"How did you find it ?" "It is very simple," answered Del Ferice.

"You may go and see for yourself, if you do not mind making a short journey.

Last summer I was wandering a little for my health's sake, as I often do, and I chanced to be in the town of Aquila--you know, the capital of Abruzzi.

One day I happened to go into the sacristy of one of the parish churches to see some pictures which are hung there.

There had been a marriage service performed, and as the sacristan moved about explaining the pictures, he laid his hand upon an open book which looked like a register of some kind.