Mezzoni the Brigand — page 28: what you’re looking at

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20 MEZZONI THE BRIGAND. as to lead, it was hoped, to the detection of those concerned in their abstraction. ‘ A young Italian clerk, engaged in the store, had been arrested on suspicion, but was finally released. Feeling justly aggrieved at his treatment, the youth at once brought an action for damages against the foreign firm, and having the sympathy of his coun- trymen with him, was awarded a handsome compen- sation for what he considered his injured honor. “Will Woolf & Co. keep open?”’ asked one young Neapolitan of another at a club-house in the Strada di Toledo. “Oh, yes, they are rich,’’ was the answer, ‘‘and have only, to draw on the London house for any amount.’’ ‘“‘Kivery one agrees that it must have been Mez- zoni to have accomplished such a job.”’ ‘‘Undoubtedly. And do you see again, this isa foreigner who suffers? Italians are not robbed.’’ “True, nor are they disturbed upon the roads. It is the French, English, and Americans who lose.”’ “Not always; but it is thought that wherever Mezzoni’s hand is seen his countrymen are spared.’’ ‘‘After all, the rascal robs where he can realize the most, I suspect.”’ “There was that diamond robbery from the French party, and the heavy ransom from the Englishman, and as we see the jewelers, Woolf & Co., are for- eleners again.”’ “Yes, these three jobs may be safely put down to the charge of Mezzoni.’’ ‘The rascal is intelligent. The Frenchman testi- fied that he spoke to him in his own language.’’ “Ay; and the Englishman testified that he spoke to him in excellent English.”’ comicbooks.co