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Updated: May 13, 2025
When work in the field is ended, all male inhabitants go to gather on the mountain a wild herb called "enoriota," and large thorn bushes or "dama," which are used as fuel, since combustibles are scarce in Ladak. You see there neither trees nor gardens, and only exceptionally thin clumps of willows and poplars grow on the shores of the rivers.
"Now?" his Mother urged. "There may be some scheme behind it, and I would we were there. She hath none of her own beside her, if trouble should come." "She hath Dama Margherita who loveth her well." "Dama Margherita," Bernardini echoed, and a feeling of peace came over him. But the Lady Beata sat pondering, in troubled silence. What could it mean?
"Ah, but it will be magnificent, that tomb under the dome of our own San Nicolò! It will stand on the precious mosaic pavement from Alexandria, on columns of ivory chased with gold. Dama Margherita hath seen the design which hath been made for her Majesty by the curator of our library of art."
"We must turn her from this thought," said Dama Margherita earnestly to the Lady of the Bernardini, as she left the Queen's presence, sorrowfully. "She will not speak of the child; she hath wept no tears; and the fever of her grief, locked within herself, will drive her to madness. She hath asked that Father Johannes be sent for, without delay. Doubtless it is for this scheme.
"He and the precious group of noble villains or of villain nobles one's tongue takes twist in talking trash the more when it is true; a precious group of traitors, all on the wild seashore how the Dama Margherita would bring out the booming of the waves!
But no one answered her, they were all humming about Dama Ecciva, interrupting each other with excited questions; for Dama Ecciva had been, if possible, more mysterious and tantalizing than ever since these rumors had been afloat which was a sign that she could tell something if she would.
Dama Margherita had noticed with uneasiness that Ecciva de Montferrat, who was usually on the alert for any excitement, had seemed singularly apathetic when this subject had been broached, and she felt that the trust reposed in her by the Admiral required her to mention her suspicions to Madama di Thénouris, although she shrank from this duty the more because she knew that Dama Ecciva was supposed to be exerting some secret influence against herself.
"That Tristan de Giblet he who would have killed the King the night that he climbed the city-walls and fled to Rhodes we know the tale " "Aye, aye; we know it. And then?" they pleaded impatiently. But Dama Ecciva was not to be swerved from the irritating composure which pleased her mood for the moment: "And one of us hath any one seen Alicia de Giblet?
For days after the visit of Hagios Johannes, Caterina scarcely spoke, or noticed what was passing around her; and the Lady of the Bernardini and Dama Margherita, with hearts aching from the burden of their pity, were helpless before such desolation.
"Is there aught else in which I may serve the Dama de Montferrat?" the Bernardini asked with assumed nonchalance, partly to gain time to decide upon his own course of action, yet hoping to throw some little light upon the mystery. "It is written in the note. Doth your Excellency bid me return alone?"
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