Crossword-Solution: RIZZO 5 letters, 16 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 23

But I do not care to abuse our Barto Rizzo, who is a prodigy of nature, and has, luckily for himself, embraced a good cause, for he is certain to be hanged if he is not shot.

Barto Rizzo stood before him in a square of cellarage that was furnished with implements of his craft, too dark for a clear discernment of features.

Luigi feared him; he was troubled chiefly because he was unaware of what Barto Rizzo wanted to know, and could not consequently tell what to bring to the market.

Then he sat down on his haunches; he remembered hearing word of Barto Rizzo's rack:--certain methods peculiar to Barto Rizzo, by which he screwed matters out of his agents, and terrified them into fidelity.

Nothing but the spontaneous desire to elude the pursuit of a questioner had at first instigated his baffling of Barto Rizzo, until, fearing the dark square man himself, he feared him dimly for Vittoria's sake; he could not have said why.