Had she heard of the most recent Etruscan excavations at Grosseto?
Wonderful! A whole host of new clues! Boni--Lanciani--the whole learned world in commotion.

A fragment of what might very possibly turn out to be a bi-lingual inscription was the last find.

Were we at last on the brink of solving the old, the eternal enigma?
He threw himself back in his chair, transformed once more into the talkative, agreeable person that Europe knew.

His black and grizzled hair, falling perpetually forward in strong waves, made a fine frame for his grey eyes and large, well-cut features.

He had a slight stammer, which increased when he was animated, and a trick of forever pushing back the troublesome front locks of hair.
Elizabeth listened for a long, long time, and at last--could have cried like a baby because she was missing so much! There was a chance, she knew, all along this portion of the line, of seeing antelope and coyotes, if only one kept one's eyes open; not to speak of the gophers--enchanting little fellows, quite new to such travellers as she--who seemed to choose the very railway line itself, by preference, for their burrowings and their social gatherings.