'And they told me,' he said, 'that they would have lived there until this time if they had had it in their power. Not that the scenery around there was any better, if so good, as at Subiaco, or even Gennezzano; but the wine was very cheap, and the cost of boarding at the locanda was only forty baiocchi a day——'
'We will go, we will go!' chimed in Caper.
'There were festivals in some of the neighboring towns nearly every week, and costumes——'
'Let us travel there,' said Caper, 'at once!'
'Horses were to be had for a song——'
'I am ready to sing,' remarked Dexter.
'There was good shooting; beccafichi, woodcock, and quails, also red-legged partridges——'
'Say no more,' spoke Caper, 'but let us secure seats in the next stage that starts for such game scenes—immediately!'
Matters were so well arranged by Rocjean, that three days after the above conversation, the three artists, with passports properly viséed, were waiting, toward sunset, in the Piazza Pollajuólo, for the time not advertised, but spoken of, by the vetturino Francesco as his hour for starting for Segni.