The Wing-and-Wing: Or, Le Feu-Follet

It was now nearly dark, and the crowd, having satisfied its idle curiosity, began slowly to disperse.The Signor Viti remained till the last, conceiving it to be his duty to be on the alert in such troubledtimes; but, with all his bustling activity, it escaped his vigilance and means of observation to detectthe circumstance that the stranger, while he steered into the bay with so much confidence, hadcontrived to bring up at a point where not a single gun from the batteries could be brought t...