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Towards five o'clock they arrived at an inn in the village of S -nearGloucester. It made Mrs Brandy, John andToby look quite unlike themselves: Mrs Brandy appeared proud andhaughty, John looked sly and deceitful and Toby wore an expression ofgreat ferocity. None, madam, said Mr Segundus. A bell had begun to toll somewhere.

Signor Tosctti later confessed to the Greystccls that he believed he knew who the old lady ofCannaregio was. There was no one. It is probably the Johannites. He screamed again.