A man told me, who had come that way from Fucino, and that is all I know." "Do people often travel that way, Gigi ?" "Not often, indeed," he answered, with a grin.

"They are not very civil, the people of those parts." Gigi made a gesture, or a series of gestures.

He put up his hands as though firing a gun.

Then he opened his right hand and closed it, with a kind of insinuating twirl of the fingers, which means "to steal." Lastly he put his hand over his eyes, and looked through his fingers as though they were bars, which means "prison." From this I inferred that the inhabitants of Fillettino were addicted to murder, robbery, and other pastimes, for which they sometimes got into trouble.

The place he spoke of is about thirty miles, or something more, from Palestrina, and I began planning how I should get there as cheaply as possible.