Chapter 17 THE BATTLE OF THE VOLTURNO.

BEFORE starting for his drive Frank telegraphed to his mother: "Have not found him here. I do not yet despair. Have a faint clue that may lead to something."

That evening he wrote a long letter, acknowledging that he had been bitterly disappointed, but saying that Signor Forli had found out that some of the prisoners had been sent away to Capua