THIAS THE

and spectacles, and presented himself at the other great entrance of the prison, as a German traveller who desired to go over the p

ious brigand, as I have he

overnor's reply; "a very

id the visitor. "He is ca

name is

ed surprised at

lf. "I was misinformed, then. I certain

vernor

ght, all the s

w s

wed name; he may be known by

ejaculated the sha

ts at disguise. Would you like to see this M

stl

l only warn you

! What

tment awaits

w s

ch as you might expect, Mathias is really

visitors through the long stone corridor

at thickness, heavily barred, and

mall grated trap in the do

ered fellow appeared, who tou

ias," said the G

nor; "that is the gaoler

at

ed night and day; the auth

wh

he governor, in a low

is y

has been guilty of nearly every crime under the sun-brigandage is

is t

rde

rde

veller looked inex

apital crime i

visitor, "rightly, too. Bu

ill," returned

bold, dashing fellow to sec

Ital

N

nglis

k-a handsome, dashing fellow-a great fav

s this Apo

mas

into a loud fit o

scrubby and ill-favoured scamp-a sneaking, crawling rascal, capable

he visitor's face just then, he mi

pist glared ferociously as

able at the further end of the cell, here aros

t a very noticeable change had taken

e whole of one side of it, the eye, c

k that Jefferson

the deathblow which the brigand had dealt upon

, and any man who had felt its full force as the sc

had it given Mathias that

as gone, and he looked ten years older

the visito

atter, "is it possible that this

or, "yet scarcely so gay as

rugged his shou

y," he said, rather bitte

ow

It may not

never think of ge

nothing else morni

gave a sharp

toward t

d broad in proportion, one who could have tackled Toro

is place, my exit will be due to no violence. Bad as

nically, "one would almost think that

repent sincerely of that poor little gentleman's death; it was no assass

bravo!" ejacula

soner l

ssion flitted a

mulation, and his face was schooled to t

the visitor, "this rascal app

do

does i

ra

um

know him, sir, a

e possible that he is in league w

r smiled in

ossi

omaso, of whom we were spe

eyes glistene

gence passed between the

ht as to be utterly unobserved by

r, what could he possibly do, eh?

's no

you're

arded when you change him fr

nge him? He will never leave this

ev

ev

your prisoners all confined

o, th

breathe the air? W

every day they are allowed to wa

no

no

his eyes strangely

n, I should like to see how this fellow bears hi

ll me

e, then,

*

German traveller wa

accompanied him to the yard, where all th

e fastened by a single handcuff to

ory was the b

head and shoulders, and their wrists were linked secu

ntenance fell whe

his plans at

despair, but made an effor

" said he, "this

governor, "fastenin

es

special cases, such

en very d

hat, only such precautions

gret

hy

core of humanity

oo tender-hearted,"

e brigand more like he appears when not under restr

nor shook

om, and I should real

ected a moment a

his scheme now that

ould be made

ide the gates, where an eager crowd had

s to admit the prisoners?"

ll we open. Now watch how it is done. This bar, which is lik

rds was shown ere the

istled in a ve

den silent rush at

efore that desperate onslaught, and

turned like magic into a crowd of a

wn the gates and dashing

der foot, and the warders and gover

r Mathias and his companion, and

en wrenched off

gates, a horse

re was a lou

iers-the

he guard-room

d as though the rescue of Mathi

iance and ra

robber band, a deafening explosion was heard

ck and re-formed at th

s, headed by the sham visito

been cut off by the unpleasan

r the water gate," cried Tomaso

ade, and the brigands

s, one party being sent in pursuit, th

the prisoners mad

have escaped?" inq

. "One is an Italian, calling himself Toro; another an Englishman,