It now became known that another and most important event had occurred at the same instant.

On the day before the Antwerp massacre, four days before the publication of the Ghent treaty, a foreign cavalier, attended by a Moorish slave and by six men-at-arms, rode into the streets of Luxemburg.

The cavalier was Don Ottavio Gonzaga, brother of the Prince of Melfi.

The Moorish slave was Don John of Austria, the son of the Emperor, the conqueror of Granada, the hero of Lepanto.

The new Governor-general had traversed Spain and France in disguise with great celerity, and in the romantic manner which belonged to his character.