His followers set upon the watch who retreated into the guard-house.
Heraugiere commanded his men to fire through the doors and windows, and in a few minutes every one of the enemy lay dead.
It was not a moment for making prisoners or speaking of quarter.

Meantime Fervet and his band had not been idle.

The magazine-house of the castle was seized, its defenders slain.

Young Lanzavecchia made a sally from the palace, was wounded and driven back together with a few of his adherents.
The rest of the garrison fled helter-skelter into the town.

Never had the musketeers of Italy--for they all belonged to Spinola's famous Sicilian Legion--behaved so badly.