Chapter 16 No.16

The sun was setting on the second day of June, in the year 1701, when

Pietro Falier, the Captain of the Police of Venice, quitted his office

in the Piazzetta of St. Mark and set out, alone, for the Palace of

Frà Giovanni, the Capuchin friar, who lived over on the Island of the

Guidecca.

"I shall return in an hour," he said to his sub