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FALCO FALCONE
30 7
is loved and admired,” the workmen say. “The
people worship Falco. He can do what he will.”
They know too that when Falco saw Queen
Mar-gherita’s silver wedding, it pleased him so much
that he said: “When I have lived on Etna for five
and twenty years, I shall celebrate my silver
wedding with Mongibello.”
People laughed at that and said that it was a
good idea of Falco’s. For he had never had a
sweetheart, but Mongibello with its caves and forests
and craters and ice-fields had served and protected
him like a wife. To no one in the world did Falco
owe such gratitude as to Mongibello.
People ask when Falco and Mongibello are going
to celebrate their silver wedding. And people
answer that it will be this spring Then the workmen
think: “ He is coming to destroy our railway on the
day of Mongibello.”
They are filled with doubt and terror. They soon
will not dare to work any more. The nearer the
time approaches when Falco is to celebrate his
union with Mongibello, the more there are who
leave Signor Alfredo. Soon he is practically alone
at the work.
• ••••••••
There are not many people in Diamante who have
seen the big quarry on Etna. They have learned to
avoid it because Falco Falcone lives there. They
have been careful to keep out of range of his gun.
They have not seen the great hole in Mongibello’s
side from which their ancestors, the Greeks, took
stone in remote times. They have not seen the
beautifully colored walls, and the mighty rocks that
look like ruined pillars. Perhaps they do not know
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