Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

210 DANGER IN THE DARK.
occasion I saw Ugo Bassi with Garibaldi, whose chaplain
he was. We dined together, and upon leaving,
Bassi manifested the presentiment which he had of
his approaching end. I tried to persuade him to
remain, but in vain; this was but forty hours before
his execution. He embarked at Cesenatici with Garibaldi,
Forbes, and two hundred and fifty others to go
to Venice, but their little boats were partly taken and
partly sunk by the Austrians. Col. Forbes with many
others were taken prisoners. Garibaldi and his wife
landed and hid themselves in a little pine wood,
La Pinita di Ravenna, where she died of fatigue. Ugo
Bassi had also landed and was seeking an asylum in
the same wood, when he was taken and made prisoner
of war; the body of troops who captured him was
commanded by Prince Ernest, son of the Archduke
Rassini, who sent Bassi with the other prisoners to
Bologna, to be placed at the disposition of the' Extraordinary
Commissioner of the Four Legations.'
"Bedini, who felt against Bassi malignity of caste
and the hatred of the vile against the great and virtuous,
sent him to the Commission, with orders to eondemn
him to death.
" To persons of good sense, I wish to make a simple
observation. It is now seven or eight months
since this question was first agitated, and it was for
Bedini's interest to clear himself from the accusation.
There are still at Bologna the Members of the Military
Commission, and all others who took part in public
affairs. General Gorzkowsi is still in Italy. Why