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They all trooped out with their bundles at last. "My goodness!" laughed Bess, "we look like a gang of Italian immigrants being taken by a padrone into the woods. Only we should wear shawls over our heads instead of hats." They went merrily along the streets to the point from which the car for Freeling started, and lo! there was Rhoda Hammond. She had evidently missed the previous car.
I thought it best to go to the stable without searching for you. I knew you and Salvatore would be there." The boy was silent for a moment. Then he said: "Salvatore was very angry when he saw me come into the stable without you." "Why?" "He said I ought not to have left my padrone." "And what did you say?" "I told him I would not be spoken to by him.
And coat and pantaloons were tenderly dusted, and carefully restored to their sacred rest. But now, after all, what was to be done? Jackeymo was much too proud to exhibit his person to the eyes of the squire's butler in habiliments discreditable to himself and the padrone. In the midst of his perplexity the bell rang, and he went down into the parlour.
The doors were bolted, and the two inmates of the apartment talked in whispers. "You understand your instructions?" "Yes, Excellency." "Repeat them." "I take the boat to-morrow go to Vencata. Keep watch upon the Americano the one whose name I have here." "John Derby, yes. But he is very big a giant. Make no mistake, find the one who is the padrone! And ? Continue!"
"Do you feel better, Giacomo?" asked his comrade. "Yes, Filippo; I wish I could stay here till it is time to go home." "We will, then. We shall get no more money outside." "The padrone " "Will beat us at any rate. It will be no worse for us. Besides they may possibly ask us to play here." "I can play no more to-night, Filippo, I am so tired."
Giacomo followed, but not without trepidation. He knew that what they were about to do would be a heinous crime in the eyes of the padrone. Even Phil had never ventured upon such direct rebellion before. But Mr. Pomeroy's suggestion that he should run away was beginning to bear fruit in his mind. He had not come to that yet, but he might.
In the bill, however, were the three, and voices were lowered, mandolins and guitars were stilled, the oyster man forgot his shriek, during the five awful minutes when Vance and the padrone had it out. After that Vance made another trattoria the richer by his daily quinto.
"But again I say," murmured Jackeymo, scarce audibly, and after a long silence, "if the padrone would make up his mind to marry!"
"Only five minutes." "How much money have you, Filippo?" "A dollar and twenty cents." "Good; you have done well. And how is it with you, Giacomo?" "I have forty cents." "Then you have been idle," said the padrone, frowning. "No, signore," said the boy, trembling. "I have played, but they did not give me much money." "It is not his fault," said Phil, coming boldly to the defense of his friend.
His earnings were small, for the neighborhood was poor. Still, he picked up a few pennies, and his store was increased by a twenty-five cent gift from a passing gentleman. He had just commenced a new tune, being at that time ten rods from the house, when his watchful eyes detected the approach of Pietro, and, more formidable still, the padrone.
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