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falco falcone 29i
29I
smuggle a ten-lire-bill into the hand of the guide, if
he leads them to Falco’s quarry. One knows that
the carabinieri shoot at him no more, because he is
the last great robber.
He fears so little to be captured that he often
wanders to Messina and Palermo. He has even
crossed the Sound and been in Italy. He went to
Naples when Guglielmo and Umberto were there to
christen the iron-clad. He traveled to Rome when
Umberto and Margherita celebrated their silver
wedding.
One thinks of this and trembles. Falco is beloved
and admired, the workingmen say. One worships
Falco. He has freedom to do what he pleases.
They also know that when Falco beheld Queen
Margherita’s silver wedding, it so pleased him that
he said: " When I have lived on Etna five and
twenty years, I will celebrate my silver wedding
with Mongibello."
People have laughed at this, and said that it was
an excellent idea. For he had never had a beloved,
but Mongibello with its caves and forests and craters
and ice-fields had served him and protected him as
a wife. To no one in the world did Falco owe such
a debt of gratitude as to Mongibello.
One asks when Falco and Mongibello are going
to celebrate their silver wedding. And one answers
that it would take place this spring. Then the
laborers think : " He will destroy our railroad on
Mongibello s day."
Hesitation and fear prevail among them. Soon
they dare work no further. As the time draws nigh,
when Falco is to celebrate his alliance with Mongi-
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