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They had been more than polite and courteous to the prince, that was true, but they had detained him; him, a Sansevero! and in the telling he again grew indignant. And yet it had been a terrible chain of evidence, and he had not seen how it was to be broken.
Davis turned for information to Prince Minotti, sitting next to her; who, as he was not especially welcomed by the Romans, much affected the society of Americans, since to them, as a rule, a prince is a prince, and the name that follows of comparative unimportance. "Torre Sansevero," he said pompously, "is one of the finest estates we have in Italy.
Further than that I meant nothing except that I was serious in what I said about repaying the man who should bring about my marriage." They had long since passed through the Porta San Giovanni and had arrived at the Coliseum. Scorpa gave Sansevero little chance to answer, but with a friendly good-by, he turned toward the Monte Quirinal. Sansevero pursued his way along the foot of the Palatine.
Sansevero seemed undecided whether to be shocked or amused; ordinarily he would have laughed easily enough, but Giovanni in some way had seemed to involve Eleanor in his levity. "Well," continued Giovanni, "I suppose at least Miss America, not being a Catholic, will make no objections to Sant Antonio's short-comings!"
One was proclaimed by the regulation "Cook's" badge on his cap to be a guide; the other, by his military cloak, might have been recognized as an official of the Italian government. Both had shown covert interest in the Princess Sansevero, who, looking particularly lovely in her magnificent set of sables, had crossed the sidewalk with the light, buoyant carriage characteristic of her.
But though there was a vague appreciation of something beneath the surface in this American girl's sudden departure, there was nothing to which any one could take exception. The Contessa Potensi, however, had long waited for just such an opportunity, and seized it. "I felt sorry for Eleanor Sansevero," she said sweetly. "It puts her in an unendurable position to have to defend such a person.
"Every one knows," rejoined the princess, "that di Valdo has made heavy debts, yet he is not a gambler like his brother Sansevero, and he has no personal extravagances that account for the sums borrowed."
She could not, of course, declare the picture gallery of no interest, so I took her, but in her disappointment she quite lost her temper, so much so that it made her ill. And then she took the matter in her own hands and went home I was never so astonished in my life! She ran off with Giovanni Sansevero so fast I could not catch up with them.
His expression was unusually animated, for he was making the most of his first chance to talk to her without the presence of a third person. Not that they were alone the Princess Sansevero was too much of an Italian to leave a young girl for a moment unchaperoned.
A carriage, passing at that moment close to the curb, had prevented the two men from hearing the stranger's footfall, and as the latter stood on the top step, searching in his pocket for matches, he happened to catch the name "Sansevero." At once his attention was arrested, but as the conversation was carried on in an undertone, he caught only vague, detached words.
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