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"She is in worse case than ever, cavalier, since they have contrived to get rid of Stephanu." "On the contrary, my friend, her case is hopeful at length; since this release sets us free to help her." We trudged back to the camp, pausing on the way while Marc'antonio skewered the deer's legs and slung him on a pole between us.
At eleven o'clock that night we four the Princess, Marc'antonio, Stephanu, and I hoisted sail and stood away from the north shore of Giraglia, carrying a fair wind with us. Our boat had been very cunningly chosen for us by Marc'antonio out of the small flotilla which my father had hired at Cape Corso for the assault.
Stephanu, as we moved forward, kept alongside Marc'antonio's bridle, or as nearly alongside as the narrow track allowed. I, bringing up the rear, could not see the trouble in Marc'antonio's face, but I heard it in his voice as he put question after question. "The Princess was not a prisoner." "No; nor under any constraint that Stephanu could detect.
"And yet that should have been the easiest guess of the three," said he, rising abruptly and taking first a dozen paces toward the hut, then a dozen back to the shadow of the chestnut tree against the bole of which my head rested as he had laid me, having borne me thither from the sty. "Campioni? That is a good word, and I thank you for it, Englishman. Yet you wonder why I hate Stephanu? Listen.
We dared not let him know where we lodged, for fear of treachery; so, being hurried, we appointed the street by the Weavers' Gate, where, if you will meet him, masked, a little after nine o'clock, Stephanu and I will be near in case of accidents and doubtless the Cavalier also." "Did he say anything of the crown, O Marc'antonio?" "No, Princess, for we had not time.
As the sun sank a light mist gradually spread over the coast below us, the distant islands grew dim, and we rode suspended, as it were, over a bottomless vale and a sea without horizon. "The path leads round the base of it," said Stephanu. "We shall reach it in another twenty minutes." "But will it not be guarded?" I asked. He hunched his shoulders. "The Prince is no general.
He put his poser to me, turning with angry eyes, but ended on a short laugh of contempt. "Do not try make-believe with me, O Englishman." "There is one thing I know," said I, doggedly, "that the Princess is in trouble or danger. And a second thing I know, that you and Stephanu are her champions. But a third thing, which I do not know, is why you and Stephanu hate one another."
"I have something to confess to you." Her voice dragged upon the words; but she went on, "You have not asked me what has happened in Genoa after that night. The snow covered up our footmarks and the blood for you were bleeding all the way; but at our lodgings the actors were frightened out of their wits, and worse than ever when I told them what had happened to Marc'antonio and Stephanu.
You have heard, perhaps, that we that my brother and I lived our childhood in Brussels?" I bent my head, without answering; but still she persisted. "I was brought to Corsica from Brussels, cavalier. Marc'antonio and Stephanu fetched us thence, being guided by that priest who is now my brother's confessor." "I have been told so, Princess. Marc'antonio told me."
"It is God's truth, at all events, that I am afraid." "For me? But I have this." She tapped the barrel of her gun as she took it from him. "And afterwards if that is in your mind afterwards I shall still have Stephanu." She said it lightly, but it brought all the blood back to his brow and cheek with a rush.
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