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"Well, who is it?" he called in a low voice. Mrs. Lupo came out of the shadows and stood before him. "Lady going die?" she asked in a terrified whisper. "Pretty ill, but she's coming around." The woman looked vastly relieved. "Young lady know?" "She has never come back." Mrs. Lupo raised both hands in a gesture of despair. "The marsh I never told I'm wicked woman!" she exclaimed.
"I am named Lupo Vulp, your Highness, and have for many years been a money-scrivener in the employ of these two gentlemen," replied the individual addressed. "Thou knowest all their transactions?" said Charles. "No man better," answered Lupo; "unless it be Clement Lanyere." "You remember a certain deed of mortgage from Sir Ferdinando Mounchensey to your two employers?" said Lanyere.
Hush you, and come again with the dawn." Now was a moment's breathless silence and thereafter an evil chuckle, and, so chuckling, the man Lupo went down the rickety stair without. And when his step was died away, Beltane drew a deep breath, and together they arose, and so, speaking no word, they looked upon each other across the prostrate body of Sir Gilles of Brandonmere.
Hard by the ancient sanctuary is a chapel, consecrated to the Madonna del Capo; thither the people of Cotrone make pilgrimages, and hold upon the Cape a rude festival, which often ends in orgiastic riot. All the surface of the promontory is bare; not a tree, not a bush, save for a little wooded hollow called Fossa del Lupo the wolf's den.
She tried to explain to herself that it was all because she had been the one to shoot the young man in the arm. "I'd much rather have shot that horrid Lupo," she sobbed under her breath. "Suppose I've killed Richard? The wound may be much worse than we thought it was." She wiped her eyes on the sheet and lay very still listening. Away off on the mountain somewhere a dog began to howl.
Elinor broke off, her eyes wide with astonishment, and the others following the direction of her gaze saw that she was looking at a man who had crept into their midst so silently that no one had noticed him. In that haggard and unshaved face they recognized Mr. Lupo. "Something to eat," he demanded fiercely. "I'm almost starved." Without a word Billie handed him several sandwiches and some fruit.
"Good heavens!" said the doctor, "you mean to say you sent them through that bog? It's full of suck holes. You have done enough wickedness for one day. Where is your husband? Hurry up, quick. Wake up the villagers. Get lanterns. Go find them!" Mrs. Lupo seized a lantern from the gallery. "I go myself," she said, and disappeared. All that night Mrs.
"Look at me, Lupo, ere thou answerest," cried Sir Giles. "Look at me well and take heed what thou say'st." "Be not influenced by him," interposed Charles. "Look only at me, and speak truly, as thou valuest thy safety. If thou hidest aught, or falsifiest aught, the heaviest punishment awaits thee!" "Hark ye, Lupo," said Sir Giles, in a low tone. "Be warned by me.
"I must manage her and I shall. I am not afraid." Suddenly she leaned over and put her hand very softly on the woman's shoulder. "I am so sorry for you," she said. "Won't you let me help you? I think you are much too fine and capable to fly into rages like this. What is the reason of it?" "Not know," answered Mrs. Lupo. "When they come, I see red. I wish to break up kill."
It was as good as a play to see the rascal winding them around his little finger and doing injured innocent on their front stoop. To hear him gas, you'd think there was a conspiracy to run him out of Fale a Lupo; and even when he owned up to some of his misdeeds, it was like a compliment to the Tweedies for having yanked in such a black sheep.
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