"What is that?" asked Andrea. "An order to conduct you to a room, and to leave
you there to talk to me." "Oh," cried Andrea, leaping with joy. Then he mentally
added, -- "Still my unknown protector! I am not forgotten. They wish for
secrecy, since we are to converse in a private room. I understand, Bertuccio has
been sent by my protector." The
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Metallic keeper
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Nightfall spoke for a moment with an official, then opened the iron gates
and conducted Andrea to a room on the first floor. The room was whitewashed, as
is the custom in prisons, but it looked quite brilliant to a prisoner, though a
stove, a bed, a chair, and a table formed the whole of its sumptuous furniture.
Bertuccio sat down upon the chair, Andrea threw himself upon the bed; the keeper
retired. "Now," said the steward, "what have you to tell me?" "And you?" said
Andrea. "You speak first." "Oh, no. You must have much to tell me, since you
have come to seek me." "Well, be it so. You have continued your course of
villany; you have robbed -- you have assassinated." "Well, I should say! If you
had me taken to a private room only to tell me this, you might have saved
yourself the trouble. I know all these things. But there are some with which, on
the contrary, I am not acquainted. Let us talk of those, if you please. Who sent
you?" "Come, come, you are going on quickly, M. Benedetto!" "Yes, and to the
point. Let us dispense with useless words. Who sends you?" "No one." "How did
you know I was in prison?" "I recognized you, some time since, as the insolent
dandy who so gracefully mounted his horse in the
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Sundance II Champs Elysees." "Oh, the Champs Elysees? Ah, yes; we burn, as
they say at the game of pincette. The Champs Elysees? Come, let us talk a little
about my father." "Who, then, am I?" "You, sir? -- you are my adopted father.
But it was not you, I presume, who placed at my disposal 100,000 francs, which I
spent
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Ultra Short in four or five months; it was not you who manufactured an
Italian gentleman for my father; it was not you who introduced me into the
world, and had me invited to a certain dinner at Auteuil, which I fancy I am
eating at this moment, in company with the most distinguished
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