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I Find a Lodging in the House of the Chief of the Sbirri I Pass a Good Night There and Recover My Strength I Go to Mass A Disagreeable Meeting I Am Obliged to Take Six Sequins by Force Out of Danger Arrived at Munich Balbi I Set Out for Paris My Arrival Attempt on the Life of Louis XV
This morning at Cattolica his searching sbirri discovered me and brought me hither, where I have been for the past three hours, and where, but for your Excellency's timely arrival, I shudder to think of the indignities I might have suffered." "I thank you, Madonna, for this clear succinctness," answered Cesare coldly, as was his habit.
"What a lovely creature she must have been," exclaimed one of the sbirri. "Cease your profane remarks, my man," cried the lieutenant. "This must be examined into directly. Does any one know who dwells in that mansion?" "Signor Wagner, a wealthy German," was the reply given by a sbirro. "Then come with me, my man," said the lieutenant; "and let us lose no time in searching his house.
In August, 1797, on his way to Paris to take command of the sbirri, who, on the 4th of the following September, hunted away or imprisoned the representatives of the people of the legislative body, he paid a prostitute, with whom he had passed the night at Pavia, with a draft for fifty louis d'or on the municipality of that town, who dared not dishonour it; but they kept the draft, and in 1799 handed it over to Gendral Melas, who sent it to Vienna, where I saw the very original.
Stephano Verrina now proceeded to count his men, who had mustered fifty strong previously to the expedition of that fatal night, which, it was ascertained, had reduced the number to thirty-six seven, including Piero, having been slain by the sbirri, and as many having perished by the falling in of the chamber of penitence.
A guard of sbirri must have been passing at the time, for loud knocks resounded at the gate, which the old portress immediately opened before Lomellino or any of his men could interfere to prevent her.
As for the remaining moiety, it was to be paid when the death of the old man had placed his wife and daughter in possession of his fortune. The two sbirri departed, and the imprisoned conspirators anxiously awaited their return. On the day fixed, they were seen again. Monsignor Guerra had paid the thousand piastres, and Giacomo had given his consent.
Meantime Monsignor Guerra received private information that, shortly before the death of Francesco, Marzio and Olympio had been seen prowling round the castle, and that the Neapolitan police had received orders to arrest them. The monsignor was a most wary man, and very difficult to catch napping when warned in time. He immediately hired two other sbirri to assassinate Marzio and Olympio.
'It was to save my neck, sir. The man was one of the cleverest sbirri I ever had after me, but he did not know me by sight. It was in the March of Ancona, at a small village near Fermo. He had tracked me all the way from Modena, and he came to the inn on the evening of the third day.
Wagner had maintained a calm and dignified demeanor during the latter portion of the proceedings; and, although the sbirri who had charge of him ventured not to lay a finger upon him, he accompanied them back to the prison of the Palazzo del Podesta. Ten days had elapsed since the incidents related in the preceding chapter. The scene changes to an island in the Mediterranean Sea.
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