Has your shrewdness borne you any further?
Have you concluded aught concerning the nature of those letters ?" "I have concluded that it might repay some trouble to discover what is contained in letters that are sent with so much secrecy.

I can conceive nothing that might lie between the Lord of Citta di Castello and this ruffian of Cesena, and yet--treason lurks often where least it is expected, and treason makes stranger bed-fellows than misfortune." "Lampugnani was no fool, and yet a great fool," the old man murmured.

He surmised what you have surmised.

With each of the messengers Ramiro has dealt in the same manner.

He has sent each to be fed and refreshed whilst waiting to return with the answer he was penning.