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III
ON THE BARRICADE
When the rich Englishwoman awoke in the morning
she missed the image and wondered where she
should look for him. She believed that no one but
the monks of Aracoeli could have taken him, and
she hurried towards the Capitol to spy and search.
She came to the great marble staircase that leads
up to the basilica of Aracoeli. And her heart beat
wildly with joy, for on the lowest step lay he whom
she sought. She seized the image, threw her cloak
about him, and hurried home. And she put him
back on his place of honor.
But as she now sank into contemplation of his
beauty, she found that the crown had been dented.
She lifted it off the image to see how great the
damage was, and at the same moment her eyes fell
on the inscription that she herself had scratched:
“My kingdom is only of this world.”
Then she knew that this was the false Christ
image, and that the right one had returned to
Aracoeli.
She despaired of ever again getting it into her
possession, and she decided to leave Rome the next
day, for she would not remain there when she no
longer had the image.
But when she left she took the forged image
with her, because he reminded her of the one she
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