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She had discerned Barto Rizzo in time to give directions to her footman, before she was addressed by a body of gendarmes in pursuit, whom she mystified by entreating them to enter her house and search it through, if they supposed that any evil-doer had taken advantage of the open door. They informed her that a man had escaped from the civil prison.
And so, sent back the envoys of Rizzo foiled. And when some days later, yet others came a company of mounted noblemen, demanding entrance in the Queen's name to deliver her answer to the letter sent by the Council of the People from Nikosia and to take their oath of loyalty Stefano, still unbelieving, not knowing how it fared in Famagosta, gave his unvarying answer: "No man entereth, save only he who sweareth to live and die in the Queen's defense."
Wilfrid read the miserable copy of Vittoria's letter, utterly unable to resolve anything in his mind, except that he would know among a thousand the leader of those men who had attacked him, and who bore the mark of his sword. Barto Rizzo had done what he had sworn to do.
Without his knowing it, and before he had quitted the court, he had sunk into songless gloom, brooding on the scenes of the night. However free he might be in body, his imagination was captive to Barto Rizzo. He was no luckier than a bird, for whom the cage is open that it may feel the more keenly with its little taste of liberty that it is tied by the leg.
The latter, springing with boyish thankfulness and pride at the easy earning of them, threw in a few additional facts, as, that he had been taken for a spy by the conspirators, and had heard one of the Englishmen mention the Signorina Vittoria's English name. Barto Rizzo lifted his eyebrows queerly. "We'll go through another interrogatory in an hour," he said; "stop here till I return."
For was not Rizzo the happy holder of many pretty bits of parchment signed by the hand of "Caterina Regina" herself and attested by the royal signet of Cyprus which to disobey was treason? It would be a pretty farce to insist upon the potency of that trembling signature wrested from the captive Queen when she had worn no semblance of power a farce to which the Neapolitan schemer was fully equal.
A conspiracy is an epitome of humanity, with a boiling power beneath it. You're no more than a bit of mechanism happy if it goes at all! Agostino said that he would pay a visit to Vittoria in the evening. Ammiani had determined to hunt out Barto Rizzo and the heads of the Clubs before he saw her.
'As you please, said Weisspriess, drawing out one stream of his moustache. 'In the meantime, thank me for luring you away from the chances of a street row. Barto Rizzo was left behind, and they rode on to the Duomo. Glancing up at its pinnacles, Weisspriess said: 'How splendidly Flatschmann's jagers would pick them off from there, now, if the dogs were giving trouble in this part of the city!
"Thanks, your Majesty," he said, "there are yet other documents to be signed," and he laid them before her. "My child!" she cried in extremity; "have mercy restore him to me I have fulfilled your pleasure!" "Your Majesty hath forgotten these," said Rizzo, "and the penalty if they are left unsigned."
"A Piedmontese colonel, you fool! he would have shouted 'Viva Carlo Alberto!" said Merthyr, now critically disgusted with the tale, and refusing to hear more. Two hours later, he despatched Beppo to Carlo in Brescia, warning him that for some insane purpose these two proclamations had been printed by Barto Rizzo, and that they were false.
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