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228 . the miracles of antichrist
At the church door Donna Elisa met Master
Pam-pilio’s wife, Donna Concetta. "Ah, Donna Elisa,"
she said, " never in all your life have you seen any-^
thing so terrible. You’ll do best not to go in."
But Donna Elisa passed on.
In the church she first saw nothing but a white
cloud of dust. The strokes of hammers, however,
echoed through the cloud, for some laborers were
pulling down an immense stone knight resting in one
of the window niches.
" O Lord," said Donna Elisa folding her hands,
" they are tearing down Sor Arrigo ! " And she
thought of how peacefully he had lain there in his
niche. Every time she had seen him, she had wished
that she could be so separated from troubles and
changeability as old Sor Arrigo. ^
In the Lucia church there was still a large
sepulchral monument. It represented an old Jesuit
reclining on a black marble sarcophagus, with scourge in
hand, and the cowl drawn far down over the
forehead. He was called Father Succi, and it was
customary to frighten the children in Diamante with
him.
Donna Elisa wondered if they would dare to touch
Father Succi also. And she groped her way
through the lime dust up to the chancel where stood
the sarcophagus, to see if they had dared to move
the old Jesuit.
But Father Succi still lay on his bed of stone. He
lay there, dark and stern as he had been in life, and
it might almost be believed that he was still alive.
Had the doctor been there and a table with medicine
bottles and burning candles beside the bed, one
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