are frustrated, when He permits the light of His avenging justice to
expose them in their enormity. On the contrary, it forcibly proves that
virtuous actions, sooner or later, bear abundant fruit even in this
world. If a man's sins bring upon his head a weight of woe, so do his
good deeds draw down the benedictions of heaven and serve as a shield to
protect him from his enemies.

S.J.F.

_Baltimore_.




CONTENTS.


CHAPTER I. PAGE
ANTWERP 9

CHAPTER II.
SIGNOR DEODATI 30

CHAPTER III.
THE PALACE OF SIMON TURCHI, AND WHAT OCCURRED THERE 43

CHAPTER IV.
THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION--THE ASSASSINATOR SLAIN 64

CHAPTER V.