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After dark Pacciale, his brother and two trusted
compagni, armed with heavy sticks, dragged my
new sails down to his masseria. The night was
stormy, soon it rained in torrents, the lantern
went out, at the peril of their lives they groped
their way down the slippery cliffs. At midnight
they reached the masseria and deposited their
burden in the grotto of the lupomanaro. They
sat there the whole of the first of May on their
bundles of drenched sails, one of them in turn
standing on guard at the entrance of the cave.
Towards sunset Pacciale resolved to send his
unwilling brother to reconnoitre in the village
without exposing himself to any undue risk.
He returned three hours later to report that
there was no trace of the brigands, all was going
on as usual. All the people were in the Piazza,
candles were lit before the altars in the church,
Sant’Antonio was to come out on the Piazza
to receive the thanksgivings of Anacapri for
having once more saved his village from
destruction. At midnight the party crept out of the
grotto and climbed to the village again with
my drenched sails. When Pacciale discovered
the disaster he wanted to drown himself, his
daughters said they did not dare to leave him
out of sight for several days and nights. He
had never been the same since, he hardly ever
spoke. I had already noticed it myself and had
several times asked him what was the matter
with him. Long before Giovannina had finished
her confession, all trace of anger had gone out
of me, I hunted in vain for Pacciale all over
the village to tell him so. I found him at last
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