As for the police, greatly humiliated by this rebuff, they had officially discovered that a band of twenty soldiers, corrupted by the money distributed by the Duchessa, that woman of such atrocious ingratitude whose name was no longer uttered save with a sigh, had given Fabrizio four ladders tied together, each forty-five feet long;
Poliziak, berriz, zaputz ikaragarria hartu zuen porrot harekin, eta, ofizialki jakin zuenez, dukesak-hasperen batez izan ezik beraren izena inork jadanik aipatzen ez zuen emakume izugarri esker gaiztoko hark-hogei soldadu bereganatu omen zituen barra-barra banatuz dirua, eta haiek helarazi zizkioten, nonbait, Fabriceri lau zurubi elkarri lotuak, bakoitza berrogei oin luze;