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The work of loading soon commenced, and in four days the ship was full up to the hatches. Francis went on shore to settle the various accounts, and was just making the last payment when Matteo ran into the office. "Four Genoese galleys are entering the bay!" Francis ran out, and saw four Genoese galleys rowing in. "It is too late to escape.
"Oh, you flatter yourself they will be lying awake for you," Matteo said, laughing. "Thinking over your dangers! Well, there's nothing like having a good idea of one's self." Francis joined in the laugh. "It does sound rather conceited, Matteo; but I know they will be anxious. They took up the idea it was a dangerous service I was going on, and I have no doubt they fidgeted over it.
A quarter of an hour later the captain, with Matteo and Francis, landed on the ledge, and took the place of the sentries, and in twenty minutes a simultaneous exclamation burst from them, as a Genoese galley was seen rowing rapidly along. "They have sent only one galley," Francis said. "Of course, they would know that it was sufficiently strong to overpower us without difficulty.
And when Matteo had gone away home again, not too soon, and when, after a few days' sightseeing, the signora, suspecting that the continued sadness of her young guest had some other cause than separation from her brother and sister, sought persistently and artfully to win her secret, Silvia told her all with many tears.
"What is the matter, Matteo? What has happened?" "I have terrible news, Francisco. My cousins have both disappeared." "Disappeared!" Francis repeated in astonishment "How have they disappeared?" "Their father has just been round to see mine. He is half mad with grief and anger. You know they had gone to spend the day at the Persanis?" "Yes, yes," Francis exclaimed; "but do go on, Matteo.
On reaching home Matteo learned that Polani, accompanied by two members of the council, had already started in one of the swiftest of the state galleys for the mainland. A council had been hastily summoned, and, upon hearing Polani's narrative, had dispatched two of their number, with an official of the republic, to Botonda.
"And my cousin Matteo, what has become of him?" Polani asked suddenly. "I trust he is not among the killed!" "He is unharmed," Francis replied. "He fought gallantly, and the admiral, the next day, offered to take him on board his own ship, many of the volunteers serving on board having been killed. Matteo, of course, accepted the offer."
He ended by saying: "My kinsman, Matteo, said that should you doubt whether this account is not tinged by his friendship and partiality for Messer Hammond, Signor Parucchi, and all the gentlemen who were confined with them in the hold, can substantiate the account that he has given.
As soon as he was gone, Matteo assisted his master to change his garments, and in the space of five minutes at the outside, the devil disappeared, and was replaced by a gay cavalier, habited in a rich costume of blue slashed with amber, and a broad-brimmed sombrero.
The power of the Visconti was first established by the archbishop of Milan. He imprisoned in three iron cages the leading members of the family who were in control of the city government at the moment, and had his nephew, Matteo Visconti, appointed by the emperor as the imperial representative. Before long Matteo was generally recognized as the ruler of Milan, and was followed by his son.
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