Major DeChair glanced at the bags, and glanced at his comrades, and said: "In the cause of liberty God forbid we should be behind.

Down with the tyrant!" And all the pack yelped in chorus! "Then, gentlemen, to the head of your men," said the colonel, and going to the window, he cried to the throng: "Men, your noble officers are with us." A cheer answered him.

I wiped my forehead, and said to myself, "That's well over." I will not weary the reader with our further proceedings.

Suffice it to say we marshaled our host and marched down to the Piazza.

The news had spread by now, and in the dimly breaking morning light we saw the Square full of people--men, women, and children.