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"Then you have not the pocket-book?"

"Certainly not"

"And the gold crowns?"

"I gave them to Bufferio"

"Pietro Mostajo, you have betrayed nor in

the ear of his servant, shaking him convulsively by the arm "Tell me

quickly what has happened! Tremble, stupid coward! the Superintendent of

Lucca shall knoho you are!"

"Ebbene che sia!" answered Julio "Then the Signor Geronimo shall also

knoho hired Bufferio to assassinate hih the vestibule The

door was closed