cried Dick, who was too nimble to be caught just yet. If they ad holding his ear to the ground; and then added: ~~~~~"been caught you'd have hea'd a little firing." " IL' oKv66oV t KTVroC oV'a'a %2AEet." At that ver moment the loud report of a "hIey?" cried the Senator; "water barley?" rifle burst through the air, followed by a sec- Again the sound. A dead silence. All listond; upon hich a whole volley poured out. ening. The three started to their feet. And now the tramp of horses was plainly They are fond!" cried the Senator. "It's heard. The firing had ceased altogether since about a mile awa. Be ready!" the first blast of the trumpet. The bandits disMr. Figgs had two rifles b his sideand sat appeared. The horsemen drew nearer, and looking at the distance with knitted brows. were evidently quite numerous. At last they le had received some terrific bruises in the burst upon the scene, and the little garrison late m e, but was prepared to fight till he greeted them with a wild hurrah. They were died. le had said but little through the day. French dragoons, about thirty in number. le was not talkative. his courage was of a Prominent among them was P'ietro, who at quiet order. He felt the solemnity of the oc- first stared wildly around, and then, seeing the casion. It was a little different from sitting at Americans, gave a cry of joy. the head of a Board of bank directors, or shav- The travellers now came out into the road, g notes in a private office. At the end of and quick and hurried greetings were interabout ten minutes there was a crackling among changed. The commander of the troop, learnthe bushes. Buttons and Dick came tumblin ing that the bandits had just left, sent off two~~down into the road. thirds of his men in pursuit, and remained with "Get ready! Quick! They're here!" the rest behind. "All ready." Pietro had a long story to tell of his owvn do"All loaded?" ings. He had wandered through the forest till "Yes." he carne to Perugria. The commandant there "We saw them awav down the road, behind listened to his story, but declined sending any a grove of trees. We couldn't resist, and so of his men to the assistance of the travellers. fired at them. The whole hand leaped up Pietro was in despair. Fortunately a small raving,, and saw us, and fired. They then set detachment of French cavalry had just arrived off up the road to this place, thinking that we at Perugia on'their way to Rome, and the capare divided. They're only a few rods away." tamn wvas more merciful. The gallant fellow at "How many are there of them?"once set out, and, led by Pietro, arrived at the "Fourteen." place most opportunely. "They must have'got some more. There It did not take long to get the coach ready were only ten able-bodied, unwounded men again. One horse was found to be so badly when they left." wounded that it had to be killed. The others "Less," said the Doctor; "my pistol- were, slightly hurt. The baggage and trunks Wlst!" wvere riddled with bullets. These were once At this moment they heard the noise of foot- more piled up, the wounded prisoners placed steps. 0A band of armed men came in sight. inside, and the travellers, not being able to get Halting cautiously, they examined the barni- in all together, took turns in walking. cade. Bang! It was the Doctor's revolver. At the next town the prisoners were delivDown wvent one fellow, yelling. The rest were ered up to the authorities. The travellers celfrantic. Like fools, they made a rush at the ebrated their victory by a grand banquet, to barricade. wvhich they invited the French officer and the Bang! a second shot, another wounded. A soldiers, who came on with them to this town. volley was the answer. Like fools, the brigands Uproar prevailed. The Frenchmen were oxfired ag-ainst the barricade. No damage wvas uberant in compliments to the gallantry of their done. The barricade was too strong. entertainers. Toasts followed. The answer to this was a withering volley "The, Emperor and President!" from the Americans. The bandits reeled, stag- "America and France glered, fell back, shrieking, groaning, and curs- "Tricolor and stars! imng Two men lay dead on the road. The "The two countries intertwined!" ohers took refuge in the woods. "A song,DIckI-ridteSeao, h l 98 ~~THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. I ~~~~~~~~~~~i I q Ii, ~~~~~~~~''~~~~~'~Ti I~ ~ ~ I' modst IIWris odrulsine Strike up!" Mar~~N~ s< wsispton' od 77~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~~~Hwddh ue oacur Wht"Ame n ate fod Th IScodo bsoo! " re- rFgs ihcsuan ihsig nwt hed "No;'The~~~ld~~ow!'cre utosWithbostrn n ratlt oehr ais liked Dotoher. DicksinghDikulokedingLae. m ld Dick dhat?" adte eao. ltl Thow did ther!usetoacur Armis ind batls waofs ofld ter "Thea approodoot asook!. crieds M Figgch. Wi llthecasque, andewithsig aundihshed "No;vi'Thne.Ol CW!' crliede ButnsAerc. Witrh bow-thresnting an ratlate toeather;I said th hnk hreDoctor.glie eahe.[Ehorusho.]. Sing' Leather,' then." "Rub a dub, dub!! FIGGS. Rub a dub, dub!! Isyw BUTTONS.."Yes,' Leather!' u udb! a e THE DOCTOR.)II "Then let it be' Leather,'"7 said Dick; and "oei laigeoin hie struck up the following (which may not be All of us know it by heart; obtained of any of the music publishers), to a Whence, can you tell me, arises very peuirtune: Love's overpowering smart? peculiar ~~~~~~~~~~Tipped with en adamant barb, I. Gracefully tufted with feather, "Mercury! Patron of melody, ~~~Love's irresistible dart Father of Music and Lord,CoefrmaqirofLAu! Thins was the skill that invented [Chorus.] Music's harmonious chord. "6Then Leather! sing Leather, my lads! Sweet were the sounds that arose, Darts! and Distraction 1!1 and Leather!!!1 Sweetly they blended together; Of all the things under the sun, Thus, in the ages of old, Hurrah! there is nothing like Leather! Music arose out of-LEATiuE! [Extra Chorus.-I [r,'itt1 Chorus by all the Company.] "Rub a dub, dub! "Then LeatIher! sing Leather! my lads! Rub a dub, dish!! Mercury! Music!! and Leather!!! Rub a dub, dub!!! say we! Of all the things under the sun, Hurrah!I there is nothing like Leather!IV [Extra Chorus, descriptive of a Cobbler hammerisig on his Lapstone.] "Orators wrote out their speeches, "Then Rub a dub, dub! Poets their verses recited, Rub a dub, dish!! Statesmen promulgated edicts, Rub a dub, dub!!!1 say we! Sages their maxims indited. TE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 99 Parchment, my lads, was the article ence alone can win enduring love. It is one All used to write on together of the very few which a man can select as a perT'hus the Republic of Letters Sprang ito life out of-LEATHER. manent home, and never repent of his decision. ~~~~~~[Chorus.] ~In fact, it is probably the only city on earth Then Leather sg Leather, y lads which a stranger can live in and make for himPoetry! Science!! and Leather!!! Of all the things under the self a true home, so pleasant as to make desire rra! there is nothin like Leather for any other simply impossible. ~~[Extra Chorus~.] ~In Florence there is a large English populaRub a dub, dub!! tion, drawn there by two powerful attractions. Rub a dub, dub!!! say we!" The first is the beauty of the place, with its healthy climate, its unrivalled collections of art, and its connection with the world at large. The second is the astonishing cheapness of liv~CHAPTER XLII. ing, though, alas! this is greatly changed from FLORNCE.-DEPEATION OF BUTTONS, OF MR. former times, since Florence has become the FGS, AND OF TE DOCTOR. capital of Italy. Formerly a palace could be FLORENCE THE FAIR!-Crtainly it is the rented for a trifle, troops of servants for another fairest of cities. Beautiful for situation; the trifle, and the table could be furnished from joy of the whole earth! It has a beauty that day to day with rarities and delicacies innumergrows upon the heart. The Arno is the sweet- able for another trifle. It is, therefore, a parat of rivers, its valley the loveliest of vales; dise for the respectable poor, the needy men of luxuriant meadows; rich vineyards; groves of intelligence, and perhaps it may be added, for olive of orange, and of chestnut; forests of c- the shabby genteel. There is a glorious conpress; long lines of mulberry; the dark purple gregation of dilettante, literati, savans; a blessof the distant Apennines; innumerable white ed brotherhood of artists and authors; here villas peeping trough the surrounding groves; gather political philosophers of every grade. the mysterious haze of the sunset, which throws It wvas all this even under the Grand Duke of a softer charm over the scene; the magnificent refreshing memory; hereafter it will be the cattle; the fine horses; the bewitching girls, same, only, perhaps, a little more so, under the with their broad ats of Tuscan straw; the new influences which it shall acquire and exert city itself, with its gloomy old palaces, iron- as the metropolis of a great kingdom. grated and massive walled, from the ancient The Florentines are the most polished people holds of street-fighting nobles, long since passed under the sun. The Parisians claim this proud away, to the severe Etruscan majesty of the pre-eminence, but it can not be maintained. Pitti Palace; behold Florence! Amid the brilliancies of Parisian life there are It is the abode of peace, gentlencss, and kind- fearful memories of bloody revolutions, brutal ly pleasure (or at any rate it was so wvhen the fights, and blood-thirsty cruelties. No such Club was there). Every stone in its pavement events as these mar the fair pages of later Florhas a charm. Other cities may please; Flor- entine history. In facet, the forbearance and YLORENCE, FROM SAN MINIATO. ~100 TIE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. _I = __ t_____ ________ Li ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~lii: —: - _.-._ _ PITTI PALACE. gentleness of the people have been perhaps to The people love to stroll away the greater part their disadvantage. Life in Florence is joy. of their happy days. They loiter around the The sensation of living is of itself a pleasure. corners or under the porticoes gathering news Life in that delicious atmosphere becomes a and retailing the same. Hand-organs ar genhigher state of being. It is the proper home erally discountenanced. Happy city! for poets and artists. Those who pretend that When it is too hot in the streets there is the there is any thing in America equal to Flor- vast cathedral-11 Duomo-dim, shadowy, magence, either in climate, landscape, or atmos- nificent, its gigantic dome surpassed only by phere, are simply humbugs. Florence is unique. that of St. Peter's. And -yet in the twilight of It is the only Athens of the modern world, this sacred interior, where there dwells so much The streets are cool and deliAhtful. The! of the mysterious gloom only found in the Gothic great high houses keep off the rni) s of the sun. c ithedra'ls of the noi th, anyn find gi eater deFOUNTAIND OF NEPTUNE, PALAZZO VECCHIiO. THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 101 - e~~~k_ Xi.. = ~~.. f f i fi I =_|! —THE DUOMO. light than in all the dazzling splendor, the pomp, and glory, and majesty of the Roman temple. Beside it rises the Campanile, as fair as a dream, and in appearance almost as unsubstantial. Not far off is the _ Baptistery, with its gates of bronze-an assemhlage of glory which might well suffice for _ one city. _ Around the piazza that incloses these sacred buildings they sell the best roasted chest nnts in the world. Is it any wonder that Florence is so attractives f as a reman_ The Dodge Club obtained _________________________ furnished apartments in a fine \ \ ____ large hotel that looked out on__ the Ponte della Trinita and on__ the Arno. Beneath was the principal promenade in the city. It was a highly agree- __ able residence.t No sooner had they arrived than Buttons set out in search of the Spaniards. Three days _ had been lost on the road. He I 1111111 was half afraid that those three days had lost him the Span-I fEI iards altogether. Three days! ~ It was possible that they had seen Florence in that time and had already left. The thought __ of this made Buttons feel extremely nervous. He spent the first day in looking over all the TH CAMPANILE. ~~102 T1E DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. -____~- =afternoon fly like lightning. The American Ea-. _._ _.. gle was never more convivial. The Minister would not let him go. He made him put up at his hotel. He ad the......... _ 1 ~entree into the highest Florentine society. He I______ would introduce the Senator everywhere. The ___l______ wSenator would have an opportunity of seeing __=~ vItalian manners and customs such as was vrv l__ __ 11rarely enjoyed. The Senator was delighted at -_,_____ _ the idea. But Mr. Figgs and the Doctor began to show signs of weariness. The former walked with - Dick through the Boboli gardens and confided ___ l l | _ g ~~all his soul to his young friend. What was the __ 3 ^ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ j t:1use of an elderly man like him putting himself ___ Ad~~~~ ~to so much trouble? He had seen enough of M____i N~_ I ItItaly. He didn't want to see any more. He ______ i IS _ -K >would much rather be safe at home. Besides the members of the Club were all going down the broad road that leadeth to ruin. Buttons was infatuated about those Spaniards. The Doctor thought that he (Dick) was involved in some mysterious affair of a similar nature..!]1' i'~'"~ ~ ~ ~ Lastly, the Senator was making a plunge into ll!._.j. society. It was too much. The ride over the Apennines to Bologna might be interesting for (1l~~IIll~ ltwo young fellows like him and Buttons, but Nwas unfit for an elderly person. Moreover he -~: i i., ~if didn't care about going to the seat of r le bl. had seen enough of fighting. In short he and the Doctor had made up their minds to go back &~ _;1,~llt/it'ilg to Paris via Leghorn and Marseilles. Dick remonstrated, expostulated, coaxed But Mr. Figgs was inflexible. hotels ii~1iTthe Z] ALACE. /I hotels in the city. The second in seaichingfi1jI11t throiigl'is ianay of the lodging-houses as wverei~~ii likely to be chosen by the Spaniaids. The thuird he spent in meandering disconsolately through Ii1V the cafes. Still there were no signs of them.i Upon this Buttons fell into a profound melancholy. In fact it was a very hard case. There seemed nothing left for him to do. How could he fiuid them out? II Dick noticed the disquietude of his friend, ai~d sympathized with him deeply. So he lent hil his aid and searched through the city as industriously as possible. Yet in spite of every ef -I fort thir arduous liabors were defeated. So er lived. Besides, he knows thoroughly what'''hie has gone over." "He is as generous a soul as ever lived." "Yes, a stiff utilitarian in th eory, but in practice an impulsive sentimentalist." "He would legislate according to the most narrow and selfish principles, but wvould lay down his life for his friend." "Think of him at Perugia! "Yes; the man himself with his brave soul SOLFERIuNO! and invincible courage. Didn't he fight? Methinks he did!", So~'frino!"TI iy did not know then, as "If it hadn't been for him it is extremely they listened, the, full meaning of that eloquent probable that you and I would now have been word. But on mingling with the shouting -well, certainly not just here." crowd they soon learned it all: how the acTalking thus, the two young men walked up cursed Tedeschi had summoned all their enertoward the' Palazzo Vecchio. They noticed gy to crush forever the army of liberty; how the that the busy street through which they passed K-aisar himself came from beyond the mountwas filled with an unusual multitude, who were ains to insure his triumph; how the allied arall agitated wvith one general and profound cx- imies had rushed upon their massive columns citement, and were all hurrying in one direc- and beaten them back; how, hour after'hour, tion. The sight awvakened their interest. T hey the battle raged, till at last the plain for many went on wvith the stream. At every step the a league was covered with the wounded and the crowd increased. At every street new throngs dead; how the wrongs of ages were crowded poured in to join the vast multitude. together in the glorious vengeance of that day Confused murmurs rose into the air. Hasty of days; how Victory hovered over the invinciwords passed from mouth to mouth. They ble banners of Italy; how the Tedesclii fled, were unintelligible. They could only distin- routed, over the river, no more to cross it as.guish broken sentences-words unknown-Cay- masters; how the hopes of Italy arose immortal riana - Mincio - Tedesehi-Napoleone-Spia, from that one day's terrific slaughter; how Libd'Italia. What was it all about? They could 1 erty was now forever secured, and a Kingdom not guess. Evidently some mighty national of Italy under an Italian King. event had occurred, which was of overwhelm.