Soon I heard the sound of wheels. The carriage stopped at the door. The count took out his watch and looked at it. It was only 12: 30. He said that we could leave at five o’clock and come, but we were late. Your friend was restless all night. We’d better hurry to save him from the pagans. Are you still determined to accompany me?
I am more determined.
Okay, then let’s go
Count Franz went upstairs with them, and Pi Nuo followed them. The carriage had stopped at the door, and Ali was perched on the seat. Franz recognized him as the dumb slave in the cave of Monte Cristo. Count Franz got into the carriage and sat next to Ali. They quickly sent Ali, who had been instructed to drive across Fancino Square via Gaolu Street to San Grigori Street and reach the gate of San Sebastian. There, the sentry guarding the city gate made a lot of trouble, but the count of Monte Cristo took a certificate of Roman governor’s license. No matter day or night, the city gate can be hoisted to guard the city, and the sentry gets a Louis reward, so they move on. The carriage now passes through the ancient Appiah Avenue, and there are graves on both sides. Now the moon has risen, and Franz seems to see a sentry flicker from the ruins from time to time. However, as soon as Pi Nuo gestured, he suddenly retreated into the darkness. When he arrived at the caracalla technical field, the carriage stopped. Pi Nuo knocked on the door and Count Franz jumped out of the car.
In ten minutes, the count said to his companion, we can see there.
He took Pi Pi Nuo aside and whispered a few words to him. Pi Pi Nuo walked with a torch brought by a carriage for five minutes. Franz watched the shepherd walk along a path in Rome, uneven, and disappeared in the long red grass. Those grass disappeared like a big lion’s back neck with long hair. Now the count said, let’s go with him. Count Franz also walked along this path for about a hundred steps. They came to a slope leading to a small valley bottom. They found two people talking in the shadow star.
Should we go any further? Franz asked the count, or should we stop?
Let’s move on. Pi Nuo has probably informed the sentry about our coming.
One of the two men was Pi Nuo and the other was a lookout robber. Count Franz walked forward and the robber saluted them.
My Lord Pi Nuo said to the count, come with me. The cemetery is coming.
Then go, replied the count.
They came to the back of a bush, and in a pile of stones, Pi Nuo was the first to get into this crevice, but after a few steps, the tunnel became wider. Then he stopped to light his torch and turned to see that they didn’t follow. The count first got into a square hole, and Franz followed. The narrow path became wider and wider, but the count Franz still had to bend over and walk side by side. They walked for about a hundred steps, and suddenly they heard someone drinking. At the same time, they saw a rifle in the reflection of the torch.
Pi Nuo, a friend, should answer what he whispered to the sentry when he walked alone, so like the first sentry, he also saluted the two midnight visitors and made a gesture to show that they could move on.
A twenty steps behind the sentry, Count Franz stepped up and found that they were at the intersection of a cemetery. Five roads scattered like stars to dig coffin-shaped niches on the wall. This means that they finally reached a sunken place in the mausoleum, and they couldn’t see any light inside. Count Franz put his hand on his shoulder. Would you like to see a robber camp in his sleep?
Of course, replied Franz
Then come with me to Pi Nuo and put out the torch.
Pi Nuo obeyed, so Count Franz suddenly fell into the darkness, but fifty paces in front of them, the wall seemed to be shaking with a dark red light. After the torch was extinguished in Pi Nuo, the light was seen more clearly. They walked silently, holding the count and holding Franz as if he had a strange collar, as if he could see things in the darkness, but Franz himself could use the light as his guide, and the more he walked forward, the more clearly he saw that one of the three arcades in front of them became the entrance. On the one hand, it leads to Count Franz, and on the other hand, the tunnel leads to a large square room. The walls of the room are covered with the same niche as we said before. There are four big stones in the center of the room. Obviously, this was when the altar was still standing at the foot of the colonnade because of the cross, and its blue-white trembling light lit up. This strange scene presented it to the eyes of these two visitors hiding in the shadows. In the room, a man sat with his elbow leaning against the colonnade and looked at his back to the arcade. I don’t know that two newcomers were passing through the arcade door. Seeing him as the leader of the team, Luigi Vampa, around him, can see that more than twenty robbers are lying on the ground wrapped in their cloaks or leaning against the stone benches around the tomb. At the end of the room, you can vaguely see a sentry walking silently like a ghost in front of a hole, so that you can tell where a hole is because it seems darker. When the count thinks Franz has seen enough of this vivid picture, he presses his hand on his lips to signal him not to go, and then goes to the tomb to enter the three steps from the arch.
