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the feast of san sebastiano ij7i
brows upon his fellow-prisoners ought to have
murdered their souls if, like other beings, they had
possessed them.
" Who are you," he seemed to ask, "who dare to
take to pillage and murder, while you invoke the
blessed freedom. Do you know what you have
done? Do you know that because of this scheme of
yours I am now a prisoner ? And I was to have
saved Sicily ! " And every glance he cast upon them
was a death-warrant.
His eye fell upon all the things the bandits had
stolen and which now lay on the table of the court.
He recognized them. Should he not know the
pendulum-clocks and the silver dishes from the summer
palace, should he not know the images of saints and
coins, that had been stolen from his English
patroness ? But when he had recognized these things
he gave his fellow-prisoners a ghastly smile. " You
heroes, you heroes!" said the smile, "you have
robbed two women."
His noble face was constantly changing. Once
Gandolfo had seen it contract from sudden terror.
It was when the man sitting next to him had
stretched out a hand covered with blood. Had he
perhaps suddenly divined the truth ? Did it occur
to him just then that these had effected an entrance
into the house where his beloved was staying?
Gandolfo told how the officers, who were to be
the judges, had entered, silently and solemnly, and
had sat down in their places. But, he said, when he
saw these grand gentlemen, his anxiety had
decreased. He had said to himself, that they knew
that Don Gaetano was a noble gentleman, and that
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