[The Lion of Saint Mark by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookThe Lion of Saint Mark CHAPTER 2: A Conspiracy 23/27
One, sitting at the top of the table, was speaking; but although Francis applied his ear to the hole he had made, he could hear but a confused murmur, and could not catch the words.
He now rose cautiously, scooped up the sand so as to cover the hole in the wall, and swept a little down over the spot where he had been lying, although he had no doubt that the breeze, which would spring up before morning, would soon drift the light shifting sand over it, and obliterate the mark of his recumbent figure.
Then he went round to the other side of the hut and bored another hole, so as to obtain a view of the faces of those whose backs had before been towards him. One of these was Ruggiero Mocenigo.
Another was a stranger to Francis, and some difference in the fashion of his garments indicated that he was not a Venetian, but, Francis thought, a Hungarian.
The other three were not nobles.
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