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There was a spider hanging over their heads. Neither a physical nor imaginary spider, of course. A "spider. " Like a lamp hanging from the ceiling of Lilli and her daughter Gala's house, where Leo now found himself. As a refugee? In hiding? Or as a simple prelude to the trio Gala desired?
She felt this hoped-for ending was far away. Dante was the speaker of the Revolutionary Assembly, backed by Andrea del Sargo's bayonets, but dominated by the representatives who arrived every day, representing every region, every city, every town, whose appearance had been postponed by the long years of domination by plutocrats whom Leo not only represented but also fàªted, attended to, and entertained. And now he was hiding out in Gala's house to escape. From what? To do what? Where were the Nazarenes, his security force?