Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

212 DANGER IN THE DARK.
Those who had in their possession the proscribed
works, chanced to make the discovery, that Dupin was
acting the RPY: taking alarm, they collected all the
interdicted books together, and concealed them in the
house of a widow, whom they thought in no danger
of being suspected.
This widow, it may be here observed, was the benevolent
Mrs. Foresti, whose acquaintance the reader
has previously made-and whose husband was now
deceased.
Discovering he was regarded with suspicion, and
on that account not likely to make the desired discovery,
Dupin set his wits to work and conceived
another stratagem, on which he thus soliloquised :
" I 'II go to Bedini, and put him on the track; he's
not sharp, but I cau drill him into some shrewdness.
He shall go iu the character of a blind beggar; a pair
of goggles over his eyes will do to indicate his blindness
- but he mustn't be totally blind; for then it
would seem too miraculous for him to travel alonelet
him profess to discern objects dimly; in that condition
he may with impunity go lounging about from
house to house; and should no one suspicion him, he'll
stand a fair chance to catch some heretic reading the
odious books. That I may not lose the honor of it,
nor miss the reward which the Pope decrees to informants,
it must be understood. between us that he return
immediately to me in case he gets a clue to the
whereabouts of any such books, that I may stand
foremost in the affair."