found. I commissioned Giacomo to seek these men out, and induce them to
man the vessel. It might be necessary, should Peschiera or his
confidential servants come aboard, after we had expelled or drawn off the
pirate crew, that they should find Italians whom they might well mistake
for their own hirelings. To these foreigners I added some English
sailors who had before served in the same vessel, and on whom Spendquick
assured me I could rely. Still these precautions only availed in case
Peschiera should resolve to sail, and defer till then all machinations
against his captives. While, amidst my fears and uncertainties, I was
struggling still to preserve presence of mind, and rapidly discussing
with the Austrian prince if any other steps could be taken, or if our
sole resource was to repair to the vessel and take the chance of what
might ensue, Leonard suddenly and quietly entered my room. You know his
countenance, in which joy or sadness is not betrayed so much by the
evidence of the passions as by variations in the intellectual expression.
It was but by the clearer brow and the steadier eye that I saw he had
good tidings to impart."

"Ah," said Riccabocca,--for so, obeying his own request, we will yet call
the sage,--"ah, I early taught that young man the great lesson inculcated
by Helvetius. 'All our errors arise from our ignorance or our passions.'
Without ignorance and without passions, we should be serene, all-
penetrating intelligences."

"Mopsticks," quoth Harley, "have neither ignorance nor passions; but as
for their intelligence--"

"Pshaw!" interrupted Riccabocca,--"proceed."

"Leonard had parted from us some hours before. I had commissioned him to