Again and again Benedetto looked from right to left.

Little by little he began to recall former impressions.

Yes, he had been in that Loggia before, he had seen that gateway when on his way to visit the Gallery of Inscriptions--the Via Appia of the Vatican--with an acquaintance of his, a reader in the "Vaticana." Yes, now he remembered quite well.

The door on the left at the end of the Loggia, must lead to the apartments of the Cardinal Secretary of State.

The Loggia beyond the gateway was that of Giovanni da Udine; the great barred windows opening on to it were the windows of the Borgia apartment, and the entrance to the Gallery of Inscriptions must be precisely in the angle.