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for two days, brought the widow a lock of the dead man's hair ; 

 but at last, the mob still strictly searching, seems to have 

 abandoned the body, and conveyed his guest on board the 

 Vengeance. The Jenkins also had their refugees, the family of 

 an employe threatened by a decree. ' You should have seen me 

 making a Union Jack to nail over our door,' writes Mrs. Jenkin. 

 ' I never worked so fast in my life. Monday and Tuesday,' she 

 continues, ' were tolerably quiet, our hearts beating fast in the 

 hope of La Marmora's approach, the streets barricaded, and none 

 but foreigners and women allowed to leave the city.' On 

 Wednesday, La Marmora came indeed, but in the ugly form of 

 a bombardment ; and that evening the Jenkins sat without 

 lights about their drawing-room window, i watching the huge 

 red flashes of the cannon ' from the Brigato and La Specula 

 forts, and hearkening, not without some awful pleasure, to the 

 thunder of the cannonade. 



Lord Hardwicke intervened between the rebels and La 

 Marmora ; and there followed a troubled armistice, filled with 

 the voice of panic. Now the Vengeance was known to be 

 cleared for action ; now it was rumoured that the galley slaves 

 were to be let loose upon the town, and now that the troops 

 would enter it by storm. Crowds, trusting in the Union Jack 

 over the Jenkins' door, came to beg them to receive their linen 

 and other valuables ; nor could their instances be refused ; and 

 in the midst of all this bustle and alarm, piles of goods must 

 be examined and long inventories made. At last the captain 

 decided things had gone too far. He himself apparently re- 

 mained to watch over the linen ; but at five o'clock on the Sunday 

 morning, Aunt Anna, Fleeming and his mother were rowed in 

 a pour of rain on board an English merchantman, to suffer ' nine 

 mortal hours of agonising suspense/ With the end of that 

 time, peace was restored. On Tuesday morning officers with 

 white flags appeared on the bastions ; then, regiment by regiment, 

 the troops marched in, two hundred men sleeping on the ground 

 floor of the Jenkins' house, thirty thousand in all entering the 

 city, but without disturbance, old La Marmora being a commander 

 of a Roman sternness. 



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