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"Why, if there is no other evil--"

"Ah! now that you are convinced, all will be well. Let us go to

my master. Be of good courage."

In fact, the promises of Bartolo were realised, and all was well.

It was truly a kind Providence; for we shall see how little

dependence Renzo could place on the treasure he had left at

home,-the savings of his labour.

CHAPTER XVIII.

On this same day, the 13th of November, there arrived a courier

extraordinary to the signor podestà of Lecco. The courier brought

an express from the head of the police, containing an order to

make every possible search for a young man of the name of Lorenzo

Tramaglino, silk weaver, who, having escaped from the hands "_of

the illustrious head above cited_," had probably returned to the

territory of Lecco. That, in case of his discovery, he should be

committed to prison, and an account rendered to the police of his

wicked practices, his ostensible means of procuring subsistence,

and his accomplices. And furthermore, that an execution should be

put into the house of the above-said Lorenzo Tramaglino, and

every thing taken from thence that might aid in throwing light on

his nefarious deeds.