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One of Giovanna's first acts upon her grandfather's death had been to create this Robert Count of Evoli, and this notwithstanding that in the mean time he had been succeeded in her favour by the handsome young Bertrand d'Artois. This was the group the Catanese, her son, and Bertrand that, with the Princes of the Blood, governed the Queen's party.
The Queen sat on his right, making but poor pretence to eat; her lovely young face was of a ghostly pallor, her dark eyes were wide and staring. Among the guests were the black-browed Evoli and his brother-in-law, Terlizzi; Bertrand of Artois and his father; Melazzo, that other creature of Charles's, and Filippa the Catanese, handsome and arrogant, but oddly silent to-night.
Three days later a man of the Queen's household, one Melazzo, who was in Duke Charles's pay, brought him word that the seed he had cast had fallen upon fertile soil. A conspiracy to destroy the King had been laid by Bertrand d'Artois, Robert of Cabane, Count of Evoli, and the latter's brothers-in-law, Terlizzi and Morcone.
He gripped the other's arm, and drew him along under a trellis of vines that formed a green cloister about the walls. "Why, here is great news for our Queen," he cried. "It will rejoice her, my lord, to know you are loyal to her." "That is no matter," he replied. "What matters is that you should be warned you, yourself in particular, and Evoli. No doubt there will be others, too.
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