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"And the girl?" demanded the Duke. "Of course she was sought for and punished?" Wargrove sighed long and then paused to give his words wing. "Not at all," he said. "I think the general feeling was that Southwald was a fool and deserved what he got. I know that was my own impression!" "Jove!" cried the Duke, suddenly wroth, "I shall not suffer this, Wargrove. You mean me!"
That was what she meant by 'Oh, if I only had it! You heard her say that. I remember my cousin Southwald getting hold of an Italian girl a little minx from Apulia, fine as silk but dusky as a Brazil nut. She fought wild and bitter like a trapped wild cat. It was at Lecce in Murat's time, but Southwald was conceited that he could gentle her.
"Murat was keen to emancipate himself from the yoke of the Emperor, and was playing for his own hand. Southwald and I had been sent informally from Malta to Naples to discover what lengths he was prepared to go." "Nonsense, Wargrove, I know better," the Duke exclaimed. "That was not your real reason." "It was that which was marked on our passports and safe-conducts.
To begin with, his throat was cut and the girl nowhere to be seen. Yet I could be sworn I tied her wrists tightly enough. One look at Southwald spoilt more breakfasts than mine that day, and Murat himself, who did not stick at trifles, brought all his available officers, a whole camp of them, and made poor Southwald the text for a little discourse.
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