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The man in the boat was not rowing, but just as I began to sing he began to row. When I stopped singing he stopped rowing." "You didn't see the boat?" "No, signora. It carries no light." He looked at her mysteriously. "It may be the contrabbandieri." "Smugglers?" "Yes." He turned his head over his shoulder and whistled, in a peculiar way. There was no reply.
In the old days the boundary between the Papal States and the kingdom of Naples ran through these mountains, and the contrabbandieri the smugglers of all sorts of wares used to cross from one dominion to the other by circuitous paths and steep ways of which only a few had knowledge.
"It is too far. They never come here at night." His eyes stared, his attitude was so intensely alert and his manner so mysterious that, despite her desperate preoccupation, Lady Holme found herself distracted for a moment. Her mind was detached from herself, and fixed upon this hidden boat and its occupant or occupants. "You think it is contrabbandieri?" she whispered. He nodded.
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