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THE FEAST OF SAN SEBA ST/A NO 159
police, and sent a message to the White
Brotherhood. And the latter had carried Giannita’s body
to her mother’s house.
When Donna Micaela awoke, she found herself
lying on the sofa in a room next her father’s. No
one was with her, but in her father’s room she heard
Donna Elisa talking.
“My son and my daughter,” said Donna Elisa,
sobbing; “ I have lost both my son and my daughter.”
Donna Micaela tried to raise herself, but she
could not. Her body still lay in a stupor, although
her soul was awake. •
“Cavaliere, Cavaliere,” said Donna Elisa, “can
you understand ? The bandits come here from Etna,
creeping down to Diamante. The bandits attack
the custom-house and shout: ’ Long live Socialism !’
They do it only to frighten people away from the
streets and to draw the Carabiniere down to Porta
Etnea. There is not a single man from
Diamante who has anything to do with it. It is the
bandits who arrange it all, to be able to plunder
Miss Tottenham and Donna Micaela, two women,
Cavaliere! What did those officers think at the
court-martial ? Did they believe that Gaetano was
in league with the bandits? Did they not see that
he was a nobleman, a true Alagona, an artist ? How
could they have sentenced him ? ”
Donna Micaela listened with horror, but she tried
to imagine that she was still dreaming. She thought
she heard Gaetano ask if she was sacrificing him to
God. She thought she answered that she did. Now
she was dreaming of how it would be in case he
really had been captured. It could be nothing else.
“ What a night of misfortune!” said Donna Elisa.
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