The Amulet

[Footnote 23: "Simon Turchi was known to be a perverse and immoral man; in

a word, he was a compound of every vice and every evil

inclination."--Matteo Bandello.]

[Footnote 24: "Go and do what I have commanded you. Disinter the body,

take it on your shoulders and cast it into the sewer which is in the

square where the three streets meet."--Simon Turchi.--Matteo

Bandello.]

[Footnote 25: "I will send Bernardo to help you, and I will order him to

obey you, whatever you may command. When you have thrown the body into the

sewer, you can, by a quick movement, push Bernardo in also. The sewer is

deep, and whoever falls into it is immediately drowned."--Matteo

Bandello.]

[Footnote 26: "Simon Turchi begged Julio to take the crime upon

himself."--Van Meteren, History of the Low Countries.]