[Celebrated Crimes by Alexandre Dumas Pere]@TWC D-Link bookCelebrated Crimes CHAPTER XI 8/18
The result was that, if any accident should happen to Caesar, nobody would dream of accusing Alfanso; and also if any accident should happen to Alfonso, nobody would dream, of accusing Caesar. There was a supper at the Vatican.
Alfonso made an elegant toilet, and about ten o'clock at night prepared to go from the quarters he inhabited into those where the pope lived; but the door which separated the two courts of the building was shut, and knock as he would, no one came to open it.
Alfonso then thought that it was a simple matter for him to go round by the Piazza of St.Peter's; so he went out unaccompanied through one of the garden gates of the Vatican and made his way across the gloomy streets which led to the stairway which gave on the piazza.
But scarcely had he set his foot on the first step when he was attacked by a band of armed men.
Alfonso would have drawn his sword; but before it was out of the scabbard he had received two blows from a halberd, one on his head, the other on his shoulder; he was stabbed in the side, and wounded both in the leg and in the temple.
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