It is a big gentleman with a brown beard and bright eyes.

He looks for things in the sand and in the bushes and amongst the seaweed.

Who knows what he looks for?
Perhaps he looks for gold." "Or the souls of his dead," suggested Ercole with fine irony.

"But I know this Signore who was at the cottage, with the brown beard and the bright eyes.

He sometimes came to shoot quail.