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On the 23rd, Briganti found himself attacked on the south and north from Scilla by Cosenz, and from Reggio by Garibaldi.

Next day the castle surrendered, and thus a quantity of valuable war material fell into Garibaldi's hands. His luck had not deserted him. Cosenz and Medici landed their divisions in the night of the 21st of August, near Scilla, in the neighbourhood of which General Briganti had massed his Neapolitans, 7000 strong.

When their commander led his "demons" to an attack, he was wont to urge them thus: "Avanti, avanti, Signori briganti! Cavalieri ladroni, avanti!" A division of this legion of demons had made its way with the vice-king of Italy thus far through the belt-line, and had been intrusted with the mission mentioned in De Fervlans's letter to General Guillaume.

Their earliest exploit was the savage murder of General Briganti, whom they called a traitor, after the fashion of cowards. This happened at Mileto on the 25th of August, when Briganti was on his way to join General Ghio, who had concentrated 12,000 men on the town of Monteleone.

"The devil!" exclaimed Caesar, "that angelic little princess hides in corners with one of these briganti. And their mother has the face to say that they don't know how to bait a hook! I don't know what more she could wish. Although it is possible that this is the educational scheme of the future for marriageable girls."

I could tell you just how every stone on the road looks Rojate, the narrow pass beyond, and then the long valley with the vines; then the road turns away and rises as you go along the plateau of Arcinazzo, which is hollow beneath, and you can hear the echoes as you tread; then at the end of that the desperate old inn, called by the shepherds the Madre dei Briganti, the mother of brigands, smoke-blackened within and without, standing alone on the desolate heath; farther on, a broad bend of the valley to the left, and you see Trevi rising before you, crowned with an ancient castle, and overlooking the stream that becomes the Aniene afterwards; from Trevi through a rising valley that grows narrower at every step, and finally seems to end abruptly, as indeed it does, in a dense forest far up the pass.

Although her burden was enough to tax a man's strength, she balanced it easily upon her head and made no move to go. "And the others! May they all be blinded Attilio, Gaspare, Roberto! The hangman will get them, surely. Briganti, indeed!" She snorted like a horse. "May Belisario Cardi roast them over these very fagots."

Another victory was gained on the 23d, dispersing the forces of the Neapolitan Generals Melendez and Briganti. Some of their soldiers joined Garibaldi; the rest returned to their homes and increased both his real and his legendary fame by their account of his victories. The insurrection against the Bourbon dynasty was now rapidly spreading.

"And this, signorino!" she touched it carefully with her slim fingers. "How could I go in this?" "When the fair is over, then, and you are in your every-day gown, Maddalena, I should like to carry you off to Etna." "They say there are briganti there." "Brigands would you be afraid of them with me?" "I don't know, signore.

Has Gaspare lived eight years with the briganti? And the Mafia has Gaspare " He paused, laughed, pulled his mustache, and added: "If the signora had not been assured of my protection she would never have come up here." "But now she has a husband." "Yes." He glanced again round the room. "One can see that. Per Dio, it is like the snow on the top of Etna."