The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-06-23

I-A-NO-NGht-SSNAN CHARLES TRACEY,
the arm, and with significant wink and
gesture toward the satchcl whispered: 1t
takes an Irishman to make himself as safe
rs possible under all circumstances. If we
are caught, it will be Hcmans they will
hang and not mel! But we were not
caught. We passed safely through the
Italian lines, and on explaining to the out
posts of tho papal troops who we were and
what our mission was we were allowed to
enter the city Hero we separated from
HcmanS, who was correspondent for some
London papers, and who wished to remain
outside the city in order TO observe tho OK
pected engagement. The three of us went
at once to the headquarters of the colonel
of the Zouavcs and enlisted for two years.
The next morning the city was bombarded
and two days later was surrendered TO the
Italian army
The zouavcs were sent to Ciyita Vcc-
CHA and kept in prison for several DAYS
The terms of surrender included the right
OF the foreigners in the army to return to
their homes. There were 800 of tho
ZouavcS in Rome. Our company was COM
posed of about onc-half gentlemen and one
half servants who did our work and at
tended to our wants for pay Whonevcr
we heard Of a fine gentleman recruit we al
ways sent him an invitation TO Join our
company anu LII tuiS way IllitDS u Un0
first families Of Europe and America were
represented in our ranks.
Zone day, while we were in the prison
at Civita Vccchia, Captain Darcy, my
commander came up with some of the
officers of the prison and said Come and
go out with us
I'VE did so, and after strolling about for
awhile the party turned back toward the
prison. They thought 1 was following
them, but gave them the slip and made
u dash for small boat not far away and
succeeded in reaching II French frigate ly-
ing in the harbor. 1t turned out that I
had taken this risk unnecessarily, for the
next day permission came for Darcy,
O'Clcary and myself to leave Italy and we
took passage for Genoa in an Italian war
ship.
while we were lying in tho harbor of
Genoa and waiting for arrangements to DO
made to send us ashore there occurred n
very interesting incident. Though we
were first class passengers, there were a
number of tho poor zouaycs down in the
hold. 1t was drcadfully hot there, and
they had no water and were suffering so
much that ID Arcy made bold to let cans
OF water down to them through the hatch
ways. The italian marines did not like
this and gave us some fierce looks Grow
Mt dinner between the captain of the
guards, pretty decent sort of fellow, and
ID Arcy. The latter said the captain was
not n good Catholic because he had been
fighting against the pope. The captain
maintained that he WAS n good Catholic,
but that it WAS his duty to uphold his gov
eminent and obey military orders The
argument was good naturcd enough but
the stewards who had overheard ii reported
the conversation TO the guards, and next
day while the captain of the guards was
on shore leaving sergeant in charge, the
guards got hold Of some liquor and became
tipsy and ugly. L overheard them uttering
threats against ID -Arcy,
Presently one of the tipsy guards came
to me demanding to know where my cap
tain was, and | told him he was on deck
AS quickly as l could 1 hunted up d Arcy
and O'Clcary and told them that the
guards meant mischief and urged upon
chem the necessity OF keeping cool and
quiet under ell circumstances d Arcy re-