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These Venetian nobles would have made short work in meting out justice to those chiefs who had been the instigators of the conspiracy, but as yet they had eluded the search; though it was rumored that Saplana, the Turkish commander of the Fortress of Famagosta, with his nephew Almerico to whom the conspirators would assign control of the castle of Cerines, had been in hiding in the palace of the Archbishop.
"There was the nephew, Almerico much in temper because thy noble uncle the Contarini would not yield up to his traitorous care the Castle of Cerines for the signature forced from the Queen. There was Fabrici the very Reverend, the Primate of Cyprus. And then and then not last, but first, and deepest and darkest traitor of them all the very darkest villain of them all there was Rizzo!" "Ecciva!
When all had gone so well at first, these failures were exasperating to a man of Rizzo's temper the more so that the little Queen had refused to prepare another letter of dismissal required of her; and Rizzo, the stronger in wrath and insolence because his faith in his star was somewhat less, had set forth himself to enforce the investiture of Almerico as Commander of Cerines the castle to which he had been refused admittance on the morning of the uprising in Famagosta.
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