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Then without further remonstrance, but with many profound sighs, Isaachar proceeded to fetch a small iron box from another room; and in a few moments the diamond case, made of sandal wood inlaid with mother-of-pearl, was in the bandit captain's hands. "Let me convince myself that it is all right!" exclaimed Stephano, examining the lid of the case.
The marquis looked at Stephano inquiringly, for there was something ominously mysterious in his words; but the brigand stalked in a dogged manner toward the door, as if anxious to hurry the departure so long protracted, and Manuel, having renewed the expressions of his gratitude toward Isaachar ben Solomon, hastily followed Verrina from the house.
You are a worthy man, Isaachar, he added; 'you will have restored tranquillity to the mind of this beautiful countess; and she will be enabled to appear at court to-morrow with her husband. Now does your lordship believe me?" The marquis was staggered; for several minutes he made no answer.
"Ah! they were your sister's diamonds that were pledged to Isaachar the Jew?" said the count, half ironically and half in doubt; for he was fairly bewildered by the matchless impudence of the young marquis. "Yes, my lord my dear sister, who, alas! is ruining herself to supply me with the means of maintaining my rank.
The grand inquisitor followed the victim and the familiars into this awful place: and, on a signal being given by that high functionary, Isaachar was stripped of all his upper clothing, and stretched on the accursed rack.
"Yes yes let me accompany you, excellent young man!" murmured Isaachar, clinging to the arm of the marquis, for their chains were now knocked off. "You were the first Christian who ever spoke kindly to me; and I have no kith no kindred on the face of the earth. I am a lone desolate old man; but I have wealth much wealth, Manuel d'Orsini and all that I have shall be thine."
"Yes; and I also wished to see Signor Stephano Verrina for another motive," exclaimed Manuel emphatically. "Ah! then you know me, my lord?" said the bandit. "And yet methought I was a stranger to you, although you were none to me at the casino." "You were a stranger until now," continued Orsini; "but Isaachar knew by the knock which you dealt so lustily on his door, who was his visitor."
"'Tis false! a miserable subterfuge on your part!" ejaculated the marquis, starting from his seat and striding in a menacing manner toward Isaachar ben Solomon. "'Tis true! I will give your lordship the proof!" cried the Jew: and Manuel fell back a few paces. "Stephano came and told me all.
The grand vizier remained with his army a few days beneath the walls of Florence: and during that time Isaachar ben Solomon so far recovered his health and strength, under the skillful care of an Egyptian physician, as to be able to visit his dwelling in the suburb of Alla Croce, and secure the immense wealth which he had amassed during a long life of activity and financial prosperity.
In fact, it was his amateur study, or, as we should say in these times, his peculiar hobby; and hence the impossibility of imposing on him by the substitution of a hired or a false set of diamonds for those which he had presented to his wife. It was, therefore, absolutely necessary to get these diamonds back from Isaachar, by fair means or foul.
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