Or else they are making straw hats in the galleys.

Do I know where they are?
They are not here.

That is enough." "Quite right, my friend," answered the Chief of Police.

"There are no brigands.

But I am sorry to say that there are thieves in the Campagna, as there are near every great city." Ercole shrugged his angular shoulders contemptuously.
"Thieves would not carry a man away," he answered.