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Simon Turchi, in despair at the failure of all his efforts to succeed in

his design, paced the floor impatiently Suddenly he stopped before his

servant, and with sparkling eyes he said, in a suppressed voice: "Julio, there must be an end to all this hesitation We have no choice,

and whatever may be the means, we must not deliberate in presence of the

death which menaces us Stab Bernardo, and throw hinor, murder Bernardo!" exclaimed Julio, in horror "And do you

suppose that he would not defend hiive the

alarnized, and thus they would

put them on the track of the criony, Turchi tossed his arms convulsively, and

at last said, hoarsely: "You will not undertake it alone? You have not the wish to succeed Coward

that you are, for what are you fit but to boast and drink and gamble in

the taverns? Would that I had never seen you! Leave the corpse in the

cellar; let the bailiff discover it there; ill see which of us will

eously an infamous death!"