“Well!” Mr. Wilder ejaculated. “That is the first—” “Italian” he started to say, but he caught the word before it was out “—donkey-driver I ever saw refuse money.”

Lieutenant di Ferara raised his shoulders.

Machè! The fellow is too honest; you do well to watch him.” There was a world of disgust in his tone.

Constance glanced after the retreating figure and laughed.

“Tony!” she called.

He kept on; she raised her voice.

“Mr. Yamhankeesh.”

He paused.

“You call, signorina?”

“Be sure and be here by half past six on Friday morning; we must start early.”