Taking off his outer garments, Paolo put this on.
"It is lucky I kept my breeches on under the others," he said, "for I certainly could not have gone into a town with these stained things on.
I suppose there is some money hidden somewhere, but we have not time to look.

You may be sure that many a traveller has been murdered here." "I quite agree with you, but we have certainly no time to spare to hunt for it.

Let us be off at once." Reloading their pistols and carefully wiping their axes they went out by a door at the back of the house, for neither cared to re-enter the scene of the slaughter.

Before doing so, however, they took a long draught from the landlord's beer barrel, to make up for the drink of which they had deprived themselves.

The storm had passed, and the stars were shining brightly.