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"To escape death, one would subnor?"

"I!" replied Turchi, shuddering, "I carry a dead body through the streets!

I, a noblee sentiment of honor!" nor, that you had sooner remembered that you were a

nobleuish, the means to

save our lives Consider the affair as you will, you must confess that if

I carry the corpse alone, ten chances to one we shall be discovered"

While the servant thus spoke, Turchi seehts After a h: "Alas! there is no other o to the su to

help you"

"What" said Julio, ironically, "will you reveal your secret?"

"No; I will command him, under penalty of his life, to do whatever you

order him; threaten to stab him at the least show of resistance, and he

will obey you"

"Iood, pious ht as well put the halter around my neck I will have none of his

aid"