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306 THE MIRACLES OF ANTICHRIST ’
wriggled forward. He walks so softly that Donna
Silvia does not hear him. The first thing she
notices is his shadow, which, slender as a snake,
bends down towards her.
She looks up when she sees the shadow. Then
the beggar bows to her and asks for a dish of
macaroni.
“I have macaroni on the fire,” says Donna Silvia.
“Sit down and wait; you shall have your fill.”
The beggar sits down beside Donna Silvia, and
after a while they begin to chat. They soon talk
of Falco.
“ Is it true that you let your sons work on Donna
Micaela’s railway?” says the beggar.
Donna Silvia bites her lips together, and nods an
assent.
“You are a brave woman, Donna Silvia. Falco
might be revenged on you.”
“Then he can take revenge,” says Donna Silvia.
“But I will not obey one who has killed my father.
He forced him to escape from prison in Augusta,
and my father was captured and shot.”
And so saying she rises and goes in to get the
food.
As she stands in the kitchen she sees the beggar
through the window, sitting and rocking on the
stone-bench. He is not quiet for a moment. And
in front of him writhes his shadow, slender and
lithe as a snake.
Donna Silvia remembers what she had once heard
Caterina, who had been married to Falco’s brother,
Nino, say. “ How will you recognize Falco after
twenty years ? “ people had asked her. “ Should I
not recognize the man with the snake-shadow?” she
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