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124 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2013
One night, in the midst of a dream, a blond teenager came into his room. He didn't know whether he was an angel or an executioner; he seemed to be naked, clothed only in radiant light. He sat on the bed and unbuttoned Arthur's shirt, revealing his torso. Arthur didn't protest. But then the cherub pressed a burning Y-shaped iron against Arthur's chest, branding his pale skin. That same night, the guardsmen saw a large, deformed black dog leaping out of the window of his cell, while flames rose up into the sky.
The next day, a little blind girl regained sight. When they went into his cell, they found it strewn with books and torn paper. They opened his shirt: blood was seeping out of his torso in a series of dots in the shape of a cross, an exact copy of which they were able to obtain using blotting paper. Making a connection between the girl being cured and this new miracle, they ordered Arthur to convert profli-gates, Marxists, freemasons, and brutes, but instead he stopped the hands of the defeated as they prepared to kill themselves, and he left for the countryside, praying for the mulberry trees to uproot themselves and resettle at the bottom of the sea.