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THE FEAST OF SAN SEBA ST/A NO 179
ashy gray, and he reeled as if he were going to
fall.
“ At that moment the judge asked him: ’ Do you
know the murdered woman?’ And he answered:
’ Yes.’ Then the judge, who was a merciful man,
continued: 4 Was she near to you ?’ And then Don
Gaetano answered: ’ I love her.’ ”
When Gandolfo had come so far in his story,
people saw Donna Micaela suddenly rise, as if she
had wished to contradict him, but Cavaliere Palmeri
drew her quickly down beside him.
“Be quiet, be quiet,” he said to her.
And she sat quiet with her face hidden in her
hands. Now and then her body rocked and she
wailed softly.
Gandolfo told how the judge, when Gaetano had
acknowledged that, had shown him his
fellow-prisoners and asked him: “ ’If you loved that woman,
how can you have anything in common with the
men who have murdered her?’”
Then Don Gaetano had turned towards the bandits.
He had raised his clenched hand and shaken it at
them. And he had looked as if he had longed for a
dagger, to be able to strike them down one after
another.
“’ With those !’ “ he had shouted. “’ Should I
have anything in common with those?’ ”
And he had certainly meant to say that he had
nothing to do with robbers and murderers. The
judge had smiled kindly at him, as if he had only
waited for that answer to set him free.
But then a divine miracle had happened.
And Gandolfo told, how among all the stolen
things that lay on the table, there had also been a
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