"That was very rash.

You might have seriously compromised yourself.

I would have come if you had sent for me." "But they said you had gone to Naples.

Your servant," continued Donna Tullia, blushing scarlet at the remembrance of her interview with Temistocle,--"your servant assured me in person that you had gone to Naples--" "I see," replied Del Ferice, quietly.

He did not wish to press her to a confession of having tried to get the papers in his absence.