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fra felice’s testament 25 i
with a new theater in the same way as Taormina and
other cities. This could be done by simply
converting one of the churches into a play-house. Surely
Diamante had more than enough with five
city-churches and seven monastery churches, it could
very well afford to spare one of them.
Now there was Santa Lucia in Gesu, the church
of the Jesuits. The monastery surrounding it was
already turned into barracks, and the church was as
good as deserted. That would make such an
excellent theater.
. This the new syndic had proposed, and the
city-junta had agreed to.
When Donna Elisa heard what was taking place,
she threw over her her mantilla and veil, and
hastened to the Lucia church as speedily as though she
were hastening to the house of one dying.
" What will become of the blind ? " thought Donna
Elisa. " How will they be able to live without
Santa Lucia in Gesu? "
As Donna Elisa came to the little, quiet court,
around which the Jesuits’ long, unhandsome
monastery buildings are erected, she saw, on the broad
stone step which runs along the whole front of the
church, a row of ragged children and shaggy dogs.
All these were guides of the blind, and they cried
and whined, with all their might.
" What is the matter with you all ? " asked Donna
Elisa.
"They wish to take our church away from
us," wailed the children, whereupon all the dogs
howled more pitifully than before, for blind people’s
dogs are almost like human beings.
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