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I guessed then that
she was putting on me a meditated insult; to the Corsican mind,
doubtless a deep one.
"So I am to keep your hogs, Princess?" said I, with a deliberate air.
"Well, I am your hostage."
"I am breaking no faith, Englishman."
"As to that, please observe that I am not accusing you. I but note
that, having the power, you use it. But two things puzzle me: of
which the first is, where shall I find my charges?"
"Marc'antonio shall fetch them down to you from the other side of the
mountain."
"And next, how shall I learn to tend them?" I asked, still keeping my
matter-of-fact tone.
"They will give you no trouble. You have but to pen them at night
and number them, and again at daybreak turn them loose. They know
this forest and prefer it to the other side: you will not find that
they wander. At night you have only to blow a horn which
Marc'antonio will bring you, and the sound of it will fetch them
home."
"A light job," said Stephanu, with a grin, "when a man can bring his
stomach to it."
"Not so light as you suppose, my friend," I answered.


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