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adjourn the sitting till the evening, in order to decide 

 what should be done. During this interval the com- 

 mittees of the Chamber met, and M. Senard said to 

 them, "The Government has acted very wrongly, 

 but it has admitted the fact and has declared that it 

 had given no orders, throwing all the responsibility 

 upon the General. This being the case, if we despatch 

 to Koine, without creating any crisis at home, a man 

 upon whom we can rely, I feel convinced that the 

 matter can be arranged.'' He then named me, and 

 added, "I do not mean to say that he is a perfervid 

 Eepublican, but he has always served his country well 

 abroad without concerning himself with home politics, 

 and if he accepts a mission he will carry it out faith- 

 fully." 



I reached Kome, as explained in the first 

 chapter, at a very critical moment. Garibaldi with 

 his army was in the city, and knowing that the 

 French troops would not interfere, he went in pursuit 

 of the Neapolitan forces. When it was found that I 

 was trying to effect an amicable arrangement the 

 extreme party imagined that I was not acting loyally 

 and determined to have their revenge upon me. I 

 was informed of this project by a man of whom I shall 

 have occasion to speak presently, one of those con- 

 spirators who are to be met with everywhere, who 

 had been condemned to death in Spain but whose life 

 I had saved. He was in turn to render me a like 

 service, and in this wise. As soon as I reached Eome 



