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out to his chief a stone in the floor which seemed to 

 have been lately moved. The marble was soon raised, 

 a large vault was seen below, and crouched in a corner 

 we beheld the bath-keeper and his wife. The cavern 

 contained a heap of putrid bodies covered with quick- 

 lime, and the scarce lifeless body of the Polish Phil- 

 hellene I had seen on entering the bath. My clothes 

 were found tied up in a bundle ; and I own, that even 

 amidst the horrors that then surrounded me, I felt 

 some satisfaction in putting on the richly embroidered 

 dress, which caused my instant recognition by many 

 of the croAvd, who exclaimed, " It is the Englishman ! 

 Why did he come here without Demetri or his 

 Ichiboukye ? " The culprits were dragged away by 

 the police. 



The wound I had received was so trifling, that it is 

 strange it should have been inflicted, since to it I 

 owed my life. I returned home, but the party met 

 at Alecco's. He had been himself compelled to set 

 off for Athens on some public business, and left a 

 message for his guests not to mind his departure. In 

 the days of war, such events are too common to be 

 remarked ; and when George Mauromichalis men- 

 tioned this to me next day, I could not help saying 

 that I had seen Alecco's face, with the expression of 

 a hungry Avolf, gazing on me as I rushed out of the 

 bath, and that he had not thought fit to come in to 

 help a friend in such a scrape. 



