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the animals that start their lives in the bodies of their mothers grow from eggs in the same way that you did. Some of the animals take more time to do this than you needed. Most of them take less time.

A baby spends nine months in the body of its mother. An elephant spends twenty months there and a mouse spends twenty days. A horse needs a little more than eleven months in which to get ready to be born and a rabbit needs only one month. But the rabbit and the horse and the mouse and the elephant all grow up in the bodies of their mothers just as babies do, and they are born just as babies are born.

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 she was convinced, to dangers of the most dreadful nature; that Agatha had fallen by the hands of the countess's murderers she could not doubt, neither that they had entered the closet with an intention of destroying her; for their strange and mysterious disappearance from it she accounted by supposing that behind some one of the large presses it contained there was a secret door.

"I cannot suppose, (said she) that one disappointment will make them lay aside their horrible intentions; by remaining in the castle I expose myself to their continual attempts, attempts which may perhaps at last be too successful, I must fly it therefore, (continued she) however unpleasant, however agonizing to my feelings to excite the displeasure of Madame D'Alembert; I must, when next we meet, entreat, implore her to let me return to my father."

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 there will be a mother who will have triplets, that is three babies at a birth, or even quadruplets, that is four babies at one birth.

Only a few animals, generally the larger ones like the elephant and the horse and the cow, grow alone in the body of the mother. Most animals are born in littets, that is two, three, six, ten or even fourteen or more are born one after another of the same mother at the same birth. From three to eight puppies and from three to six kittens are the usual number of babies that dogs and cats have, and often as many as fourteen little pigs will be born in the same litter.

At the beginning of their lives animals and babies are so nearly alike that you could not tell them one from the other. If you were to see the egg of a baby and the egg of an elephant and of a mouse you would not know which was which. A rabbit that has been growing for a week seems so much like a baby that has been growing for three or four weeks that it would be hard for you to tell them apart. But the longer that animals and babies grow the more different from each other they become.

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 and divert her mind from the dreadful ideas which depressed it, by examining the curious monuments within the building; the terror of Madeline's soul now gave way to awe and melancholy,—she felt chilled, she felt oppressed beyond expression, as she viewed the records of mortality, and trod the silent solitary aisles, which awfully echoed her lightest step, and whose gloom the beams of the sun that darted through the painted casements could not dissipate.

She had often (to use the words of an author, not less affecting than sublime) "Walked beneath the impending promontory's craggy cliff, sometimes trod the vast spaces of the lonely desert, and penetrated the inmost recesses of the dreary cavern, but had never, never before beheld nature louring with so tremendous an aspect,—never before felt such impressions of awe striking cold upon her heart, as now beneath the black browed arches, amidst the mouldy


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 Animals are much stronger and much better able to take care of themselves when they come into the world than babies are, and after they are born they grow up much more quickly than babies do.

Animals can use their legs earlier than babies can. A colt or a calf can stand on its feet on the same day on which it is born. The giraffe can stand up within twenty minutes after it has left its mother's body. But most babies cannot stand before they are a year old.

Young animals can eat the same things that grown up animals eat long before babies can eat the things that grown up people eat. As soon as babies are born they are fed with milk from their mothers' breasts. If a mother cannot feed a baby with her own milk she uses the milk of the cow and for nearly a year milk is the chief food of the baby.

The animals that grow up in the bodies of their mothers are fed with milk by their mothers in the same way that babies are fed. We call these animals mammals. Mice, lions, dogs, cats, men, women, are mammals. The name is easy to remember because it sounds so much like

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 walls of the Monastery, where melancholy, deepest melancholy spread her raven wings."

Ah! if the children of vanity, of dissipation, sometimes visited a scene like this, surely (thought she) their hearts would be amended; they would be convinced of the littleness of this world, of the folly of placing their entire affections upon it, when they beheld "nobility arrayed in a winding sheet, grandeur mouldering in an urn, and the high grass waving round the hero's tomb, while his dusty banner, the banner which he once unfurled to strike consternation on his foes, hung idly fluttering o'er it."

At the grave of her benefactress she paused.

"Here (said she) gratitude and affection must ever linger. Oh! my friend, my mother, never can thy kindness be obliterated from my heart, never can my heart be consoled for thy loss: alas! from thy deep sleep the sighs of thy Madeline cannot awake thee!


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 Cold is that breast which was the repository of her sorrows, silent the tongue which poured sympathy upon them."

When it grew dark she ascended to the cell, for the gloom of the chapel then grew too awful for her to bear. After sitting a considerable time there in a state of painful impatience, she went to a large folding door, which terminated the gallery, and commanded an extensive view of the valley, to try if she could discover any sign of Madame D'Alembert or Floretta, who had said, as I should previously have mentioned, that they would come to her through the garden; but no step, no voice, could she hear, no glimpse of any object could she distinguish.

"They cannot have forgotten me, (said she) they cannot let me pass the night amidst the dead; and yet 'tis far beyond the hour I expected them."


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 Her heart almost died away as she viewed the opposite mountains, whose dark brows seemed rising above the clouds, and from whose black cavities the wind issued with hoarse murmurs, like the yells of midnight murderers.

"Ah! (cried she, shuddering) within those cavities perhaps the murderers of the countess—of Agatha—the intended murderers of Madeline, may be now concealed; before to-morrow perhaps I may be cold and inanimate, like those o'er whose sculptured urns I so recently bent."

At this instant she thought she heard the echo of a light step outside the building; her heart palpitated, she bent forward, and caught a glimpse of a female figure habited in black, gliding into the Monastery and followed by a man wrapped up in a large dark coat: That it was Madame D'Alembert and Lubin she beheld she could not doubt, and in a transport of joy she instantly flew to the


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 mamma. Milk from the mother's breast is the first food of all mammals, but most of the four-legged animals soon start eating other things. The milk that is brought every day to our homes is the milk that the cow has for her calf, but when we drink it we are not harming the calf for he needs only a little of his mother's milk.

The animals do not need to be taken care of by their mothers and fathers for nearly so long a time as babies do. Many young animals do not even see their father. The little care they must have is given to them by the mother, and the father wanders away and forgets all about his family. There are some animal fathers, however, that stay with their children and help the mother to show them how to find their food. The lion helps the lioness to teach the baby lion how to hunt, but before the young lion is two years old he is a skilful enough hunter to find his own food and to take care of himself. Horses and cows usually have grown to be as big as their parents by the time they are two years old and so have dogs. Rabbits are full grown in less than a year and nearly all these animals do not need the care of their mothers

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 for more than a few weeks. At the end of a month and a half a mouse is large enough and strong enough to have babies of its own.

But at two years of age a boy or girl could not live if its parents did not take care of it all the time. A lion, two years old, can roam for miles and miles through the forest, hunting its food. A baby, two years old, would be lost in five minutes if it toddled away from home.

Although children have done a great deal of growing by the time they are two years old they are then really only at the beginning of their growing. Each year they become a little bit bigger and heavier and taller and stronger.

While their bodies are growing their minds are growing too. They learn how to talk and how to think, how to use tools, how to read and how to write. It is a long, long time before they are grown up and can begin to have babies of their own.

They keep on growing and learning after the animals have stopped growing and learning, and they become wiser than any of the animals and can do many things that the animals cannot do. But babies and animals are born in the

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 stairs to meet them, but at the head of the stairs she paused, and trembled, for as the low sound of voices reached her from below, she fancied she heard the voices of total strangers: she held in her breath that she might be better enabled to ascertain whether or not her fears were justly founded, and was soon convinced that it was neither Madame D'Alembert nor Lubin she had seen enter.

Alive only to one dreadful idea, to one apprehension, she now believed her fate approaching, and looked round for some place to secrete herself; she looked in vain however; for mouldering cells and narrow passages, choked with rubbish only, met her view.

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 the building; down this she determined to fly.

