Mezzoni the Brigand — page 134: what you’re looking at

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126 MEZZONI THE BRIGAND. ‘You have never known of this passage?’ asked one of the officers of him. ‘*Never.’’ ‘Your master is a very extravagant person. How did you suppose he raised the means to live thus and support such expenditures?”’ ‘Tt was none of my business,’’ said Beppo, “‘and I never thought about it.”’ “There was a story about a pot of gold,”’ suggested the detective. “Ves. I have often heard about that,’ replied Beppo, very honestly. ‘“Where is your master ?”’ ‘He said he was going to Monaco.”’ ‘Hor what?”’ : ‘“T have heard there is a grand Casino there for gambling, and master, you know, plays.”’ “Yes, you are right.’’ ‘The place is called Monte Carlo,”’ said the detec- tive. The officers then consulted together for a few mo- ments, and finally, after putting the government seal upon the doors, and leaving one of their number on guard at the palace, they retired to report the case to the proper officials, and await further or- ders. The English detective, on the way to the gov- ernment office, called at the store of Woolf & Co. to give his special employers some knowledge of their missing property. The authorities were ready to attend to so import- ant a matter at once, and the detective was sum- moned before them without delay. ‘‘How came you first to suspect Alberto Corrello?’’ asked the leading official.