I shall be obliged to rest on the way, and that will take more time than will be prudent.

And then how shall I be able each time to replace the body on my shoulders?
It requires two to transport it with sufficient rapidity." "Two ?" said Turchi, "You know well that we can confide our secret to no one." "To escape death, one would submit to anything.

Suppose you help me yourself, signor ?" "I!" replied Turchi, shuddering, "I carry a dead body through the streets! I, a nobleman! No, no; better a dungeon and death!" "What a strange sentiment of honor!" muttered the astonished servant.
"Would to God, signor, that you had sooner remembered that you were a nobleman, we would not thus be seeking, in mortal anguish, the means to save our lives.

Consider the affair as you will, you must confess that if I carry the corpse alone, ten chances to one we shall be discovered." While the servant thus spoke, Turchi seemed preoccupied by torturing thoughts.

After a moment he said, with a sigh: "Alas! there is no other means; it is dangerous, but necessity demands it.
Julio, go to the summer-house, and I will send Bernardo this evening to help you." "What" said Julio, ironically, "will you reveal your secret ?" "No; I will command him, under penalty of his life, to do whatever you order him; threaten to stab him at the least show of resistance, and he will obey you." "Impossible! Signor Bernardo is a good, pious man.