At the head of the staircase which faced the body of the chapel was a large dismantled window, through which the moon, now beginning to rise, shed a faint light, but still sufficient to render objects conspicuous. Madeline therefore feared she should be seen as she crossed the staircase, she knew however there was no alternative, and that she must either run the risque of being discovered now, or remain where in a few minutes later she was sure of being so.

Madeline accordingly stepped forward, but though her step was too light to be heard, her figure was perceived, and she instantly heard a shout from the chapel, and ascending steps. Fear lent her wings, she flew to the gallery, but, just as she was darting into it, a large iron hook entangled her clothes: with a strength which desperation only could have given her, she attempted to tear them from


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 it, but 'ere her efforts had succeeded her arm was rudely seized; she immediately turned her head and beheld the inflamed countenance of a man glaring upon her; the moment he saw her face he started back with a look which seemed to intimate she was not the person he expected to have seen, but the faint pleasure which this idea gave was quickly destroyed by his drawing a small dagger from his breast with which he again approached Madeline. Her death she now believed inevitable, and staggering back a few paces, "Ah! heaven have mercy upon me!" she said, and dropped lifeless on the floor.

As she recovered her senses she felt some one chafing her hands.

"Ah! (she cried, in a faint voice) do you restore me to life but to have the pleasure of depriving me of it?"

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the sperm could join the egg and you could start growing to be a baby your mother and your father had first to learn to know and love each other. Your father needed to be sure that he had found the woman whom he would like to have become the mother of his children. Your mother needed to be sure that she had found the man whom she would like to have become the father of her children.

Ever since they had grown up each of them had been looking for a mate, that is, for a person with whom to marry and to share children. Perhaps they did not think that they were doing this, but they were. We all do this as soon as we are grown up. Each of us, although usually not knowing it, looks for his or her mate, that

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 is for the person with whom to marry and to have children.

This is what every living creature does. Even the plants seem to do this. Only the plants do not look for the plant that is to become the mother or the father of baby plants. They seem to be looking for the breezes and for the butterflies and the bees and the insects that carry the pollen from flower to flower.

That is why the spring and the summer are so beautiful. The blossoms and the flowers are blooming in bright colors and are sending out sweet perfume as if to make the bees and the moths and other flying creatures want to visit them. The yellow evening primrose and the lily with its pure white petals seem to be inviting the moths. The red rose and the white rose seem to be inviting the bees. The flowers in the garden and the wild flowers in the wood are dressed in pink, in blue, in purple, and in white as if to welcome the tiny visitors who carry the pollen from flower to flower.

It is when the eggs are ready for the pollen and the pollen is ready for the eggs that the flowers must be especially attractive to the

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 Madeline raised her head from the ground, she looked at Madame D'Alembert,—she looked from her, and beheld Lubin.

"Gracious heaven! (cried she) do I dream or have I been in a frightful dream from which you have just awakened me?"

"My dearest girl, (said Madame D'Alembert) what has alarmed you?"

"Alarmed me? (repeated Madeline, wildly staring at her) Oh, heavens! surely it is but an instant ago since I saw the poignard of the murderer raised against me?"

"You terrify me," exclaimed her friend.

"Terrify you, (repeated Madeline, starting from the ground) Oh, let us fly this dreadful place directly, for even now perhaps our lives may be in danger."

"Don't be frightened, Mademoiselle, (cried Lubin) I am not unarmed."

"You strike me with horror, (said Madame D'Alembert) and take from me the power of moving: tell me what danger it is we have to apprehend, for no trace of any


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 Then it is that the buds of the rose begin to open. Then it is that the evening primrose begins to uncurl its petals and to send out its faint sweet perfume. It is almost as if they knew that now the time had come for them to become the mothers and the fathers of baby plants and as if they were inviting the insects to help them.

The birds dress in as bright colors as do the flowers, but instead of inviting the bees and the butterflies they invite each other. The red breast of cock robin must make him seem very charming to the mother robin. Surely when she sees how beautiful he is and when she hears the songs he sings in the spring time she must want to be near him and to be his mate and to have him place the sperms in her body.

It is when the peacock is seeking a mate that he opens his wonderful feathers, blue and green and shining purple, as if to show his beauty to the female. It is when the turkey gobbler wants the turkey hen to mate with him that he raises the feathers from his back like a fan and gives his funny gobble call while his tail feathers spread out until they sweep the ground.

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 It is at the time of mating that the antlers or horns of the stag have grown to their greatest size. It is then that the bodies of many fish become brighter and more beautiful. It is then that the call of the cow moose and the answering call of the bull moose can be heard in the woods. Every animal has some way of being attractive and of making love to its mate when the time has come for the sperm to join the egg, and much of all that causes the earth to be such a wonderful place on which to live is the, beauty of the animals as they make love to their mates and the beauty of the flowers when they are, as it were, making love to the bees and the butterflies and the other insects.

But even more beautiful than this is the love making of men and women. The world is full of things that tell of it. The most beautiful perhaps of all buildings, the Taj Mahal, was built by one of the kings of India to show his love for his wife. Most of the songs we sing and much of the music we hear is about love, and so are many of the stories we like to read. The Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella and many others of our favorite fairy tales tell how a prince and a

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 being, of any thing to alarm you, did we discover, and the swoon in which we found you we imputed to illness instead of terror."

Madeline in a few hasty words informed her of the manner in which she had been terrified, and whilst she gratefully returned her thanks to heaven for her safety, she expressed her astonishment at being uninjured.

"Oh! my love, (cried her friend, clasping her arms round her as she concluded) never, never can I requite you for what you have suffered on my account; never can I forgive myself for having exposed you to such alarms."

"I wish with all my soul (said Lubin, grasping the rusty sword he had brought from the chateau) I wish with all my soul I had caught the villain, I'll warrant if I had I should soon have made him confess what brought him hither; his companion I suppose, was only a man in disguise."


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 princess find each other and marry. Many of the brave deeds that men and women have done they have done for love of each other, and much of all that is beautiful in life is beautiful because of love.

Whether we know it or not, as soon as we are old enough to marry each of us begins to look for his or her mate. In this we are different from the animals.

With animals, the male usually tries to place the sperm in the body of the first female he meets after the time for mating has come. For some animals this time is in the spring; for some it is in the fall. For some animals it is twice a year, for others even more often, but whenever the time comes for the sperm to join the egg an animal will usually take as his mate the first animal of his kind that he sees. The animals do not know that when they join together a baby animal will probably start growing. They only know that they feel like doing this just as sometimes they feel like eating and at other times like sleeping; and if after the sperm has joined the egg two animals keep on living together they

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 do so from habit and not because they know that soon they will become parents.

Only people know how babies are born and they are the only creatures that plan to live together and have children. Like the animals a man and a woman may feel like sending the sperm to join the egg but they do not do this unless they love each other. A human being does not choose as a mate the first person he or she meets after having grown up. Each man and each woman waits to marry the one whom he or she can love. Rather than marry some one without love some people never marry at all. When a man and a woman take each other as mates they love each other so much that they want to live together always and to help their children to become strong and happy and useful.

This is the most wonderful and the most beautiful part of the story of how we grow and are born and grow up. Each one of us starts living because of the love of his parents. You came into the world because your mother and your father loved each other so much that they started you growing to be a baby.

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we have come to the end of this story about how we become alive, and are born, and grow up.

It is a story that has happened to each one of us, the story of the beginning of your life and of my life and of the lives of all the other people in the world. That is why everybody is interested in it. We have all grown from eggs to babies and we have all been born.

And I can wish nothing better for you than that after you have grown up you may find someone whom you will love and who will love you and with whom you will have babies of your own. Then you will have lived the whole of the most wonderful of all stories, the story of how we become alive, and are born, and grow up.

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50 and—

That's not my question. My question is, in January, the first few days of January of 2021—

Uh-huh.

—you're the chief of staff to the Secretary of Defense. Was there any discussion that you recall about what happened in the summer impacting preparations, DOD preparations, for what was coming on January 6th?