- "Viva lUtalia! " "1Viva Luigi Napoleone!" ing importance. For the entire city had turned "Viva Garibaldi!" "Viva Vittore Emmanuout, and now, as they entered the great square ele, Re d'Italia!" in front of the Palazzo Vecchio, an astonishing In great moments of popular excitement peosight burst upon their view. A vast multitude ple do not talk to one another. They rhapfilled the square to overflowing. Loud cries sodize; and the Italians more than any other arose. Shouts of a thousand kinds all blend- people. Hence the above. 108 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX.' THlE SENATOR SPEAKS. Buttons and Dick clambered up to the recess "Th77e Senator.'cried Buttons. of a window and contemplated the scene. Every body was looking in that direction. There was the innumerable crowd; swaying, The impulsive crowd having celebrated abstract embracing, laughing, weeping, shouting, cheer- ideas, were now absolutely hungering for some ing,. High in the air waved hundreds of ban- tangible object upon which to expend someners; and the tni-color flaunted in ribbons from thing of the warmth of their feelings. A few thousands of breasts, or shone in rosettes, or who stood near the Senator and were impressed gleamed in flowers. Ever and anon loud trum- by his aspect, as soon as all the news had been pet blasts arose triumphantly on high; in the made known, gave expression and direction to distance victorious strains came swelling up the feeling by shouting his name. As they from bands hurried there to express in thrilling shouted others took up the cry, louder, louder, music what words could never utter; while all and louder still, till his name burst forth in one around the whole air rang with the thunder of sublime sound from thirty thousand lips. cannon that saluted the triumph of Solferino. No wonder'that he started at such an appeal. "Look there! Look! Loox!" cried Dick. He turned and looked upon the crowd. An He pointed to the large portico which is on ordinary man would have exhibited either con-'the right of the Palazzo Vecchio. Buttons look- fusion or wonder. The Senator, being an exed as lie was directed. traordinarv man, exhibited neither. As he turnHe saw a great assemblage of ladies and -gen- ed a vast roar burst from the mnultitude. tlemen, the chief people of the Tuscan state. "1Good Heavens!" cried Buttons; "1what's in From this place those announcements had been the wind now? Will this be a repetition of made which had set the people wild with joy. the scene in the Place Vend6me?" There were beautiful ladies whose flushed faces "Hush!" nnd suffused eyes bore witness to their deep The crowd saw before them the man whose emotion. There were noble gentlemen whose name and fame had been the subject of conjectarms still waved in the air as they cheered for nrc, wonder, applause, and hope for many days. Italy. And there, high,above all others, rose They beheld in him the Representative of a a familiar figure-the massive shoulders, the mighty nation, sent to give them the right hand calm, shrewd, square face, the benignant glance of fellowship, and welcome their country among and smile, which could belong only to one per- the great lowers of the earth. In him they son. saw the embodiment of America! THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 109 "Viva!"burstthroughtheair. "TheAmer- "Well?" ican Embassador "an "HurrahfortheAmerican How do you feel now? Embassadr!" "ThePlenipotentiaryExtraor- "Obliterated. I do not exist. I was once dinary!" "Hecomestocrown r!triumph" ablot. I am expunged. There is no such thing "Hurrah for America!" "Free, generous as Dick." America!" The first nation to welcome It- "Who could have imagined this?" ly!" "Hrrah!" "Thisisthetime!" "He "And how hie bore it! The Senator is a ilspeak!" "Silence!" "Silence!" "He great man! But come. Don't let us speak rises! "Lo!" "He looks at us" Si- for an hour, for we are both unable to talk colence Listen to the Most Illustrious Plen- herently." ipotentiaryExtraordinary!" Hus! AMEn- From patriotic motives the two young men ~ICA SPEAKS!~!~" ~walked behind the Senator's carriage and cheerSuch shouts and exclamations as these burst ed all the way. forth, with many others to the same effect. The Upon arriving at their lodgings in the evencrowd in front of the portico where the Senator ing they stationed themselves at the wvindow stood were almost uncontrollable in their ex- and looked out upon the illuminated scene. citement. The Senator rose to the greatness Dick, finding his emotions too strong to be reof the occasion. Here was a chance to speak- strained, took his trombone and entertained a to utter forth the deep sympathy of his contry- great crowd for hours with all the national airs men with ever down-trodden people striving that he knew. for freedom. He turned to face them and held out his hand. At once the immense assem-,'ld* bmblae was hushed to silence. CHAPTER XLV. The Senator took off his hat. Never before TIIS PRIVATE OPINION OF THE DOCTOR ABOUT did he look as he looked now. The grandeur FOREIGN TRAVEL.-BUTTONS STILL MEETS WITH of the occasion had sublimed his usually rugged AFFLICTIONS. features into majesty. He looked like the in- "TiE Italians, or at any rate the people of carnation of a strong, vigorous, invincible peo- Florence, have just about as much cuteness as ~~~~~~plc~. ~~you will find anywhere." ~The Senator spoke: ~Such was the dictum of the Senator in a con"M11~~~en of Italy! versation with his companions after rejoining In the name of the Great Republic!-I them at the hotel. They had much to ask; congratulate you on this glorious victory! It he, much to tell. Never had he been more is a triumph of Liberty!-of the principles of critical, more approbative. Ilie felt now that'76!-of the immortal idees!-for which our he thoroughly understood the Italian question, forefathers fought and died!-at Lexington! and expressed himself in accordance with this -at Bunker Hill!-and at a thousand other consciousness. places in the great and glorious Revolution!" "Nothing does a feller so much good," said The Senator paused. This was enough. It he. "Ias mixing in all grades of society. It had been spoken in English. The Italians did won't ever do to confine our observation to the not of course understand a word, yet they com- lower classes. We must mingle with the upperprehended all his meaning. As he paused there crust, who are the leaders of tile people." burst forth a shout of joy such as is heard only "Unfortunately," said Buttons, "Iwe are not o nce in a life-ti me; shout upon sho ut. The long all Senators, so we have to do the best we can peals of sound rose up and spread far away over with our limited opportunities." the city. The vast crowd vibrated like one man They had been in Florence long enough, and to the impulse. of the common enthusiasm, now the general desire was to go on. Mr. Figgs It was too great to last. They rushed to the and the Doctor had greatly surprised the Senator carriage of La Gica. They unharnessed the by informing him that they did not intend to go horses. They led the Senator to it and made any further. him enter. They flung their tni-colors in. They And why not? threw flo~vers on his lap. They wound the flag "Wll fo yonpat"si M.Fg ofltalyaroundthecarriage. A thousand marched "the discomforts of travel are altogether too before it. Thousands more walked beside and great. It, wvould not be so bad in the winter, behind. They drew him up to his hotel in tri- but think how horribly hot it is. What is my umph, and the band struck up the thrilling strain condition? That of a man slowly suffocating. of "IYankee Doodle! " Think how fat I am. Even if I had the enIt would be unfair not to render justice to La tlhisiasm of Dick, or the fun of Buttons, my fat Cica. She bore the scene admirably. Her would force me to leave. Can you pretend to beaming face, and lustrous eyes, and heaving be a friend of mine and still urge me to go fur. bosom, and majestic air, showed that she ap- ther? And suppose we passed over into the Auspropriated to herself all the honor thus lavished trian territory. Perhaps we might be unmolestupon the Senator. It was a proud moment for ed, but it is doubtful. Suppose, for the sake La Cica. of argument, that we were arrested and de"Dick," said Buttons, as they descended tamned. Imagine us-iaieesu pi from their perch. a room — or wvorse, a cell-in the month of July, 110 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. "Some one has been humbugging you, Doctor," said Buttons. I ~~~~~~"I had it from good authority," said the.x~, q'", Doctor calmly. "These fellows call them~N (aselves Revolutionists, and the peasantry sympa/ u ~~~~thize with them." "Well, if we meet with them there will be a ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~little additional excitement." _n "idYes, and the loss of our watches and monns firuracutey." - ~ ~ ~ 2 "~We can carry our money where they won't t~find it, and our bills of exchange are all right, )~ ~A "I think none of you will accuse me of want of courage. If I met these fellows you know very well that I would go in for fighting them. \ But what I do object to is the infernal bother of being stopped, detained, or perhaps sent back. upfor a month or so. That's what I object to.'. ~~~ If I had to do it it would be different, but I see no necessity." -~~~~~ "~~IYou surely want to see Lombardy?" "No, I don't." ______ - "~Not Bologna? K "~~~~~~~No." "Ferrara?" No. "Do you mean to say that you don't want to A GREASE SPOT, see Venice and Milan?" "1Haven't the remotest desire to see either in midsummer, in the hottest part of this burn- of the places. I merely wish to get back again ing fiery furnace of a country! What would to Paris. It's about the best place I've seen yet, be left of me at the end of a week, or at the except, of course, my native city, Philadelphia. end of even one day? What? A grease That I think is without an equal. However, spot! A grease spot! Not a bit more, by our minds are made up. We don't wish to Jingo!", change your plans-in fact, we never thought it After this speech, which was for him one of possible. We are going to take the steamer at extraordinary length and vigor, Mr. Figgs fell Leghorn for Marseilles, and go on to Paris." exhausted into his chair. "Well, Doctor," said Dick, "Iwill you do me "1But you, Doctor," said the Senator, seeing one favor before you go?" that Mr. Figgs was beyond the reach of persua- "With pleasure. What isit?" Sion-," you-what reason is there for you to "Sell me your pistol." leave? You are young, strong, and certainly "I can't sell it," said the Doctor."Iwa not fat." a present to me. But I will be happy to lend "No, thank heaven! it is not the heat, or it to you till we meet again in Paris. We will the fear of being suffocated in an Austrian dun- be sure to meet there in a couple of months at geon, that influences me." the furthest."' "What, then, is the reason'"The Doctor took out his pistol and handed "These confounded disturbances,"9 said the it to Dick, who thankfully received it. Doctor languidly. "1Oh, Buttons," said the Senator, suddenly, "Disturbances ""I have good news for you. I ought to have "Yes. I hear that the road between this told you before." and Bologna swarms with vagabonds. Several "Good news? what?" diligences have been robbed. I heard a story "I saw the Spaniards." which shows this state of things. A band of "The Spaniards!" cried Buttons, eagerly, men entered the theatre of a small town along starting up. "Where did you see them? the road while the inhabitants were witnessipg When? Where are they? I have scoured the the play. At first the spectators thought it was wvhole town." part of the performance. They were soon un- III saw them at a very crowded assembly at deceived. The men drew up in line in front of the Countess's. There was such a scrouging the stage and levelled their pieces. Then fasten- that I could not get near them. The three were ing the doors, they jsent a number of men around there. The little Don and his two sisters." through the house to plunder the whole audience. "IAnd don't you know any thing about Not content with this they made the authorities them?" of the town pay a heavy ransom." "Not a hooter, except something that the THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 111 Countess told me. I think she said that they She told him all that she knew about the Spanwere staying at the villa of a friend of hers." iards. They were stopping at the villa of a "A friend? Oh, confound it all! What certain friend of hers whom she named. It was s~hall I do ~?" ~ten miles from the city. The friend had The villa is out of town." brought them to the assembly. It was but for "That's the reason why I never could see a moment that she had seen them. She wished them. Confound it all, what sall I do?" for his sake that she had learned more about Buttons, said the Senator, gravely, I am them. She trusted that he would succeed in truly sorry to see a young man like you so in- his earnest search. She should think that they fatuated about foreign women. Do not e of- might still be in Florence, and if he went out fended, I mean it kind. She may be a Jesuit at once he might see them. Was this his first in disguise; who knows? And why will you visit to Florence? How perfectly he had the put yourself to grief about a little black-eyed Tuscan accent; and why had he not accomgal that don't know a word of English? Be- panied his friend the Senator to her salon? ve me, New England is wide, and has ten But it would be impossible to repeat all that La thousand better gals than ever she began to be. Cica said. If you will get in love ait till you get home Buttons went out to the villa at once; but and fall in love like a Christian, a Republican, to his extreme disgust found that the Spaniards ~~~~and a Man." ~had left on the preceding day for Bologna. He But the Senator's words ad no effect. But- drove about the country for some distance, resttons sat for a few moments lost in thout. At ed his horses, and took a long walk, after which length he rose and quietly left the room. It he returned. was about nine in the mornin when he left. Their departure for Bologna on the following It was about nine in the evenin when he re- mcrning was a settled thing. The diligence turned. e looked dusty, fatigued, fagged, started early. They had pity on the flesh of and dejected. He had a long story to, and Figgs and the spirit of the Doctor. So they was quite communicative. The substance of bade them good-bye on the evening before retirit was this: On leaving the hotel he had gone ing. at once to La Cicd's residence, and ha,,d requested permission to see her. He could not lot till twelve. le wandered about and called CHAPTER XLVI. gain at that hour. She was very amiable, A MEMORABLE DRIVE.