I will look in, if you will allow me, to-morrow morning. And
now I think I will go to that unfortunate man, the Marchese
Lamberto. I should not be at all surprised if I were to find that he
had heard nothing about all this. Only think what it is I shall have
to tell him--the woman about whom he has been so mad as to have
determined on sacrificing to her everything, fame, position,
friends, respect,--everything--is dead! It is his monstrous proposal
that has caused her death; and the same folly has made the
representative of his house a murderer and a felon. Think, Signor
Pietro, what that man's feelings must be when these tidings are told
him."
"Depend upon it, the whole city knows all about it by this time,"
said the Commissary.
"But I think it exceedingly likely that he has not been out of his
library, all day," returned the lawyer.
"But the servants will have heard the news. Ill news travels fast,"
said the Commissary, with a shrug.
"Yes; but the servants will hardly have ventured to repeat such
tidings to him. Two to one it will fall to my lot to tell him. A
pleasant office, isn't it, Signor Pietro?"
"Not one I should like to undertake. Good-evening, Signor
Giovacchino. If I don't see you to-morrow morning I will send you a
couple of lines with the result of the medical examination.
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