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CHAPTER NINE

I got to Rome in the morning, after quite a good trip. I went to see my office and I’m fairly
happy with it. As I wrote to you yesterday from Padua, I am leaving tomorrow in the evening
for Codroipo, where I will stay on Saturday and Sunday. […] Here is a piece of news that is
not so bad: in Rome I will be working in plain clothes since the office is a confidential one.
Keep this for yourself and do not even tell dad and mum […].

Sacco wrote he would go back to Codroipo for a couple of days, evidently to organize the office
transfer and to collect papers and personal items. It would be plausible to assume that during that
short period he might have taken the notebook and carried it to Rome.

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