-NIGHT.-THE BRIGANDS especially on learning that e was a friend of ONCE MORE.-GARIBALDI'S NAME.-THE FIRE. the Senator, after whom she asked with deep in-_ -TIIE IRON BAR.-THE MAN FROM THE GRA NLITE terest. Nothing could exceed her affability. STEANHSTWBO. "ITHE great beauty of this?l i41,11111I11 if; Il puistol is a little imp)rovement thtI have not seen before.'' pAndi~ Dickt proceeded to exI "Here is the chamber with thesix cavities loaded. Now, yo see, when you wish, you U tebutt.'''Very'well. IHere I have' another chamber with six eartridges. It's loaded, the cartiridges are covered with copper and have detonating powder ati // ~~~~~one end. As quick as lightning I put this on, and there you have the pistol ready to be fired again six times." -''So you have twelve shots?''Yes."'And cartridges to spare?" "The Doctor gave me all that hhaabout sixty, I should "You have enough to face a _ ~~~~whole army-" "Precisely-and in my coatpocket." FAREWELL, rIGes! This conversation took place II 112 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. in the banquette of the diligence that conveyed road, and they will try to make hay while the Dick, Buttons, and the Senator from Florence sun shines. I have no doubt we will be stopped to Bologna. A long part of the journey had half a dozen times before we get to Bologna." been passed over. They were among the "I should think," said the Senator, indigmountains. nantly, "that if these chaps undertake to gov"Do you expect to use that?" asked the Sen- ern the country-these republican chaps-they ator, carelessly. had ought to govern it. What kind of a way "I do." is this to leave helpless travellers at the mercy "You believe these stories then?" of cut-throats and assassins?" "Yes; don't you?" "They think," said Buttons, "that their first "Certainly." duty is to secure independence, and after that "So do I," said Buttons. "I could not get they will promote order." a pistol; but I got this from an acquaintance." "The Florentines are a fine people-a people And he drew from his pocket an enormous of remarkable'cuteness and penetration; but it bowie-knife. seems to me that they are taking things easy as "Bowie-knives are no good," said the Sena- far as fighting is concerned. They don't send tor. " Perhaps they may do if you want to as- their soldiers to the war, do they?" sassinate; but for nothing else. You can't "Well, no; I suppose they think their army defend yourself. I never liked it. It's not maybe needed nearer home. The Grand Duke American. It's not the direct result of our free has long arms yet; and knows how to bribe." institutions." By this time they were among the mountain "What have you then? You are not going forests where the scenery was grander, the air unarmed." cooler, the sky darker, than before. It was "This," said the Senator. late in the day, and every mile increased the And he lifted up a crow-bar from the front wildness of the landscape and the thickness of of the coach. Brandishing it in the air as eas- the gloom. Further and further, on they went ily as an ordinary man would swing a walk- till at last they came to a winding-place where ing-stick, he looked calmly at his astonished the road ended at a gully over which there was companions. a bridge. On the bridge was a barricade. "You see," said he, "there are several They did not see it until they had made a turn reasons why this sort of thing is the best weapon where the road wound, where at once the scene for me. A short knife is no use. A sword is burst on their view. no good, for I don't know the sword exer- The leaders reared, the postillions swore, the cise. A gun is worthless; I would fire it driver snapped his whip furiously. The pasoff once and then have to use it as a club. It sengers in "coupe," "rotonde," and "interiwould then be apt to break. That would be dis- eure" popped out their heads, the passengers on agreeable-especially in the middle of a fight. the "banquette" stared, until at last, just as the A stick or club of any kind would be open to postillions were dismounting to reconnoitre, the same objection. What, then, is the weapon twelve figures rose up from behind the barricade, for me? Look at me. I am big, strong, and indistinct in the gloom, and bringing their active. I have no skill. I am brute strength. rifles to their shoulders took aim. So a club is my only weapon-a club that The driver yelled, the postillions shouted, won't break. Say iron, then. There you have the passengers shrieked. The three men in the it." banquette prepared for a fight. Suddenly a And the Senator swung the ponderous bar loud voice was heard from behind. They around in a way that showed the wisdom of his looked. A number of men stood there, and choice. several more were leaping out from the thick "You are about right," said Buttons. "I woods on the right. They were surrounded. venture to say you'll do as much mischief with Atlength one of the men came forward from bethat as Dick will with his pistol. Perhaps hind. jnore. As for me, I don't expect to do much. "You are at our mercy," said he. "WhoStill, if the worst comes, I'll try to do what I ever gives up his money Tay go free. Whocan." ever resists dies. Do you hear?" "We may not have to use them," said the Meanwhile the three men in the banquette Senator. "Who are below?" had piled some trunks around, and prepared to "Below?" resist till the last extremity. Dick was to fire; "In the coach?" Buttons to keep each spare butt loaded; the "Italians." Senator to use his crow-bar on the heads of any "Women?" assailants. They waited in silence. They "No, all men. Two priests, three shop-keep- heard the brigands rummaging through the er-looking persons, and a soldier." coach below, the prayers of the passengers, ". h! Why, we ought to be comparatively their appeals for pity, their groans at being comnfe." Cpelled to give up every thing.. "Oh, our number is not any thing. The "The cowards don't deserve pity!" cried the Country is in a state of anarchy. Miserable Senator. "There are enough to get up a good devils of half-starved Italians swarm along the resistance. We'll show fight, anyhow I" THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 113 1~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~1 IN TIIE COACHI. Scarcely ad e spoke when three or four A general conversation followed. It was heads appeared above the edge of the coach. late, and but few things were visible along the Haste -your money said one. road. About two hours passed away without "Stop!" said Buttons. This gentleman any occurrence. is the American Plenipotentiary Extraordinary, "Look I" cried Dick, suddenly. who has just come from Florence, and is on his They looked. About a quarter of a mile way to communicate with Garibaldi. ahead a deep red glow arose above the forest, Garibaldi!" cried the man, in a tone of illumining the sky. The windings of the road ~~deep respect. 4 ~'prevented them from seeing the cause of it. "Yes," said Buttons, who had not miscalcu- The driver was startled, but evidently thought lated the effect of that mighty name. If you it was no more dangerous to go on than to stop. arm us or plunder us you will have to settle So he lashed up his horses and set them off at your account with Garibaldi-that's all!1" a furious gallop. The rumble of the ponderous The man was silent. Then he leaped down, wheels shut out all other sounds. As they adand in another moment another man caine. vanced the light grew more vivid. "IWhich is the American Plenipotentiary "II shouldn't wonder," said the Senator, "if Extraordinary?" we have another barricade here. Be ready, "He," said Buttons, pointing to the Senator. boys! We wvon't get off so easily this time." "IAh I know blin. It is the same. I saw The other two said not a word. On, and on. him at his reception in Florence, and helped to The report of a gun suddenly roused all. The pull his carriage." driver lashed his horses. The postillions took The Senator calmly eyed the brigand, who the butts of their riding-whips and pelted the had respectfully taken off his hat, animals. The road took a turn, and, passing "1So you are going to communicate with this, a strange scene burst upon their sight. Garibaldi at once. Go in peace! Gentlemen, A wide, open space on the road-side, a col.. every one of us fought under Garibaldi at Rome. lection of beams across the road, the shadowy Ten years ago he disbanded a large number of forms of about thirty men, and the whole scene us among these mountains. I have the honor to dimly lighted by a smouldering fire. As it inform you that ever since that time I have got blazed up a little the smoke rolled off and they my living out of the public, especially those in saw an overturned carriage, two horses tied to the service of the Government. You are differ- a tree, and two men with their hands bound ent. I like you because you are Americans. I behind them lying on the ground. like you still better because you are friends of A voice rang out through the stillness which Garibaldi. Go in peace!I When you see the for a moment followed the sudden stoppage of General tell him Giuglio Malvi sends his re- the coach at the barrier. There came a wail spects. " from the frightened passengers within - cries And the man left them. In about a quarter for mercy-piteous entreaties. of an hour the barricade was removed, and the "1Silence, fools!I" roared the same voice, passengers resumed their seats with lighter which seemed to be that of the leader. purses but heavier hearts. The diligence start- "IWait! wait!I" said the Senator to his coined, and once more went thundering along the panions. "1Let mae give the word." mountain road. A crowd of men advanced to the dilligence, " I don't believe we've seen the last of these and as they left the fire Buttons saw three figscoundrels yet," said Buttons. ures left behind-two women and a man. They "INor I, " said Dick.,did not move. But suddenly a loud shriek TEllE )OGl)ClE CLtii; OR, L A IN M CC1X. burst from one of the wotleti At the shriek Buttons trembled. "The Spaniairds It is! I know the voiceMI ~ Got O d In an instant Buttons was down on thl' gronid and in tile midst; of tthe crowd of brig- antis who sturrounided thei coach..I Bang!1 ba llt bang" I It \was lot: tbe gtms f g of the brigands, but Dick pistol that now spoke, 7' thbang I agsag twanot the nu o and its report was the sigt:lat of death to tdrue e 1men. who rolledl uponl te ground inll their last.r agonies. As the thlird report. lmrst foirth th Senator hurled himseltf down u p tiOtl tde he-ads' otf those belowN. Tie action of Buttons Ihat d broken tll) all their plans, rendered parley ina- i- s possible, and left nothing for them to do but to, follow himl and satyi Mini..The brigands rushed C S,at thelm whit a yell o furyt.,Death to tdiem I Death to them all I1O k k qiurter!f "elept " cried Buttons.:Pa'ssengers, we are armed I We can save ourselves "' - But the p assengiers, having already lost their s musnticy-, now feared to lose their lives. Not oneu i responded. All about; the coach the scene be-.. A Came one of terribled confusion. G(uils s ete, fir ed, blows fell ill every direction-. The doark-:.ess, but fiaintly illuminated by the fitfid ire- -, rlight, ltexeted tlte brigands from diStinguish- *Q 9 ingll their enemies very eelarlt -..a circumst1ance'n which fiatvored the little band of AXmeirica.ns, The brigands tired at the coach, and tried to e was the Senator. More than twenty break open the doors. Inside tile coach tie m ironded l fiing, sweaing, striki, ptASSengers,11_ frantie with fear, sought to mwake sficn tltg,, rushing, forward, trying to tear hint their voices heard amnid the uproair. They beg- Puntm hits post. For lie head platttd hibtiself ged fo mercy; theydeclard te had no agaunst thre fore-p-art of the diligaence, atid the monleyv they had already. been robdbed;, thex nuigty arm whose strength had been so liroved would give aill that wais left; they wotdd sin at Perugia was. now desceniding again wvith ir, retider if only their lives were spared. tesistible force npoi thde heads of his assailanlts. "And, oh Igood Amicricans-, yield, yield, 01 All this xras the work of lbtt a. fewx nihuites. xve "tll dlie I"Buttons could iiot be secti. I)iek's pieparaII Arnericans-?' screa-med several p.)ass ionate Itoils wt rc nmade. For at monient lie waited for voices. "iDeathi to [lie Am-ericans! lWath to a. favorable chlance to get doxwn. lie could nor all foreigners! P tay tip tiicrt any longer. Ile muitst stand by These tiandits xrere mitlike the last. the 5cnator. Seated inl the banqutette I1 lick- surveyed dile T het CStood, thle Senator, hlis gitturtformi towver-scene, while himnself concealed front view. -ing' tip amids't shle, unwl~e hi mu1scular )arms Catlmoly hle picked out nait atifer mnan and fied xiehlditg the enorm-ouls ironl bar, his astonlish'ing As the iled to clim-tb upl she diligence., or to strength increased tenfold by the excitement of force open shle di-our, thiey fell back hlioxlng'. thle lightI Ic ties-cr:spoke ta xvord. Oite man hail die do-or paritly broken 0p1,)y~1 hx tfle after anoithier thle brigands xx-ent doxrn furiouls blows wilth thle butt of hIs gunl. D)ic.k- b-lute sthe awful desce~nt of that iroti bar, T1he-v fired. Thle, hall enitered his miii. lHe Shrieked cluingo