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"Why not alone, since you are able to do it?"

"It is very easy, signor, for you to say: 'Take the body on your shoulders

and traverse three or four streets' Signor Geronimo is heavier than you

suppose, and I doubt if by the exertion of all th I could carry

it twenty steps"

Simon Turchi took his servant's two hands in his, and said,

supplicatingly: "Julio, enerous; it is not a difficult task for one like

yourself Reflect that it is our only means of safety; it is as much for

your interest as rateful to you all nor, if you say so, I will try it; but I aed to rest on the way, and that will take more

time than will be prudent And then how shall I be able each time to

replace the body on my shoulders? It requires two to transport it with

sufficient rapidity"

"Two?" said Turchi, "You knoell that we can confide our secret to no

one"