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FALCO FALCONE
30 7
there quietly, but their eyes began to wander and
wander. They were outside the walls; they saw
the plain and the mountains; they even saw up to
Etna. “It is the time,” whispered Falco to Biagio.
“I will rather die than go back to prison,” said
Biagio. Then they whispered to the other prisoner
that he must stand by them. He did not wish to
do so, because his time of punishment was soon
up. “ Else we will kill you,” they said, and then he
agreed.
The guard stood over them with his loaded rifle
in his hand. On account of their fetters, Falco and
Biagio hopped with feet together over to the guard.
They swung their shovels over him, and before he
had time to think of shooting he was thrown down,
bound, and had a clump of earth in his mouth.
Thereupon the prisoners pried open their chains
with the shovels, so that they could take a step, and
crept away over the plain to the hills.
When night came Falco and Biagio abandoned
the prisoner whom they had taken with them. He
was old and feeble, so that he would have hindered
their flight. The next day he was seized by the
carabinieri, and shot.
They shudder when they think of it. “ Falco is
merciless,” they say. They know that he will not
spare the railway.
Story after story comes to frighten the poor people
working on the railway on the slopes of Etna.
They tell of all the sixteen murders that Falco
has committed. They tell of his attacks and
plunderings.
There is one story more terrifying than all the
others together.
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