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100 228 . the miracles of antichrist
X
falco falcone
The blind singers have sung about Diamante’s
railroad week after week, and the large
collection-box in San Pasquale’s has every night been full of
gifts. Signor Alfredo surveys and stakes over on
Etna’s slope, and in the dark lanes the women at
their distaffs tell of wonderful things which have
been done by the little image of Christ in the
despised church. From the rich and mighty who own
land on Etna, come letter after letter, offering to
open land for the blessed undertaking.
During these last weeks all come with gifts. Some
give bricks for the stations, and some give powder
to blast away lava blocks, and others give food for
the laborers. But the poor people in Corvaja, who
have nothing to give, come at night, when they have
finished their work. They come with spades and
wheelbarrows, and steal out on Etna, and dig the
earth and lay the road. So that when Signor
Alfredo and his people arrive in the morning, they
verily believe that the Etna goblins have broken
loose from their lava-streams and helped them work.
But all this time, it is asked and wondered : Where
is the Etna king, Falco Falcone? Where is the
mighty Falco, who has controlled the Etna slope for
five and twenty years? He wrote to Don Ferrante’s
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