I suppose he has nightmares about _brigantaggio_, even! He's afraid of foreigners--afraid of this sort of conspiracy of silence that seems surrounding him.

He's even afraid to take his precious documents and put them in a safe-deposit vault in any one of the regularly established institutions here in Genoa.
There are plenty of them, but he isn't big and bold enough to do his business that way.

He's been a fugitive so long his only way of warfare now is flight.

And besides, he can never forget that his work is underground and illicit.

That is why he carries his documents about with him, on him, in his pockets, like a sneak thief with a pocketful of stolen goods.