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I understand that her mother has left her under the charge of the Senator's wife, and seems to have forgotten her existence. The young lady is apparently without resources of her own, and it is not clear what would become of her if the Volterra couple should not find it convenient to keep her with them. Is that the state of affairs?" Sassi nodded gravely.
The intermediate story of the Palazzo Conti was far too high for that. Malipieri calculated that if Sassi were punctual, Sabina would be at the door of the palace at a quarter-past five. At five minutes past, he came down, and sent the porter on an errand which would occupy at least half an hour even if executed with despatch. Masin would keep the door, he said.
"I am sorry for him," said I, "though he is a rascally fellow." "I am not at all sorry for him myself," said Sassi, "he's a knave." "I daresay that everybody will be putting down his wooden baptism to my account." "No," said the abbe, "people say that M. Casanova did the deed for good reasons of his own."
"But it is impossible!" he cried. "You cannot do that! You do not know what you are saying!" "Oh, yes, I do! That poor, kind old Sassi has left me all he had, and I can go where I please. I will go with you. Would you rather have me shut up in a convent to die? That is what my mother will try to do with me, and she will tell people that I was 'mad, poor girl'! Do you think I do not know her?
"It may be absolutely necessary for me to write to you before long," he said. "Shall I write by post?" Sabina hesitated. "Is there no one in all Rome whom you can trust to bring a note and give it to you when you are alone?" "There is Signor Sassi," Sabina answered almost instinctively. "But really, why should you " "How can I find Sassi?" asked Malipieri, interrupting the question. "Who is he?"
Yet, as he thought it over, he knew that he would have done it again. It had seemed perfectly safe. Any one could have seen that the water had not risen in the well for many years. Day after day, for a long time, he and Masin had worked in the vaults in perfect safety. The way to the statues had been made so easy that only a timid old man like Sassi could have found it impassable.
Indeed, had she known it, their situation had been really desperate, for while Masin was in prison and in ignorance of what had happened, and Sassi lying unconscious at the hospital after a fall that had nearly killed him outright, it was doubtful whether any one else could have guessed that they were in the vaults or would have been able to get them out alive, had it been known.
"With the authority of the Senator here, who is the owner of the palace, I have been making some archaeological excavations in the cellars. Signor Sassi was the agent " "I have explained that," interrupted the Baron, turning to the detective. "I will assume the whole responsibility of this affair. Signor Sassi shall be well cared for. I shall be much obliged if you will leave us."
He spoke rather hurriedly. "It is my duty to make a search in order to discover the motive of the crime," said the detective with importance. "What crime?" asked Malipieri with sudden sternness. "Signor Sassi was very badly injured in this palace," answered the other. "The man who took him to the hospital would give no account of himself, and the circumstances are suspicious.
"If the Senator, or any one else asks you to sign a paper, will you promise to consult me before doing so?" "But I hardly know you!" she laughed, a little shyly. "It is of no use to waste time and trouble on social conventions," said Malipieri. "If you do not trust me, can you trust this Sassi?" "Oh yes!" "Then consult him.
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