So I believe I addressed that, so I'll refer back to that answer. But, to address your question again, I rely on what I previously stated. But do I recall conversations about the summer in early January?

Yes.

I recall some conversations with leadership at the Department that it came up. The specifics I do not recall.

Okay. Again, as you sit here today, no recollection of any of the specifics of how the summer protest events impacted the Defense Department's preparation?

I think as I stated earlier, what I do remember is that the senior leadership that was in place at the Department of Defense reminded senior leadership that was then in place of lessons learned. And whatever those lessons learned were documented by us in our recording—in our reportings, excuse me. And so, outside of that, I don't have any other independent memory of not using anything else.

What were the lessons learned?

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I'm asking you, Mr. Patel.

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51 preparations for January 6th?

The biggest lesson in my mind—

Yes.

—is that the Members of Congress did not want an arms display, for lack of a better word, on National Guardsmen and -women ever. That's my recollection.

Okay.

—looking back at the arc of this entire thing—

Great.

Now, that's what the number one—I wouldn't call it number one—that was a lesson learned that I recall other folks saying, but that's about it.

And how did that relate to the summer of 2020?

I'm not sure. What do you mean?

What do you recall—you said Members of Congress didn't want an armed display. How does that in some way—again, your recollection—reach back to what happened in the summer of 2020?

I think it stems from, I believe, Chairman Milley at the time walked across Lafayette Square with a sidearm holstered on his military uniform. I believe that's what that reference was to. And Chairman Milley would have a better idea of those conversations because it impacted him directly.

I'm not asking you to look inside of Chairman Milley or anybody else's mind. I'm just asking you, in your role as a high-level official in the Department of Defense, how the summer events affected preparation for the riot at the Capitol.

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 "Who these mysterious strangers were I cannot possibly conceive, (cried Madame D'Alembert) but that they certainly did not mean to harm you, however appearances may make you believe to the contrary, I think; for had such been their intention they most assuredly could have accomplished that intention 'ere we came."

"They only designed to rob her I suppose, (said Lubin) and frighten her to silence; pray search your pockets, Mademoiselle, to try if you have lost any thing."

"There was nothing of any value in them, (replied Madeline) so I need not take that trouble."

"They must certainly (resumed Lubin) have retreated, on hearing us, down that gallery," pointing to the one Madeline had attempted to conceal herself in; "I would give all the money I am worth for somebody now to assist me in searching it."

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 half determined to let you return immediately to your father, as Monsieur D'Alembert, contrary to his first intention, has resolved on passing a month in the chateau; but I am now, in consequence of what I have heard, resolved on doing so; to-night therefore we part, and heaven knows whether we shall ever meet again."

"To-night!" repeated Madeline amazed.

"Yes, (replied Madame D'Alembert, whose tears scarcely permitted her to speak) to-night—was your journey postponed till to-morrow, Monsieur D'Alembert must discover that you have hitherto been concealed in the chateau, and the consequences of such a discovery would be extremely disagreeable to me."

"Heaven forbid then (said Madeline) I should delay my journey; and yet"—she paused, she recollected herself—and since her friend was anxious for her immediate departure, resolved not to mention the fears she felt at the idea of travelling by night.


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 "I confide you to the care of Lubin, (cried Madame D'Alembert) I know he is faithful, I know he is brave, and will fulfil the trust I repose in him."

"I humbly thank your Ladyship for your good opinion of me, (said Lubin, taking off his hat and making a low bow) it shall be my study to deserve it: I am sure I should be an ungrateful varlet if I would not go through fire and water for you, or any one beloved by you; and Mademoiselle may be assured, while I have an arm to stretch out in her defence, I will protect her."

"At the extremity of the wood surrounding the chateau, is the cottage of my nurse, (said Madame D'Alembert, addressing Madeline) thither Lubin must now conduct you, and there he will procure horses for your journey; for I am afraid to have any taken from the stables here, least a discovery should be the consequence of doing so: do not delay longer than is absolutely necessary at the cottage, I have important reasons for wishing you to get to a distance from the


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 chateau, as soon as possible, when you are about half way between it and your father's house you can stop to rest."

"Yes, (replied Lubin) there is a snug house just thereabouts, where we can put up. You may recollect, Mademoiselle, (turning to Madeline) that you and my poor lady dined there last spring in your way to the chateau?"

A deep sigh stole from the breast of Madeline at the recollection of that happy period; and Madame D'Alembert was for a few minutes unable to speak.

"In the course of a few days, Madeline, (said she, as soon as she had recovered her voice) you may expect a letter, containing a full explanation of every thing that appeared mysterious in my conduct towards you. After suffering so much on my account you surely are entitled to know every secret of my heart—Oh! Madeline, that heart can never forget the gratitude it owes you."


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 "Ah, Madam, (cried Madeline, while tears trickled down her cheeks), do not hurt me by speaking in this manner; all that I could do, could never never repay the numerous favours I have received from you, 'tis I only have a right to speak of gratitude."

"Perhaps (resumed her friend) we may meet again: I will indulge such a hope, it will sooth, it will console me in some degree for your loss. Oh! Madeline, 'tis with pain, 'tis with agony I consent to our separation, but without murmuring I must submit to that as well as to many other sorrows."

She now took the trembling hand of Madeline, and they descended to the valley, thro' which they silently and swiftly passed, nor stopped 'till they came within sight of the chateau; Madame D'Alembert then paused, to give a last farewell to Madeline: locked in each others arms they continued many minutes unable to speak, unable to separate; at length Madame D'Alembert summoning all her resolution to her aid, disengaged her-


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 self from Madeline. "farewell, (said she) may heaven for ever bless, protect you, and make you as happy as you deserve to be." She turned away as she spoke as if fearful her resolution would fail her if she continued another moment with Madeline, and hastened to the chateau.

Silent and immovable Madeline stood gazing after her till addressed by Lubin.

"Come, Mademoiselle, (said he) we had better not delay any longer, 'twill be a late hour even as it is, I can assure you, 'ere we reach the house where we are to rest, this way, Mademoiselle."

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49 anything like that?

I don't have an independent memory of that, but—

Despite the fact that, the next day, people rioted at the United States Capitol, you have no recollection, sir, of—

Mr. Glabe. I think he's answered it, like, three times the same way.

Let me just ask it again.

The Witness. Okay.

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You have no recollection of any of the intelligence, other than some generalized threat that there could be unrest, as you sit here today?

How my memory operates, if you showed me the underlying intelligence, I could probably jog my memory. But, a year later, do I have an independent memory of anything outside of what I've stated? I do not remember at this time.

How about the summer of 2020? asked you some questions about the impact that the summer protests had on preparation. Right now, separate from any email, separate from any document, what do you remember about how what happened in the summer impacted preparations for January 6th?

[Discussion off the record.]

The Witness. So, at that time, in the summer of 2020, I was deputy assistant to the President and senior director for counterterrorism. So that was my focus.

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I understand.

So what I remember? I remember the media and the Lafayette Square incident. Of course, I remember the media's portrayal of it, and I remember the video and the walk-across. I don't recall having conversations with intel or DOD at that time,


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 she scarcely knew where she was, or whither she was going.

"Have I really taken my last leave of Madame D'Alembert? Am I really quitting the chateau?" said she, earnestly looking at Lubin.

"Lord, yes, that you have indeed Mademoiselle," answered he, somewhat surprised and alarmed.

"Gracious heaven! (cried she, with folded hands) if any person two months ago had told me I should quit the chateau in the manner I am at present doing, what little credit should I have given to their words.—

"Oh life! (she sighed to herself) how rapid are thy revolutions!—But a short time ago and that very mansion which I now leave with secrecy and precipitation, I entered with every hope of finding a permanent and happy home within it; but a short time ago and it was a refuge for distress, an asylum for


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 innocence and virtue; but now the mendicant may wander to it in vain for relief, innocence and virtue seek protection without receiving it.

