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372 THE MIRACLES OF ANTICHRIST ’
him. The monk’s wild proceedings made Gaetano
master of their souls.
She looked about in terror. Her eyes wandered
from face to face. Was the same thing going on
in all those people’s souls as in her own? She
thought she saw that it was so.
“Thou, Antichrist,” said Father Gondo,
threateningly, “dost thou see that no one has thought of his
soul as long as thou hast been here? Thou must
perish.”
Father Gondo laid the outcast on the pyre.
But the image had not lain there more than a
second before Gandolfo seized him.
He caught him up, lifted him high above his
head, and ran. Father Gondo’s pilgrims hurried
after him, and there began a wild chase down Monte
Chiaro’s precipices.
But little Gandolfo saved the image.
Down the road a big, heavy travelling-carriage
came driving. Gandolfo, whose pursuers were close
at his heels, knew nothing better to do than to
throw the image into the carriage.
Then he let himself be caught. When his
pursuers wished to hurry after the carriage, he stopped
them. “Take care; the lady in the carriage is
English.”
It was Signora Favara, who had at last wearied
of Diamante and was travelling out into the world
once more. And she was allowed to go away
unmolested. No Sicilian dares to lay hands on an
Englishwoman.
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