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see some disagreeable ghost. Then, knowing the day of her husband's home-coming, she sent Cornelio away betimes, after countless kisses and endearments, when he straightway returned to the inn. Having dined, he went, masked, to pay his respects to Signor Alessandro Bentivoglio and his lady, Signora Ippolita Sforza. While conversing with them certain gentlemen came in, one of whom told how Mombojero had just been with the police officers to Cornelio's house, having got wind of his departure from Mantua, and of his arrival in Milan. At this news Cornelio soon bade his friends farewell, and, going back to his lodging, determined to remain no longer in such peril. So, that very night, he took horse and rode back to Mantua, by way of Bergamo and Brescia, not caring to travel by the road that he had first taken, lest haply he might meet some ill-favoured folk by the way.