"Learn, then, that I was the Count Ugolino, and this man was Ruggieri the Archbishop.

" [Footnote 4: Costanza, daughter of Ruggieri, king of Sicily, thus taken out of the monastery, was mother to the Emperor Frederick the Second.

Tu de' saper ch' i' fu 'l Conte Ugolino, E questi l' Arcivescovo Ruggieri:

Know then, that I was once Count Ugoline, And this man was Ruggieri, the archpriest.

And as to Archbishop Ruggieri, there is no proof whatever of his having had any share in the businesshardly a ground of suspicion; so that historians look upon him as an "ill-used gentleman."

"Did the villain Ruggieri tell you?" "No."

" "You were present and Ruggieri, no others; did you know it?" "No."

"Then do you know that Ruggieri is dead in Italy?

" "I got it from a villain called Ruggieri," I replied, caring nothing for the start I produced in Graeme, but keeping my eye on the face of Rogers.

"And who is Ruggieri?" said the doctor, by way of putting a simple question.

"Ruggieri," said I, "do you know that scar?"

" "How did Rogers or Ruggieri find you out?" inquired I.

" "But how did Ruggieri come to know about the ten of diamonds?" "Oh, the card was found crumpled up under the table by Ruggieri himself, who, with you, was present at the play.

" "But how did Ruggieri come to know about the ten of diamonds?" "Oh, the card was found crumpled up under the table by Ruggieri himself, who, with you, was present at the play.

I will never believe that; but then I am his widow, and may be too favourable to him, while Ruggieri was his enemy, and may be too vindictive.

Gourlay, an intimate friend of your brother, Signor Ruggieri.

A sum of money was given to her, and Graeme's conscience was relieved, as well by this retribution as by a conviction to which we both came, that the game between him and Gourlay was rendered at least equal by the fact which we had both reason to believe, as stated by Ruggieri, that Gourlay himself intended to cheat, and that his death could be more easily accounted for on that theory than on any other.

" "And what, in the devil's name, brings Cosmo Ruggieri hither?"

Down with Ruggieri, I say.

"Or in that of a dwarf, like the sooty imp of Cosmo Ruggieri," said Harcourt.