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(1909) [MARC] [MARC] Author: Selma Lagerlöf Translator: Pauline Bancroft Flach
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FALCO FALCONE

30 7

towards their goal in absolute silence. Their own
identity is dead, but a mightier spirit guides and
leads them.

Even the day after it seems like a fairy tale to
Donna Micaela that she has done such a thing.
She is sure that her own compassion, or pity, or
love could never have made her go down into the
brigands’ cave at night if a strange power had not
led her.

While Donna Micaela is in the robber’s cave, old
Caterina sits at her window, and waits for Falco.
She has consented, almost without their needing to
ask her.

“He shall go in peace to the church,” she says.
“ I have waited for him twenty years, but he shall
go to the church.”

Soon Falco comes by, walking with Donna
Mi-caela’s hand in his. Passafiore and Biagio follow
him. Falco is bent; it is plain that he is old and
feeble. He alone goes into the church; the others
remain outside.

Old Caterina has seen him very plainly, but she
has not moved. She sits silent all the time Falco
is inside the church. Her niece, who lives with
her, believes that she is praying and thanking God
because she has been able to conquer her thirst for
revenge.

At last Caterina asks her to open a window. “ I
wish to see if he still has his snake shadow,” she
says.

But she is gentle and friendly. “Take the gun,
if you wish,” she says. And her niece moves the
gun over to the other side of the table.

At last Falco comes from the church. The moon-

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