Do this, and we will have a red-wine evening in the house, shut up alone, my snake! my pepper-flower!" It happened that Luigi was entering the court to keep an appointment with Barto when he saw a handful of the polizia burst into the house and drag out a soldier, who was in the uniform, as he guessed it to be, of the Prohaska regiment.

The soldier struggled and offered money to them.

Luigi could not help shouting, "You fools! don't you see he's an officer ?" Two of them took their captive aside.

The rest made a search through the house.

While they were doing so Luigi saw Barto Rizzo's face at the windows of the house opposite.