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THE FEAST OF SAN SEBA ST/A NO 191
fault is it that these poor men have gone to
destruction ? Is it not you who have the power who ought
to have taken care of them ?’
“And they were all dismayed at the responsibility
he forced upon them.
“But suddenly the judge had interrupted him.
“’ Speak in your own defence, Gaetano Alagona,’
he said; ’ do not speak in that of others!’
“Then Don Gaetano had smiled. 4 Signor,’ he
said, ’ I have not much more than you with which
to defend myself. But still I have something. I
have left my career in England to make a revolt in
Sicily. I have brought over weapons. I have made
seditious speeches. I have something, although not
much.’
“The judge had almost begged him. ’Do not
speak so, Don Gaetano,’ he had said. ’ Think of
what you are saying!’
“But he had made confessions that compelled
them to sentence him.
“When they told him that he was to sit for
twenty-nine years in prison, he had cried out:
4 Now may her will be done, who was just carried
by. May I be as she wished!’
“ And I saw no more of him,” said little Gandolfo,
“for the guards placed him between them and led
him away.
“But I, who heard him pray for those who had
murdered his beloved, made a vow that I would do
something for him.
“I vowed to recite a beautiful improvisation to
San Sebastiano to induce him to help him. But I
have not succeeded. I am no improvisatore; I could
not.”
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