Being about the same age, I think that we might perhaps go together unquestioned where a man would be unable to pass." The viscount rode on for some minutes without speaking.

"There is something in what you say, Campbell, and after this journey is over I may be able to employ you in that way when it is necessary to obtain information I can get in no other manner.

Has he ridden with you before ?" "Yes, sir, he has ridden behind me each time that I have been away since I engaged him.

When I say behind me, he starts behind me, but when out of town I call him up beside me, and we talk, or rather try to talk, in Italian--or rather I should say in Piedmontese, for he tells me that each district of Italy has its own dialect, and that the natives of one can scarce understand the other.

I have bought a book printed here and a dictionary, and of an evening when I have no duties to perform he comes into my room, and translates sentence by sentence as I read it to him.