Il avait loué une sediola, sorte de tilbury champêtre et rapide, à l’aide duquel il put suivre, à cinq cents pas de distance, la voiture de sa mère ; il était déguisé en domestique de la casa del Dongo, et aucun des nombreux employés de la police ou de la douane n’eut l’idée de lui demander son passeport.
He had hired a sediola, a sort of rustic and fast-moving tilbury, by means of which he was able, at a distance of five hundred yards, to keep up with his mother's carriage; he was disguised as a servant of the casa del Dongo, and none of the many police or customs officials ever thought of asking him for his passport.