together; thiey Y-elled inl fury they- threw wviit 11rage". With list oilier arm lie, sieized h1is themseli es en masse; agalinst thle S3enator. I le giut, and againl his Idiiws 1>11 cra~s.hing. fl a-tn met. tliett 115 a rock nicets ti hundred wiat-es. other instiant rt ball pa-ssed itito his brain. thle iinmorseless iroit bat- fell only xvitht redouibled "'twxo shots xs-ttstcd rin one titan T too ftnty U1hey raised their cltibbed muskets inl mtitiht1 muttered Dicik;and tak.itig aim <1fa'l iti te -ati and struck ait him). Cite, sxvelp of thle lie tired at a fellow who was jtist lcapitig tilt the iroit bar atid the, titisk-ets were dashied out of iothter side. Th'le wretch fell cursing, their hlands, broketn or bent, to the gttouiid. Agaxiin again Iagain ISwiftly ilick's shiots, Tlie-x fired, bitt froinx their xritd exeiteitetit their flasihed aroitnil. lie hadl now lint one left int aim xvas, useles~s. Tit the darkitess slicy i-irinch hfis pistol. H urriedly- lie filled thle spitre ehtaii.at oiie aitotier. Onte by one the ntuitber of her wxithi six cartridgesz,atid takitig out thle ofth- his a~ssaibtuts, lessetned —they grw or fitrious er lie. filled it mid placed it hie again, Ile looked bitt le'.ss bold. They fell back a little; but the doxvIn. Seitator advanced as they retired, guardling hlis THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 115 O'T SPEAK. own retreat, but still swinging his iron bar with trate bandits, assaulted those who yet remained. undiminished strength. The prostrate forms They fled. The Senator pursued-long enough of a dozen men lay around. Again they rushed to give each one a parting blow hard enough to at him. The voice of their leader encouraged make him remember it for a month. When he them and shamed their fears. He was a stout, returned the passengers were gathering around powerful man, armed with a knife and a gun. the coach, with the driver and postillions, who "1 Cowards! kill this one! This is the one! had thus far hidden themselves, and were eagerAll the rest will yield if we kill him. For- ly looking at the dead. ward! " 1 "Off!" cried the Senator, in an awful voiceThat moment Dick leaped to the ground. " Off! you white-livered sneaks! Let me find The next instant the brigands leaped upon my two boys!" them. The two were lost in the crowd. Twvelve reports, one after the other, rang into the air. Dick did not fire till1 the muzzle of his pistol was against his enemy's breast. The CHAP~TER XLVII. darkness, n~w deeper than ever, prevented himBABRIEUTGOMSS.HEINRA fro bingditintl sen y te uriuscrodBLE SCARS OF DICK.-A KNOWLEDGE OF BONES. who thought only of the Senator. But nowv the fire shooting up brightly at the sudden breath TH4E Senator searched long and anxiously of a strong wind threw a lurid light upon the among the fallen bandits for those whom he afscene. fectionately called his "1boys." Dick was first There stood Dick, his clothes torn, his face found. He was senseless. covered with blood, his last charge gone.Thr The Senator carried him to the fire. He saw stood the Senator, his face blackened with smoke two ladies and a gentleman standing there. and dust, and red with blood, his colossal form Hurriedly he called on them and pointed to erect, and still the ponderons bar swung on high Dick. The gen'tleman raised his arms. They to fall as terribly as ever. Before him were were bound tightly. The ladies also were seeight men. Dick saw it all in an instant. He cured in a similar manner. The Senator quickscreamed to the passengers in the diligence: ly cut the cords from the gentleman, who in his "Theie are only eight left! Come! Help turn snatched the knife and freed the ladies, us take them prisoners! Haste!" and then went to care for Dick. The cowards in the diligence saw how things The Senator then ran back to seek for Butwere. They plucked up courage, and at the tons. call of Dick jumped out. The leader of the The gentleman flung a quantity of dry brush brigands was before Dick with uplifted rifle, on the fire, which at once blazed up and threw Dick flung his pistol at his head. The brigand a bright light over the scene. Meanwhile the drew back and felled Dick senseless to the passengers were looking anxiously around as ground. The next moment the Senator's arm though they dreaded a new attack. Some of descended, and, with his head broken by the them had been wounded inside the coach and blow, the robber fell dead. were groaning and cursing. As though the fall of Dick had given him The Senator searched for a long time in vain. fresh fury, the Senator sprang after the others. At last at the bottom of a heap of fallen brigBlow after blow-fell. They were struck down auds, whom the Senator bad knocked over, be helplessly as they ran. At this moment the found Buttons. His face and clothes were passengers, snatching up the arms of the pros- covered with blood, his forehead was blackened 116 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. as though by an explosion, his arm was broken Buttons. The Sefiorita saw the preparations, and hung loosely as the Senator lifted him up. and, weeping bitterly, she retired. For a moment he thought that it was all over "Your arm is broken, my poor lad," said the with him. Senator. "Will you let me fix it for you? I He carried him toward the fire. The ap- can do it." pearance of the young man was terrible. He "Can you? Oh, then, I am all right! I beckoned to one of the ladies. The lady ap- was afraid I would have to wait till I got to proached. One look at the young man and Bologna." the next instant, with a heart-rending moan, "It would be a pretty bad arm by the time she flung herself on her knees by his side. you got there, I guess," said the Senator. "But "The Spaniard!" said the Senator, recog- come-no time must be lost." nizing her for the first time. "Ah! he'll be His simple preparations were soon made. taken care of then." Buttons saw that he knew what he was about. There was a brook near by, and he hurried A few moments of excessive pain, which forced there for water. There was nothing to carry it ill-suppressed moans from the sufferer, and the in, so he took his beaver hat and filled it. Re- work was done. turning, he dashed it vigorously in Buttons's After taking a sip from the flask both Butface. A faint sigh, a gasp, and the young man tons and Dick felt very much stronger. On feebly opened his eyes. Intense pain forced a questioning the driver they found that Bologna groan from him. In the hasty glance that he was not more than twenty miles away. The threw around he saw the face of Ida Francia as passengers were busily engaged in removing she bent over him bathing his brow, her face the barricade. It was decided that an iramepale as death, her hand trembling, and her diate departure was absolutely necessary. At eyes filled with tears. The sight seemed to the suggestion of Dick, the driver, postillions, alleviate his pain. A faint smile crossed his and passengers armed themselves with guns of lips. He half raised himself toward her. the fallen brigands. "I've found you at last," he said, and that The severest wound which Dick had was on was all. his head, which had been almost laid open by At this abrupt address a burning flush passed a terrific blow from the gun of the robber chief. over the face and neck of the young girl. She He had also wounds on different parts of his bent down her head. Her tears flowed faster body. Buttons had more. These the Senator than ever. bound up with such skill that he declared him"Don't speak," she said; "you are in too self ready to resume his journey. Upon this much pain." the Don insisted on taking him into his own She was right, for the next moment Buttons carriage. Buttons did not refuse. fell back exhausted. At length they all started, the diligence The Senator drew a flask from his pocket and ahead, the Don following. On the way the motioned to the young girl to give some to But- Don told Buttons how he had fared on the tons; and then, thinking that the attention of road. He had left Florence in a hired carriage the Seilorita would be far better than his, he the day before the diligence had left. He had hurried away to Dick. heard nothing of the dangers of the road, and So well had he been treated by the Don suspected nothing. Shortly after entering the (whom the reader has of course already recog- mountain district they had been stopped and nized) that he was now sitting up, leaning robbed of all their money. Still he kept on, against the driver of the diligence, who was mak- thinking that there was no further danger. To ing amends for his cowardice during the fight his horror they were stopped again at the bridge, by kind attention to Dick after it was over. where the brigands, vexed at not getting any " My dear boy, I saw you had no bones money, took all their baggage and let them go. broken," said the Senator, "and knew you were They went on fearfully, every moment dreadall right; so I devoted my first attention to ing some new misadventure. At length their Buttons. How do you feel?" worst fears were realized. At the place where "Better," said Dick, pressing the honest the fight had occurred they were stopped and hand which the Senator held out. "Better; dragged from their carriage. The brigands but how is Buttons?" were savage at not getting any plunder, and "Recovering. But he is terribly bruised, swore they would hold them prisoners till they and his arm is broken." procured a ransom, which they fixed at three "His arm broken! Poor Buttons, what'll thousand piastres. This was about four in the he do?" afternoon. They overturned the coach, kin"Well, my boy, I'll try what I can do. I've dled a fire, and waited for the diligence. They sot an arm before now. In our region a neces- knew the rest. sary part of a good education was settin' bones." Buttons, seated next to Ida Francia, forgot Dick was wounded in several places. Leav- his sufferings. Meanwhile Dick and the Sening the Don to attend to him the Senator took ator resumed their old seats on the banquette. his knife and hurriedly made some splints. After a while the Senator relapsed into a fit of Then getting his valise, he tore up two or three musing, and Dick fell asleep. of his shirts. Armed with these he returned to I Morning dawned and found them on the THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 117 plain once more, only a few miles from Bologna. Far ahead they saw the lofty Leaning -Iinl) Tozwer that forms so conspicuous an ohject in P(/' I e the fine old city. Dick awaked, and on look- Iet,! ing at the Senator was shocked to see him very )P'______________iliiitI pale, with an expression of pain. He hurried- )________ ly asked the cause. __ __'Why, the fact is, after the excitement of II I tjj'ji), fightin' and slaughterin' and seemn' to you chaps was over I found that I was covered with wounds. One of my fingers is hroken. I have three bullet wounds in my left arm, one in my right, a stab of a dirk in my right thigh, and a\ terrible bruise on my left knee. I think that some fellow must have passed a dagger through my left foot, for there is a cut in the leather, my shoe is full of blood, and it hurts dreadful. It's my opinion that the' Dodge Club will be/ laid up in Bologny for a fortnight.-Hallo!I' The Senator had heard a cry behind, and looked out. Something startled him. Dick looked also. The Don's carriage was in confusion. The two Seaoritas were standing up in the carriage wringing their hands. The Don was supporting, Buttons in his arms. He had fainted a second time. USED UP. CHAPTER XLVIII. when he was awake, and looking, at him when SUFF ElBING AND SENTIMENT AT BOLOGNA.-M.OON- le Dc SIIINE.-BEST BALM FOR WOUNDS. aslep. Dcwas touched to the heart. The Senator thought that, without exception, THEY all put up at the same hotel. Buttons Bologna was the best Italian city that he had was carried in senseless, and it was long before seen. It had a solid look. The people were he revived. The Se nator and Dick were quite not such everlasting fools as the Neapolitans, exhausted-stiff whith fatigue, stiff with wounds. the Romans, and the Florentines, who thought There was one thing, however, which made that the highest end of life was to make picttheir present situation more endurable. The ures and listen to music. They devoted their war in Lombardy made further progress im- energies to an article of nourishment which was possible. They could -not be permitted to pass calculated to benefit the world. He alluded to the borders into Venetia. Even if they had the famous Bologna Sausage, and he put it to been perfectly well they would have been corn- Dick seriously, whether the manufacture of a pelled to wait there for a time, sausage which was so eminently adapted to The city was in a ferment. The delight sustain life was not a far nobler thing than the which the citizens felt at their new-found free- production of useless pictures for the pampered dom was mingled with a dash of anxiety about tastes of a bloated aristocracy. the result of the war. For, in spite of Solferino, Meanwhile Buttons fared differently. If he it was probable that the tide of victory would had been more afflicted he was -now mtre blessed. be hurl~ed back from the Quadrilateral. Still The Don seemed to think that the sufferings of they kept up their spirits; and the joy of their Buttons were caused by himself, or, at any rate, hearts found vent in songs, music,. processions, by the eagerness of the young man to come to Roman candles, Te Deums, sky-rockets, volleys the assistance of his sisters. He felt grateful of cannon, masses, public meetings, patriotic accordingly, and spared no pains to give him songs, speeches, tni-colors, and Italian versions assistance and relief. He procured the, best of "The Marseillaise."' medical advice in the city. For several days In a short time the Senator was almost as the poor fellow lay in a very dangerous conwell as ever. Not so Dick. After struggling dition, hovering between life and death. His heroically for the first day against his pain he wounds were numerous and severe, and the exsuccumbed, and on the morning of the second citement afterward, with the fatigue of the ride, was unable to leave his bed, had made his situation worse. But a strong The Senator would not leave him. The constitution was on his side, and he at length kind attention which he had once before shown was able to leave his bed and his room. in Rome was now repeated. He spent nearly He was as pale as death, and woefully emaall his time in Dick's room, talking to him ciated. But the society of the ladies acted like 11$ t'IIrut D!OD)G41. CLUB; OR, ALY IN CCLIX a charm upon him and from the moment when made Ca icates of i, he spread s. he left his room his strength came )ack rtl' ls reports abot him. Such is the wa of idly, the world. ite would have liked it still better if lhe had been able to see thle vononger sister alone; b.ttt that was ilnpossible, fibr the sisters were insep. C APTEI XLIX. ail4)e, Ott evening, however, tile l)on of- C Si INTO'rv.'