Henry Adams 



way, in an interval between coffee- 

 drinking, by a stranger on horseback 

 whose name and business were not 

 mentioned, but whom King believed 

 to be Daniele. He remarked on his 

 return, — for a patient just released 

 from Bloomingdale, he thought a 

 sixty-mile ride in a tropical sun, on a 

 diet of the strongest coffee-and-brig- 

 ands, might suggest new views to his 

 doctors. 



We were told afterwards that the 

 gentleman known as Daniele was 

 caught at a festival, by the Span- 

 iards, of course by money, and shot 

 where he stood ; but we heard only 

 of his exploits, and of certain dra- 

 matic murders he committed. I 

 thought it all the more interesting 

 that he left us alone. I took for 

 granted that we were under some 

 one's protection ; probably that of 

 Mr. Brooks ; but there are black 

 sheep even among brigands, and it 



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