SANTI.

AMBROSII.

D'RANCIA + Slowly and with great care his fingers travelled over the raised letters and design of the oval cast.

Then, having also examined the battered old bronze matrix, he said, "A most excellent specimen, and in first-class preservation, too! I wonder where it has been found?
In Italy, without doubt." "What do you make it out to be, dad ?" asked the girl, seated in the chair at his side and as interested in the little antiquity as he was himself.
"Thirteenth century, my dear--early thirteenth century," he declared without hesitation.

"Genuine, quite genuine, no doubt.