on to carry arms at any moment; and there are officials who do little but
lie in wait for those who can pay, but have no time to fight. These
officials are more intent on bleeding their countrymen than the enemy.

Mariano applied to his friend Madrazo for advice as to what to do, and
Madrazo simply cut the Gordian knot by paying out of his own purse three
hundred dollars to secure the release of the young artist.

And so Mariano started gaily away, carrying with him the heart's love of
two old men, and the admiring affection of a whole school.

The grandfather died three months afterward--went babbling down into the
Valley, making prophecies to the last to the effect that Mariano Fortuny
would yet win deathless fame.

And Father Gonzales lived to see these prophecies fulfilled.

* * * * *

Then, at twenty-two, Fortuny was ordered by the city of Barcelona to
accompany General Prim on his Algerian expedition, it was a milepost on
his highway of success.

Nominally he was secretary to the General. Who it was secured his
appointment he never knew; but we have reason to suppose it was Federico
Madrazo.

Fortuny's two years in Rome had just expired; his Barcelona friends knew
that the time had been well spent, and the opportunities improved, and a
further transplantation they believed would result in an increased