"And you do not think Guiseppe left this room again?"
"I'm afraid not, Signorina!"
"Then, where can he be?" she asked with an anxious look around.
"I think he is concealed in some secret cell, the entrance to which is from this apartment."
"Oh, Signor Hugo, let us look for it at once."
"Certainly!"
"A meal on the table--all this gold and silver. It is a robbers' cave, Signor."
"Y--es--I suppose so!"
"Come, let us be quick then, or the robbers may arrive."
She looked nervously towards the door, but I, taking a candle off the table, reassured her with a gay laugh,--