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FRA FELICE’S LEGACY 23 7
thought. “ She did not wish the saint to help
Gaetano.”
Two men came by dragging a rattling dray on
which lay a mountain of red hangings, richly
embroidered stoles, and altar pictures in broad, gilded
frames.
Donna Elisa struck out with her hand as if to
push away all doubts. It could not be an actual
miracle which had happened. The saint must
know that Diamante could not afford to build a
railway.
People now came past driving a yellow cart,
packed full of music-stands, prayer-books,
praying-desks and confessionals.
Donna Elisa woke up. She looked out between
the rosaries that hung in garlands over the window
panes. That was the third load of church
furnishings that had passed. Was Diamante being
plundered ? Had the Saracens come to the town ?
She went to the door to see better. Again came
a stretcher, and on it lay mourning-wreaths of tin,
tablets with long inscriptions, and coats of arms,
such as are hung up in churches in memory of the
dead.
Donna Elisa asked the bearers, and learned what
was happening. They were clearing out the church
of Santa Lucia in Gesu. The syndic and the town
council had ordered it turned into a theatre.
After the uprising there had been a new syndic
in Diamante. He was a young man from Rome,
who did not know the town, but nevertheless wished
to do something for it. He had proposed to the
town-council that Diamante should have a theatre
like Taormina and other towns. They could quite
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