I supposed there must be some way out, if I could but discover it, and so I sat down to think how it was to be done; and of course, after trying in my mind every possible scheme, I hit upon the right one.

There certainly was nothing clever in that." "But I have heard nothing about it yet," Giulia said; "and everyone else seems to know how it was done." "Matteo, do you tell Giulia," Maria ordered.

"I have lots of questions to ask Francis." "By the way, Francis," Messer Polani said, "you will be glad to hear that I have succeeded in getting home your man Giuseppi.

He returned two days ago, and I have no doubt is somewhere below waiting to see you." "I will go and see him at once," Francis said, hurrying away.

"I am indeed glad to know that you have rescued him." Maria laughed, as the door closed behind Francis.
"There, Rufino," she said, turning to him, "you pretend sometimes to be jealous of Francisco Hammond; and there, you see, just when I have said I have lots of questions to ask him, and five minutes after my arrival here to greet him, he races away without a word, directly he hears that his man Giuseppi has returned." "And he is quite right, Maria," Matteo said indignantly.