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- Wydawca: KtoCzyta.pl
- Kategoria: Powieści przygodowe i historyczne
- Język: angielski
American Norvin Blake travels to the island of Sicily to attend the wedding of his good friend, Count Martel Savigno. However, the mafia appears in the story, which leads to tragic events on the night before the wedding. The main character has to find out who ordered the killer.
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Contents
Chapter 1. The Train From Palermo
Chapter 2. A Confession And A Promise
Chapter 3. The Golden Girl
Chapter 4. The Feast At Terranova
Chapter 5. What Waited At The Roadside
Chapter 6. A New Resolve
Chapter 7. The Search Begins
Chapter 8. Old Trails
Chapter 9. “One Who Knows”
Chapter 10. Myra Nell Warren
Chapter 11. The Kidnapping
Chapter 12. La Mafia
Chapter 13. The Blood Of His Ancestors
Chapter 14. The Net Tightens
Chapter 15. The End Of The Quest
Chapter 16. Quarantine
Chapter 17. An Obligation Is Met
Chapter 18. Belisario Cardi
Chapter 19. Felicite
Chapter 20. The Man In The Shadows
Chapter 21. Under Fire
Chapter 22. A Misunderstanding
Chapter 23. The Trial And The Verdict
Chapter 24. At The Feet Of The Statue
Chapter 25. The Appeal
Chapter 26. At The Dusk
Chapter 1. The Train From Palermo
The train from Palermo was late. Already long, shadowy fingers were reaching down the valleys across which the railroad track meandered. Far to the left, out of an opalescent sea, rose the fairy-like Lipari Islands, and in the farthest distance Stromboli lifted its smoking cone above the horizon. On the landward side of the train, as it reeled and squealed along its tortuous course, were gray and gold Sicilian villages perched high against the hills or drowsing among fields of artichoke and sumac and prickly pear.
To one familiar with modern Sicilian railway trains the journey eastward from Palermo promises no considerable discomfort, but twenty-five years ago it was not to be lightly undertaken–not to be undertaken at all, in fact, without an unusual equipment of patience and a resignation entirely lacking in the average Anglo-Saxon. It was not surprising, therefore, that Norvin Blake, as the hours dragged along, should remark less and less upon the beauties of the island and more and more upon the medieval condition of the rickety railroad coach in which he was shaken and buffeted about. He shifted himself to an easier position upon the seat and lighted a cheroot; for although this was his first glimpse of Sicily, he had watched the same villages come and go all through a long, hot afternoon, had seen the same groves of orange and lemon and dust-green olive-trees, the same fields of Barbary figs, the same rose-grown garden spots, until he was heartily tired of them all. He felt at liberty to smoke, for the only other occupant of the compartment was a young priest in flowing mantle and silk beaver hat.
Finding that Blake spoke Italian remarkably well for a foreigner, the priest had shown an earnest desire for closer acquaintance and now plied him eagerly with questions, hanging upon his answers with a childlike intensity of gaze which at first had been amusing.
“And so the Signore has traveled all the way from Paris to attend the wedding at Terranova. Veramente! That is a great journey. Many wonderful adventures befell you, perhaps. Eh?” The priest’s little eyes gleamed from his full cheeks, and he edged forward until his knees crowded Blake’s. It was evident that he anticipated a thrilling tale and did not intend to be disappointed.
“It was very tiresome, that’s all, and the beggars at Naples nearly tore me asunder.”
“Incredible! You will tell me about it?”
“There’s nothing to tell. These European trains cannot compare with ours.”
Evidently discouraged at this lack of response, the questioner tried a new line of approach.
“The Signore is perhaps related to our young Conte?” he suggested. “And yet that can scarcely be, for you are Inglese–”
“Americano.”
“Indeed?”
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