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358 THE MIRACLES OF ANTICHRIST ’
work with the little wagons. But Orestes said no.
His boy should not be ruined by such work.
Then the engineer threatened him, and said that
Orestes would be dismissed from the mine.
Santuzza paused.
“ And then ? “ asked Margherita.
“ Yes, then Orestes gave his son to the engineer.
The next day the boy got a whipping from him.
He beat him every day. The boy grew more and
more feeble. Orestes saw it, and asked the
engineer to spare the boy, but he had no mercy. He
said that the boy was lazy, and he continued to
persecute him. And now he is dead. My grandson
is dead, Margherita.”
The girl had quite forgotten all her own
happiness. She was once more only the miner’s daughter,
the protector of the little wagons, the poor child
who used to sit on the bright terrace and weep over
the hardships of the black mines.
“Why do you let the man live?” she cried.
The old woman looked at her furtively. Then
she crept close to her with a knife. “ Orestes sends
you this with a thousand questions,” she said.
Margherita Cornado took the knife, kissed the
blade, and gave it back without a word.
It was the evening before the wedding. The
parents of the bridegroom were awaiting their son.
He was to come home from the mines towards night;
but he never came. Later in the night a servant
was sent to the Grotte mines to look for him, and
found him a mile from Girgenti. He lay murdered
at the roadside.
A search for the murderer was immediately
instituted. Strict examinations of the miners were held,
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