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ARIADNE. 65she is always asking;that is all;you have heardher?"" Yes;Ihave heard her."Ispoke calmly, but it seemed to me as if thelamps burning through the fog were lights ofhell,andIheard allits fiends laughing." How has she lived all this while ?"This had passed in September, the boy said,and we were nowinMarch,and passing into earlydays of spring, and all the while that treasureandill-got wealth,hoarded inFiumara, had beenwaiting her, whilst she waslying between life anddeath in this river attic in the heart of a foreigncity!He hung his head, ashamed."I should have sent to you; yes,Iknew,Ithought of that, butIcouldnot:it was horrible,yet it was a kind of happiness to be the onlything between her and the workhouse — thehospital — the grave. For without me she would'have gone there. She is my sister,'Isaid tothe woman, and they believed me, and let medo for her. My money was almost gone, butIhad the flute, andIcould always get moneyinVOL. III.F