I will have no rival." "But an Englishman! There is always a search after the bodies of the English." "Fool! Is not the sea deep enough, or the earth secret enough, to hide one dead man?
Our ruffians are silent as the grave itself.

And I,--who would dare to suspect, to arraign, the Prince di--?
See to it,--let him be watched, and the fitting occasion taken.

I trust him to you,--robbers murder him; you understand: the country swarms with them.

Plunder and strip him.

Take three men; the rest shall be my escort." Mascari shrugged his shoulders, and bowed submissively.