er me longer. Happily, Cecilia's name was kept out of this noisy
chorus of applause which roared so in my ears. I was glad and excited,
and had no objection to be made a hero. As soon as I could be rescued,
Mr. Gregory bore me away to Posilipo, where I found Arthur quite
worn out with the fatigue and excitement of the day. Those influences
retarded his recovery for a week or two, but before the autumn came
he was well and strong again. I begged hard of Mr. Gregory and the
Advocate, and at last they came to agree with me, and to this day Arthur
does not know of my suspicions of him. He regards my reception by the
populace as a curious illustration of the excitability of an Italian
mob--as no doubt it was.

Giovanni Fornajo, otherwise John Baker, went to the Sardinian salt mines
for the term of his natural life, and is serving there now.

I am godfather to Cecilia's boy, and I am an Italian old bachelor.
I shall never marry, but I am contented. My last news is that my old
patron, at the age of fifty-five, has proposed to Miss Grammont, and
that she has not refused him.

If you will look into the little churchyard at Posilipo you will find
a flat marble slab with a name on it, and no more. The name it bears is
that of Alberto Lezzi, who but for his early death would have been one
of the great legal orators of Europe. The case which first brought him
into note was mine. I have not told you his name before, but my advocate
was the great Alberto Lezzi. It was his hand which averted the tragedy
of my life, and it is to his memory that I dedicate this story.

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