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There is Vincentello, who is a good-for-nothing fellow, and Orlanduccio, who is not much better. . . . Try to come on them separately, one to-day, the other to-morrow. . . . But be on the lookout, that's all I have to say to you!" "Thanks for the warning," said Orso. "But there is no quarrel between us. Until they come to look for me, I shall have nothing to say to them."
"Yesterday, on the contrary, I was more cheery and happy than I generally am. I had seen how kind, how indulgent, you were to my sister. The colonel and I were coming home in a boat. Do you know what one of the boatmen said to me in his infernal patois? 'You've killed a deal of game, Ors' Anton', but you'll find Orlanduccio Barricini a better shot than you!"
But as he moved onward the thought of his promise to the prefect, and, above all, his fear of missing Miss Nevil's visit, altered his feelings, and made him almost wish he might not come upon Orlanduccio.
You've done everything you could to insure it." "We'll protect ourselves," said Colomba. "Orlanduccio," said Orso, "strikes me as being a plucky fellow, and I think better of him than that, monsieur. He was very quick about drawing his dagger. But perhaps I should have done the same thing in his place, and I'm glad my sister has not an ordinary fine lady's wrist."
"This signorina belongs to your own country; she has come to see you," said she to the old man. "Mercy!" he cried in a hoarse voice. "Mercy! Are you not content? The leaf I burned. How did you read it? But why did you take them both? Orlanduccio! You can't have read anything against him! You should have left me one, only one! Orlanduccio you didn't read his name!"
"The prefect will do his duty," said that gentleman sternly. "He will see the public order is not disturbed at Pietranera; he will take care justice is done. I say this to you all, gentlemen!" The mayor and Vincentello were outside the room already, and Orlanduccio was following them, stepping backward, when Orso said to him in an undertone: "Your father is an old man.
"Farewell, sir!" said the prefect, waving his hand. "I warn you that the sergeant of gendarmes will have orders to watch everything you do." When the prefect had departed "Orso," said Colomba, "this isn't the Continent. Orlanduccio knows nothing about your duels, and besides, that wretch must not die the death of a brave man." "Colomba, my dear, you are a clever woman.
I'll stake my life on that." "I believe you," said the prefect. He holds one bit of evidence which goes rather against our friend a threatening letter to Orlanduccio, in which he suggests a meeting, and is inclined to think that meeting was a trap." "That fellow Orlanduccio refused to fight it out like a gentleman." "That is not the custom here.
"Where is he?" "Orlanduccio is close by, he's waiting for you! Go back, go back!" "Ho! Ho! So he's waiting for me! Did you see him?" "Yes, Ors' Anton'! I was lying down in the heather when he passed by. He was looking round everywhere through his glass." "And which way did he go?" "He went down there. Just where you were going!" "Thank you!" "Ors' Anton', hadn't you better wait for my uncle?
But if the reconciliation is to be sincere, there must be a full explanation, and nothing must be left in doubt. Signor Prefetto, Tomaso Bianchi's declaration, coming from a man of such vile report, seemed to me justly open to doubt. I said your sons had possibly seen this man in the prison at Bastia." "It's false!" interrupted Orlanduccio; "I didn't see him!"
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