On the highroad there had been found dead and wounded.

A man had been seen going by at a gallop, carrying a woman in distress on his saddle; he had soon left the beaten track and plunged across country.

A peasant coming home from working in the fields had seen him appear and vanish again like a shadow, taking the direction of a lonely house.

An old woman declared that she had seen him go into this house.

But the next night the house was gone, as though by enchantment, and the ploughshare had passed over where it stood; so that none could say, what had become of her whom they sought, far those who had dwelt in the house, and even the house itself, were there no longer.
Manenti and the French ambassador returned to Venice, and related what the duke had said, what they had done, and how all search had been in vain.