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Updated: July 29, 2025
Good-day, Calvotti; good-day, Miriam. Then he turned and kissed Cecilia. 'Good-day, Baby. God bless my soul! it seems only the other day since you were a baby. And now I suppose you'll be getting married in a week or two. Cecilia blushed and laughed, and Mr. Gregory turned round with a droll look to me, and then took his hat and went in his own solid and determined way out of the room.
'Miss Grammont presents her compliments to Signor Calvotti, and requests that he will oblige her by his company at tea this evening. Miss Grammont begs that Signor Calvotti will forgive this intrusion, and will forget that no formal introduction has taken place between them. I read this over twice, and then asked the landlady 'Who is Miss Grammont?
Gregory went away sensibly subdued by my fixed refusal to accept the hope he offered. 'There is a mystery in all this, Calvotti, he said at parting, 'and it must be cleared. 'There is no mystery to my eyes, I answered, 'and you will find before long that I am right, though I would give the world to know that I am wrong. Then came the day.
Calvotti told me just now that my father had left but ten thousand pounds in all. 'For investment, madam for investment. I am a business man and I have invested it and doubled it. That graceless brother of yours who has gone away with his five thousand now will be back in a year's time to borrow.
Feeling then a little better, and thinking that my friend Calvotti would wonder at my absence, I walked back towards the city, hoping to meet him. It was then broad moonlight. Where I had last seen Grammont and the prisoner Fornajo I saw them both again. Grammont was lying motionless upon the ground, and Fornajo was bending above him. I suspected foul play, and ran forward.
I asked him news of Clyde, but he had no news to bring me until two days before my trial, when he came into my cell with a grave but not uncheerful countenance. 'Calvotti, he said, 'can you tell me with any precision the hour at which you saw Arthur on that fatal night? 'I can only guess the time, I answered. 'But why do you ask? I questioned in my turn.
I care nothing for what he said of me, but a man who could speak of his sister in that way is not fit to live. For God's sake, Calvotti, let us go away somewhere out of reach of this man. I am not safe. I hardly know myself. If I met him I should kill him then and there. 'My dear Arthur, I said at last, 'this is childish, and unworthy of you.
'Then, sir, I said in English, 'deal with this gentleman according to your discretion. If you think it wise, let him know all. 'Trust to me, he answered, and bade me a cheery adieu. In another hour the advocate was back, again. 'Signor Calvotti, he exclaimed, holding out his hand for mine, 'I did not know that I had a hero to defend. But I know it now. You are in no danger.
'My dear Calvotti, said my old patron, in Italian smoother and more choicely worded than his English, one language is pretty much the same to me as another, so long as it is a language, and is spoken in Europe. I have been a mercantile adventurer in Europe for more than thirty years, and have found a knowledge of languages a necessity.
'Yes, answered the official, 'accurately. 'Did it correspond with the hand of the prisoner Giovanni Câlvotti? 'No, he responded, and stated truly that I was a man of much larger build than Grammont, and my hand at least an inch longer. So far as I was-concerned the case closed with his evidence, and the case against Fornajo was then gone into. There is no need to go over that ground: again.
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