If he had left, orders were to be sent, to every town in the Venetian dominions on the mainland, for his arrest when discovered, and in that case he was to be sent a prisoner, strongly guarded, to Venice.
Other galleys had been simultaneously dispatched to the various ports, ordering a strict search of every boat arriving or leaving, and directing a minute investigation to be made as to the occupants of every boat that had arrived during the evening or night.

The fact that a thousand ducats were offered, for information which would lead to the recovery of the girls, was also to be published far and wide.
The news of the abduction had spread, and the greatest indignation was excited in the city.

The sailors from the port of Malamocco came over in great numbers.

They regarded this outrage on the family of the great merchant as almost a personal insult.

Stones were thrown at the windows of the Palazzo Mocenigo, and an attack would have been made upon it, had not the authorities sent down strong guards to protect it.