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THE GOD-SISTER
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said the boy. Giannita bought the paper and began
to read. She found in it without difficulty the
Palmeri affair.
“Since this case is to be tried to-day in the
courts,” wrote the paper, “we will give an account
of it.”
Giannita read and read. She read it over and over
before she understood. There was not a muscle in
her body which did not begin to tremble with horror
when she at last comprehended it.
Her god-sister’s father, who had owned great
vineyards, had been ruined, because the blight had
laid them waste. And that was not the worst. He
had also dissipated a charitable fund which had
been intrusted to him. He was arrested, and to-day
he was to be tried.
Giannita crushed the newspaper together, threw
it into the street and trampled on it. It deserved
no better for bringing such news.
Then she stood quite crushed that this should
meet her when she came to Catania for the first
time in twelve years. “Lord God,” she said, “is
there any meaning in it?”
At home, in Diamante, no one would ever have
taken the trouble to tell her what was going on.
Was it not destiny that she should be here on the
very day of the trial ?
“Listen, Donna Alfari,” she said; “you may do
as you like, but I must go to the court.”
There was a decision about Giannita. Nothing
could disturb her. “ Do you not understand that it is
for this, and not for your sake, that God has induced
you to take me with you to Catania?” she said to
Rosa Alfari.
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