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At the mouth of the PELUTAN he wept anew, throwing aside the crocodiles as he explored the bed of the river. At LONG SALAI he found his wife's coat and wept again. At LONG LAMA he found his wife's waist-cloth and gave up hope, and at TAMALA he clucked like a hen, so great was his grief. Still he went on wading down the river.
It was Salai, his face agitated, looking from the lady to the painter, inarticulate. "The Signor" he gasped "his horse they bring him dead." She stirred slightly where she stood. Her eyelids fell. "Go, Salai. Await your master's commands in the hall below." She turned to the painter as the draperies closed.
"Tell them that there will be no sitting to-day, Salai," he said, laying his hand, half in greeting, half in caress, on the youth's shoulder. "Yes, Signor." Salai saluted and withdrew. The painter turned again to the older man. "It was a happy thought of yours, Zano the music. She delights in it. I almost caught, one day last week, while they were playing, that curve about the lips."
And he has friends, too, dear to his heart Messer Jacopo, and the wise Lorenzo da Pavia, that master of organs whose hands were as deft in fashioning lyres and viols as in drawing out sweet sounds, with whom he loved to commune of musical instruments and eternal harmonies, and the boy Andrea Salai, with the beautiful curling hair, whom he loved to dress up in green velvet mantles, and shoes with rose-coloured ribbons and silver buckles.
In Milan he took for his assistant the Milanese Salai, who was most comely in grace and beauty, having fine locks, curling in ringlets, in which Leonardo greatly delighted; and he taught him many things of art; and certain works in Milan, which are said to be by Salai, were retouched by Leonardo.
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