Rowland stood for some minutes, looking after it, and then went his way with a sigh.

If this expressed general mistrust, he ought, three days afterward, to have been reassured.

He received by the post a note containing these words:-- "I have done it.

Begin and respect me! "-- C.

L." To be perfectly satisfactory, indeed, the note required a commentary.
He called that evening upon Roderick, and found one in the information offered him at the door, by the old serving-woman--the startling information that the signorino had gone to Naples..