P.S. —HE WAS LAST SEEN MAKING FRANTIC EFFORTS TO REGAIN HIS FEET, AND SEEMINGLY PREVENTED FROM DOING SO BY THE WEIGHT OF HIS KNAPSACK, AND OTHER ACCOUTREMENTS.

   VIII.

   JONES WAS LATE AT BREAKFAST; HE FOUND ROBINSON READING “GALIGNANI,” AND BROWN LOOKING OUT OF WINDOW, AND AFTER GIVING THEM AN AMUSING ACCOUNT OF THE FUN HE HAD HAD, WAS JUST SITTING DOWN TO THE TABLE, WHEN BROWN SHOUTED OUT, “BY JOVE, THERE IS A REGIMENT OF SOLDIERS COMING DOWN THE STREET!”

   IX.

   AT FIRST JONES WAS INCREDULOUS; BUT PRESENTLY BROWN, HIS HAIR STANDING ON END, RUSHED TOWARDS HIM, AND IN A VOICE OF AGONY, CRIED, “AS SURE AS WE ARE ALIVE THEY HAVE STOPPED IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE, AND THE

    OFFICER IS COMING IN!”

   X.

   IT WAS TOO TRUE. THE SOLDIERS HAD COME TO LOOK AFTER THE ENGLISHMAN WHO HAD ATTACKED AND BEATEN THEIR COMRADE.

   XI.

   AFTER A FEW MOMENTS OF BREATHLESS SUSPENSE, THE OFFICER ENTERS—JONES STANDS LIKE A MAN ABOUT TO STRUGGLE WITH ADVERSITY.

   XII.

   NEVERTHELESS HE IS ARRESTED AND MARCHED OFF.

   XIII.

   ROBINSON, IN AGONY, CALLS FOR HIS COAT AND HAT, “FOR,” AS HE CRIED OUT TO BROWN, “NOT A MOMENT IS TO BE LOST IN ENDEAVOURING TO SEE THE BRITISH MINISTER.”

   XIV.

   THEY GAIN AN AUDIENCE OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE BRITISH MINISTER, AND ASK HIS INTERFERENCE IN BEHALF OF A PERSECUTED COUNTRYMAN.

   WE ARE HAPPY TO ADD THAT THE INTERFERENCE WAS QUITE SUCCESSFUL. JONES WAS LIBERATED IMMEDIATELY, AND SHORTLY AFTERWARDS THE BRITISH MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, IN A DESPATCH TO THE GERMAN MINISTER FOR THE SAME, EXPRESSED HIS CONVICTION THAT “THE WHOLE CIVILISED WORLD REPROBATED, WITH ONE VOICE, A SYSTEM AT ONCE TYRANNICAL AND CRUEL, A REMNANT OF THE DARKEST AGES OF MAN’S HISTORY, AND UTTERLY UNWORTHY OF THE PRESENT ERA OF PROGRESS AND ENLIGHTENMENT.”

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