.N fered to take them to the cathedral to see selne 41tNAT OF Ttt CCSTtsUt (i'i ceremony. Ida declined, but the other ea oney as a pleasant One. e S v accepted. id eo a agreeable addition to the y So ltnttons for the first titme in his 1ii foid n the stimation of others than Bttons'I'e timnself-t alonle with tthe mlaid of his heart, it enator devoted himsel parilarl to e elwa's'- a so0leninseason. Cr Sier indeed, his acqnaintan\ce wvith Bothl were imitch embarrassed. Buttons a s le afterard coese ive i looked as thouglh lie had something dreadtiftt a tte or foreign ladies le carried o little to tell; the Seciorita as though she hadSo s ome-c tios with te ita in broke tlhing drteadftil to hear. At length Btttntts i heiorita's gish s pretty, b. }:}2gST1 th ttt} t}|t $t01, and -in Short: Iluttotis t'eht encounrgedl athI Ventture II tearer-,and, allmuost iietor'le 1,0kiucw it hiimiself, solm h1ow or Other, his aria had got rotainti a shemnder uvaist........... WhIte thme Seitloritla trernbled- -titnidhhx dr -'j hi1ck 1ad thicual <-ir VA' stilil exact, of colutmc, whuis~prmisa ld hb'oken senteuliee — and scu)tt swee..,,, Wel, ill these wvere broughit tri at *. IV hiriuhit, close tin the retuirni of the lDon iitd hit''A- -' Sistem, ~u f, As thiey emitered tIme, rootai timex saix Butttrs 4' muoti etmsstole im i ~tu throuh t r. T V aoiendiu, tuil thoem Seiia ait mtothict' ~11l: Wu\htx hid Iu not cal for a lighmtt'lt- p Oh, it is so pleas~auit lin the 1mnoonshtitxel I. a At thme ad of afeiv week-s thtero. canin thie emet, time tuulouikedt'or, thme umnhoped-for uiexxs -' -ih leac - of Villafrauete l So war iras Oviler. Morov rte road wva.. opeut, Thtey coulid go/ ~ wherever they xrislmed.................. Biuuttons xuas nowx strong riougli. to trax'l 1 Dick amHid tme Senator iwere as wvell as x'r, J'1li iexrs of tihle -Peace xra' defighitfid to the j','y Kjf Not so, howrever, to the tHologn -so. TChue~y j'7 p railed at Napoleout. Theyio forgot all that tie' hiafl donle, anld tauintedI hlau wiihi whtat line hald''t I- -''' tiegleeted to dlo, They iustultedI him,' They I ittiON" I N iii 1S' TIlE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 119 so rude to the Senator as to talk Spanish in his There was more thrift, neatness, and apparent presence. The consequence was that the con- prosperity. His sentiments on this subject were versation flagged, and the Senator was by far embodied in a letter home, which he wrote from the most talkative member of the company, and Padua on a dreary evening which they spent laid out all his strength in broken English. there before starting for Venice: Ferrara was reached at last, and they put up "If this part of Italy is oppressed by Austria, then all at a hotel which boasted of having entertained I can say is, that the pressure has squeezed an immense in its day any quantity of kings, emperors, and amount of vegetation out of the soil. Passing from the Roman territories into the Austrian is like going from nobles of every European nation. It is an as- darkness into light, or from Canada into tle United tonishing town. Vast squares, all desolate; States. What kind of people are these who do better under foreign rule than native? In my opinion, the tergrat thedrals, empty; proud palaces, neg- ritories of the Pope are worse than those of other rulers in lected and ruinous; broad streets, grass-grown Italy. A Spanish friend of mine tells me that it is beand empty; long rows of houses, without in- cause the thoughts ofthe Pope's subjectsare setnot onthig below, but on things on high. He tells me that we've got habitants; it presents the spectacle of a city to choose between two masters-Christianity on the one dying without hope of recovery. The Senator and and a on on the other Whoever c latter will be destitute of the former. He gives as exam alked through every street in Ferrara, looked pies of this France, England, and America, which councarelessly at Tasso's dungeon, and seemed to tries, though possessed of the highest material blessings, feel relieved when they left the city. are yet a prey to crime, scepticism, doubt, infidelity, ewenthy leftthe.heresy, false doctrine, and all manner of similar evils. On arriving at the Po, which forms the Those nations which prefer religion to worldly prosperity y between this district and Venetia, present a different scene; and hle points to Spain and Italy-poor in this world's goods, but rich in faith-the they underwent some examination from the au- only evils which afflict them being the ueigborhod of thorities, but crossed without accident. But on unbelieving nations." the other side they found the Austrian officials far more particular. They asked a multiplicity of questions, opened every trunk, scanned the passports, and detained them long. The ladies CHAPTER L. ere annoyed in a similar manner, and a num- VENICE AND ITS PECULIAR GLORY.-THE DODGE er of Roman and Neapolitan trinkets which CLUB COME TO GRIEF AT LAST.-UP A TREE.had passed the Italian doganas were now taken IN A NET, ETC. from them. FEW sensations are so singular as that which Dick had a valise, both compartments of the traveller experiences on his first approach to which were strapped down carefully. Under a Venice. The railway passes for miles through calm exterior he concealed a throbbing heart, swamps, pools, ponds, and broken mud banks, for in that valise was the Doctor's pistol, upon till at length, bursting away altogether from the which hie relied in anticipation of future dan- shore, it pushes directly out into the sea. Away gers. The officials opened the valise. It wasI goes the train of cars over the long viaduct, apparently a puzzle to them. They found but and the traveller within can scarcely understand little clothing. On the contrary, a very exten- the situation. The firm and even roll and the sive assortment of articles wrapped in paper and thunder of the wheels tell of solid ground belabelled very neatly. These they opened one neath; but outside of the windows on either by one in the first compartment, and found the side there is nothing but a wide expanse of sea. following: At length the city is reached. The train 1, Six collars; 2, a brick; 3, lunip of lime; 4, pebbles; stops, and the passenger steps out into the sta5, plaster; 6, ashes; T, paper; 5, another brick; 9, a chip; tion-house. But what a station-house! and 10, more plaster; 1 1, more ashes; 12, an ink bottle; 13, what a city! T[here is the usual shouting from three pair stockings; 14, more ashes; 15, more ashes;caresndab nutoeofhtdepor 16, a neck-tie; 1T, a bit of wood; 18, vial; 19, some grass;caresndab nutoeofhtdepor St), bone; 21, rag; 22, stone; 23, another stone; 24, some of a large city which in every other place drones more grass; 25, more pebbles; 26, more bones; 2T, pot Of heavily into the traveller's ear. blacking; 28, slippers; 29, more stones; 30, niore stones. Gio u owa etik sasre h The officials started up with an oath apiece. traveller finds merely a canal. Where are the Their heavy German faces confronted Dick with carriages, cabs, cal~ches, hand-carts, barouchies, wrath Amd indignation, and every separate hair pony -carriages, carryalls, wagons, hansoms, of their warlike mustaches stood out. Howv- hackneys, wheelbarrows, broughams, dog-carts, ever, they swallowed their rage, and turned to buggies? Where are the horses, mares, dogs, the others. Dick drew a longr breath of relief, pigs, ponies, oxen, cows, cats, colts, calves, and The pistol was safe. It had been taken apart live-stock generally? and each piece wrapped in paper and labelled. Nowhere. There's not a wheeled carriage Had lie carried it about with him it would have in the place. It may be doubted if there is been taken. a dog. There certainly is not a cow. The The Senator thought it was better to have people use goats' milk. The horse is as unthree battles with brigands than one encounter known as the pterodactyl, icthyosaurus, dodo, with custom-house officials. He had a little iguanodon, mastodon, great awk. How. do they store of specimens of Italian manufactures, go about? Where are the conveniences for which were all taken from him. One thing moving to and fro? struck him forcibly, and that was the general Then, at the platform of the station, a score superiority of the Austrian over the Roman side. or two of light gondolas await you. Tho gon 120 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX.'"-" —-- ~, ~'- Ir f ~ i fl'11 *~/ 6/ 7 / //.i 4 I? Sr, /I DICK'S LUGGAGE. dolier is the cabman. HIe waits for you, with av67rt~e, icaut&e, ep6caat, /3ObKo2~ro, his hand toward you, and the true "Keb, Sir!" 2ty;4toXwot: ic. 1.2 tone and smile. A double-sized gondola is here Thetravellersvisitedthe whole round of sights. called an "Iomnibus,"1 and the name is painted They remained in company and went about in on the side in huge letters. And these are the the same gondola. The Senator admired what substitutes for wheeled vehicles, hie saw as much as any of them, though it apNow after entering one of these you go along peared to he out of his particular line. It was smoothly and noiselessly. The first thing one not the Cathedral of St. Mark's, however, nor notices in Venice is the absence of noise. As the Doge's Palace, nor the Court of the Inquisithe boat goes along the only sound that is heard tion, nor the Bridge of Sighs, -nor the iRialto, is the sharp cry from the boatman as he ap- that interested him, but rather the spectacle of proaches a corner. At first the novelty inter- all these magnificent edifices around him, with ests the mind, afterward it affects the spirits. all the massive masonry of a vast city, built up In three days most people leave the city in a laboriously on the uncertain sand. He admired kind of panic. The stillness is awful. A long- the Venetians who had done this. To such men, er stay would reduce one to a state of mel- he thoughit, the commerce of the world might ancholy madness. A few poets, however, have well have belonged. In discussing the causes been able to endure, and even to love, the sepul- of the decline of Venice he summed -up the subchral stillness of the city. But to appreciate ject in a few words, and in the clearest possible Venice one must be strongly poetical. manner. There are many things to be seen. First of' "These Venetians, when they sot up shop, all, there is the city itself, one grand curiosity, were in the principal street of the world-the unique, with nothing on earth that bears a dis- Mediterranean. They had the best stand in the taut approach to it. Its canals, gondolas, street. They did work up their business uncomantique monuments, Byzantine architecture, mon well now, and -no mistake. They made bridges, mystery: its pretty wvomen with black money hand over fist, and whatever advantage lace veils, the true glory of Venice-though could be given by energy, capital, and a good locaMurray says nothing about them. tion, they got. But the currents of traffic change For Murray, in what was meant to he an ex- in the world just as they do in a city. After a haustive description of Venice, has omittcd all while it passed in another direction. Venice mention of that which makes it what it is. was thrown out altogether. She had no more Whereas if it had been Homer instead of Murray chance than a New York shop would have after he would have rolled out the following epithets: the business that it lived on had gone into an-?)2L7e11otiao, d7ra2~ai, Xopoy,6e~, V'9,copot,'ocdori-7_ other street. Hence," said the Senator-lie alx&Ec, tpaErewa'.iKa2/UtrX06K/1zot9 11';KcEXI'MVEC, Ky- ways said "1hence " when he was coining to a THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 121 triumphant conclusion- hence the downfall locked them all in together. It was a comforta~~~~~of Venice." ~ble apartment, with another larger one opening On arriving at their hotel a little circumstance from it, in which were two beds and two couches. occurred which made them look at Venice from Evidently they were not neglected. a new and startling point of view. On going After waiting for half the night in a kind of to their rooms after dinner they were followed fever they retired to rest. They slept but little. by a file of Austrian soldiers. They wanted to They rose early, and at about seven o'clock see the passports. They requested this in a breakfast was brought in to them, with a guard thick guttural tone, which made the Americans of soldiers following the waiters. feel quite nervous. They showed the passports After breakfast they were visited again. This ~nevertheless,~~ ~time it was a legal gentleman. They did not On looking over them the Austrian soldiers ar- know who he was, but he gave them to underrested them. They ere informed that if they stand that he was a person high in authority. went peaceably they would be well treated, but He questioned them very closely as to their busif they made any resistance the would all be iness in Venice, but did his questioning in a ~~~~~bound. ~courteous manner. After about an hour he The Americans remonstrated. No use. A left. Lthousand conjectures were made s to the cause Lunch was brought in at one o'clock. Their of their arrest, but they ere completely baffled. feelings at being treated in this mysterious man~~Before the~~ey could arrive at any conclusion they ner can be imagined. Such neglect of tho had arrived at the place of their destination, to rights of man-such trifling with his time and which they had, of course, been taken in a gon- patience-such utter disregard of habeas co77)us, dola. It was too dark to distinguish the place, awaked indignation which words could not exbut it looked like a large and gloomy edifice. press. The soldiers took them to a room, where they Positively they were treated like dumb cattle; _ I ARRESTED. 