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" Insurrection has broken out in Paterno ! They have
been shooting for several hours and it can be heard
here. Troops have already been sent for to Catania.
And Gaetano says it will break out here too. He
says it will break out in all the Etna cities at the
same time."
Donna Micaela made a sign to Giannita to
remain with her father, and she went herself across the
street and into Donna Elisa’s shop.
Donna Elisa sat behind the counter at her frame,"
but she did not work. The tears fell fast and heavy,
so that she was obliged to cease embroidering.
" Where is Gaetano ? " said Donna Micaela wholly
without circumlocution. " I must speak with him ! "
" God grant you may have luck in speaking with
him," answered Donna Elisa. " He is in the
garden."
She crossed the courtyard and passed into the
walled garden.
In the garden were numerous paths, running
narrow and winding from terrace to terrace. There
were also many arbors and grottos and
resting-places. And the stiff agaves and dense dwarf palms
and glossy-leafed rubber plants and rhododendrons
stood so close that one could not see two steps
ahead. Donna Micaela wandered long in these
countless paths, before she could find Gaetano.
And the longer she walked, the more impatient she
grew.
Finally she found him farthest down in the
garden. She saw him on the lowest terrace, built out
on one of the bastions of the city wall. There sat
Gaetano quietly, and, with chisel and hammer,working
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