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"A hundred sequins," exclai the

paper, "a hundred sequins to him who discovers this monster

Abellino, and a thousand to him who delivers him up to justice"

But in vain did spies ransack every lurking place in Venice; no

Abellino was to be found In vain did the luxurious, the

avaricious, and the hungry stretch their wits to the ut promise of a thousand sequins Abellino's prudence

set all their ingenuity at defiance

But not the less did every one assert that he had recognised

Abellino, souise, and soondolier, a woman, or a monk Everybody had seen him

somewhere; but, unluckily, nobody could tell where he was to be seen

again