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care of the telegram till to-morrow morning?
It would not be safe to leave it in her
keeping, with all the grandchildren playing about
the room, not to speak of the chickens and
the pig. Old Maria Porta-Lettere was a great
friend of mine, I felt sorry for her and for the
cow. I put the telegram in my pocket, she
was to resume her wanderings with it the next
morning.
The sun sank into the sea, the bells rang Ave
Maria, we all went home to our supper. As I
was sitting under my pergola with a bottle of
Don Dionisio’s best wine before me, a terrible
thought suddenly flashed through my brain—
fancy if the telegram was for me after all!
Having fortified myself with another glass of wine,
I put the telegram on the table before me and set
to work to try to translate its mysterious meaning
into human language. It took me the whole
bottle of wine to satisfy myself that it was not for
me, I fell asleep, my head on the table, the
telegram in my hand.
I slept late the next morning. There was no
need for hurry, nobody was working in my garden
to-day, surely they were all in church since
morning mass, it was Good Friday. As I strolled
up to San Michele a couple of hours later, I was
greatly surprised to find Mastro Nicola with his
three sons and all the girls, hard at work in the
garden as usual. Of course they knew how
anxious I was to go on with the work full speed,
but I would never have dreamt to ask them to
work on Good Friday. Indeed it was kind of
them, I told them I was very grateful. Mastro
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