The Manuscript I the Secret
“ Francesco Martucci and I had arrived at an imposing mausoleum that reminded me of the one in which Uncle Claudio’s remains now lay. I halted for a moment with the strange sense that I was being watched. Subtly I turned and caught a glimpse of a silhouette between the gravestones and the spindly cypress trees. A man holding a book was walking around enjoying the vegetation—an American tourist. You can spot them a mile away.
Brother Martucci looked in the same direction with no attempt at s...ubtlety.
“We had better be going.”
I smiled like we were having a totally normal conversation, feigning interest in the spotted cat that had recently crossed our path. Still smiling, I said, “I don’t know why, but I feel like someone’s following us. There can’t be many rats around here,” I added, for the sake of banal chatter.
“The cat population in this cemetery grows by the day, but no one does anything about it.MoreLess
Brother Martucci looked in the same direction with no attempt at s...ubtlety.
“We had better be going.”
I smiled like we were having a totally normal conversation, feigning interest in the spotted cat that had recently crossed our path. Still smiling, I said, “I don’t know why, but I feel like someone’s following us. There can’t be many rats around here,” I added, for the sake of banal chatter.
“The cat population in this cemetery grows by the day, but no one does anything about it.MoreLess
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