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Updated: June 13, 2025
Before we had exchanged another word we were slowing alongside the pier, and men were bustling along the deck and racing beside us on the land. Brunow came on deck, and Hinge got together our simple baggage. We had but just landed when I saw two ladies, whom I recognized at once. Miss Rossano and Lady Rollinson were waiting to meet us. Miss Rossano came to me and took my hand in both hers.
Brunow would talk a dog's hind-leg off, and you can't believe a quarter of the things he says.
I was compelled, unwillingly, to appeal to Brunow. He made light of the business, and in less than an hour he brought me an imitation which looked completely deceptive. He had been able, he told me, to trace the greater part of the order on the window-pane from the original I had given him to imitate; for the rest, to my surprise and gratitude, Brunow volunteered.
The National party in Italy has always had a hope of some sort, and their hope is always just about as hopeful as a sane man's despair." "I am not so sure of that," I cried. "I shall live to see the Italians a free people yet!" "You are one of the enthusiasts," said Brunow, laughing. "And I suppose that if you got an opportunity you'd lend the cause a hand."
It was the last time I ever took him by the hand, poor Brunow! and though it is a hundred chances to one in my mind now that he was at that very moment plotting to betray me, I can't somehow find it in my heart to feel so bitter against him as I should have felt against a stronger man.
I asked Brunow; and he turned upon me in the darkness with a faltering in his voice. "I don't know," he said. "There's something infernally strange about all this. Have we been trapped? This fellow's a German." "Trapped!" I answered. "How should we be trapped?" "This," cried Brunow, in a loud and quavering tone, "is not the ship I meant to board. There's some mistake here! Hi, you there!"
This time nothing but the rapidity with which he puffed at his cigar was left to indicate his discomposure. Hinge rapped at the door, and when I bade him enter, came in followed by a stranger, whose aspect was simply and purely business-like. This man bowed to me and then to Brunow, and receiving no response from either of us, stood for a moment as if embarrassed.
We all travelled to London together at her request, and I had some difficulty in persuading Brunow that I was in earnest in insisting that she should see nothing of the nonsense he had caused to be written and printed about our expedition. "My dear fellow," he declared, "the man was eager to get the news, and would have printed three times as much if I had felt inclined to give it him.
I knew Brunow a great deal too well to think him likely to assault me after having put me on my guard by a threat. "I wonder," he said, with his lips quivering and his teeth tight clinched behind them "I wonder that I don't thrash you within an inch of your life." "I wouldn't waste much wonder on that question if I were you, Brunow," I answered. "You will be able to find an easy explanation.
As we walked together behind the two elders, who were deep in conversation, we found little to say to each other; but at last Brunow put his arm through mine in quite the old friendly fashion, and brought me almost to a standstill. "I mustn't go any farther, old fellow," he said.
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