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54 the miracles of antichrist.
" Listen, Donna Alfari," she said, " you may do
what you please, but I must go up to the court."
Giannita was firm. Nothing could alter her
decision. " Don’t you understand that it is for this and
not on your account that God has prevailed upon
you to take me with you to Catania?" she said to
Rosa Alfari.
Not for a moment did Giannita doubt that there
was something supernatural in connection with all
this.
Rosa Alfari was obliged to let her go, and she
inquired the way to the Palace of Justice. She stood
among street boys and rabble, and saw Cavaliere
Pal-meri on the bench of the accused. He was a
distinguished looking gentleman with white imperial and
a white mustache. Giannita recognized him.
She heard him sentenced to half a year’s
imprisonment, and to Giannita it seemed more obvious than
ever that she was sent there by God. " Now my
god-sister may need me," she thought.
She went again out on the street and asked the
way to Palazzo Palmeri. On the road a carriage
passed her. She looked up and her eyes met those of
the lady seated in the carriage. At the same
moment something told her that that was her godsister.
She who rode was pale and bent, and had beseeching
eyes. Giannita felt drawn to her immediately. " You
have made me happy many a time," she said, "
because I have expected joy of you. Now, perhaps I
shall be able to reward you."
Giannita was filled with solemnity, as she ascended
the high white marble staircase to Palazzo Palmeri,
but suddenly she was seized with doubt. " What
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