He found the old man suspended from one of the branches of the oak which shaded his daughter's grave.
He then took an oath of bitter vengeance over the dead body of the one and the tomb of the other.

But he was unable to complete this oath, for two days afterwards, in an encounter with the Roman carbineers, Carlini was killed.

There was some surprise, however, that, as he was with his face to the enemy, he should have received a ball between his shoulders.
That astonishment ceased when one of the brigands remarked to his comrades that Cucumetto was stationed ten paces in Carlini's rear when he fell.

On the morning of the departure from the forest of Frosinone he had followed Carlini in the darkness, and heard this oath of vengeance, and, like a wise man, anticipated it.

They told ten other stories of this bandit chief, each more singular than the other.