The winged lion; or, Stories of Venice . tell them thatwe are here and are coming. No harm, said Uncle Moses; course Id like to know who to send it to. Theparties who were inquirin arter you didnt givetheir address to me. They left it with the then none of us knows where Clive, or David,or your niece may be. Wouldnt it be better to get the police hereto send a message to the police in Venice? saidFrank. Course it would, said Uncle Moses. Thatsthe very pint 1 was comin to. Thats our go right straight off to the police. The police ! repeated Miss Lee, with a startled
The winged lion; or, Stories of Venice . tell them thatwe are here and are coming. No harm, said Uncle Moses; course Id like to know who to send it to. Theparties who were inquirin arter you didnt givetheir address to me. They left it with the then none of us knows where Clive, or David,or your niece may be. Wouldnt it be better to get the police hereto send a message to the police in Venice? saidFrank. Course it would, said Uncle Moses. Thatsthe very pint 1 was comin to. Thats our go right straight off to the police. The police ! repeated Miss Lee, with a startledlook. Yes, said Uncle Moses. Well tell em howit is. Get em to send a message to the Venetianpolice, who will communicate with your friends;and at the same time, urge them to look up Cliveand David. I dar say theyve found them by thistime, if they railly air in Venice. An as to thepolice, continued Uncle Moses, directing his re-marks to Miss Lee, dont you go an give your-self one mite of trouble about that. The police ^mssrmi x i ? //. O H O M o Ph = 6* ID a — Smmmy, \ APPLICATION TO THE POLICE. 299 here air no more than the police in Boston. Jestimagine that you air safe at home, an drop allthese superstitious fears about the police. Why,youre as safe here as in Massachusetts. Thisheres a free government, an theyve got habeascorpus, trial by jury, vote by ballot, an a free con-stitution. So what more do you want ? These words, which greatly re-assured Miss Lee,sounded at once strange and delicious to had been using almost the same words duringthe last few days, to console and re-assure the verysame Uncle Moses, who now repeated them soboldly and confidently. He wondered at thechange, and could not imagine the cause; yetthat change was very pleasant to him, to whomhis uncles deep dejection had been a very soretrial. They now left the Amphitheatre, and went atonce to the police station. Here there was aninterpreter, by whose aid they were able to makeknown their wants.
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