Already he has paid the penalty.

He is lying with a dagger in his throat, for an hour ago Ramiro stabbed him while he slept." I shuddered.

What a place of blood was this! Could it be that Cesare Borgia had no knowledge of what things were being performed by his Governor of Cesena?
"Poor Lampugnani!" I sighed.

"God rest his soul." "I doubt but he is in Hell," answered Mariani, without emotion.

"He was as great a villain as his master, and he has gone to answer for his villainy even as this ugly monster of a Ramiro shall.