He clamoured at the door, but Barto was denied to him there.

When the polizia had gone from the court, he was admitted and allowed to look into every room.

Not finding him, he said, "Barto Rizzo does not keep his appointments, then!" The same words were repeated in his ear when he had left the court, and was in the street running parallel with it.

"Barto Rizzo does not keep his appointments, then!" It was Barto who smacked him on the back, and spoke out his own name with brown-faced laughter in the bustling street.

Luigi was so impressed by his cunning and his recklessness that he at once told him more than he wished to tell:--The Austrian officer was with his sister, and had written to the signorina, and Luigi had delivered the letter; but the signorina was at the maestro's, Rocco Ricci's, and there was no answer: the officer was leaving for Verona in the morning.