By whom?
By Montfanon.

He told me so this morning almost on the threshold of the Palais Castagna.

If I had not gathered from some words uttered by your wife that she was ignorant of your presence in Rome, I--do you hear ?--I should have told her of it.

Judge now of your situation!" He spoke with an agitation which was not assumed, so much was he troubled by the evidence of danger which Gorka's obstinacy presented.
The latter, who had begun to collect himself, had a strange light in his eyes.

Without doubt his companion's nervousness marked the moment he was awaiting to strike a decisive blow.