The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-11
Romantic Novel by . Peet.

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Romantic Novel by Poet.
Mr.. Clinton Scotland. hitherto known "A
an earnest and not unglittering poet, turns
himself TO fiction and handsomely presents
to us Count Falcon Of the Eyrie' DANES
| Pott 4 Co... This is a romantic story
of earlier Italy-of time when language
was altitudinous and when it was not i'm
possible for anybody to be such thing as
-the cynosure OF all eyes" page s2). Count
Falcon, who relates his own history, was
little slow in getting into action. but once
fairly started he does not disappeint us.
| He vas villain ously treated by the early
| Italian criminal law Our impression il.
| after reading this story, that Mr.. Anthony
| Comstock himself could not have been
sure Of his reputation in early Italy.
! Count Falcon was good one. Banished
I! from Rome, he did his best in the service
4 of the Venetian State, and it was obviously
not his fault that disaster befe.l the splendid
armament which one of the great Admirals
Of Venice had hurled against the Turks. v
| The Council Of Ten would hardly have re-
warded him with fifty gold ducats If it
had been. II may be said to have been
bolt out OF clear sky when Zarelli de-
nounced him at Rapachristor's celebrated
restaurant, just of the Grand Canal
/, Zarelli ought to have been fayed and pep
| pered We were heartily glad when the
bold Paolo slapped his face and called him
a despicable, liver-faced coward. It did
not distress us wien he was eaten by the
Duke" Of Riletto's dogs, further on in the
story.
| We wish there had been more about
| Lippo, the soulless hunchback and deaf
mute, who performed wicked and strange
| service for the Cardinal Giovanni Orabelli.
The evil Ascanio thought it was Lippo
who strangled and bound him when he
was about to force a monstrous marriage
| upon that noble and adorable lady Elisa
| beta Castelbarco. II was good when
| from under the noses of Leoni Orsini,
Gianbattista Colonna and the Contessa
degli Orvi, to say nothing Of the Cardinal
0rabelN himself. our Guido del Falchi,
assisted by Bembo, bore Elisabetta forth
from the chapel In the palazzo, threaded
| the devious way from the Via della Pace
to the Piazza della Rotonda, passed into
the tangle Of pines, ilexes and infinitely
l
Ian wall, and 40 on over the Anio and across
the waters past the pits Of Corvo, the rock
! Of Anneli and the fatal bogs Of Marta, to
the chestnut forest and the castle Of the
Four Towers. which, as we make out, WAS
not so confoundedly far from the Acqua
Nera and the woods Of Pine.
May the foul fiend fly away with the
Duke of Riletto. We said to ourselves, when
that strenuous parsonage at first pur-
| posed to break Guido on the wheel and
afterward determined to have him run
| down by the hounds Undoubtedly the
! hounds would have devotred him had not
Elisa BETA beaten them of with her whip.
As it was, and as We have already revealed,
they ate Zarelli insteada perfectly JUS
tifiable and accepta BILE disposition Of him
| Perhaps the Duke Of Riletto would have
gone on forever thinking that Guido slew
his nephew, had not the Cardinal Orabelli
made confession when the Black Death
overlook him at the inn OF the Lion and
the Scorpion at Spetto. Here is Count
Guido's account of how the Cardinal died,
while the good Bishep Del Cerda tried
vainly to minister TO him:
Then his expression changed and his
mind seemed to wander, His words for
| time were incoherent but at length they
| grew clear again. 1T was Zarelli who
( did it " he averred. 'Ascanio admitted
! him from the garden after he had drugged
your wine, my simple Guido. All, it was
! so easily managed and all was working
so smoothly until that accursed jailor played
| us his scurvy trick and contrived your
l c. ha
| there were Del Cerda and the apothecary
as witnesses to my uncles words. On
he went. revealing the whole dreadful
conspiracy. dwelling upon his efforts to
gain supreme power in Rome and throu Oh
out Italy, laying bare how he had made such
and such an one his tool. execratinR, until
| I fain would have stopped my ears, and
the Bishop dropped upon his knees In silent
prayer Then his voice fell away into
inarticulate sounds again, to break out
once more into awful curses upon one OF
! his body servants. who had brought Tn.
plague " it'll him inland from Ostia Finally
| his eyelids futtered shut and he cease,
speaking. Then the Bishop began pray.
ing aloud At the sound the Cardinal
drew kissing breath. Del Cerda paused -,
caught from his breast a silver crlcifix.
and held II toward the bloodless lips OF
the man before him. The Cardinal eyes
Enclosed and fixed Themselves upon the
holy emblem His hand went out con.
vusivey, not to grasp but to smite It, ard
! IN that last sacrilegious effort he fell TO
the floor lifeless.
| The Duke OF Rilett0 arrived, ACCOMPANIED
by guests and guard, and forgave Guido
Ascanio rode up little later, and, on learn
ing what bad happened drew, his sword
and killed himself The siege Of the Eyris
! was raised and the Duke and Guido's father,