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Egyptian sphinx of red granite, older than Tiberius
himself. It is the very place for a sphinx. I
do not see for the present where I shall get it
from but I am sure it will turn up in time.”
They were all delighted and eager to finish the
house at once. Mastro Nicola wanted to know
where the water for the fountains was to come
from.
Of course from Heaven where all the water on
the island came from. I intended besides to buy
the whole mountain of Barbarossa and build an
enormous cistern there for collecting the rain
water, and supply the whole village with water,
now so badly needed, it was the least I could do
for them to repay all their kindness to me. When
I drew the outlines of the little cloister with my
stick in the sand I saw it at once just as it stands
now, encircling with its graceful arcades its little
court of cypresses with the dancing fawn in its
midst. When we found the earthenware vase
full of Roman coins, they became tremendously
excited, every contadino on the island has been
on the look-out for il tesoro di Timberio for two
thousand years. It was only later on when
cleaning these coins that I found amongst them
the gold coin fresh as if it had been coined to-day,
“fleur de coin” indeed, the finest likeness of the
old Emperor I had ever seen. Close by we found
the two bronze hoofs of an equestrian statue, one
still in my possession, the other stolen ten years
later by a tourist.
The whole garden was full of thousands and
thousands of polished slabs of coloured marble,
africano, pavonazetto, giallo antico, verde antico,
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