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Rh coachman to leave the city by the Porta del Popolo, and to reënter by the Porta San Giovanni?"

"This," replied Maitre Pastrini, "that you will go out by one, but I very much doubt your returning by the other."

"Why?" asked Franz.

"Because, after nightfall, you are not safe fifty yards from the gates."

"On your honor, is that true?" eried Albert.

"M. le Comte," returned Maitre Pastrini, hurt at Albert's repeated doubts of the truth of his assertions, "I do not say this to you, but to your companion, who knows Rome, and knows, too, that these things are not to be laughed at."