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(1909) [MARC] [MARC] Author: Selma Lagerlöf Translator: Pauline Bancroft Flach
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178 THE MIRACLES OF AJVTICHRIST

His noble face was constantly changing. Once
Gandolfo had seen it contracted by a sudden terror.
It was when the man sitting nearest to him stretched
out a hand covered with blood. Had he perhaps had
a sudden idea of the truth ? Did he think that those
men had broken into the house where his beloved
lived?

Gandolfo told how the officers who were to be the
judges had come in, silent and grave, and sat down
in their places. But he said when he had seen
those noble gentlemen his anxiety had diminished,
He had said to himself that they knew that Gaetano
was of good birth, and that they would not sentence
him. They would not mix him up with the bandits.
No one could possibly believe that he had wished to
rob two women.

And see, when the judge called up Gaetano
Alagona his voice was without hardness. He spoke
to him as to an equal.

“But,” said Gandolfo, “when Don Gaetano rose,
he stood so that he could see out over the square.
And through the square, through this same square,
where now so many people are sitting in happiness
and pleasure, a funeral procession was passing.

“ It was the White Brotherhood carrying the body
of the murdered Giannita to her mother’s house.
They walked with torches, and the bier, carried on
the bearers’ shoulders, was plainly visible. As the
procession passed slowly across the market-place,
one could recognize the pall spread over the corpse.
It was the pall of the Alagonas adorned with
a gorgeous coat of arms and rich silver fringes.
When Gaetano saw it, he understood that the corpse
was of the house of Alagona. His face became

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