"With its virtues its honours must decline; for he who has not a heart to cherish the former, must surely want a spirit to support the latter.

"No more then shall the arm of valour unfurl its banners to the call of glory; no more shall the records of fame be swelled by its achievements; no more shall noble emulation be inspired by them.

"With its late owner its greatness and happiness departed; they are set, but set not like that sun whose splendours so lately brightened this scene, to rise again with renovated glory."


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52 we've provided you—

Mr. Glabe. Respectfully, you've asked him the same question in slightly different ways five or six times. He's testified to what he remembers, his best recollection. He's talked about what he doesn't recall, but—and I understand that you may wish that he recalled more, but he's answered the question, like, five times.

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I'm just trying to pinpoint whether you have any independent recollection beyond the documents that you've been provided to review today.

Beyond the documents that I've been directed to review, beyond whatever was provided, and beyond whatever I've already said, outside of that, I don't have an independent recollection.

Okay. I thought that's what you said. Thank you.

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Okay. Let's start on January 6th, on the day of.

Uh-huh.

When did you first learn about the—any type of escalation of violence at the Capitol?

I'm not sure. I think it's detailed in the timeline I provided you, so I would say whatever that timeline says is the appropriate answer.


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 xxvi  Wherein the Hitory goes back to commemorate a trifling Incident that happened ome Years ince; but which, trifling as it was, had ome future Conequences. p. 13.  Containing uch very deep and grave Matters, that ome Readers, perhaps, may not relih it. p. 19.  Containing Matters accommodated to every Tate. p. 26.  An Apology for the Inenibility of Mr. Jones, to all the Charms of the lovely Sophia; in which poibly we may, in a coniderable Degree, lower his Character in the Etimation of thoe Men of Wit and Galantry, who approve the Heroes in mot of our modern Comedies. p. 38.


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, Mademoiselle, (said Lubin, on hearing her sigh as she turned from the chateau) you are not frightened at the idea of going through the wood?"

"No;" replied Madeline.

"So much the better, so much the better, (said Lubin) but indeed I should not wonder if you were."


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 "Why, (cried Madeline) is it dangerous?"

"Not over safe indeed, but don't be frightened, Mademoiselle, (on seeing her suddenly stop) I shall bring you the shortest path through it."

"And when we get to the road we shall be safe, (cried Madeline) as there are cottages scattered all along it?"

"Yes, (said Lubin) but if you were in danger and expected any assistance from their inhabitants, you would be sadly disappointed, for those kind of people are so fatigued after their day's labour, that when once they get to bed one might as well try to waken the dead, as waken them: but don't be frightened, Mademoiselle."

"Frightened! (repeated Madeline) it is scarcely possible to be otherwise from the manner in which you talk; you have really made me tremble so that I can scarcely move."

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 Madeline accepted the offer of Lubin, nor did they again pause till they had reached the cottage they were bound to; they found it shut up for the night, and Lubin knocked loudly with his stick against the door, but without effect.

"You see, Mademoiselle, (said he, after the silence of a few minutes) I was right in saying it was next to impossible to waken these cottagers."

"Poor people, (cried Madeline) it is a pity to disturb them."

"Oh, not at all, (said Lubin) they can go to bed immediately again, you know, and I warrant they will not rest the worse for having had their slumbers interrupted."

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 "Why, a friend, (replied Lubin) and a devilish time he has been trying to gain admittance: Come, come, Mr. Colin, you may open the door without any grumbling, for by the time I have taken to waken you it is pretty evident you have had a good spell."

"Pray what brings you here at this time of night?" cried a shrill female voice.

"I am come by the command of my lady to borrow two horses, (answered Lubin) I must get them directly, and without being asked whither I am going with them; pray make haste, I have a lady waiting with me for them."

"A lady!" the old couple repeated, and both thrust their heads together out of the window, to see whether he spoke truth or not.

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Rh The old woman gave Taraska his supper, he ate a bit of it, put on his shubenka and his kaftan, girded himself, took the bread, and went out into the street to the horses. His elder brother wanted to go with him, and Ivan himself got up and stood on the steps before the house. In the courtyard it was now quite dark, it was cloudy, and the wind was rising. Ivan went away from the steps, helped his little son up on horseback, scared away the foals, and stood looking and listening, while Taraska went down along the village and joined the other children, till they were all out of hearing. Ivan still stood at the door, and Gabriel's words would not go out of his head: "Take care I don't warm you with something worse!"

"And he'd do it, too," thought Ivan. "It is very dry, and there's still some wind. He can creep up from behind somewhere and light a fire, and then make himself scarce. He can set a fire going, and I ould not get myself righted. If only I could come upon him while he's at it, he should not get away in a hurry."

And this impish little thought grew so in Ivan's head that he did not go back to the steps, but went right out into the street, behind the gate, behind the corner. "I'll just go round the courtyard. Who knows what he may be up to." And Ivan went very softly along the enclosure. He only went round the corner, and looked along the fence, and it seemed to him as if something was moving in that corner,

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Tales from Tolstoi as if it peeped out, and then withdrew itself again into the corner. Ivan stood still, as still as a mouse, he listened and he looked—all was still, only the wind made the little leaves shiver on the branches of the willows, and skimmed along the straw. It was dark enough to put one's eyes out, but Ivan strained his eyes through the darkness till he saw the whole corner, and the plough and the projecting eaves. There he stood and looked, and there was nothing.

Tis plain I must have dreamt it," thought Ivan, "but I'll go my rounds all the same," and he stole softly round along the outhouses.

Ivan stepped very quietly on the tips of his toes, so as not even to hear his own steps. He went right to the very corner and looked, at the end of it something was sparkling by the plough, and disappeared again. Ivan felt as if something had struck him to the very heart. He stood stock-still. No sooner had he stood still than the light burst forth more brightly than ever, and he saw quite plainly a man with his back towards him crouching down. He had a cap on, and little wisps of straw in his hands which he was lighting. Ivan's heart beat in his breast like a captive bird. He swelled with rage, and advanced with rapid strides. He no longer heeded the sound of his own footsteps.

"Now," thought he, "there's no escaping, I'll catch him on the very spot."

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48 the streets of Washington, D.C.?

What was common?

Coming. What was expected to happen that would justify the deployment of National Guard troops?

We had a request that I remember—we had a request from late December from the Mayor, so we knew that was coming.

Uh-huh.

And the Department was aware that January 6th was the certification date. And what I remember generally is that law enforcement had said, there may—could be—a possibility of some unrest.

And so, in preparation, what I remember is the authorization for up to 10,000 to 20,000. That's not to say we were going to use that many.

Tell us more about the unrest. What did you hear about from any source about what that might be?

I don't recall hearing anything personally about it. And, outside of the intelligence at the time that we were provided, which I can't recall now, I don't remember anything.

You have no recollection, as you sit here, of any of the intelligence that gave rise to the request for National Guard on January the 6th?

Personally?

Yes.

If you could show me, I'm happy to read it, but I don't have an independent memory, other than law enforcement saying there could be unrest. That's what I recall.

Just to be clear, that's all? You don't remember anything else about the specifics of what that unrest might entail—the numbers, the specific groups involved,


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47 record to reflect my serious concerns about congressional overreach.

Appreciate that.

Thank you.

Yeah.

And so I believe you asked, outside of Jan. 5, any other meetings—

Yeah.

—that I have a recollection about anything Jan.-6-related, let's say, with the President.

Yeah.

To the best of my memory, my interactions with the President in and about January 6th, around that time period, that I can recall was the authorization for 10,000 to 20,000.

As I best remember, he and I did not have substantive conversations about other things on January 26 that did not involve the Department of Defense's role—sorry, Jan. 6th, not the 26th.

Okay.

Separate from your direct communication with the President, what did you expect, in your role as chief of staff to the Acting Secretary of Defense, was the threat landscape or might happen on January 6th justifying the deployment of the National Guard?

