Well, Cesare, as you
know, is Gennaro's father-in-law.
"While I was in Naples looking up the record of a certain
criminal I heard of a peculiar murder committed some years ago.
There was an honest old music master who apparently lived the
quietest and most harmless of lives. But it became known that he
was supported by Cesare and had received handsome presents of
money from him. The old man was, as you may have guessed, the
first music teacher of Gennaro, the man who discovered him. One
might have been at a loss to see how he could have an enemy, but
there was one who coveted his small fortune. One day he was
stabbed and robbed. His murderer ran out into the street, crying
out that the poor man had been killed. Naturally a crowd rushed
up in a moment, for it was in the middle of the day. Before the
injured man could make it understood who had struck him the
assassin was down the street and lost in the maze of old Naples
where he well knew the houses of his friends who would hide him.
The man who is known to have committed that crime--Francesco
Paoli--escaped to New York. We are looking for him to-day. He is
a clever man, far above the average--son of a doctor in a town a
few miles from Naples, went to the university, was expelled for
some mad prank--in short, he was the black sheep of the family.
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