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(1899) [MARC] Author: Selma Lagerlöf Translator: Selma Ahlström Trotz
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falco falcone 29i

I shall take five hundred lire out of my snuff-box,"
said Don Giovanni. And Nino granted him a respite
of three days. " But beware of meeting my brother
during this time, " said he.

The next day Don Giovanni rode to Nicolosi to
call in a debt. Who should he meet on the way,
but Falco and two of his band. Don Giovanni
threw himself from the mule down on his knees
before Falco. " What does this mean, Don
Giovanni ? "—" I have not yet any money for you, Falco,
but I will try to get it. Have compassion on me ! "

Falco inquired, and Don Giovanni related. "
Reverence," said Falco, " they have wished to deceive you."
He bade Don Giovanni accompany him to Diamante.
When they arrived at the old house, Don Giovanni
rode in behind San Pasquale’s wall and Falco called
out Nino. Nino came out on one of the balconies.
" Eh, Nino ! " said Falco, laughing. " You have
got money out of the rector ? "—" Do you know that
already?" said Nino. " I was just intending to tell
you about it. " Falco now grew more severe.
" Nino," he said, " the rector is my friend, and he now
believes that I wished to rob him. You have acted
very wrong." In an instant his rifle was at his eye
and he shot down Nino. And when he had done
this he turned to Don Giovanni, who almost fell
off the mule from terror. "You see, Reverence,
that I had no part in the plot against you ! "

And that happened twenty years ago, when Falco
had not been a robber more than five years.

" Would Falco spare the railroad," they ask,
" when he did not spare his own brother? "

One recalls yet another thing. The murder of

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