Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

260 DANGER IN THE DARK.
girl flung you out of the convent window at Oincinnati
~"
" I think it was too."
" Truly that was a narrow escape."
" No escape at all, as I consider it; for I lost one
eye, and had my brain-pan fractured."
"Lead the way now, Dr., 1'11 follow. Upon my
word you stagger."
" Never fear - I can describe a bee-line."
~'This is hard climbing."
When they had nearly reached the top of the long,
winding stairs, Dupin, growing rather top-heavy,
staggered back, and fell heels over head! Bedini
was behind him, but thought only of saving himself;
sliding out of the way, he let his luckless cousin have
the track, and a chance to tumble without obstruction;
so one somerset followed another; and the further
he went, the faster -first one end up, and then the
other; at last, with one tremendous, frightful bound,
he was precipitated like an avalanche to the foot of
the stairway-and lighting on his head- broke his
neck. It may not be uncharitable to conjecture that
his frightened ghost went to join the majority .
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Bedini had not figured long in the country, till his
character was made known to the American people,
by that excellent man, Father Gavazzi, who denounced
the Papal Nuncio, as the butcher of Bologna, and
guilty of the death of Ugo Bassi.
When this came out, the people in many places,