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i so the miracles of* antichrist
Gaetano as a protection and support. He was now
more dangerous than the men from the inland.
And with each day came sadder tidings to
Diamante. Now all commenced to procure weapons.
And although it was forbidden to own them, they
were nevertheless carried secretly by everybody.
All tourists departed from the island, and, instead,
troops by the thousand were sent there from Italy.
The socialists talked and talked. They were
indeed possessed with an evil spirit, and were not
contented unless they called forth adversity !
Finally the insurrectionists had set the day when
the storm should break loose. All Sicily, all Italy
would rise. It was no longer threats only, it was
reality.
More and more troops came from the mainland,
and the greater part of them were Neapolitans, who
live in constant warfare with the Sicilians. And now
came tidings that the island had been put outside
the law. There would be no courts of justice any
more, only court-martials. And the people said that
the soldiers would have liberty to plunder and
murder as much as they liked.
No one knew what was going to happen. Terror
seemed to make all mad. In Diamante the men
stood in groups at the market-place, they stood there
day after day, without going to work. It was
depressing to see these groups of men, standing there
in their dark mantles and slouch-hats. No doubt
they stood there dreaming of the moment when
they should be permitted to plunder the summer
palace.
As the day drew near on which the insurrection
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