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the feast of san sebastiano ij7i
And she sat quietly with her face bowed in her
hands. Now and then she rocked her body to and
fro, and moaned softly.
But Gandolfo told how the judge, when Gaetano
had confessed this, had pointed to his
fellow-prisoners and asked him : " If you loved this woman,
how then can you have anything in common with
these, who have murdered her ? "
Then Don Gaetano had turned to the brigands.
He had lifted his clenched hand towards them and
shaken it. And he had looked as if he wished he
had a dagger to thrust them down one by one.
" With these ! " he had cried : " Should I have
anything in common with these ? "
And in all probability he had intended to say that
he had nothing to do with robbers and murderers.
The judge had smiled kindly upon him and looked
as though he were only waiting for this answer in
order to acquit him.
But a miracle of God had then taken place.
And Gandolfo told how, among all the stolen
articles lying on the court-table, there was also a
little Christ image. It was about two feet high, and
richly beset with jewelry, and arrayed in a gold
crown and gold shoes. Just at that moment one
of the officers bent forward to take the Httle image,
and in doing so, the crown fell to the floor and rolled
to Don Gaetano’s feet.
Don Gaetano took up the crown, held it for a
moment in his hands, and examined it carefully. It
seemed as if he had read something on it.
He held it only for a moment. In the next the
guard took it away from him.
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