Luigi feared him; he was troubled chiefly because he was unaware of what Barto Rizzo wanted to know, and could not consequently tell what to bring to the market.

The simplicity of the questions put to him was bewildering: he fell into the trap.

Barto's eyes began to get terribly oblique.

Jingling money in his pocket, he said:--"You saw Colonel Corte on the Motterone: you saw the Signor Agostino Balderini: good men, both! Also young Count Ammiani: I served his father, the General, and jogged the lad on my knee.

You saw the Signorina Vittoria.