"
"Humph!" said the lawyer, thoughtfully and doubtingly.
All this conversation had passed hurriedly in the small deserted
street into which Ludovico and the lawyer had turned on leaving the
city gate; and, when they parted, the two men took different
directions,--the lawyer returning to the gate with the germ of an
idea in his mind, which the last portion of his conversation with
the Marchese had generated there, and which subsequent circumstances
tended to develop, and the Marchese Ludovico going in the direction
of the Palazzo del Governo.
CHAPTER II
Suspicion
The Marchese Ludovico told the lawyer that he would go immediately
to the magistrates and make a voluntary statement of all that he
knew of the circumstances connected with Bianca's death; and he
fully purposed doing so. But he did not do it immediately. There was
another visit which he was more anxious to pay; and which the hint
that had dropped from the old lawyer to the effect that it was very
probable he might not pass that night in his own home, determined
him to pay first at all hazards.
This visit, as may readily be imagined, was to Paolina. And to the
modest little home in the Strada di Santa Eufemia he hurried as fast
as his legs would carry him, as soon as he quitted Signor Fortini.
Paolina, on returning home after her conversation with the Contessa
Violante in the Cardinal's chapel, had remained there busy with the
preparation of her materials for beginning her work at Saint
Apollinare on the following day.
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