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ely interrupted, and likely to terminate in a Tragedy!--Perilous Position of David and Clive.
CHAPTER III.
Out into the Country.--The Drive.--The glorious Land.--Sorrento and eternal Summer.--The Cave of Polyphemus.--The Cathedral--The mysterious Image.--What is it?--David Relic-hunting.--A Catastrophe.--Chased by a Virago.--The Town roused.--Besieged.--A desperate Onset--Flight--Last of the Virago.
CHAPTER IV.
Salerno and the sulky Driver.--Paestum and its Temples.--A great Sensation.--An unpleasant Predicament--Is the Driver a Traitor?--Is he in League--with Bandits?--Arguments about the Situation, and what each thought about it.
CHAPTER V.
They discuss the Situation.--They prepare to foot it--A toilsome Walk, and a happy Discovery.--The Language of Signs once more.--The Mountain Cavalcade.--Bob's Ambition.--Its results.--Bob vanishes.--Consternation of the Donkey Boy.--Consternation of the Cavalcade.--"E Perduto!".
CHAPTER VI.
Flight of Both--Difference between a tame Donkey and a wild Ass.--Carried off to the Mountains.--The headlong Course.--The Mountain Pass.--The Journey's End.--Ill-omened Place.--Confounded by a new Terror.--The Brigands.
CHAPTER VII.
The Lurking-place of the Brigands.--The captive Boy.--The hideous Household.--The horrible old Hag.--The slattern Woman.--The dirty Children.--The old Crone and the evil Eye.--Despondency of Bob. --Is Escape possible?--Night.--Imprisoned.--The Bed of Straw. --Outlook into the Night from the Prison Windows.
CHAPTER VIII.
The worn-out Captive.--Light Slumbers.--Fearful Wakening.--The stealthy Step.--T