Perhaps because he now realized he had unjustly suspected him.
"You seem to have been hurt, Count," he remarked.
"Why, I was foolish enough to struggle, and that brute Tommaso pounded me," was the reply.

"You were wise to offer no resistance, sir." "As for that, I hadn't a choice," said Uncle John, smiling.

"When did they get you, Ferralti ?" "Last evening.

I walked in the garden of the hotel and they threw a sack over my head.

I resisted and tried to cry out.