"I shall not repeat to you, my dear son, what you must long have known, namely that of the thirty-four contadini employed on the excavations undertaken by Conte Mosca, whom the Raversi pretends to have been paid by you to assist you in a crime, thirty-two were at the bottom of their trench, wholly taken up with their work, when you armed yourself with the hunting knife and employed it to defend your life against the man who had attacked you thus unawares.
orduan, esandakoa isilean gordeko diodala zin egin diot, bai nire izenean eta bai han aurrean zeuden guztienean, baina baldintza batekin: "Ez dizut errepikatuko, seme laztana, aspalditik jakingo duzuna, esan nahi baita, Mosca kondearen indusketan lanean ari ziren hogeita hamalau nekazarietatik eta Raversi andrearen ustean zuri hilketan laguntzeko ordaindu omen zenien horietatik, hogeita hamabi lubaki barrenean zeudela, beren lanean murgilduak, zuk, ehiza-labana eskuan hartu eta hura erabili zenuenean, ustekabean erasotzen zizun gizonaren kontra zure bizitza defendatzeko.