His servitor is seated on the steps of the landing, while the gondola appeareth to be empty.

There is your gondola light.

Eliade had even been effected to insensibility by the strain of the unknown, and hearing one day a gondola pass, in which a voice was singing one of the songs which was an especial favourite, in such a way as she had never heard it sung before, she followed and traced the gondola to the deserted island.

"Hast seen any strongly manned gondola plying, of late, in this part of the canal?" demanded Don Camillo, of the man they had stopped.

But first" "No," said the priest, quickly, "we have done with our firstlyand your gondola waits, I think, signorè!" CHAPTER II The bells of the Chapel of St. Mark were striking the hour of eight o'clock when, Frà Giovanni stepped from his gondola, and crossed the great square toward that labyrinth of narrow streets and winding alleys they call the Merceria.

My gondola waitswill you enter?