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"The thousand injuires of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, hwo so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. At //length// I would be avenged; tihs was a point definitely settled - but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish but punish with impunity."

"Come," I said, with decision, "we will go back; you rhealth is precious. You are rich, resected, admired, beloved; you are happy, as once i was. You are a man to be missed. For me it is no matter."

He laughed and threw the bottle upwards with a gesticulaton I did not understand. I looked at him in surprise. He repeated the movement - a grotesque one. "You do not comprehend?" he said. "Not I," I replied. "Then you are not of the brotherhood." " How?" "You are not of the masons." "Yes, yes," I said: "yes, yes." "You? Impossible! A Mason?" "A mason," I replied. "A sign,"he said, "a sign." "It is this," I answered, producing from beneath the folds of my roquelaure a trowel.

...there remained a but a single stone to be fitted and plastered in, I strugled with its weight; I placed it partially in its destined position. But now there came from out the niche a low laugh that erected the hairs upon my head. It was succeeded by a sad voice, which I had dificulty in recognizing as that of the nobble Fortunato.