For a moment he stopped rowing, and then dipped his oar in as before.
Directly the other gondola passed through the bridge behind him, and his own had got beyond the circle of light, he swept it suddenly round.
Giuseppi gave an exclamation of surprise.
"Giuseppi, we have luck at last.

Did you notice that gondola we met just now?
The woman sitting in it is Castaldi, the woman who betrayed the signoras." "What shall we do, Messer Francisco ?" Giuseppi, who had become almost as interested in the search as his master, asked.

"There was only a single gondolier and one other man.

If we take them by surprise we can master them." "That will not do, Giuseppi.

The woman would refuse to speak, and though they could force her to do so in the dungeons, the girls would be sure to be removed the moment it was known she was captured.