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For this reason also he had commanded him, Nicholas, to bring about the death of Hugh de Cressi and his squire beneath the daggers of assassins in the streets of Venice, a fate from which they had been saved only by the wizard in the yellow cap, whom no steel could harm. "The black-hearted villain!" hissed Dick. "Well, for your comfort, holy priest, I'll tell you who that wizard is.
The Cressi boy is hidden at 93 1/2 St. Phillip Street. Go personally and in secret, for there are spies among the police. "Good Lord! Do you believe it?" "I shall know in an hour." In reality Norvin had no doubt that his informant told the truth.
When this was finished Sir Andrew asked if any of his brothers accompanied Hugh, saying that if so they must arm. "No," answered Master de Cressi, "one of the family is enough to risk as well as four of our best servants. My sons bide here with me, who may need their help, though they are not trained to arms."
Still, Dick could have wished that it had been better for so fine an occasion, seeing that it was marked with many a battle dint and that right across the Cressi cognizance, which Hugh had painted on his shield after he was knighted a golden star rising from an argent ocean was a scar left by the battle-axe of a Calais man-at-arms.
It was past three o'clock on this same day when Eve had drunk the milk and some hours after she began to dream, that Hugh de Cressi and his men, safe and sound but weary, halted their tired horses at the door of the Preceptory of the Templars in Dunwich. "Best go on to his worship the Mayor and serve the King's writ upon him, master," grumbled Grey Dick as they rode up Middlegate Street.
The Doge said: "Noble Cattrina, you have heard the story of the English knight. What do you answer to it?" "Only that it is a lie, Illustrious, like everything else that he has told us," replied Acour with a shrug of his broad shoulders. "You said that you had a witness, Cavalier de Cressi," said the Doge. "Where is he?" "Here," answered Hugh. "Stand forward, Dick, and tell what you saw."
They came upon him with the lad clinging to his knees, and a shout went up. "Here's the Cressi kid. He gave the signal; let him have it!" But Norvin turned upon them, saying: "You can't kill this boy." "Step aside, Blake," ordered a red-faced man, raising and cocking his weapon. Norvin seized the rifle-barrel and turned it aside roughly. The two stared at each other with angry eyes.
Or so I think, though the arrow barely reached him. Yet, Sire," he added after a pause, "you might knight my master, Hugh de Cressi, if you will, since but for him I should have feared to risk that shot." Then turning aside, Dick unstrung his bow, and, pulling the remains of the apple out of his pouch, began to munch it unconcernedly. "Hugh de Cressi!" said the King.
Nor was there any other chosen afterward in his place, as those who read the records of that ancient port may discover for themselves. When Master de Cressi and his people were gone, having first searched the great manor-house and found none in it save a few serving-men and women, whom he swore to put to death if they disobeyed him, Grey Dick raised the drawbridge.
Then Sir John Clavering, who all this while had been listening like a man in a dream, suddenly stepped forward. "Hugh de Cressi," he said, "tell me, does the King's writ run against John Clavering?" "Nay," answered Hugh, "I told his Grace that you were an honest man deceived by a knave." "Then what do you, slayer of my son, in my house?
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