122 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. locked utp, fed, deprived of liberty and fresh air; stare at the prisoners, particularly at the Senator. no communication with friends outside; and, They bore it steadily. As for the Senator, e worst of all, no idea in the world of the cause regarded the other with an expression which of their imprisonment. They came to the con- would have done honor to the Austrian General's elusion that they were mistaken for some other own father. parties-for some Cacciatori degli Alpi; and "Who are ou Buttons insisted that the Senator was supposed The General spoke in German. The legal to be Garibaldi himself. In these troublous gentleman at his side instantly interpreted it times any idea, however absurd, might be acted into English. upon. Americans." At about three in the afternoon the door was Ah! danerous aracters-dangerous charthrown open, and a file of soldiers appeared. actrs! Whatisyourbusiness?" An officer approached and requested the prison- Travellers." ers to follow. They did so. They passed along "Travellers? A! Butwhatareyouroc many halls, and at length came to a large room. cupations in America?" A long table extended nearly from one end to Our passports tell." another. Soldiers were arranged down the sides Your passports say- Gentlemen. of the apartment.Well, we are gentlemen." At the head of the table sat an elderly man, The Austrian looked blank. After a while with a stern face, ferocious mustache, sharp eye, he resumed; and as he directed his glance to bushy gray eyebrows, and universal air of Mars. the Senator the latter made all the replies, while His uniform showed him to be a General. By the Interpreter served as a medium of commuhis side was their visitor of the morning. Offi- nication. cials sat at the table.How long have you been in Italy?" " Silence "Two or three months. "You came here just about the commencement of these difficulties?" "Yes-the beginning of the war." "Where did you land?" "At Naples." ~~~ ~~"Naples? Ha! hm! Where did you go, ~ ~/T7-7\\ next?" / "~~~~~~~~To Romne. We stayed there a few weeks and then went to Florence; from Florence to../ Bologna, and thence through Ferrara and Pad.a to Venice., "Youw~ent to Florence! How long ago did.0 /111/; did you leave?'' IIAbout a month ago." Il/I'/"A month! Ah,hin!" ~~~ ~An'd the General exchanged glances with the...../ ~ legal gentleman at his side. - ~~~~ ~ "What wvere you doing in Florence?" Seeing the city." Did you place yourselves in connection with ~~-the Revolutionists?"' Did you have any thing to do with the emmss'tries of Garibaldi?" "Take care how you deny." "We say we know nothing at all either of the Revolutionists or Imperialists or Garibaldians or any other party. We are merely travel.hers." siaaacE! "~~~Hm-a strong disavowmient,"7 said the GenSILENCE ~~~eral to himself. "1You. have never in any way countenanced the rebels.", No." CHAPTER LI. "IThink before you, speak." THE AMERICAN EAGLE AND THE AUSTRIAN nouB- "We are free Americans. Perhaps you know LE-H1EADED DITTO. that the'citizens of that country say what they AT the command of the Austrian General think and do what they like. We have gone on every body became still. Thereupon he motion- that rule in Italy. What I say is, that we do ed to the prisoners to stand at the bottom of the not know any thing about rebels or any political table. They did so. The General took a long parties in the country." THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 123 Do you know La Cica?" asked the Gen- based on some slanderous or stupid information eral, with the air of a man ho was putting a of some of your infernal spies," said the Senator. home -thrust, and speaking with uncommon "What right have you to pry into the private ~~~fierceness. ~affairs of an American traveller? We have ~~"I do,"~~n said the Senator, mildly noting to do with you." You know her well? You are one of her "You are associated with conspirators. You ~intimate friends?" are charged with treasonable correspondence "I'~~~~Aml?'' with rebels. You countenanced revolution in " ~Are you not ~?" Florence. You openly took part with RepublicI am friendly with her. She is an estima- ans. You are a notorious friend of La Cica. with much feelin and penetration" And you came here with the intention of fo-and a fond regret exhibited itself in the face menting treason in Venice!" ~of the speaker. II~"Whoever told you that," replied the Sena"Well, Sir, you may as well confess. We tor, "told infernal lies-most infernal lies. I know you, Sir. We know you. You are one am no emissary of any party. I am a private of the chosen associates of that infamous Gari- traveller." baldian plotter and assassin, whose hotel is the "Sir, we have correspondents in Florence on hot -Vbed of conspiracy and revolution. We whom we can rely better than on you. They know you. Do you dare to come here and deny watched you." ~~~~~~~~it?" ~~"Then the best thing you can do is to dismiss "Ididnotcomehere; Iwasbrought. Ido those correspondents and get rogues who have not deny that you know me, though I haven't half an idea." the pleasure of knowing you. But I do deny Sir, I tell you that they watched you well. that I am the associate of conspirators." You had better confess all. Your antecedents "Are you not the American whom La Cica in Florence are known. You are in a position so particularly distinguished with her favor' of imminent danger. I tell you-beware!" I have reason to believe that she was par- The General said this in an awful voice, tial to me-som ~ewhat." which was meant to strike terror into the soul "He confesses!" said the General. You of his captive. The Senator looked back into came from her to this place, communicating on his eyes with an expression of calm scorn. His the way with her emissaries." form seemed to grow larger, and his eyes dilated I communicated on the way with none but as he spoke: brigands among the mountains. If they were "Then you, General, I tell you-beware! her emissaries I wish her joy of them. My Do you know who you've got hold of?-No conmeans f comunicaIon, sadteSntr spirator; -no infernal Italian bandit, or Dutchwhile a grim smile passed over his face, "Iwas' man either; but an American citizen. Your an iron crow-bar, and my remarks left some deep Government has already tried the temper of impression on them, I do believe." i1 Americans on one or twvo remarkable occasions. "Tell me now-and tell me truly," said the Don't try it on a third time, and don't try it on General after a pause, in which hie seemed try-: wvith me. Since you want to know who I am ing to make out whether the Senator was joking' I'll tell you. I, Sir, am an American Senator. or niot. "1To whom are you seat in this city?" iI take an active and prominent part in the gov"To no one." ermient of that great and glorious country. I "Sir! I warn you that I will not be trifled represent a constituency of several hundred with." thousand. You tell me to beware. I tell you "I tell you," said the Senator, with no appar- -BEWARE! for, by the Eternal! if you don't eat excitement, "6I tell you that I have conic let me go, I swear to you that you'll have to give here to no one. What more can I say?" me up at the cannon's mouth. I swear to you "IYou must confess." if you don't let me off by evening I won't go at "I have nothing to confess." all till I am delivered up with humble and am"ISir! you have much to confess," cried the ple apologies, both to us and to our country, General, angrily, "and I swear to you I will whom you have insulted in our persons." wring it out of you. Beware how you trifle "Sir, you are bold!" with my patience. If you wish to regain your "Bold! Send for the American Consul of liberty confess at once, and you may escape your this city and see if he don't corroborate this. just punishment. But if you refuse, then, by But you had better make haste, for if you subject the immortal gods, I'll shut you up in a dungeon me to further disgrace it will be the worse for for ten years!" your Government, and particularly for you, my "4You will do -no such thing."` friend. You'll have the town battered down "What!" roared the General. "1Won't I ",about your ears. Don't get another nation down " IYou will not. On the contrary, you will on you, and, above all, don't let that nation be have to make apologies for these insults."'the American. What I tell you is the solemn III!-Apologies! Insults!" truth, and if you don't mind it you will know it The General gnawed his mustache, and his some day to your sorrow." eyes blazed in fury. Whatever the cause may have been the com, "1You have arrested us on a false charge, pany present, including even the General, were 121 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. N IH~~~~~~~I "DNT R IT ONWIHM impresed y theSenaor'swords Thean- I haewl-usatae cagsb hk ei imrSse by the Senpoaltor'sen words The Aeian- Whavewel-ubstataeehagsbhichths e hyereis Cnouncmnl fhsdgiy the venrlg r e rstoablessne title, impic tedi treaso hand cottnspiracy Flirenhas ofy SeaoD h eto fhs"osiuny"be onected writhne Reoltoniests ofte os a wod te mre ormdabe fom ot einatstapOi Floursencte, adterieis. ston proofst all udersood-ll cmbind tofillthemwith tha henha come here to commnicante wth Rev- respct nd venawTe. Loluifonistse iny thisncity.", a o. TSoNATOhsRopslt sTLL ENdAfor the FAmeIcaDON "Whos caccues hreim pofstis? lAe.te ee CoNsulECThED GEneAlPgAeoRdNEr tOF aOGTE mesener iNo butogthey havdfewrintte an from Floenc wHoINve.tCOffLAtPnenSEac ofFthat functon-.wrnin mupoe. of his joune herie."mmeroh motstry.t fbsnesgv wnst "ndoe the pnjrisdoner confs?i"iledngru 111s fet.Moeovr, ie el a erynatra de "Ofh coursesnt.H degre nies. yuhae reuneste ireto elp contrman n toube. Uon iame t rofsen ofor i you.il dont wantl t be unjust, re enteingth ChaPlh atEarai LII. sound hifa youchave anetigs osa,-a"o THEi SheNAO STIerls ENaGEDa INr FACING now Or "Telse charges arle imosbe."gaecopia THesa AUrsTRIn. -hnthe AMEtriCan C OmmnSULt. -ins"Imosbe ThINGSConslLAPSedn OFthenloe COUR.yo supoe. Hemm isdant eminent memberof the THsoers America Consuel sopon made hSapenatr- Amotersicpansenate. Autny cargesic maderaaisted anche. Ntip n haing hacead md nythng topesdon fo hoe lienahim will. hAveaoib whel substantiated monthsmoth prosectdofbusiness. gavienl wings touaned any injur donetor hisrmawill beidnginerou sgiretio Thel Acuntryman iomndatrouble. s U pon enabl pros beofrie ul. i ilb bsofe enterngte halsl hiecatl an Grmapinok. rud him atw done-ort apelse-" owrespr For in ko the Ge isneralsmrilsomh a no "Olrelse itherte witall bhe vergave ompica-t i less akpersone tha themAsranCmanat tiornse." n aiu o aCcassln of tHe most ferieundly interest heaviety accre-on turne tou theio Seatohs remarksow beinughinter THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 125 the city? that you publicly acknowledged the "Read," said the Commandant. The SenaFlorentine rebellion in a speech? that the people tor waited, wonderingly. The Interpreter read: carried you home in triumph? and that imme- "Ma ouillina sola ouda ste ensoce frernas dis ansit andiately before leaving you received private in- sin assalef a one tu affa lastinna belis." structions from La Cica?" Scarcely had the first words been uttered in "To your questions," said the Senator, with the Italian voice of the reader than the Senunabated dignity, "I will reply in brief: First, ator started as though a shot had struck him. I am a free and independent citizen of the great His face flushed. Finally a broad grin spread and glorious American Republic. If I associ- itself over his countenance, and down his neck, ated with Revolutionists in Florence, I did so and over his chest, and over his form, and into because I am accustomed to choose my own so- his boots, till at last his whole colossal frame ciety, and not to recognize any law or any mas- shook with an earthquake of laughter. ter that can forbid my doing so. I deny, how- The Commandant stared and looked uneasy, ever, that I was in any way connected with All looked at the Senator-all with amazeplots, rebellions, or conspiracies. Secondly, I ment-the General, the Interpreter, the Offiwas friendly with the Countess because I con- cials, the Guards, Buttons, Dick, and the Amerisidered her a most remarkably fine woman, can Consul. and because she showed a disposition to be "Oh dear! Oh de-ar! Oh DEEE-AR!" friendly with me-a stranger in a strange land. cried the Senator, in the intervals of his outThirdly, I have no mission of any kind what- rageous peals of laughter. "OH!" and a new ever. I am a traveller for self-improvement. I peal followed. have no business political or commercial. So What did all this mean? Was he crazyl that my mission could not have been known. Had misfortunes turned his brain? If people talked about me they talked nonsense. But at last the Senator, who was always reFourthly, I confess I made a speech, but what of markable for his self-control, recovered himself. that? It's not the first time, by a long chalk. He asked the Commandant if hlie might be perI don't know what you mean by' acknowledg- mitted to explain. ing.' As a private citizen I congratulated "Certainly,"said the Commandant, doleful them on their success, and would do so again. ly. He was afraid that the thing would take a If a crowd calls on me for a speech, I'm thar! ridiculous turn, and nothing is so terrible as that The people of Florence dragged me home in a to an Austrian official. carriage. Well, I don't know why they did so. "Will you allow me to look at the paper?" I can't help it if people will take possession of asked the Senator. "I will not injure it at all." me and pull me about. Fifthly, and lastly, I The Interpreter politely carried it to him as had an interview with the Countess, had I? the Commandant nodded. The Senator beckWell, is it wrong for a man to bid good-bye to oned to the Consul. They then walked up to a friend? I ask you, what upon earth do you the Commandant. All four looked at the paper. mean by such a charge as that? Do you take "You see, gentlemen," said the Senator, me for a puling infant?" drawing a lead pencil from his pocket, "the "On that occasion," said the Commandant, Florence correspondent has been too sharp. I " she taught you some mysterious words which can explain all this at once. I was with the were to be repeated among the Revolutionists Countess, and we got talking of poetry. Now, here." I don't know any more about poetry than a "Never did any thing of the kind. That's horse." a complete full-blown fiction." "Well?" "I have the very words." "Well, she insisted on my making a quota"That's impossible. You've got hold of the tion. I had to give in. The only one I could wrong man I see." think of was a line or two from Watts." "I will have them read," said the General, "Watts? Ah! I don't know him," said the solemnly. Interpreter. And he beckoned to the Interpreter. Where- "He was a minister-a parson." upon the Interpreter gravely took out a formi- "Ah!" dable roll of papers from his breast, and opened "So I said it to her, and she repeated it. it. Every gesture was made as though his These friends of yours, General, have taken it hand was heavy with the weight of crushing down, but their spellin' is a little unusual," said proof. At last a paper was produced. The the Senator, with a tremendous grin that threatInterpreter took one look at the prisoner, then ened a new outburst. glanced triumphantly at the Consul, and said: "Look. Here is the true key which this "It is a mysterious language with no appar- gentleman tried so hard to find." ent meaning, nor have I been able to find the And taking his pencil the Senator wrote unkey to it in any way. It is very skillfully der the strange words the true meaning: made, for all the usual tests of cipher writing My willing soul would stay * * *1.................................1;"My willing soul woul~d stay fail in this. The person who procured it did In sucha frame as this, not get near enough till the latter part of the And sit and sing herself away t... * To everlasting bliss." interview, so that he gained no explanation whatever from the conversation." The Interpreter saw it all. He looked pro 126 TIlE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. *'N gage, in which