Where has the seventh one gone ?" Luigi's wits made a dash at honesty.

"Down Orta, signore." "And down Orta, I think, you will go; deeper down than you may like." Corte now requested Vittoria to stand aside.

He motioned to her with his hand to stand farther, and still farther off; and finally told Carlo to escort her to Baveno.

She now began to think that the man Luigi was in some perceptible danger, nor did Ammiani disperse the idea.
"If he is a spy, and if he has seen the Chief, we shall have to detain him for at least four-and-twenty hours," he said, "or do worse." "But, Signor Carlo,"-- Vittoria made appeal to his humanity,--"do they mean, if they decide that he is guilty, to hurt him ?" "Tell me, signorina, what punishment do you imagine a spy deserves ?" "To be called one!" Carlo smiled at her lofty method of dealing with the animal.
"Then you presume him to have a conscience ?" "I am sure, Signor Carlo, that I could make him loathe to be called a spy." They were slowly pacing from the group, and were on the edge of the descent, when the signorina's name was shrieked by Luigi.

The man came running to her for protection, Beppo and the rest at his heels.