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BOOK III
4* And he shall gain many followers."
I
THE OASIS AND THE DESERT
IT was in the spring of 1894, that the Etna
railroad was begun, in the autumn of 1895 it was finished.
It rose from the sea-shore, encompassed the
mountain in a wide semicircle and came back to the
seashore.
The trains run every day, and Mongibello lies
vanquished and suffers it to pass. Strangers journey
amazed through the black, distorted lava-streams,
through the white almond-groves, through the dark
old Saracen-towns. " Lo, only think that such a
country exists upon the earth ! " they say.
In the coupes some one is always telling about the
time when the Christ-image was in Diamante.
What a time, what a time ! Every day the image
worked new miracles. One cannot tell of them all,
but he made it so bright in Diamante as if the
moments of the day had been dancing maidens. One
fancied that Time had filled the hour-glass with glit
tering gold sand.
Had any one asked who it was that reigned in
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