Remember, you promised me you would." I made an effort to collect my thoughts, and succeeded.

It was useless to treat the affair otherwise than seriously in his presence; it would have been cruel not to have advised him as I best could.
"You know," I said, "that two days after the drawing up of the agreement at Naples, the duel was fought out of the Neapolitan States.

This fact has of course led you to the conclusion that all inquiries about localities had better be confined to the Roman territory ?" "Certainly; the search, such as it is, has been made there, and there only.

If I can believe the police, they and their agents have inquired for the place where the duel was fought (offering a large reward in my name to the person who can discover it) all along the high road from Naples to Rome.

They have also circulated--at least so they tell me--descriptions of the duelists and their seconds; have left an agent to superintend investigations at the post-house, and another at the town mentioned as meeting-points in the agreement; and have endeavored, by correspondence with foreign authorities, to trace the Count St.Lo and Monsieur Dalville to their place or places of refuge.