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110 228 . the miracles of antichrist
Nino drew down a vendetta over Falco. Nino’s
wife was so terror-stricken, when she found her
husband dead, that one side of her body became
paralyzed so that she was unable to walk. But at
the window in the old cabin she took her place.
There she has sat for twenty years with the rifle
beside her waiting for Falco. And her, the great
robber, has feared. For twenty years he has not
gone by his parental home.
That woman has not failed her post. No one ever
approached San Pasquale’s church without seeing
her revengeful eyes glaring behind the window-pane.
Who saw her sleep, who saw her work ? She could
do nothing but lie in wait for her husband’s murderer.
When one hears this, one becomes still more
frightened. Falco has good luck, one thinks. The woman
who wants to kill him cannot move from her place.
Falco is lucky. He will also succeed in destroying
the railroad.
Fortune has never failed Falco. The carabinieri
have pursued him, but have never been able to catch
him. The carabinieri have feared Falco more than
Falco has feared the carabinieri.
A story is told of a young carabineer who pursued
Falco. He had arranged a hue-and-cry and hunted
Falco from copse to copse. Finally the officer felt
certain that he had Falco hemmed in in a brushwood.
All around the wood stood guards, and the officer
set off in there, and went back and forth with the rifle
in his hand. But however much he searched, he saw
no Falco. He came out again and met a peasant.
" Have you seen Falco? "— " Yes, signor, he just
passed by me, and he bade me greet you . . . "
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