"Strangle him quickly and throw him into the canal.

It is late already." "No," answered Contarini.

"Let us at least see his face.

We may know him.

If you cry out," he said to Zorzi, "you will be killed instantly." "Jacopo is right," said some one who had not spoken yet.
Almost at the same instant a door was opened and a broad bar of light shot across the hall from an inner room.