Crossword-Solution: MAFIOSO 7 letters, 27 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

They were speaking in the Sicilian dialect, moreover, which was unfamiliar to him, yet he caught the mention of Ippolito, one of the men who had met him at the station, also of an orange-grove, and the word "Mafioso." Then he heard Martel say: "The shells for the new rifle--Ippolito is a bad shot--take plenty." When Ricardo had gone and the Count had returned to his seat, Norvin fancied he detected once more that grave look he had surprised in his friend's countenance upon their arrival at the castello.

They perjure themselves to acquit a Mafioso rather than testify against him and thus incur the certainty of some fearful vengeance.

What more natural, therefore, than for some Mafioso to try to frighten me and profit by the dreaded name of Cardi? I am a stranger here in my own birthplace.

Now that Lucrezia, she is a fine child; she can hate like the devil himself and she is as silent as a Mafioso.

Norvin had been quick to sense the possible danger to the two women, and had urged them to accept his protection; but they had convinced him that such a course had its own dangers, for in case the Mafioso was really unsuspicious the slightest indiscretion on their part might frighten him.