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292 THE MIRACLES OF ANTICHRIST ’
But she thought: “He has just come from his work.
He has not been home yet. He knows nothing.”
“Beppo,” she said to him, for Falco’s name was
not then Falco, “ is the harvest a good one ?” And
she was prepared not to have him answer.
Falco was more talkative than usual, and
immediately told her how many grapes had already been
put through the press. “Do you know,” he
continued, “that a farmer was murdered yesterday.” —
“Alas, yes, poor Signor Riego; I heard so.” And
she asked how it had happened.
“It was Salvatore who did it. But it is too
dreadful for a signora to hear!” — “ Oh, no, what is
done can be and is told.”
“Salvatore went up to him in this way, signora.”
And Falco drew his knife and laid his hand on the
woman’s head. “Then he cut him across the throat
from ear to ear.”
As Falco spoke, he suited the action to the word.
The woman did not even have time to scream. It
was the work of a master.
After that, Falco was sent to the galleys, where he
remained five years.
When the people tell of that, their terror increases.
“ Falco is brave,” they say. “ Nothing in the world
can frighten him away from his purpose.”
That immediately made them think of another
story.
Falco was taken to the galleys in August, where
he became acquainted with Biagio, who afterwards
followed him through his whole life. One day he
and Biagio and a third prisoner were ordered to go
to work in the fields. One of the overseers wished
to construct a garden around his house. They dug
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