Chapter 35 No.35

The commendatore Giustino Morena-familiarly known as Don Giustino or, by his enemies, as "the assassin"-was a Southerner by birth, a city product. From low surroundings he had risen to be a prominent member of the Chamber of Deputies and one of the most impressive figures in the country.

As a child he was apprenticed to a cobbler. There, bending