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Their dark figures moved between me and the flames as they set up a tall tripod of pine poles and hung their cauldron from the centre of it, upon a brandice. The princess had withdrawn to her cave and did not reappear until Stephanu, who seemed to be head-cook, announced that supper was ready, whereupon she came and took her seat with the rest in a ring around the fire.
Meanwhile, he flaunted it in the streets, the shops, the theatres. His very publicity baulked us. We tracked him daily his sister and I, in our peasant dress; but found never a chance to surprise him alone. His eyes, which rested nowhere, never detected us. We hunted him together, not consulting Marc'antonio and Stephanu, but rather agreeing to keep them out of the way.
The Princess drew herself up imperiously. "I thought, O Stephanu, that I had made plain my orders, that you two were neither to follow nor to watch me?"
The road to the Cape, avoiding Nonza, is rough and steep and must be travelled afoot; yet I think you twain can accomplish it. At the Cape, if God will, we will meet you and stand again at your service. But we travel by another road the road which does not avoid Nonza." He glanced at Stephanu, who nodded.
At all events it saved me for the moment: for while I stared at her, utterly at a loss, a crackle of twigs warned us, and we turned together as, by the pathway leading from the high-road, the bushes parted and the face of Marc'antonio peered through upon the clearing. "Salutation, O Princess!" said he gravely, and stepped out of cover attended by Stephanu, who likewise saluted.
"At all events," said I smiling, "he is a ticklish horse to pay too little for." "A price is a price," answered Marcantonio gravely. "Old Stephanu Ceccaldi, catching me drunk, thought to pay but half of it, but the residue I took when I was sober. Now, between gentlefolks, what dispute could there be over eighty livres? Eighty livres! why it is scarce the price of a good mare!"
The Princess commands us to make for the north; so we shall be obeying her, and at the same time we can bivouac close enough to take stock at sunrise and, maybe, learn some news of the camp yet not so close that our horses can be heard, if by chance one should whinny." "As to that you may rest easy," Stephanu assured him. "It is known that many of the farms below keep ponies in stable."
The flask he pushed towards Marc'antonio and Stephanu: the melon he divided with his clasp-knife. "You will join us?" he asked, profering a slice. "You will drink, then, at least? Ah, that is better. And will you convey my apologies to your two bandits and beg them to excuse my conversing with you in English?
"Camillo," she said, standing before him, "this Englishman has said only what I came to say. It is not my fault that he is here and has guessed. When I was sure, I hid my knowledge even from Marc'antonio and Stephanu; and he he shall die for having overheard.
Stephanu found for us the track of which Marc'antonio had spoken, and although on this side of the range the shadows of the crags made an almost total darkness, our ponies took us down at a fair pace.
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