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"Save your life, Julio; go to Gerive you

money, plenty of money"

The deep red of the scar on his ,

his evident satisfaction, made Julio suspect soine his secret design; but a light suddenly broke

upon his er, he exclai for me! You intend to accuse ed with a double

cri-spot upon earth, you will enjoy here in entire

security, in the midst of wealth and honor, the price of the innocent

blood which you have shed No, no, I will bring no new anathema on my

head"

"You are silly, Julio," said Simon Turchi, disdainfully "Should we be

arrested to-morrow, and the truth knoould you not be equally punished

for having treacherously pushed Geronimo into the chair?"

"Yes; but all would know that I neither conceived the crime, nor profited

by its commission"

"A fine consolation, to contend on the scaffold!" said the signor

ironically, repressing his impatience "But I will speak to you plainly

and without reserve I will state my conditions; if you refuse them, then

all is at an end between us Each of us is at liberty to save himself even