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Francis, who had received before starting a list of houses with whom Signor Polani was in the habit of doing business, at once rowed ashore, Matteo and Giuseppi accompanying him. His business arrangements were soon completed. The harvest had been a good one, and there was an abundance of corn to be had at a cheap rate. In half an hour he arranged for as large a quantity as the Lido would carry.
"The affair has become very serious, Francis, and far beyond the compass of a boyish scrape, and no time must be lost in getting you out of Venice. I have no doubt Polani will see the matter in the same light, for he knows the ways of his countrymen even better than I do." The interview between the two traders was a long one. At its conclusion Francis was sent for.
She seemed to have lost her head altogether, for as I lifted you into the boat she clung so fast to your garments that I fancy a portion of them were left in her grasp." "Do you know where to take us? I see you are going in the right direction?" the girl asked. "To the Palazzo Polani," Francis said.
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.
The plague was raging nigh to the Fondaco, and my two brothers were living in the midst of the dead; nay, and Ann knew that Ursula would not depart from her lover, although the Palazzo Polani, where she had found lodging, lay hard by the Fondaco.
"I had no part or hand in the business, beyond doing what you suggested, and you would have got the Lido off just as well if I hadn't been there." "Well, I will judge for myself when I hear," Polani said. "But, as it must be an interesting story, my daughters would like to hear it also.
"At any rate," Ruggiero said, "I can, with little difficulty, prove that I had no hand in any attempt upon Signor Polani's daughters last night, seeing that I had friends spending the evening with me, and that we indulged in play until three o'clock this morning an hour at which, I should imagine, the Signoras Polani would scarcely be abroad." "At what time did your friends assemble?"
Then came a long spell of calms or baffling winds, and it was a fortnight before the campaniles of Venice were seen rising apparently from the water. "I have been anxious about you," Signor Polani said when Francis arrived.
"It is a very high honour, doubtless," Polani said, "but no whit higher than you deserve. Besides, after all, it costs Venice nothing, and money is scarce at present. At any rate, I can congratulate myself as well as you, for I foresaw many difficulties in our way.
Let us wait here no longer." The sailors and servitors broke into a cheer as the girls came out of the hut. "Shall we put a torch to this place?" Francis asked Polani. "No, Francisco. It must be searched thoroughly first. "Captain Lontano, do you order four of your men to remain here, until some of the officials of the state arrive.
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