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But my father and I will be content with the Queen Emilia's simple word." As I began this answer I saw the Princess turn away, dropping her hands. At its conclusion she turned again, but yet irresolutely. "We will find something less than the Queen Emilia's word to content you, my friend," her brother promised, eyeing me and breathing hard. "Where is the crown, Stephanu?"
By-and-by came in the sentinels they had relieved, and these in turn were helped by Stephanu to supper from the cauldron. I watched, half-expecting the dispute to start afresh, but the others appeared to have taken their fill of it with their food; and soon, each man, drawing his blanket over his head, lay back and stretched themselves to sleep.
Dom Basilio recited the funeral service; and there, watched by his comrades from the quay, we let sink my father into six fathoms, to sleep at the foot of the great rock which had been his altar. As I landed and climbed the path again, I caught sight of Camilla, standing by the parapet of the east bastion, in converse with Marc'antonio and Stephanu.
"You will find tools in the hut," she answered, with a glance at Marc'antonio, who nodded. "For food, you shall be kept supplied. Stephanu has brought, in his suck yonder, flesh, cheese, and wine sufficient for three days, with milk for your friend: and day by day fresh milk shall be sent down to you."
To me all this part of the story is foolishness: but that I and Stephanu hate one another not otherwise than those two old kings, and for no very different cause, is God's truth, cavalier." "You are devoted to her, you two?" I asked, tempting him to continue. He gazed down on me for a moment with immeasurable contempt. "I give you a figure, and you would put it into words! Words!" He spat.
At daybreak Marc'antonio and Stephanu came down the pass and found me digging the grave. I thought at first that they intended me some harm, for their faces were ill-humoured enough in all conscience; but they carried each a spade, and after growling a salutation, set down their guns and struck in to help me with my work.
His gaze questioned me gloomily. "No, I will do the dog justice; Stephanu would not talk." "Lead her away," said I, "and leave me now to mourn my friend." He touched her by the arm, at the same time promising me with a look that he would return for an explanation. The Princess shivered, but, as he stood aside to let her pass, recollected herself and went before him up the path beneath the pines.
"What of the Princess, O Stephanu?" he demanded. "The Princess is well enough, for aught I know," answered Stephanu, with a glance at me. "You can speak before the cavalier. He knows not everything until we tell him; but he is one of us, and that I will engage." Stephanu shrugged his shoulders. "The Princess is well enough, for aught I know," he repeated. "But what fool's talk is this?
My excuse is, the door was already closing behind the Princess. I knew she had tracked the Prince Camillo and his confessor, and that these two were within the cottage. I knew nothing of their business, save that it must be shameful, since she who had detected and would prevent it chose to hide her knowledge even from Marc'antonio and Stephanu. She had stepped into peril.
"The first time that I crossed the Alps" great Hannibal might have envied the roll in Marc'antonio's voice "I bore the King tidings of his good fortune. It was Stephanu who followed, a week later, with the tale that the children were stolen." "Then Theodore did believe them dead." "At the time, cavalier; at the time, no doubt.
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