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Albert endeavoured in vain to negotiate with the rebels. Nuncius Frangipani went to them in person, but was received with calm derision. Pious exhortations might turn the keys of Paradise, but gold alone, he was informed, would unlock the gates of Hoogstraaten. In an evil hour the cardinal-archduke was tempted to try the effect of sacerdotal thunder.
Altogether a fearsome crew to have to do with! Segna belonged to the Counts Frangipani, whose eyrie was fixed at Castel Muschio on the island of Veglia. It is near the northern end above a wide bay on the sea side of a broken plateau, partly crowned with fortress-walls, in front of which a few houses sparkle white in the sun.
At a long table sate the councillors in their robes; at the bar stood a ruffian form, which the banqueters too well recognised. "Bid Rodolf of Saxony approach!" said the Tribune. And led by two guards, the robber entered the hall. "Wretch, you then betrayed us!" said one of the Frangipani. "Rodolph of Saxony goes ever to the highest bidder," returned the miscreant, with a horrid grin.
It was understood that no distinction had been made, in issuing the invitations, between parties in politics or in society, and that there would be more people seen there than had been collected under one roof for many years. The Frangipani did things magnificently, and no one was disappointed.
But the young man, one Marcantonio Frangipani of Rome, denied, even under the severest torture, any complicity of hers; so that Duke Robert, who wished to do nothing violent, merely transferred the Duchess from his villa at Sant' Elmo to the convent of the Clarisse in town, where she was guarded and watched in the closest manner.
"Is returned to Rome, and has taken the oath of allegiance; the Savelli, the Orsini, the Frangipani, have all subscribed their submission to the Buono Stato." "How!" cried Montreal, in great surprise. "Not only have they returned, but they have submitted to the dispersion of all their mercenaries, and the dismantling of all their fortifications.
The Frangipani exchanged looks, Luca di Savelli clung to a column for support, and the rest of the attendants seemed grave and surprised. "Think not of it, my masters," said Rienzi: "it is a good omen, and a true prophecy.
One morning, the heads of the Savelli, the Orsini, and the Frangipani, met at the disfortified palace of Stephen Colonna. Their conference was warm and earnest now resolute, now wavering, in its object as indignation or fear prevailed.
A young boy, Stefanello, who afterwards succeeded to the representation of the direct line of the Colonna, and whom the reader will once again encounter ere our tale be closed, was playing by his grandsire's knees. He looked sharply up at Savelli, and said, "My grandfather is too wise, and you are too timid. Frangipani is too yielding, and Orsini is too like a vexed bull.
If my own son had wed the Tribune's sister, I would yet strike a blow for the old constitution as becomes a noble, if I but saw that the blow would not cut off my own head." Savelli, who had been whispering apart with Rinaldo Frangipani, now said "Noble Prince, listen to me.
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