the Doctor's pistol had again miraculously escaped seizure. Buttons went -- N ~~~~immediately to call on the Spaniards, but their apartment was closed. Supposing that they were out about the town, lie returned to his ~'I~~~~~~~~x ~~~~~ ~~~friends. IDuring their memorable captivity they had \ eaten but little, and now nothing was more welcome than a dinner. So they ordered the very I ~~~~~~best that the hotel could supply, and made the American Consul stay. Buttons did not give'< himself up so completely as the rest to the hiilarity of the occasion. Something was on his mind. So he took advantage of a conversation in which the Senator was giving the Consul an animated description of the fight with the brigands, and the pluck of his two "Iboys," and tor stopped and remarkedA'Hang these fellows that are in love!" / 1''Certainly," said Dick.''They oftenbhang, themselves, or feel like it." ~~~ "~~~~Of course Buttons is on his usual errand." Of course.", "It seems to me that his foreign travel has / become nothing but one long chase after that gal. He iscertainlymostuncommondevoted." k I~~~~ I ~~Scarce had these words been spoken when L the door was flung open, and Buttons made his WATTS MIS-SPELLED. appearance, much agitated. "What's the matter?" cried Dick. "The foundly foolish. The whole thing was clear. Spaniards!" "Well?" "They're off!" "Off?" The Senator's innocence was plain. He turned "Gone!" "Where?" "Away from Venice." to explain to the Commandant. The Consul's " IWhen?" I don't know." "Why?" " face exhibited a variety of expressions, over don't know." which a broad grimace finally predominated, "What sent them? It looks as though they like sunshine over an April sky. In a few words were running away from you on purpose." the wvhole was made plain to the Commandant. "They're off, at any rate," cried Buttons. He looked annoyed, glared angrily at the Inter- III went to their room. It was open. The preter, tossed the papers on the floor, and rose servants were fixing it up. I asked why. They to his feet. said the Spaniards h ad left Venice early this "Give these gentlemen our apologies," said he morning. They did not know any thing more." to the Interpreter. "In times of trouble, when "Strange! States have to be held subject to martial law, "Stranae, of course. It's so sudden. Their proceedings are abrupt. Their own good sense plans were laid out for a week in Venice." Will, I trust, enable them to appreciate the diffi- " IPerhaps they were frightened at our adventculty of our position. They are at liberty." urc."7 At liberty! No sooner were the words spok- Buttons sprung to the bell and pulled it vigen than the prisoners bowed and left, in com- orously. Then he rushed to the door and flung pany with the Consul, who eagerly shook hands it open. Five or six waiters camle tumbling in. with all three, particularly the Senator, who, as They had all been listening at the key-hole. tlfey were leaving, was heard to whisper some- "Where's the chief waiter?" thing in which these words were audible: "Here,"7 said that functionary, approaching. "Wa'al, old boss! The American eagle "Come here. You may retire,"' said Batshowed it claws, anyhow." tons to the others. They wvent out reluctantly. "Now, my friend, " said he, putting some piastres in the hand of the chief waiter. "Think, and answer me right. Where are the Span. CHAPTER LIII iards-a gentleman and two ladies-who came A. MYSTERIOUS FLIGHT.-DESPAIR OF BUTTONS.- here with us?" PURSUIT.- HISTORIC GROUND, AND HISTORIC "They have left the city." CITIES. "When?" IT was about seven o'clock in the evening "At six this morning, by the first train." wvhen they reached their hotel. Every thing "Why did they leave? " wvas as they had left it. Some trifles had oc- "A hint came from the Commandant." curred, such as a general overhaul of the bag- "Frombhim. Ahi! What about?" THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 127 Why-you know-your Excellencies were to induce them to quit the city, so the passports waited on by a deputation." were handed over to the waiter. We were arrested. Well?" So at six the next morning they went flying Well, these Spaiards were friends of over the sea, over the lagoons, over the marshes, ~~~~yours."~ ~ ~over the plains, away toward Lombardy. "II ~~~~Yes." ~They had to stop for a while at Verona, "That connection made them suspected." waiting to comply with " some formalities." "~~Diavolo ~!" ~They had time to walk about the town and see Such is the melanchol fact. There was the Roman ruins and the fortifications. Of all no cause stron enough to ead to their arrest. these much might be said, if it were not to be It would have been inconvenient. So the Com- found already in Guide-books, Letters of Corremandant sent a message, imediately after your spondents, Books of Travel, Gazetteers, and IlExcellency's lamentable arrest, to arn them-" lustrated Newspapers. Our travellers saw "~~~~What of?" ~enough of the mighty military works, in a brief That they had better leave the country at survey, to make them thoroughly comprehend ~~~~~~~once." ~the Peace of Villafranca. In the neighborhood Yes, but that didn't force them to go." of Solferino they left the train to inspect the A, Signore! Do you not know what scene of battle. Only a month had passed since such a warning is? There is no refusal." the terrific contest, and the traces remained visAnd so they left." ible on every side. The peasants had made At six by the train." two trenches of enormous size. In one of these ~~~~"Where to?" ~the bodies of the Austrians had been buried, in Sinore, they had their passports made the other those of the French and Italians. In ~~out for Milan." ~one place there was a vast heap of arms, which "~~Milan! ~" b ~had been gathered from off the field. There Certainly. It was necessary for them not was no piece among them which was not bent only to leave Venice, but Ventia." or broken. All were of the best construction Very well. When does the next train and latest pattern, but had seen their day. ~~~~~leave?" ~Shattered trees, battered walls, crumbling Not till to-morrow morning at six." houses, deep ruts in the earth, appeared on You must call us then at five, for we are every side to show where the battle had raged; going. Here, take our passports and get them yet already the grass, in its swift growth, had visd;" and having explained matters to the obliterated the chief marks of the tremendous Senator, Buttons found no need of persuasion conflict. At length they arrived at Milan. The city presented a most imposing appearance. Its - ~~~~~~~~~~natural situation, its magnificent works of archi____ ~~~~tectnre, its stately arches and majestic avenues ___ ~~~~~~presented an appearance which was now heightened by the presence of victory. It was as ___ ~~~though the entire population had given them____ ~~~selves up to rejoicing. The evil spirit had been /; ~~~~~~cast out, and the house thoroughly swept and a —- girnished. The streets were filled with gay mltitudes; the avennes resounded with tbe thrnilling strains of the Marseillaise, repeated evcryvwhere,; every window displayed the portrait of Napoleon, Victor Emanuel, or Garibaldi, and finom every house-top flaunted the tn-color. The heavy weight imposed by the military rule-the -.iron hand, the cruelty, time bands of spies, time innumerable soldiers sent forth by Austriahad been lifted off and in the first reaction of N perfect liberty the whole population rushed into thle wildest demonstrations of joy and gayety. The churches were all marked by the perpetual pmesence of the emblems of Holy Peace, and Heavenly Faith, and Immortal Hope. The.11 -~~~~~~~ I ~~sblime Cathedral, from all its marble population of sculptured saints and from all its thousands of in ~~~~~~~~~~pinnacles, sent uip one constant song. Through the streets marched soldiers-regular, irregular, horse, foot, and dragoons; cannon thundered at I ~~~~~~~~~companies sprang up like butterflies to flash Fr1o1ThAmT II.S. their gay uniforms in the sun. I 128 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. It was not the season for theatres. La Scala had opened for a few nights when Napoleon and Victor Emanuel where here, but had closed - again. Not so the smaller theatres. Less dig- >' nified, they could burst forth unrestrained. Es- pecially the Day Theatres, places formed some- t what on the ancient model, with open roofs. In these the spectators can smoke. Here the performance begins at five or six and ends at dark. All the theatres on this season, day or night alike, burst forth into joy. The war was the universal subject. Cannon, fighting, sol- I diers, gunpowder, saltpetre, sulphur, fury, explosions, wounds, bombardments, grenadiers, artillery, drum, gun, trumpet, blunderbuss, and thunder! Just at that time the piece which -- was having the greatest run was THE VICTORY of SOLFERINO! Two theatres exhibited this piece with all the pomp and circumstance of glorious war. Another put out in a pantomime "The Battle of Maleguano!"' Another, "The Fight at Magenta!" But perhaps the most popular of all was IIGARIBALDI IN VARESE, od I CACCIATORI DEGLI ALPI "' CHAPTER LIV. THE COUNT COO. DICK MEETS AN OLD FRIEND.- THE EMOTIONAL NATURE OF THE ITALIAN.-THE SENATOR OVER- Dick had no difficulty in finding out where COME AND DUMBFOUNDED. hle lived, and went to call on him. It was a THE day of their arrival at Milan was dis- magnificent palace. Throngs of servants were tinguished by a pleasing circumstance. Buttons around the entrance. Dick sent up his name, found the Spaniards, and was happy. And by and was conducted by a servant to an anteanother circumstance, scarcely less pleasing, chamber. Scarcely had lie finished a hasty Dick found an old acquaintance. survey of the apartment when hurried footsteps On this wise: were heard. He turned. The Count came Finding himself in Milan he suddenly called rushing into the room, flushed and trembling, to mind an old firiend with whom he had been and without a word threw himself into Dick's intimate in Boston. He had been exiled from arms, embraced him, and kissed himn. It was a Italy on account of his connection with the trying moment for Dick. Nothing is so frightmovements of 1848. He had fled to America, ful to a man of the Anglo-Saxon race as to be and had taken with him barely enough to live hugged and kissed by a man. However, Dick on. For five years he had lived in Boston un- felt deeply touched at the emotion of his friend der the plain name of Huiqh Airey. Then Dick and his grateful remembrance of himself. met with him, and had been attracted by the "This is a circumstance most unexpected!" polished manners, melancholy air, and high cried the Count. "Why did you not write and spirit of the unfortunate exile. In the course tell me that you were coming, my dearest friend? of time their acquaintance ripened into intimate I did not know that you were in Italy. But friendship. Dick introduced him to all his perhaps you wished to give me a surprise?" friends, and did all in his power to make his And then the Count asked after all the friends life pleasant. From him he had learned Ital- in America, for whom he still evinced the tenian, and under his guidance formed a wide and derest attachment. deep acquaintance with Italian literature. In On being questioned he related his own sub1858 Mr. Airey decided to return to Italy and sequent adventures. After leaving America he live in Turin till the return of better days. Be- went at once to Turin. Though proscribed in fore leaving he confided to Dick the fact that Lombardy he was free in Piedmont. He manhe belonged to one of the oldest families in aged to communicate secretly with his relatives Lombardy, and that he was the Count Ugo di in Milan, and lived comfortably. At length he Gonfaloniere. The exile bade Dick and all became aware of the great movement on foot his friends good-bye and departed. Since then which ended in the Italian war. He had thrown Dick had heard from him but once. The Count himself altogether in the good cause, and, withwas happy, and hopeful of a speedy return of out being at all disheartened by his former misbetter days for his country. His hopes had fortunes, he embarked energetically in the curbeen realized, as the world knows. rent of events. He was at once recognized by THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 129 the Sardinian Government as a powerful re- indeed, had borne her burden far differently cruit, and appointed to an important military from Florence. Both hated the foreigner; but command. Finally war was declared. The the latter could be gay, and smiling, and trifling French came, the Count had taken a conspicu- even under her chains; this the former could ous part in the events of the ar, had been never be. The thoughtful, earnest, and somepresent at every battle, and had been promoted what pensive Milanese was more to the Senafor his gallant conduct. Fortunately he had tor's taste than the brilliant and giddy Florennot once been wounded. tine. These, thought he, may well be a free On the occupation of Milan by the Allies he people. had regained all his rights, titles, privileges, and Moreover, the Senator visited the Grand Caestates. He was a happy man. His ten years thedral, and ascended to the summit. Arrivof exile had given him a higher capacity for en- ing there his thoughts were not taken up by the joyment. He looked forward to a life of honor innumerable statues of snow-white marble, or and usefulness. He had found joy harder to the countless pinnacles of exquisite sculpture endure than grief; the reunion with all his old that extended all around like a sacred forest friends and relations, the presence of all the fa- I filled with saints and angels, but rather to the miliar scenes of his native land had all well-nigh scene that lay beyond. overcome him. Yet he assured Dick that no There spread away a prospect which was sufriend with whom he had met was more welcome perior in his eyes to any thing that he had ever to his sight than e, and the joy that e felt at seen before, nor had it ever entered his mind to seeing him had only been exceeded once in his conceive such a matchless scene. The wide life-that one time having been on the occasion plains of Lombardy green, glorious, golden with of the entrance of the Allies into Milan. the richest and most inexhaustible fertility; And now that he was here, where was his vast oceans of grain and rice, with islands of luggage? Did he come without it? There dark-green trees that bore untold wealth of all was certainly only one place in the city where manner of fruit; white villas, little hamlets, h could stop. He must remain nowhere else close-packed villages, dotted the wide expanse, but here. Dick modestly excused himself. He with the larger forms of many a populous town. was scarcely prepared. e was travelling in He looked to the north and to the west. The company wit friends, and would hardly like to plain spread away for many a league, till the leave them. The Count looked reproachfully purple mountains arose as a barrier, rising up at hin. Did he hesitate about that? Why, till they touched the everlasting ice. He looked ~his friends als~~no must come. He would have no to the east and south. There the plains stretchrefusal. They all must come. They would be ed away to the horizon in illimitable extent. as welcome as himself. He would go with Dick "What a country! All cleared too! Evto his hotel in person and bring h is friends there, cry acre! And the villages! Why, there are In a short time the Count and Dick had thousands if there is one! Dear! dear! dear!driven to the hotel, where the former pressed How can I have the heart to blow about New upon the Senator and Buttons an invitation to England or Boston after that there! Buttons, his house. They were -not allowed to refuse, why don't somebody tell about all this to the hut were taken away, and before they fairly un- folks at home and stop their everlasting bragderstood the unexpected occurrence they were ging? But"-after a long pause-" I'll do it! all installed in magnificent apartments in the I'll do it!