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228 . THE MIRACLES of antichrist
" She would not allow me to decorate the Alagona
house for the feast of San Sebastiano," she thought.
" She did not wish the saint should help Gaetano."
Two men now came dragging along a rattling
handcart. On it lay a whole mountain of red hangings,
richly embroidered antependier and altar-pieces in
broad gilt frames.
Donna Elisa struck out with her hand as though
dispelling all doubts. What had happened could not
be a real miracle. The saints were well aware that
Diamante could not afford to build a railroad.
Now a yellow van passed by, packed with music
stands, missals, hassocks and confessionals.
Donna Elisa awoke. She looked out between the
rosaries, hanging in festoons across the window pane.
Why that was the third load of church things.
Was Diamante being plundered ? Had the Saracens
come to the city ?
She took up her position in the doorway, that she
might see better. Again came a litter, and on it lay
mourning wreaths of sheet-iron, grave-slabs with long
inscriptions and escutcheons, such as are hung up in
the churches in memory of the dead.
Donna Elisa questioned the bearers, and was
informed as to what was being done. The church of
Santa Lucia in Gesu was being evacuated. The
Syndic and the city-junta had ordered that it should be
transformed into a theater.
After the insurrection, a new syndic was installed
in Diamante. He was a young man from Rome.
He did not know the city, but nevertheless was
glad to do something for it. He had proposed, at
the city-junta, that Diamante should provide itself
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