Orso went up to his room.

A moment afterward Colomba followed him, carrying a small casket which she set upon the table.

Opening it, she drew out a shirt, covered with great stains of blood.
"Here is your father's shirt, Orso!" And she threw it across his knees.

"Here is the lead that killed him!" And she laid two blackened bullets on the shirt.
"Orso! Brother!" she cried, throwing herself into his arms and clasping him desperately to her.

"Orso, you will avenge him!" In a sort of frenzy she kissed him, then kissed the shirt and the bullets, and went out of the room, leaving her brother sitting on his chair, as if he had been turned to stone.