Avon Modern Short Story Monthly #36 — page 71: what you’re looking at

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HISTORICAL NIGHTS’ ENTERTAINMENT = = 71 Abbot’s garden; where it had fallen, until Charles of Durazzo osiue to remove it two days later. Ostentatiously he bore to Naples the murdered Prince—whose death he had so subtly inspired—and in the cathedral before the Hungarians, whom he had assembled, and in the presence of a vast concourse of the people, he solemnly swore over the body vengeance upon the murderers. Having made a cat’s-paw of Giovanna—through the person of her lover, Bertrand d’Artois, and his confederate assassins—and thus cleared away one of those who stood between himself and the throne, he now sought to make a cat’s-paw of Justice to clear away the other, Meanwhile, days grew into weeks and weeks into months, and no attempt was made by the Queen to hunt out the murderers of her husband, no inquiry instituted. Bertrand d’Artois, it is true, had fled with his father to their stronghold of Saint Agatha for safety. But the others—Cabane, Terlizzi, and Morcone—continued unabashed about Giovanna’s person at the Castel Nuovo. Charles wrote to Ludwig of Hungary, and to the Pope, demanding that justice should be done, and pointing out the neglect of all at- tempt to perform it in the kingdom itself, and inviting them to con- strue for themselves that neglect. As a consequence, Clement VI issued, on June 2d of the following year, a Bull, whereby Bertrand des Baux, the Grand Justiciary of Naples, was commanded to hunt down and punish the assassins, against whom—at the same time—the Pope launched a second Bull, of excommunication. But the Holy Father accompanied his commands to Des Baux by a private note, wherein he straitly enjoined the Grand Justiciary for reasons of State to permit nothing to transpire that might reflect upon the Queen. Des Baux set about his task at once, and inspired, no doubt, by Charles, proceeded to the arrest of Melazzo and the servant Pace. It was not for Charles to accuse the Queen or even any of her nobles, whereby he might have aroused against himself the opposition of those who were her loyal partisans. Sufficient for him to point out the two meanest of the conspirators, and depend upon the torture to wring from them confessions that must gradually pull down the rest, | and in the end Giovanna herself. Terlizzi, alive to his danger when he heard of the arrest of those Gomichbooks com