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Crioni went at once to the palace, denounced the criminal, and handed over the carbuncle as evidence. Stammato was arrested, tried, and condemned, with the old-time Venetian promptness. He was hanged between the two great columns in the Piazza with a gilded rope, out of compliment to his love of gold, perhaps. He got no good of his booty at all it was ALL recovered.
He could have gone home much the richest citizen of his country, and it might have been years before the plunder was missed; but he was human he could not enjoy his delight alone, he must have somebody to talk about it with. So he exacted a solemn oath from a Candian noble named Crioni, then led him to his lodgings and nearly took his breath away with a sight of his glittering hoard.
He detected a look in his friend's face which excited his suspicion, and was about to slip a stiletto into him when Crioni saved himself by explaining that that look was only an expression of supreme and happy astonishment. Stammato made Crioni a present of one of the state's principal jewels a huge carbuncle, which afterward figured in the Ducal cap of state and the pair parted.
He could have gone home much the richest citizen of his country, and it might have been years before the plunder was missed; but he was human he could not enjoy his delight alone, he must have somebody to talk about it with. So he exacted a solemn oath from a Candian noble named Crioni, then led him to his lodgings and nearly took his breath away with a sight of his glittering hoard.
He detected a look in his friend's face which excited his suspicion, and was about to slip a stiletto into him when Crioni saved himself by explaining that that look was only an expression of supreme and happy astonishment. Stammato made Crioni a present of one of the state's principal jewels a huge carbuncle, which afterward figured in the Ducal cap of state and the pair parted.
Crioni went at once to the palace, denounced the criminal, and handed over the carbuncle as evidence. Stammato was arrested, tried, and condemned, with the old-time Venetian promptness. He was hanged between the two great columns in the Piazza with a gilded rope, out of compliment to his love of gold, perhaps. He got no good of his booty at all it was ALL recovered.
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