knock
and demand her orders for the disposal of the body of her husband
without receiving any answer to their question. It remained still
unanswered when later in the day she departed from Aversa in a closed
litter, and returned to Naples escorted by a company of lances, and
for lack of instructions the monks left the body in the Abbot's garden,
where it had fallen, until Charles of Durazzo came to remove it two days
later.

Ostentatiously he bore to Naples the murdered Prince--whose death he had
so subtly inspired--and in the cathedral before the Hungarians, whom he
had assembled, and in the presence of a vast concourse of the people, he
solemnly swore over the body vengeance upon the murderers.

Having made a cat's-paw of Giovanna--through the person of her lover,
Bertrand d'Artois, and his confederate assassins--and thus cleared away
one of those who stood between himself and the throne, he now sought
to make a cat's-paw of justice to clear away the other. Meanwhile, days
grew into weeks and weeks into months, and no attempt was made by the
Queen to hunt out the murderers of her husband, no inquiry instituted.
Bertrand d'Artois, it is true, had fled with his father to their
stronghold of Saint Agatha for safety. But the others--Cabane, Terlizzi,
and Morcone--continued unabashed about Giovanna's person at the Castel
Nuovo.

Charles wrote to Ludwig of Hungary, and to the Pope, demanding that
justice should be done, and pointing out the neglect of all attempt
to perform it in the kingdom itself, and inviting them to construe for
themselves that neglect. As a consequence, Clement VI issued, on June
2d of the following year, a Bull, whereby Bertrand des Baux, the
Grand Justiciary of Naples, was commanded to hunt down and punish the
assassins, against whom--at the same time--the Pope launched a second
Bull, of excommunication. But the Holy Father accompanied his commands
to Des Baux by a private note, wherein he straitly enjoined the Grand
Justiciary for reasons of State to permit nothing to transpire that
might reflect upon the Queen.

Des Baux set about his task at once, and inspired, no doubt, by Charles,
proceeded to the arrest of Melazzo and the servant Pace. It was not for
Charles to accuse the Queen or even any of her nobles, whereby he might
have aroused against himself the opposition of those who were her
loyal partisans. Sufficient for him to point out the two meanest of the
conspirators, and depend upon th