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The woman and Ruffo had come into the road
by the tram-line. They stood there for a moment, talking. Then Ruffo
crossed over to the path, and the woman went away slowly towards the
Rotonda. Seeing Ruffo alone Artois turned to go back, thinking to have
a word with the boy. But before he could reach him he saw a man step
out from behind the wooden shanty of the fishermen and join him.
This man was Gaspare.
Ruffo and Gaspare strolled slowly away towards the jetty where the
yachts lie, and presently disappeared.
Artois found Pasqualino waiting for him rather impatiently not far
from the entrance to the Scoglio di Frisio.
"I thought you were dead, Signore," he remarked, as Artois came up.
"I was watching the people."
He got into the carriage.
"They are canaglia," said Pasqualino, with the profound contempt of
the Neapolitan coachman for those who get their living by the sea. He
lived at Fuorigrotta, and thought Mergellina a place of outer
darkness.
"I like them," returned Artois.


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