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But they did not wish to be seen coming away in a body, for such playing was very strictly forbidden, and the spies of the Ten were everywhere. Contarini dismissed his gondola at the house of the Agnus Dei, and was admitted by the trusted servant who had once taken a message to Zorzi.
He ought to be brought over to the house until he is better." "Then the furnace could be allowed to get out, sir, could it not?" "Yes. The weather is growing warm, as it is. Yes the furnace may be put out now." Giovanni hardly knew that he was speaking aloud. "Zorzi will get well much sooner if he is in a good room in the house. I will see to it."
She hoped so, for even her father would never forgive her for having gone alone at night to find Zorzi. If he ever found it out, he would make her spend the rest of her life in a convent, and it would break his heart that she should have thus cast all shame to the winds and brought disgrace on his old age. It never occurred to her that he could look upon it in any other way.
I daresay that seems complicated to you." Zorzi laughed. "If it is only for the sake of the danger," he said, "why not go and fight the Turks?" "I have tried to do my share of that," replied Venier quietly. "So have some of the others." "Contarini?" asked Zorzi. "No. I believe he has never seen any fighting." While the two were talking the play had proceeded steadily, and almost in silence.
He had a valuable ally in Venice, which looked none too favourably on the French and was fully disposed to gather its forces against the common foe. The Council of Ten sent their ambassador, Zorzi, to the Pope to propose an alliance. News reached Charles in Naples of the league that was being formed.
It was not far from the dreaded chamber in which the three Chiefs sometimes heard evidence given under torture, the door was closed and two guards paced the narrow corridor outside with regular and heavy steps, to which Zorzi listened with a beating heart.
What is the use of trying to hide your secret from me?" Zorzi was now convinced that Giovanni himself had been lurking in the garden. "Sir," he said, with ill-concealed contempt for a man capable of such spy's work, "if you have more to say of the same nature, pray say it to your father, when he comes back." "You misunderstand me," returned Giovanni with sudden mildness.
"I thought you would find some good excuse," he said. "The master saw me do the work," answered Zorzi unconcernedly. "Ask him about it when he comes back." "There are other furnaces in the glass-house," suggested Giovanni. "Why not bring your blow-pipe with you and show the workmen as well as me what you can do?" Zorzi hesitated.
"I made them all," he said, unable to resist the temptation to take the credit that was justly his. "You made those things?" repeated Giovanni incredulously. But Zorzi was not in the least offended by his disbelief. The more sceptical Giovanni was, the greater the honour in having produced anything so rarely beautiful. "I made those, and many others which the master keeps in his house," he said.
He was in constant fear lest Zorzi should say something which might betray the meetings at the house of the Agnus Dei, and had often regretted that he had not been put quietly out of the way, instead of being admitted to the society.
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