Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

CHAPTER XXI.
Bedini Nuncio to America-Finale of Dupin.
BEFORE returning to bring forward the more interesting
and the principal characters in our tory, it
may be well to dispose of Bedini and Dupin after
some further notice of them. .
Having in a previous chapter, in connection with
the early histery of Dupin, given an account of the
scandalous life of Bedini in Italy, and the shocking
inhumanity he displayed toward the republicans who
were so unfortunate as to fall into his brutal hands at
the suppression of the Italian Revolution in '49, we
are now to speak of him as Papal Nuncio to America.
Upon his arrival in this country Bedini was received
by the Catholic clergy with great eclat. Very naturally,
curiosity was awakened in the minds of the
American people, who observed the parade, to know
who the distinguished stranger was on whom Papists
were bestowing such fulsome flattery and unwonted
adulation. Those who made inquiry concerning his
mission, were told by Bedini and his friends, that he
was Nuncio to Brazil, and was but on his way thither.
This was said by some very respectable and intelligent
Italian gentlemen, then in New York, to be a
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