He reported this, and thereupon we sent out an armed party.

These crept at midnight two by two, till they were formed in a close ring round the place where Neri was judged to be.
With the first beam of morning they rushed in upon him and took him prisoner.

It appears that he showed no surprise--he merely said, 'I expected you!' He was found sitting by the dead body of his mistress; she was stabbed and newly bleeding.

No doubt he killed her, though he swears the contrary--lies are as easy to him as breathing." "But where were his comrades?
I thought he commanded a large band ?" "So he did, signor; and we caught three of the principals only a fortnight ago, but of the others no trace can be found.

I suppose Carmelo himself dismissed them and sent them far and wide through the country.