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The slope grew gentler as we descended, and eased almost to a level on the verge of a high road running north and south under the glimmer of the moon or rather of the pale light heralding the moon's advent. Marc'antonio looked about him and climbed heavily from his saddle. He had been riding since dawn.
"They will give you no trouble. You have but to pen them at night and number them, and again at daybreak turn them loose. They know this forest and prefer it to the other side: you will not find that they wander. At night you have only to blow a horn which Marc'antonio will bring you, and the sound of it will fetch them home."
"Stephanu," said Marc'antonio, gravely, "the Englishman meant that for you: and I tell you what I have told you before, that yours are no fitly kept hands for a cook. I have travelled abroad and seen the ways of other nations." "The sty will need mending too, Princess," said I: "but before nightfall I will try to have it ready."
Put the case that you were seeking two children, of whom you knew only that they were alive and somewhere in Europe like two fleas, as you might say, in a bundle of straw " I looked at Marc'antonio and saw that he was lying, but politely forbore to tell him so. "Then Theodore knew that his children were alive?" said I musing. "Yet he gave my father to understand that he had no children."
"For example, cavalier, that I cannot reconcile this smell with any Corsican gunpowder." "And you are right," said I. "Nay, Princess, you have sworn not long since to obey me, and I choose that they shall know. That salvo, sirs, was fired, five minutes ago, by the Genoese." "A 'salvo' did you say, cavalier?" "For our wedding, Marc'antonio."
But it appeared that, if we kept good watch on him, others had been keeping better; for, five minutes later, as we stood debating whether to follow him into the theatre, Marc'antonio and Stephanu emerged from its portico and came towards us. "O Princess," said Marc'antonio, "we have seen him at length and had word with him.
And he sends you his love, and a paper for your friend here. 'Tis from the Princess; and the upshot is, you're released from your word and free to come back with me." Marc'antonio, proud of an opportunity to display his scholarship, broke the seal and read the letter with a magisterial frown, which changed, however, to a pleasant, friendly smile as he handed it across to me.
"And that the Princess plainly guessed, by her manner at parting, when I set out with the man Priske. She was sorry enough then to say good-bye to me," he added, half boastfully. "Nevertheless," answered Marc'antonio with some sarcasm, "she appears to have neglected to confide to you what she feared." Stephanu spread out his hands.
She was undecked, measured some eighteen feet over-all, and carried a fair-sized lateen sail; but her great merit for our purpose, lay in her looks. So Marc'antonio had assured me; and my own observation confirmed it next day, as we neared the coast off Porto Fino.
If you meet Marc'antonio upon the road, give him this message for me. 'But where, O Princess, I asked, 'are we to await your pleasure? 'Fare north, if you will, to Cape Corso, she said, 'where that old mad Englishman boasts that he will reach my mother in her prison at Giraglia. He has gone thither alone, refusing help; and you may perhaps be useful to him." Marc'antonio's growl grew deeper.
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