Adam's Breed

Gian-Luca's body was lying in a stable attached to an unimportant inn. Some new red bricks were piled in a corner, together with a number of workmen's tools -- they were going to turn the place into a garage, and the work had been hastily suspended. A silent police sergeant unlocked the door and allowed the mourners to enter; then he quietly turned back the sheet from the body, and standing aside, he waited.

"Santa Madonna! " muttered Nerone, "this is an outrage, a scandal! No chapel, no reverence, not even for the dead; what a pagan country is England!"