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"Then who fired the shot that killed his Excellency, Signora?"

"I did," said Roma

Instinctively the man removed his hat

Within half-an-hour Roina

C[oe]li, and the Carabineers, to prevent a public scandal, had sht, to his office in the

Palazzo Braschi, on the opposite side of the piazza

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One thought was supreme in David Rossi's mind when he left the Piazza

Navona--that the world in which he had lived was shaken to its

foundations and his life was at an end The unhappyhi or as to

becos tore his heart, but the worst of theer He had

taken the life of the Baron The man deserved his death, and he felt no

pity for his victim and no remorse for his crime But that he should

have killed the Minister, he who had twice stood between him and death,

he who had resisted the doctrine of violence and all his life preached

the gospel of peace, this was a degradation too sha and end of everything "How I hate