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58 the miracles of antichrist.
loved any one as much as her father, and her own
home had been more magnificent than any one else’s.
But one day her father had come to her and said :
" They want to arrest me. They circulate reports
that I have been stealing, but it isn’t true."
She had believed him, and helped to keep him
concealed from the Carabineers. And they had
sought him in vain in Catania, on Etna, and all over
Sicily.
But when the police could not find Cavaliere
Palmeri, the people began to say: " It is some grand
personages that help him, else one would have found
him long ago." Then the prefect of Catania had
called on her. She received him smilingly, and the
prefect came as if to speak of roses and fair weather.
Then he said: " Would the signorina glance at this
little paper? Would the signorina read this little
letter ? Would the signorina observe this signature ? "
She read and read. And what did she see ? Her
father was not innocent. Her father had taken other
people’s money.
When the prefect had taken leave of her, she had
gone to her father. " You are guilty," she said to
him. " You may do what you like, but I can help
you no more." Oh, she had not known what she
said. She had always been very proud. She had
not been able to bear that her name had become
branded with dishonor. For a moment, she had
wished her father dead, rather than have this happen
to her. Perhaps she had said as much to him. She
hardly knew what she had said.
But after that God had forsaken her. The most
terrible things had happened. Her father had taken
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