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tctalt and jeweller examined. Large rewards were 

 promised if the miniature should be found, and it 

 became the subject of general conversation. The 

 search was carried on with unrelaxed activity, and 

 Demetri, seeing that it was the sole object of my 

 thoughts, devoted all his energies to the inquiry. 

 His sagacity, cunning, and activity astonished me ; 

 and he more than once undertook little excursions to 

 find out some of the soldiers who had served with 

 Abney. We discovered more than one robber, but 

 not the one we sought. 



Alecco, in the meantime, had grown a person of 

 consequence, though he continued to wear a black 

 German student-looking coat, covered with brown 

 braid and an infinity of browner buttons. He some- 

 times invited me to his quarters to meet the most 

 distinguished men of the revolution, and though I 

 had conceived a great dislike to my old companion, I 

 often accepted his invitation. I attributed my own 

 dislike to the aristocratic insolence which feels a 

 repugnance at dining with a man of education who 

 has been a servant. 



It happened one day that while Demetri was 

 absent at Hydra in pursuit of a man whom Alecco 

 pretended had heard something about the portrait, 

 Alecco invited me to sup at his house. I intended 

 taking a bath before supper, and Alecco urged me to 

 try a small and elegant bath in a splendid Turkish 



