"You haven't seen my clothes. The red dress was splendid before I spoiled it and my shoes were new once."
"Never mind the clothes. New clothes go with your new life, dear."
All the time Pappina was recovering, Mrs. Thurston was having search made for Guiseppe. Two days before Pappina left the hospital, he was found on the Toledo with his Punchinellos. Those employed to find him were looking for a Punchinello showman with a brown–haired, pale–faced English wife. All about Naples they searched, but in vain.
Finding, one day, a man who exactly answered the description given of Guiseppe, the detective stopped, watched his show a while, then accosted him.
"I seek," he said, "for Guiseppe Capasso."
"I am he," replied Guiseppe.
"I have passed you many times," continued the detective. "I sought a man with a wife, an Englishwoman who passes the hat."
"Ohime [Ah, me]!" exclaimed Guiseppe. "I had a wife, but she is no more. A sudden illness took her from me. Poor Marta!" Guiseppe bowed his head in sorrow.
"I came to speak of the child."
"Pappina!" cried Guiseppe. "Where is she? Poor Marta, sposa mia [my wife]—she died with Pappina's name on her lips." Guiseppe sobbed in sincere grief.