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Now and again a third man comes in and pitches the gold into a linen sack with a wooden shovel. "Let us stamp a few ducats ourselves by way of souvenirs," said Fatia Negra. Anicza assenting, the workmen stepped aside, and Fatia Negra and the girl placed themselves on either side of the leaden bullets on the turning bar.
These parts are panic-stricken, since Anicza betrayed the coiners in the Lucsia Cavern, we have been saddled with a whole heap of calamities. A lot of poor fools and a heap of treasure were captured, but the head of the band, Fatia Negra, was suffered to escape. And now, furious at his loss of treasure, he blackmails the whole region.
Old Onucz rushed towards Anicza and angrily tore her away: "You little fool, be off!" cried he, "you will spoil the machine, it is not for the likes of you." But Fatia Negra now picked up the ducat which had fallen to the ground and showed it with a smile to Anicza: "Look," said he, "there is now a double picture on it." The girl turned it curiously between her fingers.
Anicza knew for certain that whenever he came to visit her in a populous place like this, before him and behind him went faithful henchmen who stood on guard at the corners of the streets and gave a signal at the approach of any danger. Only amongst the snowy mountains was he wont to go alone. He was also very wary in other ways. Thus, he never drank wine: there was really no getting at him.
"Now Anicza," said he, "while I go in, you sit down on that stone bench and wait for me." "Why cannot I go into the house as well?" enquired the girl, impatiently. "No more of that. Once a year we come here and every time you ask again if you can come in, and every time I tell you that cannot be. And now I tell you once more: it cannot be and there's an end on't."
Would you still love me if I were to deceive you and wed another?" "Yes, I would love you even then, Anicza, and my love for you would make me shoot you through the heart." How the girl laughed when he said this! "Wait a bit," said she, "and you will see that it will all come to pass. I shall grow sick and ugly. I shall become a poor beggar. They will send me to prison and make a slave of me.
"'Your lawful husband shall die when I choose, and you will then be a widow. As for Anicza, she only married a mask. I will tear it off and she will no longer know who I was. "Oh, my lady, can you not fancy how my heart broke at these words! Yet I did not weep. "'You will deceive me as you deceived her, replied Mariora. "Then the robber began to swear that I had deceived him first.
I shall deceive you and wed another. Then we shall see whether you will love me; then we shall see whether you will kill me." Anicza thought all this so amusing that she laughed aloud. The noise brought old Onucz into the room. His daughter turned towards him smilingly. "Isn't it true, father, that three suitors are courting me?" she asked.
"Then take me with you into your band" she spoke with heaving bosom. But Fatia Negra stamped his foot. "It cannot be, Anicza," said he; "think no more of it! I will never take you with me." "Why not?" asked the girl and her eyes flashed like a wild cat's. "Because then I should become jealous of you and that would be bad for us both. Remain in your father's house; there you are safe."
As soon as Henrietta perceived Anicza, she politely requested Clementina to be so good as to leave them to themselves, a request which Clementina very naturally regarded as incomprehensible; and, of course, the instant she had crossed the threshold, she diligently took up her position before the keyhole.
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