-this very night. I'll write about it Palazzo Gonfaloniere. to ouir paper. Buttons's acquaintance with the language, literature, manners, and customs of Italy made him,appreciate his advantages; the friendship CHAPTER LV. of the Count- prevented Dick from feeling oth- IN WHICH BUTTONS WRITES A LETTER; AND IN erwise than perfectly at home; and as for the WHICH THE CLUB LOSES AN IMPORTANT MEMSenator, if it had been possible for him to feel BEE.-SMIALL Bv DEGREES AND BEAUTIFULLY otherwise, his experience of high life at Flor- LESS. ence would have enabled him to bear himself BUT all things, however pleasant, must have serenely here. His complete self-possession, Ian end, so their stay in Milan soon approached his unfaltering gaze, his calm countenance, were its termination. never for a moment disturbed. Buttons and the Senator were both quite willThe Count had been long enough in Amer- ing to leave. The departure of the Spaniards lea to appreciate a man of the stamp of the had taken away Ithe charm of Milan. They had Senator; he therefore from the very first treat- already returned to Spain, and had urged Bated him with marked respect, which was height- tons very strongly to accompany them. It cost ened when Dick told him of the Senator's him a great struggle to decline, but he did so achievements during the past few weeks. The from certain conscientious motives, and promised brilliant society which surrounded the Count to do so after going to Paris. So there was an was quite different from that which the Senator: agonizing separation, and all that. At his room had found in Florence. The people were Buttons unbosomed himself to his friends. equally cultivated, but more serious. They had "I'll begin at the beginning," said he, directless excitability, but more deep feeling. M~ilan, ing his remarks more particularly to the Senator. 130 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. "My father is a rich man, though you may gentleman. He likes the terse business stle. not think I live very much like a rich man's I think that little hintabout her fortune is well son. The fact is, he is dreadfully afraid that I managed too. That's a great deal better than will turn out a spendthrift. So he gave me only boring him with the state of my affections. Isn't a moderate sum on which to travel on through it? Europe. So far I have succeeded very well. There's nothing like adapting your style to Excuse my blushes while I make the sweet con- the disposition of the person you address," said fession. The Seiorita whom we all admire will, Dick. some of these days, I trust, exchange the music- Well, said the Senator, you propose to al name of Francia for the plainer one of But- start to-morrow, do you tons. "Yes, said Buttons. The Senator smiled with mild and paternal "I'm agreed then. I was just beginning to approbation, and shook Buttons by the hand. get used up myself. I'm an active man, and "It's all arranged," continued Buttons, with when I've squeezed all thejuice out of a place I sweet confusion. "Now, under the circum- want to throw it away and go to another. What stances, you might think it natural that I should do you say, Dick? You are silent." go back with them to Spain." Well, to tell the truth, said Dick, I don't "I should cerfainly. Why don't you?" care about leaving just yet. Gonfaloniere x"For two reasons. The first is, I have bare- pects me to stay longer, and he would feel hurt ly enough tin left to take me to Paris." if I hurried off. I am very sorry that you are At once both the Senator and Dick offered both going. It would be capital if you could to make unlimited advances. Buttons made a only wait here a month or so. deprecatory gesture. "A month!" cried Buttons. "I couldn't "II know well that I could look to you for stand it another day. Will nothing induce yo any help in any way. But that is not the rea- to come? What can we do witot you?" son why I don't go to Spain. I have money What can I do without you?" said Dick, enough for my wants if I don't go there." with some emotion " What is the real reason, then?"Well, Dick," said the Senator, I'm really "Well, I thought that in an affair of this pained. I feel something like a sense of bekind it wvould be just as well to get the Gov- reavement at the very idea. I thought, of ernor's concurrence, and so I thought I'd drop a course, we would keep together till our feet line to him. I've just got the letter written, touchedte sacred soil once more. But Heavand I'll put it in the mail this evening." en seems to have ordained it otherwise. I felt "IYou have done right, my boy," said the bad when Figgsaend the Doctor left us at FlorSenator, paternally. "IThere are many excel- ence, but now I feel worse by a long chalk. lent reasons for getting your father's consent in Can't you manage to come along nohow?" an affair like this." "cNo, " said Dick. III really can not. I "I don't mind reading you what I have writ- really must stay." ten," said Buttons, "1if yon care about hearing "What! must!" it."'Yes, must!" " Oh, if you have no objection, we should like The Senator sighed. to hear very much, "said Dick. Whereupon Buttons, taking a letter from his pocket, read as follows: CATRLI "4DE AR FAT11ET,-I have endeavored to follow out your CATRLI instructions and he as economical as poosible. THE FAITHFUL ONE! - DARTS, DISTRACTION, "1During my tour through Italy I have made the ac- LOVE'S VOWS, OVERPOWERING SCENE AT THlE quatntance of the senior member of the house of Franesa, MEIGO W ODOE.-CMLT in Cadiz, a gentleman with whom you are acquainted. MEIGo W ODOE.-CMLT He was travelling with his two sisters. Tho younger one BREAK-DOWN OF THE HISTORIAN. is very amiable. As I know you would like to see me settled I have requested her hand in marriage. AnOUT a month after the departure of the "1As I wish to be married before my return I thought Senator and Buttons from Milan, Dick re-npI would let you know. Of course in allying myself to a pnteseea oe nfoto h member of so wealthy a family I will need to do it in good pae style. Whatever you can send me will therefore he quite little church which had borne so prominent a acceptable. pr nhsfrue;tu ohslvt i ",Please reply immediately on receipt of this, address- pr nhsfrue;tu ohslvt i tug me at Paris as before. hopes, to his promises, with undimimished ardor "1And very much ohlige E. BUTTONS." and unabated resolution. He found the Padre "Wel, sadteSntr that's a sensible Liguori there, who at once took him to his room letter. It's to the point. I'm glad to see that in a building adjoining the church. you are not so foolish as most lads in your sit- "Welcome!" said he, in a tone of the deepuation. Why should not a man talk as wisely est pleasure. "CWelcome! It has been more about a partnership of this kind as of any oth er? than a passing fancy, then." I do declare that these rhapsodies, this high- " IIt is the only real purpose of my life, I asblown, high-flown, sentimental twaddle is nau- sure you." seating. " "1I must believe you," said Liguori, pressing "IYou see, Dick,"1 said Buttons, "1I must write his hand once more. a letter which will have weight with the old "IAnd now, where is Pepita?" THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 131 She is in Rome." dclared that he must come and see Pepita that May I see her at once?" very day. How at once?" So, leaving Gonfaloniere with the promise of 1Well, to-day." seeing him again, Luigi walked with Dick out o, not to-day. Her brother wishes to see to the place where he lived. The reason why you first. I must go and let them both know he had not wanted him to see Pepita that day that you are here. But she is well and has was because he was ashamed of their lodgings. ~bel~e n s ~o. ~" ~But that had passed, and as he understood Dick Dick looked relieved. After some conversa- better he saw there was no reason for sc tion Liguori told Dick to return in an hour, and shame. It was a house within a few rods of e could see the Count. After waiting most the church. impatiently Dick came back again in an hour. Dick's heart throbbed violently as he entered On entering he found Luigi. He was dress- the door after Lnigi and ascended the steps ine as a gentleman this time. He was a side the court-yard. Luigi pointed to a door strongly knit, well-made man of about thirty, and drew back. with strikingly handsome and aristocratic features.,A1fl i ~ Let me make my peace with you at once," I said he, with the utmost courtesy. "You are, jik: fm f a bave man, and must be generous. I have __ done you wrongs for which I shall never forgive myself;" and taking Dick's outstretched hand, he pressed it heartily.. /. Say nothing about it, I beg," said Dick; you were justified in what you did, though y/ you may have been a little hasty." 1 Had I not been blinded by passion I would V have been incapable of such a piece of cowardice. But I have had much to endure, and I was always afraid about her." With the utmost frankness the two men received each other's explanations, and the great-!,I! est cordiality arose at once. Dick insisted on 4/ Luigi's taking dinner with him, and Luigi,' I laughingly declarming that it wvould be a sign of pcace to eat bread and salt t~ogether, wvent with Dick to his hotel. As they entered Dick's apartments Gonfaloniere wvas lounging near the window. He had accompanied Dick to Rome. He started at the____ sight of Luigi. "God in Heaven!" he cried, boundingr to his- ________ feet. "Ugo,! exclaimed the other. "Luigi!" _ ~P And the two men, in true Italian fashion, THE noor. sprang into one another's -arms. "And is my best friend, and oldest friend, Dick knocked. the brother of your betrothed?" asked Gonfa- The door opened. loniere of Dick. "1Pepita 1" But Dick only nodded. He was, quite mystified b~ all this. An explanation, however, To describe such a meeting is simply out of was soon made. The two had been educated the question. together, and had fought side by side in the great movements of'48, undcr Garibaldi, and "I knew you would come," said she, after inl Lombardy. about one solid hour, in which not a single inFor full an hour these two friends asked one telligible word wvas uttered. another a torrent of questions. Luigi asked "And for you! Oh, Pepita!" Gonfaloniere about his exile in America; where- "1You do not think nowv that I was cruel?" upon the other described that exile in glowing and a warm flush overspread the lovely face of termis-how he landed in Boston, how Dick, the young girl. theu little more than a lad, became acquainted "ICruel!" (and Dick makes her see that he with him, and how true a friend he had been in positively does not think so). his misery. The animated words of Gonfalon- III could not do otherwise." iere produced a striking effect. Luigi swore "II love you too well to doubt it." eternal friendship with Dick, and finally de- "My brother hated you so. It would have 132 THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. been impossible. And I could not wound his Paris at the Hotel de Lille et d'Albion." On feelings." the arrival of the Senator and Buttons at Paris "He's a splendid fellow, and you were right." they had found Mr. Figgs and the Doctor with"Padre Liguori showed him what you were, out any trouble. The meeting was a rapturous and I tried to explain a little," added Pepita, one. The Dodge Club was again an entity, shyly.. although an important member was not there. "Heaven bless Padre Liguori! As for you On this occasion the one who gave the dinner -you-" was BUTTONS! "Don't." All the delicacies of the season. In fact, a "Well, your brother understands me at last. banquet. Mr. Figgs slone resplendently. If He knows that I love you so well that I would a factory was the sphere of the Senator, a supperdie for you." table was the place for Mr. Figgs. The others Tears came into Pepita's eyes as the sudden felt that they had never before known fully all recollection arose of Dick's misadventure on the the depth of feeling, of fancy, and of sentiment road. that lurked under that placid, smooth, and rosy exterior. The Doctor was epigrammatic; the ex "Do you remember," asked Dick, softly, aft- Senator sententious; Buttons uproarious. er about three hours and twenty minutes-" do Dick's health was drunk in bumpers with all you remember how I once wished that I was the honors: walking with you on a road that would go on forever?"For hes a jolly good fe-e-e —e-e-llow " Yes." For's a jolly good FE-E-E-E-E-LLow! "Well, we're on that track now." Which nobody can deny!" [The Historian of these adventures feels most keenly All this time Buttons was more joyous, more his utter inadequacy to the requirements of this scene. rdiant d altogether more extravagant than Need he say that the above description is a complete fiasco? Reader, your imaginatioin, if you please.] usual. Theothersaskedtemselves,"Why?" In the course of the evening it became known. Taking advantage of a short pause in the conversation he communicated the startling fact In ~e; CHAPTER LVII. that he ad that day received a letter from his THE DODGE CLUB IN PARIS ONCE MORE.-BUT- father. TONS S "JOLLY GOOD HEALTH. " NOT very long after the events alluded to in AYE! unanimously, in tones of thunthe lamst ch'mpter a brilliaont dinner was given in der. "na'sAJOL GOOD FFLLOW! THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX. 133 Buttons opened it and read: A speech from the Senator proposed the I"DEAR So.N,-Your esteemed favor, 15th nlt., I have health of Buttons Senior. reed. ~~~~~~~~~Another from the Doctor. "I beg leave hereby to express my concurrence with AntefrmM.igs your design.AotefrmM Fgs ",My connection with the house of Francia has been of Acknowledgment by Buttons. the most satisfactory kind. I have no doubt that yours Announcement bv buttons of imlnediate dewill be equally so. I "1I inclose you draft on Mess. Dupont Geraud, et Cie of iparture for Cadiz. 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