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GREEN GATE. CHAPTER I. The train was rushing through one of the
many tunnels on the road across the Apennines from Bologna to
Florence. In a second-class carriage the flame of the dim oil lamp
in the roof was just dying out. It flashed up fitfully now and
then, as if to look after matters in the carriage; and at each
revival a fat, middle-aged Italian woman, leaning back against the
black cushions in a corner, opened her sleepy eyes, only to close
them immediately. By her sat a puny little man, the end of a cigar
held loosely between the fingers of the hand that hung down at his
side, his hat upon the back of his head, ?evidently, judging from
the tone of the conversation lately carried on between himself and
the lady, her husband. In another corner crouched a Frenchman, his
knees drawn up almost to his chin, his feet cased in embroidered
slippers; the travelling-bag hanging above him proclaimed him a
commercial traveller. The third corner was occupied by a man who
had entered the carriage at Poretta, and had transferred a number
of stones from his various pockets to a small wallet which he
carried, already near'y full of such treasures. From the colour of
his hair and beard, indeed, from the entire character of his face
and figure, he would have passed for Italian, and he exchanged
several fluent remarks in that tongue with the guard before the
train left the station at Poretta. Immediately afterwards, however,
he had addressed a young man sitting opposite him in German,
receiving from him several curt answers in, the same tongue, which
provoked the smiling observation, " I was not mistaken, then, in
supposing you a countryman of mine ? Only a German could cast such
keen and longing glances from the carriage- window during the short
delay at the station. Confess t...
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