Tales of a Traveller Section 23 - Inn at Terracina

In which the traveller alights at the sleepy inn of Terracina, a place perched beside the ancient walls and shadowed by the ruins of a Gothic castle, amid tales and warnings of highwaymen whose boldness and numbers grow daily on the road to Naples. Here, amidst a diverse company of guests and an Englishman both sceptical and grudgingly intrigued, the tale unfolds in whispers and hearty discourse of the brigands who prowl the mountains, their exploits entwined with the very villages that shelter them.