CHAPTER XXXIII 

EPISODES OF THE REVOLT AND THE WAR 

COUNT KARL LENKENSTEIN--THE STORY OF THE GUIDASCARPI--THE VICTORY OF THE
VOLUNTEERS 

The smoke of a pistol-shot thinned away while there was yet silence. 

"It is a saving of six charges of Austrian ammunition," said Pericles. 

Vittoria stared at the scene, losing faith in her eyesight.  She could in
fact see no distinct thing beyond what appeared as an illuminated copper
medallion, held at a great distance from her, with a dead man and a
towering female figure stamped on it. 

The events following were like a rush of water on her senses.  There was
fighting up the street of the village, and a struggle in the space where
Rinaldo had fallen; successive yellowish shots under the rising