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"The Mortons will be pushing on to Leghorn, and somebody must meet her. How would it do for Mr. Hoskins to go?" Mrs. Elmore responded with a clutch tantamount to "Horrors! How could you think of such a thing?" "Well, then," he said, "the only thing we can do is to send a valet de place for her. We can send old Cazzi.
"If I could capture the Alabama, I could afford to let the other fellows fight it out." "I congratulate you, with all my heart," said Elmore sadly, and he walked in silence beside the consul. "Well," said the latter, with a laugh at Elmore's pensive rapture, "I'm as much obliged to you as if I had captured her. I'll go up to the Piazza with you, and see Cazzi."
The affair was easily arranged; Cazzi was made to feel by the consul's intervention that the shield of American sovereignty had been extended over the young girl whom he was to escort from Genoa, and two days later he arrived with her. Mrs. Elmore's attack now was passing off, and she was well enough to receive Miss Mayhew half-recumbent on the sofa where she had been prone till her arrival.
On his way to the caffè which Cazzi frequented, Elmore fell in with the consul. By this time a change had taken place in the consular office. Mr.
He talked awhile in German with an old gentleman who was there, and then he spoke in Italian with Cazzi; and afterwards, when he heard her speaking English with Cazzi, he joined in. I don't know how he came to join in at first, and she doesn't, either; but it seems that he knew some English, and he began speaking.
He was very tall and handsome and distinguished-looking, and a perfect gentleman in his manners; and she says that she saw Cazzi looking rather queer, but he didn't say anything, and so she kept on talking. She told him at once that she was an American, and that she was coming here to stay with friends; and, as he was very curious about America, she told him all she could think of.
"He knew that he could get her address from Cazzi for ten soldi as soon as her back was turned," said Elmore cynically. "What then?" "Why, he said and this is the only really bold thing he did do that he must see her again, and that he should stay over a day in Venice in hopes of meeting her at the theatre or somewhere." "It's a piece of high-handed impudence!" cried Elmore.
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