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fra felice’s testament 25 I
hundred women had gathered together, it had
occurred to them that they ought to go and speak to
the syndic.
They had marched up to the market-place and
called the syndic. He had stepped out on the
courthouse balcony, and they had solicited for the blind.
The syndic was a handsome and amiable man. He
had answered them kindly, but he would not yield.
He could not repeal what had been decided at the
city-junta.
The women, however, were determined that it
should be repealed,and they remained in the
marketplace. The syndic went back into the court-house,
but they stood outside, calling and entreating. They
intended to remain until he had conceded.
While this was going on, Donna Elisa came to
deliver Fra Felice’s testament to the syndic. She was
deeply grieved over all this misery, but at the same
time she felt a kind of grim satisfaction, because
she had received no aid from the Christ-child. Was
not that what she had always believed ? The saints
were not willing to help Donna Micaela.
It was a pretty gift indeed, which she had received
at San Pasquale’s church! The blind were not
helped by it, and besides might it not ruin the
whole city? The little the people still owned would
now go to the lottery-collector, and then would begin
an endless borrowing and pawning.
The syndic received Donna Elisa immediately, and
was just as calm and courteous as always, in spite of
the women’s cries outside, the groans of the blind in
the waiting-room, and a continuous stream of people
running in and out all day.
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