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28o ROMAN DA YS.
chain, which Peter wore when prisoner in that city. The
empress sent the gift to Rome. The bishop there wished
to hken the chain from Jerusalem with that which Peter
had worn in the Mamertine prison ; and when he laid one
upon the other, their links at once grew together, so that
they formed a single chain, in which it is impossible to
discover where the one ends, and the other begins !
But of beautiful and touching traits, these stories
contain not a few. Perhaps for that reason, one or an-
other reader may have been able to follow them with a
little of that friendly feehng with which the author, in
the places themselves, heard them and wrote them down.
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