I don't want to frighten you, John; merely to warn you.

Sicily is full of tourists, and few are ever molested; but if you are aware of the conditions underlying the public serenity you are not so liable to run yourself and your nieces into needless dangers.' How's that for a hair-curler, girls ?" "It sounds very romantic," said Louise, smiling.

"Mr.Watson is such a cautious man!" "But it's all rubbish about there being danger in Taormina," declared Patsy, indignantly.

"Mr.Watson has been in the wilds of the interior, which Baedecker admits is infested with brigands.

Here everyone smiles at us in the friendliest way possible." "Except the duke," added Beth, with a laugh.
"Oh, the duke is sour by nature," Patsy answered; "but if there really was danger, I'm sure he'd protect us, for he lives here and knows the country." "You are sure of a lot of things, dear," said her cousin, smiling.