So, from my opinion, the advice that I would give would be based on the intelligence that was coming in. I haven't seen or looked at intelligence in a long time—

I'm just asking you what you remember.

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46 So, just to clarify, it's 10,000 to 20,000 across America.

Okay.

It was an authorization for anybody—

Yeah.

—if there was civil unrest anywhere.

Yeah. So, again, was there more information as to why that number was appropriate or what might happen that would give rise to the need from anyone during that meeting?

I don't—I don't remember. Maybe the Acting Secretary and the Chairman have a different—maybe.

A lot of times, in these meetings, just for an example, not talking subjects, there would be groups of individuals in the Oval and there would be side conversations sometimes, depending on the topic or depending on what was going on. So I can't pinpoint that one meeting, and I don't know if that happened or not in that meeting. But that's my recollection, is that was the authorization for 10,000 to 20,000.

Let's separate it from that meeting. What do you remember at any time the President saying about January 6th, expectations about what might happen in the days before January 6th?

So, from my understanding and my memory—

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45 Sorry, Jeff, we had not unmuted. I'll restate.

Mr. Jensen. Thank you.

We're back on the record.

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Yeah, Mr. Patel, I understand that there's been some reporting about this meeting, and you gave us some helpful information about it. I just want to set that aside and ask you what you recall, not about the Iran stuff, but anything that anyone, the President or others, said about January 6th during that meeting, whatever date it was.

As best as I can recall, it's what I told co-counsel just before we broke. I don't think that I have any additional memory of that as I sit here, but I'm happy to look at anything you guys want me to.

We don't have anything else to show you. I just—whatever you recall.

There was some reference in the article, for instance, to 10,000 to 20,000 troops. What do you remember about how that came up, who said it, what was discussed?

Yeah, and I will rely on what I told co-counsel, not to provide a duplicative record, but, basically, the sum and substance is, there was a conversation that there was an authorization by the President of the United States for 10,000 to 20,000. That's what I remember because it's the important step one of the authorization process.

Uh-huh. Yeah.

Outside of that, it was—I will say this, without getting into details: It was an extensive classified conversation about a number of other topics.

I appreciate that.

We were there for a while.

Yeah. Okay. So the topic of 10,000 to 20,000 troops being potentially on the streets the next day or a couple of days later, kind of a big deal, right?


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Rh and there stood Gabriel, every part of him was visible. Ivan threw himself on Gabriel like a hawk upon a lark.

"I'll wring his neck, he shall not escape me now," thought he.

And the lame man himself now plainly heard steps, turned round, and seeing no way of escape, crouched up against the barn like a hare.

"Thou shalt not escape," screeched Ivan, and fell upon him.

Just as he would have seized him by the collar, Gabriel twisted himself loose from his grasp, and caught Ivan by the lappet of his coat; the lappet gave way, and Ivan fell to the ground. Ivan leaped to his feet: "Stop thief," he cried, and ran after him.

By the time he had got up, however, Gabriel was already in his own courtyard, but here Ivan had already caught him up, and was about to clutch hold of him, when suddenly something crashed down on his head just as if he had been struck by a stone in the dark. Gabriel had caught up an oak chump from his courtyard, and, when Ivan rushed towards him, struck him with all his might on the head. Ivan staggered dizzily, sparks flew up before his eyes, and down he went. When he came to himself Gabriel was no longer there, it was as light as day all about him, and from the direction of his own courtyard there was a humming and a whirring as of an engine at work. Ivan turned him round and saw that the back barn was all aflame, and the flames had also caught the side barn, and the fire and the smoke and chips of burning straw were driving with the smoke towards the hut. 157


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Tales from Tolstoi "Why, what is all this, my brothers?" cried Ivan, and raised and wrung his hands; "why, I've only got to pull the burning stuff from under the roof and trample it out!"

He would have called out, but his breath failed him, he could not utter a sound. He would have run—his legs did not move—they clave together. He tottered on a step or two and down he fell, his breath again failing him. He stood up and gasped and went on again. By the time he had gone the round of the barn and got to the fire the side barn was now all ablaze, the corner of the hut had also caught, and the door too, and out of the hut rolled waves of fire; there was no getting at it. A lot of people came running up, but nothing could be done. The neighbours drew their own things out of the reach of the fire, and drove their cattle out of their yards. Gabriel's barns now also caught the fire from Ivan's; the wind arose and whirled right down the street. It swept away half the village like a broom.

All they could pull out of Ivan's hut was the old man, the rest leaped out as best they could and left everything. Except the horses in their night-quarters all the cattle were burned; the fowls were burned on their perches; the carts, the ploughs, the harrows, the women's things, the bread in the cupboards, everything was burned.

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T is now about seven Years ago, since I presented the most Engaging Lady M with Mr. Fontenelle's Book of the Plurality of Worlds: And I remember well what she said a few Days after.

I have look'd over your Book, Sir, said she, as my way is, first cursorily, and I intend to give it a very careful second Reading; but I perceive by it, you have cut out much more Trouble for your self, than perhaps you imagin'd: For I find there are many things previously necessary to the understanding it, which you must oblige me with explaining; but, continued she, a Conversation of that kind with me, I doubt, will be too dull and tedious, since I am not bless'd with any of those shining Qualifications,


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contributions to the Boston Post. 1854. See (Pliny).

(T:) Norway in 1848 and 1849: containing rambles among the fjelds and fjords of the central and western districts; and including remarks on its political, military, ecclesiastical, and social organisation. With extracts from the journals of lieut. M. S. Biddulph. 10 pl. 4 woodcut ill. 8° London, printed for Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1850.

——— A road-book for tourists in Norway. With hints to English sportsmen and anglers. In (E:) Norway and its scenery. 12°. London, H: G. Bohn, 1853, pp. 331-449.

——— The same. 16°. ''London, H:G. Bohn'', 1854.

——— See also (E:) Norway and its scenery. 1853.

——— (Auber, pseud.) See  (Miss Annie Aubertine).

(James, editor). See (Christer Peter). On engineering in Sweden. 1875.

(Alphonse Toussaint Joseph André Marie Marseille, comte de). Travels in Sweden. In (J:) A general collection of the best and most interesting voyages and travels, v. 6. 4°. London, for Longman, [etc.], 1809, pp. 373-569, 2 pl.

(Clement Le Neve). See (C: G: Warnford). The home of the Eddas. 1879.

(J. W.) A practical introduction to Danish or Norwegian composed of readings accompanied by necessary grammatical remarks and references to dr. Rask's Danish grammar. 12°. London, Williams & Norgate, 1860.

(Sir Philip). Letter to earl Grey, on the policy of Great Britain and the allies towards Norway. First published on the 5th of May, 1814. 3d ed. In "The Pamphleteer." v. 4. 8° London, A. J. Valpy, 1814, pp. 67-85.

(Capt. C: Colville). Narrative of a visit to the courts of Russia and Sweden, in the years 1830 and 1831. 2 v. 1 pl. 1 chart. 8° London, H: Colburn & B: Bentley, 1832.

(E: A:) The historical geography of Europe. 2 v. 8° London, Longmans, Green, & co., 1881.

Contains: v. 1. Northern Europe, pp. 129-133, 159-163: The Baltic lands, pp. 462-524. v. 2. The Baltic lands, maps no. I-lxi, 12 maps on 6 leaves.

and fire. 1865. See (J: Francis).

(James Anthony). The Norway fjords. In "Longman's magazine." v. 1. 8° London, Longmans, Green, & co., no. 2, Dec. 1882, pp. 195-222.


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And Ivan and Gabriel lived neighbourly together as their fathers had done. And Ivan Shcherbakov remembered the counsel of the old man, and the divine precept that a fire (of hate) should be put out at the very beginning.

