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THE OLD MARTYRDOM 215
“I have tried enough to find friends, Fra Felice.”
“ Yes, men!” said the old man. “ But how do
men help? If any one is going fishing, Donna
Micaela, he knows that he must call on San Pietro;
if any one wishes to buy a horse, he can ask help of
San Antonio Abbate. But if I want to pray for
your railway, I do not know to whom I shall turn.”
Fra Felice meant that the trouble was that she
had chosen no patron saint for her railway. He
wished her to choose the crowned child that stood
out in his old church as its first friend and promoter.
He told her that if she only did that she would
certainly be helped.
She was so touched that any one was willing to
stand by her that she instantly promised to pray for
her railway to the child at San Pasquale.
Fra Felice got a big collection-box and painted
on it in bright, distinct letters: “ Gifts for the Etna
Railway,” and he hung it in his church beside the
altar.
It was not more than a day after that that Don
Antonio Greco’s wife, Donna Emilia, came out to
the old, deserted church to consult San Pasquale,
who is the wisest of all the saints.
During the autumn Don Antonio’s theatre had
begun to fare ill, as was to be expected when no
one had any money.
Don Antonio thought to run the theatre with less
expense than before. He had cut off a couple of
lamps and did not have such big and gorgeously
painted play-bills.
But that had been great folly. It is not at the
moment when people are losing their desire to go to
the theatre that it will answer to shorten the prin-
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