No, no, I will bring no new anathema on my head." "You are silly, Julio," said Simon Turchi, disdainfully.

"Should we be arrested to-morrow, and the truth known, would you not be equally punished for having treacherously pushed Geronimo into the chair ?" "Yes; but all would know that I neither conceived the crime, nor profited by its commission." "A fine consolation, to contend on the scaffold!" said the signor ironically, repressing his impatience.

"But I will speak to you plainly and without reserve.

I will state my conditions; if you refuse them, then all is at an end between us.

Each of us is at liberty to save himself even at the sacrifice of the other.