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Lucien mentioned that on going to his brother's house, the people were so panic-stricken that they refused the door to him. "Tell me," I said, when we were alone. "You must have been on your way here when you heard the fatal news?" "On the contrary, I was at Sullacro. Have you for-forgotten what I told you about the apparitions in my family?" "Has your brother appeared to you?" I cried. "Yes.
I was travelling alone across the island, but I had been obliged to take a guide; and when at five o'clock we halted on a hill overlooking the village of Sullacro, my guide asked me where I would like to stay for the night.
"There is one thing more," said Louis. "If my brother was to hear that I had been killed in a duel, he would at once leave Sullacro to come and fight the man who had killed me. And then if he were killed in his turn my mother would be thrice widowed. To prevent that I have written this letter. If it is believed that I have died of brain fever no one can be blamed." He paused.
Martelli and Châteaugrand measured, the distance together, while Louis bade me farewell, asking me to accept his watch, and begging me to keep the duel out of the papers, and to prevail upon Giordano not to let any word of the matter reach Sullacro. M. Château-Renard was at his post. Baron Giordano gave Louis his pistol. Châteaugrand called out, "Gentlemen, are you ready?"
"The fact is," he said, "I only arrived ten minutes ago, and you will understand how impossible it was not to come and see you at once." I at once thought of the letter I had sent. In five days it could not have reached Sullacro. "Good heaven!" I cried. "Nothing is known to you?" "Everything is known," he said quietly.
There were, perhaps, one hundred and twenty houses in Sullacro for me to choose from, so after looking out carefully for the one that promised the most comfort, I decided in favour of a strong, fortified, squarely-built house. "Certainly," said my guide. "That is the house of Madame Savilia de Franchi. Your honour has chosen wisely."
I accepted the invitation with pleasure. II. M. Luden de Franchi Lucien explained to me the object of our expedition. For ten years the village of Sullacro had been divided over the quarrel of two families, the Orlandi and the Colona a quarrel that had originated in the seizure of a paltry hen belonging to the Orlandi, which had flown into the poultry-yard of the Colonas.
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