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By this time they had reached the palace, and the king came to the door to receive Count Piro, and led him to the great hall, where a feast was spread. The princess was already seated at the table, but was as dumb as Count Piro himself.
And Lothair burst duly in with rapid, angry quavers: "Le Gare Generose, del Maestro Paesiello Che vedo? La Donna di Spirito, del Maestro Mariella. Briconaccio! Piro, Re di Epiro! Maledetti! del Maestro Zingarelli," &c. In a comic description of enthusiastic inspiration each seized the drift of the other's ideas. All the passages, imitations, &c.
'Very well, I will accompany them, replied the king; and he ordered his courtiers and attendants to get ready, and the best horses in his stable to be brought out for himself, Count Piro and the princess. So they all set out, and rode across the plain, the little fox running before them. He stopped at the sight of a great flock of sheep, which was feeding peacefully on the rich grass.
He kneeled and prayed fervently for several minutes. James Arigoni, Bishop of Lodi, preached from Rom. 6:6 "That the body of sin might be destroyed." Henry de Piro proposed that Hus be delivered to the civil power for burning. Sixteen charges from Wiclif's writings were read. When Hus tried to explain, he was brutally refused. Thirty articles from Hus' own works were then read.
'The Count speaks very little, the king said at last to the fox, and the fox answered: 'He has so much to think about in the management of his property that he cannot afford to talk like ordinary people. The king was quite satisfied, and they finished dinner, after which Count Piro and the fox took leave. The next morning the fox came round again. 'Give me another basket of pears, he said.
The fable of the Quivira, the golden city marked now by the ruins of the Piro pueblo of Tabiri, south of the salt-deposits of the Manzano, is still potent in Arizona and New Mexico to lure the treasure-seeker. Three hundred and fifty years ago it inspired a march across the plains that dwarfs the famous march of the Greeks to the sea.
If they ask, just say the sheep belong to Count Piro; it will be better for everybody. And the fox ran hastily on, as he did not wish to be seen talking to the shepherd. Very soon the king came up. 'What beautiful sheep! he said, drawing up his horse. 'I have none so fine in my pastures. Whose are they? 'Count Piro's, answered the shepherd, who did not know the king.
'Well, beg him to come here, that we may talk together, said the king. So the fox went back to the young man and said: 'I have told the king that you are Count Piro, and have asked his daughter in marriage. 'Oh, little fox, what have you done? cried the youth in dismay; 'when the king sees me he will order my head to be cut off.
Count Piro was frightened when he heard these words, as he thought that perhaps the fox might have power to take away the castle, and leave him as poor as when he had nothing to eat but the pears off his tree. So he tried to soften the fox's anger, saying that he had only spoken in joke, as he had known quite well that he was not really dead.
Isak was long away; it almost seemed as if he had gone for good. Inger looked at the weather every day, noting the way of the wind, as if she were expecting a sailing-ship; she went out at nighttime to listen; even thought of taking the child on her arm and going after him. Then at last he came back, with a horse and cart. "Piro!" shouted Isak as he drew up; shouted so as to be heard.
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