And if anyone did ill to him he laid wait, not to revenge himself, but to smooth matters straight again; and if anyone said an ill-word to him, he did not wait his opportunity to say a still more evil one, but how to teach such a one not to say evil things, and so also did he teach his women folk and children. And Ivan Shcherbakov amended his ways and lived better than heretofore. 162


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Two old men agreed once upon a time to go and pray to God in old Jerusalem. One was a rich muzhik, called Efim Tarasuich, the other a poor man, called Elisyei Bodrov.

Efim was an austere muzhik; he drank no vodka, and smoked and snuffed no tobacco, never had he chided with vile black words, he was a man severe and stern. Two whole terms had Efim served as starosta, and at the end of his terms his accounts were clear and clean. His family was large. Two sons and a grandson were married, and they all lived together. He was a healthy, well-bearded, and stalwart muzhik, and in his seventh decade there was but a stripe of grey in his beard. The old man Elisyei was neither very rich nor very poor. Formerly he had been an itinerant carpenter, but since old age had come upon him he had settled down at home. He had one son

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Rh on, and could only keep repeating, "What is this, my brothers? You have only to seize hold of it and put it out." But when the roof of the hut fell in, he rushed towards the fire, seized the burning beam, and dragged it out of the flames. The women saw him and began crying to him to go back, but he dragged out the beam and ran back for others, and staggered and fell into the fire. His son ran forward and dragged him out. Ivan's beard had caught fire and his hair; he had scorched through his clothes, and his hands were injured, but he felt nothing.

"He has got crazy over the fire," the people said.

The fire began to die out, but Ivan still kept standing there and said all along:

"What's all this, my brothers? Come and but buckle to it, and we'll put it out."

In the morning the starosta sent his son to fetch Ivan.

"Uncle Ivan, thy parent is dying, and he bade us call thee to him."

Ivan had clean forgotten even his father, and understood not what they said to him.

"What," said he, "my parent? What's his name?"

"He bade us send for thee; he is in our hut, and dying. Come, Uncle Ivan."

Ivan with a great effort rallied his wits, and went with the son of the starosta.

The old man, while they were drawing him out, had fallen among the burning straw and been burnt all over. They carried him to the starosta's, to a hamlet a good way off, out of reach of the fire.

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 with which Mr. Fontenelle hath complimented M. la Marquiese; I should indeed, said she, except those two, which I suppose, in Complaisance to our Sex, he makes the Foundation of Philosophy, ''viz. Ignorance and Inquisitiveness'' for those I'm sure, I have in Perfection, as you have long experienced.

I need not mention the Return I made, nor how prettily she changed the Discourse to something more general, when she found I was going to say just things of her; those that knew her, don't want to be reminded of the many Beauties, both of Mind and Body, which render'd Lady M one of the most agreeable Persons of her Sex; which yet were she living, tho' a just Debt to her Merit, I must not have said, for fear of offending her Modesty.

that is necessary to introduce what follows, is, to inform you, That some Years before her Death, when I went to visit that accomplish'd Lady at her Country Seat; I was a little surprised to find her, the next Morning after my Arrival, studiously viewing a pair of large Globes, Which stood in the Drawing-Room, looking into the Garden, and which I used to make my Place of Study.


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Tales from Tolstoi in the hut were an old woman and some children on the stove. All the others had gone to the fire. The old man lay upon a bench with a taper in his hand, and was looking sideways at the door. When his son came in he shifted a bit. The old woman went to him and told him that his son had come. He bade her call him closer. Ivan went right up to him, and then the old man spoke.

"What did I say to thee, Vanyatko? Who burned the village?"

Twas he, dear little father," said Ivan, "I caught him at it. He was at my place and set fire to the roof. I need only have pulled off a lump of burning straw and put it out, and there would have been no fire at all."

"Ivan," said the old man, "I am nigh unto death, and thou wilt die too. Whose was the sin?"

Ivan looked at his father and was silent; he could not utter a word.

"In God's Name speak! Whose was the sin? What did I tell thee?"

Then only did Ivan wake up and understand everything. He sniffed with his nose and fell down on his knees before his father, burst into tears, and said:

"Mine is the fault, dear little father. Forgive me for Christ's sake! I am guilty both before thee and before God!"

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Rh his brow; he wanted to cross himself, but he could not get his hand far enough round, so he forbore.

"Glory be to Thee, O Lord! Glory be to Thee, O Lord," said he, and again he cast a glance at his son.

"Van'ka, but Van'ka!"

"What is it, dear little father?"

"What ought to be done now?"

Ivan was all in tears. "I know not, dear little father, how I shall live now," said he.

The old man closed his eyes and moved his lips as if he were rallying all his strength, and again he opened his eyes, and he said:

"Live and prosper. With God ye shall live—live and prosper."

The old man was again silent for a time. Then he smiled and said:

"Look now, Van'ya! Don't say who set the fire on. Hide others' sins, and God will forgive thee thine twice over."

And the old man grasped the taper with both hands, folded them on his breast, sighed, stretched himself, and died.

Ivan did not tell of Gabriel, and nobody ever knew who was the author of the fire.

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engine roared as Frank Hardy opened the throttle and bore down on the helm of the Sleuth.

The grip of the current about the reef was so strong that, for a moment, it seemed that the motorboat could not fight against it. Then, slowly, the craft swung about, seemed to remain motionless for a moment, and then began to forge ahead, away from the reef.

Fighting against the force of the current, the motorboat made slow progress. Still, it was gaining ground. The boys waited tensely, as the craft struggled out of danger. Gradually, the Sleuth drew away from the reef, gradually the grip of the current relaxed. Frank cautiously nosed the boat over to the left and managed to get out of the current altogether.

The whole affair had occurred in a few seconds, but it had seemed an eternity to the boys in the boat and their chums in the other craft.

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 Morrow, said I, Madam, what! hath Fontenelle made an Astronomer of you in good earnest? Are you really contemplating the Order and Motions of the Heavenly Bodies? Or are you rather seeking on the Earthly Globe, where to make new Conquests?

The Historians foolishly represent Alexander the Great, as Weeping, that he could carry his no further than over all the World; but I'm sure, were he present now, to see you in that Posture commanding the Globe, and giving what Turns you please to it; that Thought of your humble Servant's would appear just enough;

O! Sir, said she, your Servant, I doubt you did not rest well last Night? What did your Imagination carry you into the Poetical Regions of Fairy-Land, that you awake with Verses in your Mouth this Morning? But to speak seri-


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66 before they might have been swept swiftly down onto the treacherous reef.

"That'll teach me to watch where I'm going," said Frank, as he sat back and mopped his brow.

"There was mighty near a lot more wreckage on that reef," remarked Slim soberly. "The boat wouldn't have lasted long if we'd piled up on those rocks."

"I'll say it wouldn't! I think we'd better get away from here. We'll never be able to get close enough to identify that wreckage. Might as well go on up the coast."

They drew up alongside the Napoli and, after discussing the narrow escape they had just had from being cast up on the reef, acquainted the other boys with their decision to continue the search.

"There's no use trying to get closer to that wreckage," declared Frank. "It's all in small pieces and we probably wouldn't be able to say whether it was from the Envoy or not, if we did reach it. We may as well go on up the coast and keep making inquiries at the other villages."

This plan they followed, but to no avail.

Their inquiries were fruitless. The Envoy, with Chet and Biff, seemed to have vanished into thin air. At none of the fishing villages were they able to find any one who had seen

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 though Sir Harry Parkes believed that his explorations only extended on the Menam as far as Pakprian, a dis- tance of 30 miles from the point at which the Ameri- can survey terminated, on the Meklong for a distance of about 120 miles from its mouth, and on the Tachin as far as Supanburi, a matter of 180 miles or so from its outfall. For the rest, the latitude of Ayuthia, the ancient capital of Siam, and of Lopburi, a town some- what farther up the valley of the Menam, had been fixed by Captain Davis, the commander of a merchantman, who had accompanied the King to these places a year or two before the time of which Parkes was speaking.

