ction we trust to amongst the Hungarians is not universal;
and even when they falter in their allegiance to the State, by some
strange contradiction they preserve their loyalty to the 'Kaiser.'"

"I wish I could learn more about your prisoner, my Lord," said the Abbe,
thoughtfully. "The story has interested me deeply."

"Midchekoff can, perhaps, tell you something, then, for he saw him later
than I did. He accompanied the Duke of Genoa in an inspection of the
prisoners just before we left the camp."

"And you said that he had a fair and Saxon-looking face?" said the Abbe.

"Faith, I 've told you all that I know of him," said Norwood,
impatiently. "He was a brave soldier, and with ten thousand like him on
our side I 'd feel far more at my ease for the result of this campaign
than with the aid of those splendid squadrons they call the 'Speranza d'
Italia'."

"And the Crociati, my Lord, what are _they_ like?" said Morlache,
smiling.

"A horde of robbers; a set of cowardly rascals who have only courage
for cruelty; the outpourings of jails and offcasts of convents; degraded
friars and escaped galley-slaves."

"My Lord, my Lord!" interrupted Morlache, suppressing his laughter with
difficulty, and enjoying to the full this torrent of indignant anger.
"You are surely not describing faithfully the soldiers of the Pope,--the
warriors whose banners have been blessed by the Holy Father?"

"Ask their General, Ferrari, whom they have three times attempted to
murder. Ask _him_ their character," said Norwood, passionately, "if
D'Esmonde himself will not tell you."

"Has it not been the same in every land that ever struck a blow for
liberty?" said the Abbe. "Is it the statesman or the philosopher who
have racked their brains and wasted their faculties in thought for the
good of their fellow-men that have gone forth to battle? or is it not
rather the host of unquiet spirits who infest every country, and who
seek in change the prosperity that others pursue in patient industry?
Some are enthusiastic for freedom, some seek a field of personal
distinction, some are mere freebooters; but whatever they be, the cause
remains the same."

"You may be right,----for all I know you _are_ right," said Norwood,
doggedly; "but, for my own part, I have no fancy to fight shoulder to
shoulder with cut-throats and housebreakers, even though the Church
should have hallowed them with its blessing." Norwood arose as he said
this, And walked impat