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FALCO FALCONE
30 7
Falco asked, and Don Giovanni told the whole
story. “Your Reverence,” said Falco, “he has
been deceiving you.” He begged Don Giovanni
to go with him to Diamante. When they came to
the old house Don Giovanni rode in behind the
wall of San Pasquale, and Falco called Nino out.
Nino came out on one of the balconies. “Eh,
Nino!” said Falco, and laughed. “You have
cheated the priest out of money?” “Do you know
it already?” said Nino. “I was just going to tell
it to you.”
Now Falco became sterner. “Nino,” he said,
“the priest is my friend, and he believes that I
have wished to rob him. You have done very
wrong.” He suddenly put his gun to his shoulder
and shot Nino down, and when he had done so he
turned to Don Giovanni, who had almost fallen
from his donkey with terror. “You see now, your
Reverence, that I had no part in Nino’s designs on
you!”
And that happened twenty years ago, when Falco
had not been a brigand for more than five years.
“ Will Falco spare the railway,” people say, as they
tell it, “when he did not spare his own brother? ”
There was yet more.
After Nino’s murder there was a vendetta over
Falco. Nino’s wife was so terrified when she found
her husband dead that half her body became
paralyzed, and she could no longer walk. But she took
her place at the window in the old cottage. There
she has sat for twenty years with a gun beside her, and
waited for Falco. And of her the great brigand has
been afraid. For twenty years he has not gone past
the home of his ancestors.
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