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It was part of their fiendish system to punish those whom they feared or hated by injuring not only their own persons but those whom they loved , and it was the knowledge of this which hung as a terror over my poor Gennaro 's head and drove him nearly crazy with apprehension . `` All that night we sat together , our arms round each other , each strengthening each for the troubles that lay before us . The very next evening had been fixed for the attempt . By midday my husband and I were on our way to London , but not before he had given our benefactor full warning of this danger , and had also left such information for the police as would safeguard his life for the future . `` The rest , gentlemen , you know for yourselves . We were sure that our enemies would be behind us like our own shadows . Gorgiano had his private reasons for vengeance , but in any case we knew how ruthless , cunning , and untiring he could be .