n Hope.--Disguise,
Flight, and Concealment.

CHAPTER XV.

In the Robber's Hold.--The Brigand's Bride.--Sudden, amazing,
overwhelming, bewildering, tremendous, astounding, overpowering,
and crashing Discovery.--The Situation.--Everybody confounded.--The
Crowd at Sorrento.--The Landlord's Prayers.--The Virago calls for
Vengeance.

CHAPTER XVI.

More Troubles for poor David.--Onset of four Women.--Seized by
an old Crone and three Peasant Girls.--Fresh Horror of David.--A
new Uproar in the Yard of the Inn.--Uncle Moses bent double.

CHAPTER XVII.

Vesuvius.--Ponies and Sticks.--Sand and Lava.--The rocky Steps.--The
rolling, wrathful, Smoke-clouds.--The Volcano warns them off.--The
lost Boy.--A fearful Search.--A desperate Effort.--The sulphurous
Vapors.--Over die sliding Sands.

CHAPTER XVIII.

Pompeii, the City of the Dead.--The Monuments of the Past.--Temples,
Towers, and Palaces.--Tombs and Monuments.--Theatres and
Amphitheatres.--Streets and Squares.

CHAPTER XIX.

Lofty classical Enthusiasm of David, and painful Lack of Feeling
on the Part of Frank.--David, red-hot with the Flow of the Past,
is suddenly confronted with the Present.--The Present dashes cold
Water upon his glowing Enthusiasm.--The Gates.--Minos, Aeacus, and
Rhadamanthus.--The Culprits.

CHAPTER XX.

The Glories of Naples.--The Museum.--The Curiosities.--How they
unroll the charred Manuscripts exhumed from Herculaneum and
Pompeii.--On to Rome.--Capua.--The Tomb of Cicero.--Terracina.
--The Pontine Marshes.--The Appii Forum.

CHAPTER XXI.

The Pontine Marshes.--A Change comes over the Party.--The foul
Exhalations.--The Sleep of Death.--Dreadful Accident.--Despair
of Frank.--A Breakdown.--Ingenuity of the Driver.--Resumption of
the Journey.

CHAPTER XXII.

The March ended.--A lonely Inn.--Evil Faces.--Beetling
Brows.--Sinister Glances.--Suspicions of the Party.--They put their
Heads together.--Conferences of the Party.--A threatening
Prospect--Barricades.--In Time of Peace prepare for War.--The
Garrison arm themselves.

CHAPTER XXIII.

The sleepless Watch.--The mysterious Steps.--The low Whispers.--They
come! They come!--The Garrison roused.--To Arms! To Arms!--The
beleaguered Party.--At Bay.--The decisive Moment--The Scaling
Ladders.--Onset of the Brigands.--End of Troubles.

CHAPTER XXIV.

A beautiful Country.--Magnificent Scenery.--The Approach to
Albano.--Enthusiasm of the Boys.--Archaeology versus Appetite.--The
Separa