37/52 He would have sent the workmen to their dinner, and would have returned to the inner studio. He would have gone home and would have said that Paolo had left him--or, no--he would have said that Paolo had not been there, for some one might see him leave the workshop alone. In the night he would have returned, his family thinking he had gone to meet his friends, as he often did. When the streets were quiet he would have carried the body away upon the hand-cart that stood in the entry of the outer room. It was not far--scarcely three hundred yards, allowing for the turnings--to the place where the Via Montella ends in a mud bank by the dark river. |