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FIRST BOOK
" Then great distress shall prevail."
I
mongibello
Towards the end of 1870 there lived in Palermo a
poor boy whose name was Gaetano Alagona. That
was fortunate for him. Had he not been one of the
ancient Alagona family, he would probably have
been left to starve. But the Jesuits in Santa Maria
in Gesu, had taken pity on him and received him
into the convent school.
One day as he was studying his lesson, a father
came and called him out of the schoolroom, because
a relative wished to see him. What, a relative! He
had always heard that all his relations were dead,
But Father Josef declared that this was a real live
sig-nora, who was related to him and wanted to take
him out of the convent. It became worse and
worse. Did she want to take him out of the
convent ? Surely it was not in her power to do that!
He was to become a monk, was he not ?
He did not want to see that signora at all.
Couldn’t Father Josef tell her that Gaetano would
never leave the convent, and that it was no use asking
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