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Title: Among the Brigands

Author: James de Mille

Release Date: July 3, 2009 [EBook #29297]

Language: English

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Produced by Gardner Buchanan

Among the Brigands

By Prof. James de Mille

H. M. Caldwell Company
Publishers
New York and Boston

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by Lee
and Shepard in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

Among the Brigands

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.

Stranger in a strange Land.--A Citadel of Trunks.--Besieged.--Retreat
in good Order.--A most tremendous Uproar.--Kicks! Thumps!--Smash
of Chairs!--Crash of Tables!--A general Row!--The Cry for Help!--The
Voice of David!--The Revelation of the Darkness!--The fiery Eyes!--The
Unseen!--The Revelation of the Mystery.--A general Flight.

CHAPTER II.

How in the World did it get there?--A joyous Ride.--Hark! Hark!
The Dogs-do bark! Beggars come to Town; some in Rags, some in Tags,
and some in a tattered Gown!--A pleasant Meditation on a classic
Past very rudely, unexpectedly, tad even savagely interrupted, and
likely to terminate in a Tragedy!--Perilous Position of David and
Clive.

CHAPTER III.

Out into the Country.--The Drive.--The glorious Land.--Sorrento
and eternal Summer.--The Cave of Polyphemus.--The Cathedral--The
mysterious Image.--What is it?--David Relic-hunting.--A
Catastrophe.--Chased by a Virago.--The Town roused.--Besieged.--A
desperate Onset--Flight--Last of the Virago.

CHAPTER IV.

Salerno and the sulky Driver.--Paestum and its Temples.--A great
Sensation.--An unpleasant Predicament--Is the Driver a Traitor?--Is
he in League--with Bandits?--Arguments about the Situation, and
what each thought about it.

CHAPTER V.

They discuss the Situation.--They prepare to foot it--A toilsome
Walk, and a happy Discovery.--The Language of Signs once more.--The
Mountain Cavalcade.--Bob's Ambition.--Its results.--Bob
vanishes.--Consternation of the Donkey Boy.--Consternation of the
Cavalcade.--"E Perduto!".

CHAPTER VI.