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328 THE MIRACLES OF ANTICHRIST ’
longed most were set free. They were Da Felice,
Bosco, Verro, Barbato and Alagona.
Ah, Micaela tried to be glad when she heard it.
She tried not to weep.
She had believed that Gaetano was in prison
because the Christ-image was to break down the
walls of his cell. He was sent there by the grace
of God, because he had to be forced to bow his head
before the Christchild and say: “ My Lord and my
God.”
But now it was not the image which had freed
him; he would come out the same heathen as
before; the same yawning chasm would still exist
between them.
She tried to be glad. It was enough that he was
free. What did she or her happiness matter in
comparison to that!
But it happened so with everything for which
Diamante had hoped and striven.
The great desert was very cruel to the poor oasis.
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