Topographical and statistical information on the sub- ject of Siam, albeit of a character of only approximate accuracy, was not, however, lacking. Merchants and missionaries were now residing in Siam in fair numbers, and in 1852 Frederick Arthur Neale, an Englishman who had spent many years in Siam, published an account of the country. His personal knowledge of it does not appear to have extended much beyond a few trade- centres, and in the same year Bishop Pallegoix's far more important work made its appearance. The Roman Catholic missionaries in south-eastern Asia have made good their claim to be regarded as among the most ad- venturesome of their kind, and Pallegoix, from his posi- tion as head of their organisation in Siam and from his intimate knowledge of the natives and of their language, had been able to collect a remarkable amount of reliable information concerning Siam and its inhabitants. His book, therefore, represented by far the most important contribution to European knowledge of Siam that had


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Rh or heard of the missing motorboat. As for the wreckage on the reef, no one was found who could enlighten them. Two or three fishing boats had been wrecked during the storm, but they had met their fate farther up the coast and in each case the scene of the wreck was known to the fishermen.

"It might have been your friend's boat, and it might have been only some old wreckage washed down the coast by the storm," said one keen-eyed salt. "You'd best give up the search. If they're drowned, they're drowned, and that's all there is to it. If they were wrecked and managed to save themselves they'll make their way to the nearest village and they'll get home from there without any trouble. If you haven't found any trace of them by now there isn't much use going any further, for they would never have got this far up the coast having been seen by some of the fishermen."

The boys reluctantly agreed that his advice was sound. They turned back for Bayport.

When they returned to the city and reported that their quest had been unsuccessful they were scarcely prepared for the sensation that the news aroused. The Hoopers were frantic with anxiety, as their last hopes were dashed. The Mortons were almost stunned. They had hoped against hope that the search would

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 then been made. It is, on the whole, wonderfully accu- rate, and even to-day it ranks as a standard work upon the Siam of half a century ago. He knew, chiefly through native reports, the names and relative positions of all the provinces of Siam; he described each of these with a fair amount of detail, from Chieng Mai on the Me- ping, and Luang Prabang on the Mekong, to the Malay States of the Peninsula; and his estimates of the total population of the country, 6,000,000 souls, and its divi- sion into races, were fairly correct so far as can now be judged. Of the Mekong he possessed no personal know- ledge, and he merely repeated information supplied to him by natives, but he had obtained a fair idea of its size and of the direction in which it flows from Luang Prabang through Laos.

In 1855 Sir John Bowring was sent to Bangkok on a special mission, and in his published account of his visit a considerable amount of information is given con- cerning the past history of Siam and Siamese relations. with the West. Bowring, however, had no opportunity of materially adding to the facts collected by his prede- cessors.

In 1856 Mr. D. O. King returned to Bangkok after nearly a year spent in Eastern Siam and in Kambodia. He had ascended the Bang Pa Kong from Bangkok to Pachim and Muong Kabin, and thence had made his way over a "military road," which had been constructed five and twenty years earlier, to the Tasawai River. He had spent some time at Batambang, and thence had paid visits to Chantabun and to the gold mines situated be- tween Batambang and the Menam valley. Leaving


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 Batambang he had passed completely round the shores of the great lake of Tonle Sap, visiting Siam-reap and Angkor (which he spelled "Nakon"), subsequently de- scending the branch of the lake to Udong and Pnom Penh. Thence he eventually passed through Cochin- China to the sea. He made no surveys, and his account of his journey, written in a style which has nothing to recommend it to the reader, is curiously barren of inter- est. In 1859 the Angkor ruins were visited and described by Dr. James Campbell, a medical officer of the Royal Navy.

In the previous year, Henri Mouhot, the story of whose wanderings and death near Luang Prabang has been told in an earlier chapter, landed in Siam, and between that time and 1861 explored the lower Menam valley, the greater part of Chantabun and Batambang, the lake of Tonle-Sap and its vicinity, the ruins of Angkor, much of the hill country of Kambodia inhabited by primitive tribes, and finally the land-route between Korat and Luang Prabang. Mouhot, as we have seen, did not live to edit his own notes, and his latitudes were inaccurate, his instruments having suffered in the course of the rough overland journey from the Menam to the Mekong. He was thus robbed of the best fruits of the labours which cost him his life; but none the less, to Henri Mouhot belongs the distinction of being, so far as is known, the first white man to traverse the country lying between Korat and Luang Prabang, and his delightful book, to which so melancholy an interest attaches, threw the first light upon what had hitherto been one of the dark places of the earth.


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68 bring them at least some news of the missing boys.

The local papers featured the story and the city was aroused. In every village and town along the coast, to north and south, people were discussing the mysterious disappearance of the motorboat and its human freight. Fishermen were on the lookout for any trace of the craft. The coast guards promised to do all in their power to clear up the mystery.

But, when three days more went by and there was still not the slightest solution in sight, the opinion became general that the boat had been wrecked in the storm and had gone to the bottom. The two boys were given up for lost. The Hardy boys and their chums were gradually forced to the belief that Chet and Biff had perished.

Then came an incident that temporarily drove the tragic affair from the minds of Frank and Joe, because it concerned their own home more intimately.

Aunt Gertrude had greeted them on their return with a barrage of scathing comment on their disobedience in leaving on the trip in spite of her avowed disapproval, and she expressed the greatest amazement because they had returned alive after all.

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 Nearly twenty years before Mouhot's time, however, a similar service had been rendered to the upper dis- tricts of western Siam by Richardson, who, in addition to playing the part already described in the history of Burmese explorations, had made his way overland from Maulmain to Bangkok. He was intrusted, as usual, with a commercial mission, and he left Maulmain by boat in December, 1838. At the end of a few days he exchanged his boats for elephants, and followed the Zimi River up into the hills. The extension of these hills towards the south, it may be noted, forms the range which is, as it were, the backbone of the Malay Peninsula. The road was difficult, the country sparsely peopled by rude tribes, and rain fell incessantly, but he wormed his way through the highlands with his accus- tomed doggedness, and on January 14th, 1839, found himself upon the eastern slope within a journey of "five or six days of Tavoi, as the Kareens travel." From this point he descended into the valley of the Meklong, reach- ing Kanaburi on the 25th January, and descending the river from that place, cut across to the Menam, which he reached some distance below Bangkok. In the course of his journey he obtained a good general idea of the mountain system between Tenasserim and Siam, added to the information then possessed on the subject of the Meklong and its tributaries, but otherwise achieved no very important results; for his commercial mission led to nothing. The mountains with their uncivilised in- habitants presented a serious barrier to trade between Siam and Tenasserim.

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 ously, I wonder you don't blush to paint so much beyond the Life, and yet suppose the Picture to be like any one; you affect to imitate our great Painters, if we sit to them, they make us all handsome; but they do it to shew themselves, not us, and they don't care so much whether it be like or no, so it be but a fine Picture; and in this our own Vanity too often indulges them.

But pray, added she, let us lay aside all these Fooleries; and be so good as to be serious with me for an Hour or two: I have a great Mind to be let a little into the Knowledge of these Instruments, the Globes; and to know something of the first Principles and Rudiments of Astronony; or else I find I shall lose half the Beauties of that very entertaining Book Mr. Fontenelle's Plurality of Worlds, which you formerly obliged me with, as well as perhaps be led into some Errors by it: And don't despise and neglect me because I am a Woman. I have heard you sometimes say, you thought that there was no difference of Sexes in Souls; nay, that our Parts and Natural Capacities were often equal, at leasi, if not superior, to those of Men. But perhaps there were some particular Reasons for your saying so then, which now altering or


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 than with the duty of adding to the sum of geographical knowledge. The scientific mapping and exploration of Siam did not begin until 1881, when Mr. James Mc- Carthy, of whose work more will be said presently, entered the Siamese service, began a series of interest- ing journeys, and gradually brought into being an effi- cient State survey department.

