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The Lion of Saint Mark

CHAPTER 13: The Pirates' Raid
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It is for your sakes, as well as for my own.

We shall never feel a moment's safety, as long as this villain is at large.

Francisco's story will keep till tomorrow.
"As to your gratitude and mine, that needs no telling.

He cannot but know what we are feeling, at the thought of the almost miraculous escape you have had from falling into the hands of your persecutor.
"Now come along, Francisco.
"One of you men who knows the road had better come with us.

Do the rest of you all keep together.
"Two miles further, girls, as you know, is a villa of Carlo Maffene.


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