Chapter 27
Conti, Italy
Dani
“YOU CERTAINLY SEEM to have won the hearts of the merchants in town,” Luciano said to Marco.
“Yeah,” Marco said. “I told the owner of the hotel that he could spread the word about the possibility of opening the castle, and he must have gone straight to the telephone as soon as we left.”
“I think it will be good for the town,” his grandmother said. “Tourists bring in money, and Conti is situated on a major train route between Rome and the North and between Venice and Milan. How long will it take to arrange for tours?”
“That will depend on how long it will take to do a bit of refurbishing of the castle,” Marco said. “Even my untrained eye tells me that the exterior woodwork hasn’t been painted in a very long time; windows probably need to be repaired or re-
