DURING THE GREEK REVOLUTION. 187 



I shall not attempt to describe the loathsome 

 discoveries which were revealed at the examination of 

 the bath-keeper and his wife. Many singular robberies 

 were discovered ; the bodies of many young Greeks 

 and Pliilhellenes, who had arrived from Europe to 

 assist in the war, flushed with enthusiasm, were 

 identified amidst the remains in the cavern. They 

 were generally persons having valuable property about 

 them, and who were murdered very shortly after their 

 arrival. The body of a young Englishman, who was 

 supposed to have joined the camp before Corinth, was 

 also recognised. While the police was following up 

 this examination, and endeavouring to trace out the 

 stolen property, in the expectation that it might 

 aid me in recovering the lost miniature, Demetri 

 returned from Hydra. He had secured the person 

 Alecco had sent him to meet ; and, by his inimit- 

 able sagacity, had discovered that there was an un- 

 derstanding of some kind between Alecco and this 

 man. He at last extracted the secret, that Alecco 

 had planned the attack on Abney's post, and that 

 Alecco entered my house and robbed me of the 

 portrait. 



I now felt certain that there was an understanding 

 between Alecco and the bath-keeper, and I burned 

 with the desire to bring him to justice, as well as with 

 the wish to recover the portrait. Accidental circum- 

 stances had evidently induced the villain to fancy 



