“Tito Melema, aged twenty-three, with a dark, beautiful face, long dark curls, the brightest smile, and a large onyx ring on his right forefinger.”
Tito did not look at the friar, but tremblingly broke open the bit of parchment. Inside, the words were—
“I am sold for a slave: I think they are going to take me to Antioch. The gems alone will serve to ransom me.”
Tito looked round at the friar, but could only ask a question with his eyes.
“I had it at Corinth,” the friar said, speaking with difficulty, like one whose small strength had been overtaxed—“I had it from a man who was dying.”
“He is dead, then?” said Tito, with a bounding of the heart.
“Not the writer. The man who gave it me was a pilgrim, like myself, to whom the writer had intrusted it, because he was journeying to Italy.”
“You know the contents?”
“I do not know them, but I conjecture them. Your friend is in slavery: you will go and release him. But I am unable to talk now.” The friar, whose voice had become feebler and feebler, sank down on the stone bench against the wall from which he had risen to touch Tito’s hand, adding—
“I am at San Marco; my name is Fra Luca.”
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