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It is hard to tell if you are being followed on the street, if the person following you is capable. I have never been able to know for sure, at any rate. Perhaps I was not being followed at all, but it felt like it the whole time. Fear has big eyes. The closer I got to the place appointed for my meeting, the more I was overcome by doubt, and a spy seemed to lurk within every passerby.
The Campo dei Tolentini square in front of the San Nicolò cathedral is spacious by Venetian standards. On the bell tower side, the square borders the narrow San Teresa canal with its motorboats. A few tourists, visiting pilgrims, and locals were strolling around the church, and before I headed for the Park Hotel, I decided to have a final look around – God forbid I be tailed as I arrived there. My meetin
