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He was away hunting, she said, in the direction of Nonza; but in fact he must have gone reconnoitring, for he had left the camp all but empty no one at home but Andrea and Jacopo Galloni, whose turn it was with the cooking these and the Princess. But the Prince has returned since then, for I heard his horn as I crossed the pass."
I turned and led the way up the path between the bushes: and she followed my stride almost at a run. On the bare mountain-spur above the high-road she overtook and fell into pace with me: and so, skirting Nonza, we breasted the long slope of the range. Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
She nodded darkly. "You shall go to her if you can find her." "Tell me where to seek her." "She lies at Nonza in Capo Corse; or peradventure the Genoese, who hold her prisoner, have by this time carried her across to the Continent." "Though she were in Genoa itself, I would deliver her or die."
"But wherefore must you go by Nonza, O Marc'antonio? And how many will you take with you?" Marc'antonio put the first question aside. "We go alone, Princess. You may call it a reconnaissance, on which the fewer taken the better." "You will not kill him! Nay, then, O Marc'antonio, at least at least you will not hurt him!"
The Genoese have shut her, I believe, in Nonza, in Cape Corso. "The General frowned a bit at this, but in a moment smiled at him in an open way that was honest too, as any one could see. 'I have later news of the Queen Emilia, said he; 'which is that the Genoese have removed her to the island of Giraglia, off Cape Corso. I fear, sir, you will not reach her this side of Doomsday.
I told him of the firing we had heard off Nonza. "In my belief," said I, "they are Corsicans that have drawn off from the bombardment, though why I cannot divine, unless it be in curiosity to discover why Giraglia was a-burning last night." "If, on the other hand they be Genoese," answered my uncle, shaking his head, "this is a serious matter for us.
The road to the Cape, avoiding Nonza, is rough and steep and must be travelled afoot; yet I think you twain can accomplish it. At the Cape, if God will, we will meet you and stand again at your service. But we travel by another road the road which does not avoid Nonza." He glanced at Stephanu, who nodded.
"My friends," I interrupted, "they have certainly taken his body, and his soul too, for that matter; and I doubt if you can overtake either on this side of Nonza. But with him you will find the crown of Corsica, and the priest who helped him to sell it. I tell you this, who are clansmen of the Colonne. Your mistress, who discovered the plot and was here to hinder it, will confirm me."
We bombarded it idly, only to learn that the Commandant Fornari had abandoned it some hours before; that he and his men had escaped northward in long boats, rowing close under the land." I glanced at the Princess, and saw her mouth whiten. "Excuse me," I said. "Do you tell me that the whole garrison of Nonza had escaped?" "Unfortunately, yes."
It is truth, then, that we are married. The priest who married us was Fra Domenico, and with assent of his master the Prince Camillo. I can give you, moreover, the name of the chief witness: he is a certain Signor or General Andrea Fornari, and commands the Genoese garrison in Nonza." "Princess!" Marc'antonio implored her. "It is true," said she.
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