"I hardly saw him."
"And where do you come from?" asked the sergeant.
"From on board my boat, the Spera in Dio, now lying at Gravosa."
"And where were you going to?"
"Nowhere."
"Oh! you were taking a little stroll at this time of the night?"
The men laughed.
"Come, we're only wasting time——"
"But——"
"Stop talking; you'll have enough of that at Ragusa."