‘If I wish to prepare for my re-match, I mustn’t move away too often’.
‘Are you here for my company or to relive old times?’
‘This you know already!’ answered Fouché as he drank his liqueur.
‘Where do we begin?’ answered the Countess, her eyes shining.
‘With the name of the policeman you’re trying to frame for the Marais case’.
Milan, 28 October 1816, 11 p.m.
Palazzo Diotti in Borgo Monforte, Seat of the Austrian Government
Sangalli and Scirèsa had found no trace of Formiga passing through Irina’s mill.
‘I was at Spreafico’s house, as you asked me,’ added the vagabond.
‘Did you find anything of interest?’
‘I found the house was already cleaned by someb’dy else, Lieutenant Ziani’.
‘By thieves? What did they steal from that dirty rat? Dead mice and cockroaches?’
‘Le