Who is the sentry? He is not as magical as his leader. He shouted when he saw a figure walking towards his leader at the light. When he heard this shouting, Vampa immediately got up and pulled a pistol from his belt at the same time. In an instant, all the robbers jumped up and pointed twenty carbines at the earl. He said that his voice was very calm and his face and muscles did not tremble at all. Hey, my dear Vampa, I think you have a grand ceremony to receive friends.
The gun leader shouted with a dignified gesture, and the rest of them respectfully took off his hat, then turned to the strange man who caused this scene and said, "Excuse me, Earl Court. I didn’t recognize you because I never expected an adult to come."
Your memory seems to be equally short in everything. Count Vampa said that you forgot not only other people’s faces, but also you. They made a promise to each other.
I forgot what promise. Asked the robber at Earl’s Court. He looked frightened, as if a man had done something wrong and was eager to make amends.
Didn’t we agree that the count should say no, and personally, you should respect my friends?
What did I do to break this agreement, my Lord
You kidnapped Lord Al-Bermar Cerf here tonight, and the count continued in a Franz trembling voice. This young gentleman is a friend of mine. This young gentleman lives in a hotel. He used to ride around Gaolu Street in my private carriage, but I tell you again that you kidnapped him here and the count took the letter from his pocket and said that you also extorted a ransom from him as if he were an urgent person.
Why don’t you tell me these things? The gang leader turned to ask him. Those people in his department were forced to retreat by his eyes. What made me object to a gentleman like the Earl, whose life is in his hands? I swear by the blood of Christ that if I knew which one of you knew that the young gentleman was an adult friend, I would personally beat his brains out.
Isn’t it? The count turned to Franz and said, I told you it was a misunderstanding.
You didn’t come to Vampa alone and asked anxiously.
I am the person who received this letter. I want to prove to him that Luigi Vampa is a faithful man. Come on, my Lord, this is Luigi Vampa. He will personally apologize to you for this misunderstanding.
Franz went over and the leader stepped forward to greet him. He said that you have heard what the count said just now and my reply. Let me say again that I don’t want to. I ordered the ransom of 4,000 piastres from your friend and this happened.
But Franz looked around anxiously and said, where is the count? I haven’t seen him
I hope he is all right, said the count, frowning.
The meat ticket is over there. Vampa pointed to the robber guarding the sunken place in front of him and replied, I should go and tell him that he has gone from the leader to the place where he pointed to Albert’s cell. Count Franz followed him.
What are the meat stamps doing? Vampa asked the sentry.
To tell the truth, the captain sentry replied, I don’t know. I haven’t heard anything from him for an hour
Come in, my Lord, Vampa said.
Count Franz followed the robber’s leader seven steps, then pulled out the latch and knocked on the door, so a lamp lit up the tomb in front of him. The same oil lamp shimmered. They saw Albert lying in a corner wrapped in a cloak lent to him by a robber. Hey, the count said with his strange smile that he would be shot at seven o’clock one morning. It’s really good to sleep now.
Vampa looked at Albert with admiration, and he was obviously moved by such brave performance.
You are right, Earl Court. He said this must be your friend.
So he went up to Albert and shook his shoulder and said, wake up, my Lord
Albert stretched himself, wiped his eyelids and opened his eyes. He said, Is that you, captain? You should let me sleep. I had an interesting dream. I danced bliss in the countess’s house in Torlonia. After that, he took out his watch from his pocket and looked at it. He kept it until he knew how fast it was flying.
It’s only 1: 30. He said what the hell did you see and woke me up at this time.
I’ve come to tell you that it’s up to your honor.
Dear Albert replied very calmly, do you remember Napoleon’s motto, don’t wake me up unless you report bad news? If you can let me sleep a little longer, I can finish my bliss dance, so I will be grateful to you for life. Oh, so they paid my ransom, didn’t they?
No adult
Hey, then how can I let it go?
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