In the meanwhile in other parts of the Indo-Chinese peninsula European explorers had been busy. M. J. Dupuis, a French merchant, had met Garnier at Han- Kau in May, 1868, and though he claimed originality for his idea, there seems to be little doubt that the notion of opening up a trade-route between Yun-nan and the Gulf of Tongking by means of the Song-Koi was sug- gested to Dupuis by the discoveries made by the French mission. Be this how it may, Dupuis travelled in the province of Yun-nan in 1868 and 1869, but the disturbed state of the country consequent upon the Muhammadan rebellion, prevented him from proceeding beyond Yun- nan-fu. In 1871, by which time he had become a con- tractor for the Chinese army, he left Yun-nan-fu on February 25th bound for Tongking. Travelling over- land in a southerly direction, he struck the Song-Koi at Mang-hao, and navigated it from that point to the sea. He was under contract to bring a cargo of arms and ammunition up the river into Yun-nan, and this he suc- ceeded in doing in 1872, in spite of the opposition of the authorities in Tongking and the difficulties of the river route which he had selected for his operations. At Yun-nan-sen he purchased a cargo of tin and copper, and undertook to bring back a return cargo of salt from


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Rh brusque fashion. "It was through no skill of your own, I'll be bound. Your poor mother and me were worried to death all the time you were away—gallivanting over the ocean."

Aunt Gertrude did not add that Mrs. Hardy's worries had been chiefly occasioned by her aunt's dire predictions of the certain death that awaited the boys on the search. However, her tone was modified somewhat when she realized that they had indeed been hunting for the missing chums and she made it her business to call on the Hoopers and the Mortons to condole with them, for she was a good-hearted soul in her own way—although it is to be feared that her condolences did more to add to the certainty that the boys were drowned than they served to cheer up the sorrowing parents.

The third day after the Hardy boys returned she was sorting over the morning mail, having duly taken charge of every department of the household.

"Ha!" she exclaimed, holding a letter up to the light. "Here's a letter addressed to Fenton Hardy. Bad news in it, I'll be bound."

Aunt Gertrude could smell bad news a mile away, Frank often said.

"Bad news in it. I can tell. I dreamed about haystacks last night. Haystacks! Whenever I dream about haystacks it means bad news. I never knew it to fail. Open the letter, Laura."

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 Tongking. On his arrival at Hanoi, however, the local mandarins declined absolutely to permit him to purchase and carry salt to China, salt being their own precious monopoly. Dupuis appealed to the French Government. at Saigon, and our old friend Francis Garnier was sent with a small force to arbitrate between the French mer- chant and the mandarins of Hanoi.

Garnier arrived at the capital of Tongking on Novem- ber 5th, 1873, and ten days later issued a proclamation declaring the Song-Koi open to general commerce. This determined, but perhaps over-hasty, action led to im- mediate hostilities, and on November 20th Garnier seized the citadel of Hanoi by assault. For one backed by so tiny a force, Garnier's policy was audacious to the point of recklessness, but for the moment it succeeded so well that in the course of a few weeks he had made himself master of five native strongholds, and seemingly had the whole of lower Tongking in his grip. The Annamese, who saw their possession slipping from their grasp, now called in the Black Flags, the lawless bands of marauders who had effected a lodging in northern Tongking dur- ing the prolonged disturbances in Yun-nan. These new enemies forthwith attacked Hanoi, and on December 21st Francis Garnier was killed while leading a sortie against them. Impetuous, eager, strenuous, and fearless to the last, he fell far in advance of his men, and by his death France was robbed at a critical moment of one of the few of her sons who have won for themselves great reputations while engaged in building up her empire beyond the seas.

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 the cottage, and almost immediately recollected her; she was all amazement at now beholding her, nor could forbear inquiring the reason of it. Madeline waved the discourse, and expressed her regret at her having been disturbed.

The horses were ready in a few minutes, and the good couple having received a strict caution against mentioning her to any one, she was assisted by Lubin to mount, and they set off at a smart pace.

"How very curious old Colin and his wife were! (said Lubin) I dare say they would have given half they were worth to know the cause of our travelling by night, and not getting horses at the chateau."

"I don't wonder at their being so," cried Madeline.

"No, nor I neither, Mademoiselle; 'tis a comical thing to be sure our rambling about at night; it puts me in mind of the Fairy


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 Tales I have read; heaven be praised our journey is but a short one."

They did not slacken their pace till they reached the gloomy forest, in which the gothic castle of Montmorenci stood; the heart of Madeline sunk as she approached it, and she trembled as she entered amidst its awful shades, and heard the breeze sweeping over them with a hollow murmur: the courage of Lubin too seemed a little to fail him.

"I wish with all my soul Mademoiselle, (said he) that the house we are going to was at this side of the forest instead of the other."

"I wish it was, (cried Madeline) or that we could get shelter elsewhere."

"That is impossible, Mademoiselle, (replied he) so we must only make what haste we can to it; Lord how glad I shall be when I find myself there; so will you, I dare say, Mademoiselle."


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 "Undoubtedly, (replied Madeline) the recollection of past danger will heighten present pleasure."

"I wish all our dangers were over, and our pleasures come, (cried Lubin) but Lord, Mademoiselle, the very worst of our way is still before us; the middle of the forest, which we have not yet reached, is a grand rendezvous, they say, for a gang of banditti, that have long infested the country; there they meet as soon as it grows dark, and settle their plans for the night. Well, of all places in the world I should not like to be robbed in a forest, it would be such an easy matter afterwards to murder one."

"Pray, Lubin, (said Madeline) do not talk any more in this manner, for if you do you'll make me tremble so I shall not be able to keep my seat."

"I ask your pardon, Mademoiselle; I am sure the last thing in the world I meant to do was to frighten you: To be sure I wish I had brought a pocket pistol or two with me from


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vi darkness. The second presents us with a scathing political satire applicable to all time; and though the key to its special purpose and object has been irrecoverably lost, its brilliant humour and keen sarcasm on the follies of human nature are imperishable. The third, no one who cares to understand the spiritual atmosphere in which our ancestors lived and breathed can afford to neglect.

It has fallen to the lot of the writer of the present notice to have no small share in bringing “Reynard the Fox” and the “Golden Legend” under the notice of the reading public of to-day, and he has now the gratification of presenting the “Romance of the Rose” in such form as he hopes may find acceptance.

He is but too well aware that to produce an ideal translation of such a book would demand a knowledge of old French approaching that possessed by a Gaston Paris, or a Langlois; as intimate an acquaintance with mediæval lore as might be expected from the combined knowledge of a Skeat, a Furnivall, and a Gollancz, and the poetic capacity of a William Morris; while he is fully conscious of the degree to which he falls short of the requirements he has indicated. But the task having been proposed to him by two of the scholars above named, he became, on looking into the book, so greatly interested and fascinated by it, that he determined to undertake the


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 cellar door for the purpose of sneaking in on the first opportunity, and lapping up the drippings from the beer cask. I do not mention this habit of hers in praise of the species, but merely to show how almost human some of them are. If the transmigration of souls is a fact, this animal was certainly qualifying most rapidly for a Christian, for her vanity was only second to her love of drink. Whenever she caught a particularly big rat, she would bring it up into the room where we were all sitting, lay the corpse down in the midst of us, and wait to be praised. Lord! how the girls used to scream.

Poor rats! They seem only to exist so that cats and dogs may gain credit for killing them, and chemists make a fortune by inventing specialities in poison for their destruction. And yet there is something fascinating about them. There is a weirdness and uncanniness attaching to them. They are so cunning and strong, so terrible in their numbers, so cruel, so secret. They swarm in deserted houses, where the broken casements hang rotting to the crumbling walls, and the doors swing creaking on their rusty hinges. They know the sinking ship, and leave her, no one knows how or whither. They whisper to each other in their hiding-places, how a doom will fall upon the hall, and the great name die forgotten. They do fearful deeds in ghastly charnel-houses.

No tale of horror is complete without the rats. In