Short of such evidence as it seems very highly unlikely
should be forthcoming, I do not think that there can be any
conviction at all. It is most extraordinary that in the case of such
deed, done in such a place, at such a time, there should be so many
persons so fairly liable to strong suspicion."
"Of course, to produce the result we wish, a case must be set up
against Leandro?" said the Baron.
"Of course. Leave that to me, or rather to the police. No doubt
their inquiries have already put them on his track. The fact of his
having gone out of the city by that gate, at that hour, is quite
enough."
"And now I must be off to see this Signorina Foscarelli. I don't
half like the job."
"I daresay you will find her easy enough," said the lawyer, not
quite understanding the nature of Manutoli's distaste for his
errand. "Good-night, Signor Barone."
CHAPTER IX
The Post-Mortem Examination
The Baron Manutoli found Paolina quite as "easy" as the lawyer had
imagined that he would find her; but his task was not altogether an
easy one in the sense he had himself intended. She made not the
slightest difficulty of telling him, that when she had seen Ludovico
and Bianca drive past the church towards the forest she had felt a
strong temptation to follow them thither; she told him all about the
conversation she had had with the old monk, and repeated the
directions she had received from him as to the path by which she
might reach the Pineta, and return that way towards the city,
without coming back into the high-road, till she got near the walls.
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