The pirate then thought only of the tumult which had so suddenly ceased.
“Ah, well, rascal, what about that noise? Why did not Mello come? Was it, then, nothing?”
“No, my lord, a Christian quarrelled with an Albanian slave.”
“And then?”
“The Albanian stabbed the Christian.”
“And then?”
“The Christians cried ‘Death to the Albanian,’ but the Christian who was wounded knocked the Albanian down and almost killed him.”
“And then?”
“Then the Albanians and the Moors, in their turn, roared against the Christians.”
“And then?”