Let me see, it is two months--yes--two months to-day since he was with me on board this very vessel.

It happened in this way--I was at Gaeta--he came to me and told me the gendarmes were after him.

He offered me more gold than I ever had in my life to take him to Termini, from whence he could get to one of his hiding-places in the Montemaggiore.

He brought Teresa with him; he found me alone on the brig, my men had gone ashore.

He said, 'Take us to Termini and I will give you so much; refuse and I will slit your throat.' Ha! ha! ha! That was good.