The servant took the lamp from the table and prepared to obey the order.
"What are you doing?" said his master. "Are you going to leave me in the dark? Are you afraid to go without a light?"
"I might knock my head against the beams, for I have forgotten where the cape was put."
"You had it in your hands only three days ago. You are afraid in the dark,
Julio. Take the lamp."
The servant soon returned. He had the Spanish cape around his shoulders. It was a wide cloak, in which the whole body might be wrapped; and when the hood was drawn down it entirely concealed the face.
The master and servant descended the staircase in silence and approached the little garden-gate. There Julio put the lamp upon the ground and extinguished it.
The lock grated as the key turned; the door was opened and closed, and
Simon Turchi and his servant disappeared in the dark and solitary street.
CHAPTER IV.
THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION—THE ASSASSINATOR SLAIN.
A black shadow gliding like an almost impalpable spot, might be seen moving along the street of Saint John.