He lives yonder: a low dark door beside the pump." As he said these last words, he proceeded down the alley, but soon stopped near the pump, and said in an undertone: "Bufferio lives here.

How dark it is! I can hardly see the door; but I am not mistaken.

Here the terrible ruffian has his lair.

Strange, how I tremble! Perhaps it is a warning of some misfortune about to happen to me! Suppose they should take my money and murder me to conceal the theft.

What shall I do?
Shall I tell my master that I could not find Bufferio?
Alas! the Superintendent of Lucca!" After a moment of anxious thought he walked towards the low door, saying, with a sigh: "Come, come; I can do nothing else.