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The men who returned from the venture tell me too, and without shame, that there were but some six or seven that beset them. Yet they gave the Swiss trouble enough, and killed some nine of them besides a half-score of more or less grievously wounded, whilst they but slew two of their assailants and captured another two. Those were the four heads you saw at the Porta San Bacolo."
"I hear," said Aquila, when the first compliments were spent, "strange stories of a conspiracy in your Duchy, and on the walls at the Gate of San Bacolo I beheld four heads, of men whom I have known and honoured." "And who dishonoured themselves ere their heads were made a banquet for the crows. There, Francesco!" He shuddered, and crossed himself. "It is unlucky to speak of the dead at table."
At last Gian Maria broke into speech, his voice shrill with excitement. "Know you of any reason," he demanded, "why your head should not be flaunted on a spear among those others on the Gate of San Bacolo?" Francesco's eyebrows shot up in justifiable astonishment. "I know of many," he answered, with a smile, an answer which by its simplicity seemed to nonplus the Duke.
The Captain of the Gate saluted him respectfully as he rode by, and permitted himself to marvel at the pallor of his Excellency's face. And yet, the cause was not very far to seek. It stood upon four spears, among a noisy flock of circling crows, above that very Gate -called of San Bacolo and consisted of four detruncated human heads.
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