Byways in southern Tuscany . nor arrived, the traitor had disappeared and hisservant was in the act of pulling up the rope. Giordanofell upon him and threatening to have him executed uponthe spot, the terrified man confessed the whole plot andgave information concerning the artilleryman this was going on the artilleryman, all unaware,was waiting for the signal to spike the guns, but Giordano,appearing suddenly at the place, seized him before hecould be warned and soon discovered the steel implementsfor spiking the guns sewed into the sleeves of his doublet. Afterward both these men,
Byways in southern Tuscany . nor arrived, the traitor had disappeared and hisservant was in the act of pulling up the rope. Giordanofell upon him and threatening to have him executed uponthe spot, the terrified man confessed the whole plot andgave information concerning the artilleryman this was going on the artilleryman, all unaware,was waiting for the signal to spike the guns, but Giordano,appearing suddenly at the place, seized him before hecould be warned and soon discovered the steel implementsfor spiking the guns sewed into the sleeves of his doublet. Afterward both these men, the sergeants underlingtogether with the artilleryman, were hanged from thevery battlement over which the sergeant himself hadbeen lowered the night before. At this point the reader may be inclined to doubtwhether, as the devout chronicler opines, divine Providenceordained the close of this episode, since the unhappy ser-vant, having saved his masters life, is left to suffer thedeath so richly deserved by that io6
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