Yet if I choose the former, I pray that you'll not follow the same course of reasoning, and hold me worthy of the latter." When he had understood its subtleties; for his wits were of a quality that would have disgraced a calf, he roared at the conceit, and seemingly thrown into a better humour by the promise of more such entertainment, he bade my guards release me, and urged me to assume the motley without more delay.
What time I was obeying him my mind was returning to that matter of Lampugnani's words, and it is not difficult to understand how I should arrive at the only possible conclusion they suggested.

The hats of the other messengers from Vitelli, that the officer had mentioned, had been brought to Ramiro.

The reason for this that at once arose in my mind was that within the messenger's hat there was a second and more secret communication for the Governor.
This secrecy and Ramiro's display of anger at seeing a hint of it betrayed by Lampugnani struck me, not unnaturally, as suspicious.

What were these hidden communications that passed between Vitellozzo Vitelli and the Governor of Cesena?
It was a matter of which I could not pretend to offer a solution, but, nevertheless, it was one, I thought, that promised to repay investigation.
Ramiro grew impatient, and my reflections suffered interruption by his rough command that I should hasten.

One of the men-at-arms helped me to truss my points, and when that was done I stepped forward--Boccadoro the Fool once more..