“‘Good,’ he said. ‘You are sure that there are only four of them? I shall have twenty in case of accident. We can assemble by twos and threes, and none of them must get away alive.’
“‘Can you find as many whom you could trust?’
“‘I shall not trust them except to murder. Anybody can be trusted to murder. Only my brother, Don Pancrazio, and I will know. I should not trust him, if I could do it alone. You are sure that they will make as much as that? Perhaps I could do without Pancrazio.’
“‘No; it will take two to remove them.’
“‘Even with a mule?’
“‘Yes, I am sure. The mule must have panniers.’
“‘Pancrazio will lead it. I shall lead the men. We will hide by the steps of the Ponte di Chiaja. There is a guard stationed there whom I can bribe to let himself be drugged.’
“‘But how will you get rid of them?’
“‘The mule will be out of sight.’
“‘And what then?’