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"I am exceedingly sorry, Your Eminence, if I seem to oppose you, but I can't undertake to be responsible for the peace of the town if Rivarez is not got rid of before then. All the roughest set in the hills collects here for that day, as Your Eminence knows, and it is more than probable that they may attempt to break open the fortress gates and take him out.
It occurred to me that we could hardly do better than ask Rivarez to undertake the management of our own smuggling. That press at Pistoja is very inefficiently managed, to my thinking; and the way the leaflets are taken across, always rolled in those everlasting cigars, is more than primitive." "It has answered pretty well up till now," said Martini contumaciously.
I know Duprez's adjutant, Martel, personally, and have heard the whole story from him. It's true that they found Rivarez stranded out there. He had been taken prisoner in the war, fighting for the Argentine Republic, and had escaped. He was wandering about the country in various disguises, trying to get back to Buenos Ayres.
"But why on earth didn't he send to say he was ill?" Martini interrupted. "He might have guessed we shouldn't have left him stranded in that fashion." "I wish, doctor," said Gemma, "that you had sent for one of us last night, instead of wearing yourself out like this." "My dear lady, I wanted to send round to Galli; but Rivarez got so frantic at the suggestion that I didn't dare attempt it.
"But what makes you suppose Rivarez to be connected with them?" "I don't suppose, I merely suspect. In any case, I think we had better find out for certain before we intrust our smuggling to him. If he attempted to do both kinds of work at once he would injure our party most terribly; he would simply destroy its reputation and accomplish nothing. However, we will talk of that another time.
"Good-morning, doctor; how fagged you look! Are you well?" "Oh, I'm well enough only tired out. I've had an awful night with Rivarez." "With Rivarez?" "Yes; I've been up with him all night, and now I must go off to my hospital patients. I just came round to know whether you can think of anyone that could look after him a bit for the next few days. He's in a devil of a state.
I had better take the key, Gemma, so as not to wake anyone by ringing." She raised her eyes to his face as he took the keys. "You and I will talk to-morrow," she said. "We shall have time in the morning, when my packing is finished." "Oh, yes! Plenty of time. There are two or three little things I want to ask you about, Rivarez; but we can talk them over on our way to the barrier.
"You have been quick about it." "There's no time to lose. Gino went into Brisighella at once; and some of the plans we already had. That list of hiding-places was made by Rivarez himself; you can see by the handwriting." "What sort of men are the soldiers of the guard?"
It was perhaps an open secret that a new press-law was expected and that the Opposition was preparing to astonish the town with a radical newspaper; but still it was, formally, a secret. "The Swindlers' Gazette, of course, or the Church Calendar." "Sh-sh! Rivarez, we are disturbing the other readers."
"S-s-sancta simplicitas! Oh, you, sweet, innocent, Arcadian people and you never guessed! You n-never saw the cloven hoof?" Montanelli stood up. "Am I to understand, Signor Rivarez, that you wrote both sides of the controversy yourself?" "It was a shame, I know," the Gadfly answered, looking up with wide, innocent blue eyes.
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