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Updated: May 27, 2025
The confusion only lasted a moment. "Surround the rat-hole! Not a single one must escape down with the poliziotti!" exclaimed the Italians, wildly. In firm columns they advanced against the barracks, and then they paused. Suppose treachery was in store for them? The patriots now retreated to the right and left, to make room for two persons: a white-haired old man and a handsome dark-featured boy.
"What is it?" asked the corporal, breathlessly. "Your order is to shoot me, and then to go to the barracks; postpone the execution half an hour take me with you to the Poliziotti barracks, and I will give you your revenge there," proposed Bartolomeo. "Certainly," cried the corporal, gleefully. He strode in advance of Bartolomeo, and ordered his men to take the major along to the barracks.
"Confound it!" exclaimed the corporal, "who is disturbing us now?" In answer to a harsh "Come in," the door opened and a soldier appeared. He announced that it was time to go to the barracks in the Piazza Poliziotti. "It is all right; I shall be there directly," answered the corporal. The soldier departed, and the corporal now turned to Bartolomeo, who had arisen from his chair.
The Poliziotti was intensely hated in Milan because it was mainly filled with renegades Italians who sold themselves to Radetzky. While the fight was going on about the building, Bartolomeo and the corporal were sitting in a room playing cards. The major permitted his pupil to win and lose at times.
"Corporal," he said, breathlessly, "the Poliziotti are giving way, the Croatians are decimated shall we go to their rescue?" "Bah! we are only a handful," growled the corporal. "Let us await the result." The door closed behind the soldier. Bartolomeo now sprang up, took the sword and gun from the drunken corporal, and cried in his ear: "Obey my order, or you are a dead man!"
A patriot, Pasquale Sottocorni, had stealthily reached the palace and set it on fire. He was the first victim of his heroic deed, and died with the cry on his lips: "Long live Italy!" But his boldness helped the patriots materially. The escaping soldiers were taken prisoners, and the ranks of the people were recruited in numbers. The Poliziotti barracks still remained to be captured.
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