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Updated: May 13, 2025
Do you remember how we starved before Volterra?" And I filled my cup again. "Yes well." "We were not birds of paradise exactly, and yet we had to live on air sometimes and a thin enough diet it was. You will never guess what I had for supper once try!" "I am bad at guessing, monsieur." "A mask." "A mask!" "Yes.
"I would not let Volterra pay me to grub underground for his benefit, any more than I would live in his house without paying him rent." Sabina bit her lip and turned her face away suddenly, for the thoughtless words had hurt her. "I agreed to make the search merely because I am interested in archaeology," he continued.
He had been tutor in the Russian Boutourlin family, and when acting in that capacity had been taken, by reason of his geological acquirements, to see some copper mines in the Volterra district, which the Grand Duke had conceded to a company under whose administration they were going utterly to the bad. Sloane came, saw, and eventually conquered.
Her husband carried her with him into the marshes of Volterra, celebrated then, as now, for the pestiferous effects of the air. Never would he tell his wife the reason of her banishment into so dangerous a place. His pride did not deign to pronounce either complaint or accusation.
The three men sat down and waited in silence after the detective had last spoken. Volterra lit a fresh cigar, and offered one to the detective a few moments later. The latter took it with a bow and put it into his pocket for a future occasion. The door opened at last, and the Baroness entered, her face discoloured to a blotchy yellowness by her suppressed anger.
Volterra went to the door at once, but did not open it. "Who is there?" he asked, through the heavy panel. "The police," came the answer, short and sharp. "Open at once." Volterra opened, and was confronted by a man in plain clothes, who was accompanied by two soldiers in grey uniforms, and another man, who looked like a cabman.
There was the finest Delacroix of its size that Priam had ever met with; also a Vermeer that made it unnecessary to visit the Ryks Museum. And on the more distant wall, to which Mr. Oxford came last, in a place of marked honour, was an evening landscape of Volterra, a hill-town in Italy. The bolts of Priam's very soul started when he caught sight of that picture.
Then Florence purchased Volterra, over the head of Pisa as it were; and at last, careless whether it pleased the Pisans or no, she permitted the Gambacorti to make raid upon Pisan territory, and allowed Giovanni di Sano, who had lately been in her service, to seize a fortress in the territory of Lucca. The peace was broken.
There had been too many people about the palace on the morning when Sabina had left it with the Baroness. Especially, there had been that carpenter, of whom no one had thought till it was too late. If Gigi had recognized Sabina, that would be Malipieri's fault too, for Volterra had not known that the man had been employed about the house for years. A week passed, and nothing happened.
ALABASTER is a granular and compact variety of gypsum found in masses large enough to be used in sculpture and architecture. It is sometimes a pure snow-white substance, as that of Volterra in Tuscany, well known as being carved for works of art in Florence and Leghorn. It is a softer stone than marble, and more easily wrought.
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