Meanwhile, he was reasoning: This is what could have happened: the group of patriots leaves at the end of the curfew, the tobacconist is in the house and is about to go down to close the door of the cellar, when a very urgent bodily need takes him and it is so urgent that he does not even close the back door in the courtyard and just runs to the lavatory. Perhaps he thinks that, in any case, there is no one still there, or so he believes; but no, his murderer is there, but who would take advantage of that moment to go after him to the latrine, kill him and rob him? Someone from the camorra? Perhaps from his own gang, because the boss had known that he, hypothesis, wanted to keep the third instalment of the gold for himself and escape? Or a competing camorra group? Or a thief who had nothig
