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falco falcone 29i
after a while they begin to talk. Before long they
are talking about Falco.
" Is it true that you allow your sons to work on
Donna Micaela’s railroad ? " says the beggar.
Donna Silvia bites her teeth together and nods
affirmatively.
" You are a brave woman, Donna Silvia. Falco
might take revenge on you."
" Let him take revenge then," says Donna Silvia.
" I will not mind him, who has killed my father.
He forced him to flee from the prison in Augusta,
and my father was caught and shot."
When she has said this, she rises and goes into
the house to fetch the food.
But as she stands in the kitchen, she sees the
beggar, who sits rocking on the stone bench. He is not
still for a moment. And before him wriggles his
shadow, slender and mobile as a snake.
Donna Silvia now recalls what she once had heard
Caterina, who had been married to Falco’s brother,
Nino, say. " How shall you know Falco now after
twenty years ? " some one had asked her. " Should
I not know the man with the snake shadow ? " she
had answered. " That, he will not lose as long as he
lives."
Donna Silvia’s hand leaps to her heart. Out there
in her yard sits Falco Falcone. He has come to take
vengeance, because her sons work on the railroad.
Will he set the house on fire, or will he murder her ?
Donna Silvia trembles, as she serves up her
mac-caroni.
Falco, however, begins to find time long, where he
sits on the stone bench. A little dog comes up to
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