On the other hand, I am robbed, and that goes against the grain.

Il Duca has finally decided to demand fifty thousand dollars.

It shall be yours, instead, if you give me your assistance." "Signore," said the other, calmly, "I would like this money, and I regret that it is impossible for me to earn it.

But there is no means of escape from this place except by the passage through the rocks, which passage only three people know the secret of opening--Il Duca himself, the child Tato, and the old Duchessa.

Perhaps Tommaso also knows; I am not certain; but he will not admit he has such knowledge.