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However that may be, he pursued his way undisturbed and reached a narroinding alley, froround of which seemed to proceed the

confused noise of many voices

The man stopped at the entrance of a cellar, to which adained

by a ladder, and listened to the joyous sounds which issued from within

He put his hand in his pocket and chinked son of the Silver Dice!" said he, sighing "Howupon the table Shall I not risk a shilling? Only

one?"

Yielding to the irresistible temptation, he placed his foot upon the

ladder; but a sudden thought see, and hastened from the cellar A little farther in the street he

stopped and murmured in an anxious voice: "Heavens! as I about to do? Risk the money upon dice? I would

certainly have lost the whole Pietro Mostajo, do not forget the

Superintendent of Lucca! I am saved Infernal temptation! I was about to

stake ht win a

fortune The teo seek Bufferio, and I

have no time to lose He lives yonder: a low dark door beside the pump"